Ellen Faull: An American Soprano (CD)

VAI continues its Great American Singers series with the brilliant dramatic soprano Ellen Faull, who enjoyed a distinguished career with the New York City Opera from the late 1940's through the 1970's. From Sylvan Levin Opera Concert Broadcasts, 1951 and 1952 (exceptions as marked). Digital remastering by Roderick J. Evenson.
[1998, Mono, 65 minutes]

Korngold: DIE TOTE STADT - Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Lied)
Honegger: KING DAVID - Oh, had I wings*
Verdi: AIDA - Qui Radamès verrà... O patria mia
Verdi: I VESPRI SICILIANI - Mercè, dilette amiche (Bolero)
Verdi: IL TROVATORE - Tacea la notte
Verdi: IL TROVATORE - D'amor sull'ali rosee
Verdi: ERNANI - Sorta è la notte... Ernani, involami
Verdi: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO - Son giunta!... Madre, pietosa vergine
Wagner: LOHENGRIN - Einsam in trüben Tagen (Elsa's dream)
Puccine: TOSCA - Vissi d'arte
Puccini: MANON LESCAUT - In quelle trine morbide
Leoncavallo: I PAGLIACCI - Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!
Giordano: ANDREA CHENIER - La mamma morta
Giordano: ANDREA CHENIER - Vicino a te (final duet; with Walter Fredericks, tenor)
Traditional: I Know Where I'm Going**

Ellen Faull, soprano

Sylvan Levin Opera Concert Broadcasts, 1951 and 1952
Sylvan Levin and Emerson Buckley, conductors - except:
* Charles Dodsley Walker, conductor (New York, 1956)
** Stanley Sonntag, piano (New York, 1964)