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BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Farcas, Gardina
I Puritani

D'Angelo, Salderi, Ferrin,
Dondi
Norma
Vickers & Caballé
Norma
Sutherland
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri,
La Sonnambula
Moffo

BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli

CHERUBINI
Medea

Mazzola-Gavazzeni

DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 2)
Danco, Jeannotte, Savoie


DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena
Sutherland
Daughter of the Regiment
Sills
Don Pasquale
Tajo,
Bruscantini, Valletti
La Favorita
Cossotto, Kraus
L'Elisir d'Amore

Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor
Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor

Moffo, Kozma
Lucia di Lammermoor
Kraus, Serra
Roberto Devereux
Sills
Marin Faliero
Pertusi, Servile, Blake

GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Mikado
D’Oyly Carte

GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli
Andrea Chénier
Tebaldi, Del Monaco

GLUCK
Orphée et Eurydice
Simoneau, Alarie

GOUNOD
Faust
Kraus, Ghiuselev
Faust
Scotto, Ghiaurov
Mireille (abridged)
Alarie, Simoneau, Savoie

LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci
I Pagliacci
Domingo,
Mauti-Nunziata

MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Simionato, Lo Forese
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verrett,
Johannsson
Zanetto
Mazzola Gavazzeni, Basso
Cavalleria Rusticana
Domingo,
Cossotto

MENOTTI
Amahl & The Night Visitors
Kuhlmann, McIver
The Consul

Patricia Neway
The Medium
Powers, Alberghetti
The Medium
Forrester
The Telephone
Farley, Smythe

MOZART
Don Giovanni
Petri, Stich-Randall,
Gencer, Sciutti, Alva,
Brucsantini
Cosi fan Tutti
Curtin
(Scenes from Act 1)
The Impresario
Steber, Curtin, others
Le Nozze di Figaro
Rehfuss, Probbe,
Rossi-Lemeni, Carteri

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov
Piragov (1954 film)

OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Krauss, Welting,
Hendricks, Ghiuselev


POULENC
La Voix Humaine
Farley

PUCCINI

Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo
La Fanciulla del West
Stella, Limarilli, Colzani
M
anon Lescaut
Chiara,
Romero, Martinucci

ROSSINI
Elisabetta, Regina D'Inghilterra
Lella Cuberli

Tancredi

Barcellona, Workman,
Cantarero

L'Equivoco Stravagante
Teatro Comunale
di Modena (2001)

Barber of Seville
Bonitatibus, Giménez,
Nucci

STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sills

VERDI

Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco

Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Falstaff
Taddei, Moffo
Il Trovatore
Del Monaco, Gencer
Il Trovatore
Nucci, Theodossiou
La Forza del Destino

Tebaldi, Corelli

La Traviata
Moffo
La Traviata
Sills
La Traviata
Scotto,
Carreras
Otello
Del Monaco, Carteri

Otello
Del Monaco, Tucci
Rigoletto
Kraus, Nucci
Un Ballo in Maschera
Bergonzi, Stella, Zanasi

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie

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The Consul (Menotti)
VAI DVD 4266, $39.95

A major discovery! A dramatically powerful 1960 television production of Menotti’s most provocative work. Patricia Neway, the famed creator of the role of Magda Sorel in the Broadway run of this opera, brings the character to life here with astonishing realism. The superlative supporting cast includes baritone Chester Ludgin. 125 min., B&W.

The Consul is sung in English with optional subtitles in English, French, German and Italian.

John Sorel - Chester Ludgin
Magda Sorel - Patricia Neway
The Mother - Evelyn Sachs
The Police Agent - Leon Lishner
The Secretary - Regina Sarfaty
Mr. Kofner - Arnold Voketaitis
The Foreign Woman - Maria Marlo
The Magician - Norman Kelley
Assan - Dan Merriman
Anna Gomez - Maria DiGerlando
Vera Boronel - Ruth Kobart

Produced by Jean Dalrymple

Musical Direction: Werner Torkanowsky

The soundtrack to this production is also available. Click here to see the CD

 

 

 

 

 

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