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BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini
Vickers, Gramm, Reardon, Wells
Les Troyens
Steber, Resnik, Cassilly
BEETHOVEN
Fidelio
Vickers
BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Sills, Troyanos
La
Sonnambula
Moffo
BIZET
sound track to DeMille Film
starring Geraldine Farrar
BRITTEN
Billy Budd
Britten, Pears, Uppman
DEBUSSEY
Pelleas et Melisande
A Collector's Pelléas
CILÈA
Adriana Lecouvreur
Favero
DITTERSDORF
Arcifanfano
Steber, Russell
FLOYD
Markheim
Triegle, Crofoot, Schuh
Susannah
Curtin, Triegle, Cassilly
Sojourner & Mollie Sinclair
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Faust
HANDEL
Giulio Cesare
Sills, Triegle
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Vickers, Bumbry, Bergonzi,
MacNeil, others
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Manon
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soundtrack
of
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soundtrack of
the 1950 film
Mozart
Le
Nozze di Figaro
MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina
Christoff, Petri,
Rodzinski cond.
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Les Contes D'Hoffmann
Sills, Treigle, Turp
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La Boheme
Albanese & Di Stefano
La Boheme
Giorgini, Torri, Badini,
Legendary La Scala perf.
Madama Butterfly
Steber, Peerce, Bonelli
Tosca
Melis, Pauli, Granforte,
Legendary La Scala perf.
Madama Butterfly
Kirsten, Barioni, Torigi
RAVEL
L'heure Espagnole
Ravel cond. Premiere Rec.
REFICE
Cecilia
Scotto
ROSSINI
Semiramide
Sutherland, Horne
SAINT-SAËNS
Samson et Dalila
Stevens, Vinay
STRAUSS
Elektra
Borkh, Resnik, Schuh
Daphne
Bampton, Svanholm
VERDI
Falstaff
Rimini, Tassinari, Ghirardini
1st complete, 1932
La Forza del Destino
Milanov, Warren, Del Monaco
La Traviata
Rosza, Ziliani, Borgonova
Rigoletto
Piazza, Pagliughi, Folgar
Falstaff
Warren, Della Chiesa, Turp
Rigoletto
Leonard Warren
Un Ballo in Maschera
Jussi Bjorling
VON WAYDITCH
"The Caliph's Magician"
also "Jesus Before Herod"
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
Melchior, Flagstad, Reiner
Tristan und Isolde
Vickers & Nilsson
WEILL-BRECHT
Collectors' "Three Penny Opera"
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La
Forza del Destino (Verdi)
VAI AUDIO CD 1252-3, $33.95 (specially priced)
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Opera in three acts*
New Orleans Opera
March 12 / 14, 1953
Cast:
Leonora: Zinka Milanov
Don Alvaro: Mario del Monaco
Don Carlo: Leonard Warren
Padre Guardiano: William Wilderman
Preziosilla: Claramae Turner
Marquis of Calatrava: Norman Treigle
Fra Melitone: Gerhard Pechner
Curra: Rosemary Rotolo
A Surgeon: Donald Bernard
A Begger Woman: Lydia Neuman
Orchestra and Chorus of the New Orleans Opera
Walter Herbert, conductor
This legendary
production was performed only twice,
on March 12 and March 14, 1953.
Performance of March 14, 1953 (Acts I & II)
Performance March 12, 1953 (Act III)
*Note: Though La Forza del Destino was composed as a
four-act opera, the tracking on this CD follows the act
and scene divisions as performed in this production.
This CD set presents the complete opera plus a bonus disc
of highlights
from the alternate performance.
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