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Compact Discs
Opera & Highlights
Le
Voce Di Lecce (The Voices Of Lecce)
Camassa, Demitry, Elmo,
Perulli, Rizzo,
Tafuro.
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
GOUNOD
Faust
HANDEL
Giulio Cesare
Sills, Triegle
MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci
Vickers, Bumbry, Bergonzi,
MacNeil, others
MASSENET
Manon
Montserrat Caballe
MENOTTI
The Consul
soundtrack
of
the 1960
telecast
The Medium
soundtrack of
the 1950 film
Mozart
Le
Nozze di Figaro
MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina
Christoff, Petri,
Rodzinski cond.
OFFENBACH
Les Contes D'Hoffmann
Sills, Treigle, Turp
PUCCINI
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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Billy
Budd (Britten)
VAI AUDIO,
3 CDs: cat# 1034-3, $49.95
The
historic world premiere performance, 1951. Peter Pears, Theodor Uppman,
Frederick Dalberg; Benjamin Britten conducts.
"These
discs also preserve the live performances of Peter Pears as Captain
Vere, his distinctive tenor sounding fresh and youthful...Theodore
Uppman, whose suave baritone and spot-on delivery of Billy's music
may never have been surpassed." New York Magazine
"This is the historical release of the year." " the performance,
headed by American Uppman as the eponymous midshipman and Pears as Captain Vere,
is unforgettable." "the documentary value of the release is incalcuable." San
Francisco Examiner
"VAI's release brings us a performance that should be an important document
even a century from now." Fanfare
"It is a document of the utmost importance." Weekend Telegraph
"These discs are a cause for profound gratitude." Sunday Telegraph
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