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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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Elektra (Strauss)
VAI AUDIO, 2 CDs: cat# 1170-2, $33.95

Inge Borkh and Regina Resnik in their renowned interpretations of Elektra and Klytämnestra in this live 1966 performance from the New Orleans Opera. Cast also includes Audrey Schuh and Benjamin Rayson; Knud Andersson conducts. Bonus tracks: Borkh in excerpts from Verdi’s Macbeth (1967).

Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles

Elektra...................................Inge Borkh 
Klytämnestra..........................Regina Resnik
Chrysothemis.........................Audrey Schuh 
Orest.....................................Benjamin Rayson 
Aegisth..................................Alan Crofoot 

 

Composite recording taken from live performances,
December 1st and 3rd, 1966

New Orleans Opera Orchestra and Chorus

under the direction of
Knud Anderson
 
BONUS TRACKS:
MACBETH (Verdi)

    • Nel dì della vittoria . . . Vieni, t'affretta . . . Or tutti sorgete
    • La luce langue
    • Vegliammo invan due notti . . . Una macchia


    Lady Macbeth.......................Inge Borkh  
    Servant..................................David Morelock 
    Dama di Lady........................Lydia Neuman 
    Physician...............................George Mayer  

    Composite recording taken from live performances 
    November 2nd and 4th, 1967

New Orleans Opera Orchestra
under the direction of 
Anton Guadagno 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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