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Vincenzo Bellini
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I Puritani
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano
Ch & O Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Tullio Serafin
rec. 1953
8.110259-60
Reviews by Robert
McKechnie and
Robert Farr
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Norma
Maria Callas, Mario Filippeschi
Ch & O La Scala/Tullio Serafin
(+ excerpts from other recordings of Norma)
rec. 1927-54
8.110325-27
Reviews by Robert
Hugill, Robert
Farr and Göran
Forsling |
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La Sonnambula
Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria
Ch & O La Scala/Antonio Votto
rec.
8.111284-85
Reviews by Ralph
Moore and Göran
Forsling |
Georges Bizet
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Carmen
Solange Michel, Raoul Jobin, Michel Dens
Opéra-Comique Ch & O, Paris/André Cluytens
rec. 1950
8.110238-39
Review by Richard Lee-Van den Daele
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Arrigo Boito
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Mefistofele
Nazzareno de Angelis, Mafalda Favero
Ch & O La Scala, Milan/Lorenzo Molajoli
(+ Rossini & Verdi excerpts)
rec. 1927
8.110273-74
Review by Colin Clarke |
Gustav Charpentier
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Louise (excerpts)
Ninon Vallin, Georges Thill
Le Choeurs Raugel and Orchestra Paris/ Eugène Bigot
rec. 1935
8.110225
Reviews by Robert
Hugill and Jonathan Woolf |
Leo Delibes
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Lakmé
Mado Robin, Agnès Disney
Opéra-Comique, Paris Ch & O/Georges Sebastian
rec. 1952
8.111235-36
Review by Göran
Forsling
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Gaetano Donizetti
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Lucia Di Lammermoor
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Ch & O/Tullio Serafin
rec. 1953
8.110131-32
Reviews by Arthur
Baker and Robert Hugill |
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Lucia di Lammermoor
Lina Pagliughi, Giovanni Malipiero, Giuseppe Manacchini
Italian Broadcasting Authority Ch & O/Ugo Tansini
rec. 1939
8.110150-51
Review by Frank Cadenhead
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George Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess
Selections from early recordings
rec. 1935-45
8.110219-20
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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Porgy and Bess
Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams
Orchestra and J. Rosamond Johnson Ch/Lehman Engel
rec. 1951
8.110287-88
Reviews by Jonathan
Woolf and Robert Farr |
Umberto Giordano
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Porgy and Bess
Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe Taddei
Ch & O La Scala, Milan/Olivero de Fabritiis
rec. 1941
8.110275-76
Review by Robert
Hugill
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Mikhail Glinka
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Ivan Susanin
Maxim Mikhailov, Natalia Spiller
Bolshoi Theatre Ch & O/Alexander Melik-Pashayev
rec. 1947/50
8.111078-80
Review by Jonathan Woolf
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Charles Gounod
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Romeo et Juliette
Eide Norena, Charles Hackett
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Louis Hasselmans
rec. 1935
8.110140-41
Reviews by Robert
Hugill and Robert Farr |
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Faust (w/arias & song by Björling)
Jussi Björling, Cesare Siepi, Dorothy Kirsten
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Fausto Cleva
rec. 1949-52
8.111083-85
Review by Göran
Forsling
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Faust
Georges Noré, Roger Rico
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
rec. 1947-48
8.110117-18
Reviews by Jonathan
Woolf and Roy Brewer |
Engelbert Humperdinck
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Hänsel und Gretel
Elisabeth Grümmer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan
rec. 1953
(+ 1928-37 excerpts from Hänsel und Gretel)
8.110897-98
Review by John Quinn |
Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Pagliacci
Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Angeles
The Columbus Boychoir, The Robert Shaw Chorale. RCA Victor Orchestra/Renato
Cellini
rec. 1953
8.110258
Review by Robert Farr |
Pietro Mascagni
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Cavalleria rusticana
Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling
The Robert Shaw Chorale. RCA Victor Orchestra/Renato
Cellini
rec. 1953
8.110261
Reviews by Göran
Forsling and Robert Farr
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Beniamino Gigli, Lina Bruna Rasa
O & Ch La Scala, Milan/Pietro Mascagni
rec. 1940
8.110714-15
Review by Göran
Forsling |
Jules Massenet
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Werther
George Thill,
Charlotte Ninon
Paris Opera Ch & O/Elie Cohen
rec. 1931
8.11061-62
Review by Ian Lace |
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Manon
Germaine Féraldy
Opéra-Comique, Paris Ch & O/Elie Cohen
rec.
1928-29
8.110203-04
Reviews by Jonathan
Woolf and Richard Lee-Van den Daele |
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Manon
Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay
Ch & O Théâtre National de l’Opéra Comique/Pierre
Monteux
rec. 1955
8.111268-70
Reviews by Robert
Hugill and Ralph Moore |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Die Zauberflöte
Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz, Gerhard Hüsch,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
rec. 1937/8
8.110127-28
Review by Tony Duggan |
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Don Giovanni
John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Luise Helletsgruber
Glyndebourne Festival Ch & O/Fritz Busch
rec. 1936
8.110135-37
Review by Roy Brewer |
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Cosi fan tutte
Ina Souez, Luise Helletsgruber, Heddle Nash
Glyndebourne Festival Ch & O/Fritz Busch
rec. 1934-35
8.110280-81
Reviews by Paul
Shoemaker and Colin Clarke
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Modest Mussorgsky
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Boris Godunov
Boris Christoff, Eugenia
Zareska, Kim Borg
Russian Ch Paris, French Ntl Radio O/Issay
Dobrowen
rec. 1952
8.110242-44
Reviews by Colin
Clarke and Robert Farr |
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Khovanshchina
Boris Freidkov, Ivan
Nechayev
Kirov Ch & O, Leningrad/Boris Khaikin
rec. 1946
8.111124-26
Reviews by Göran
Forsling and Christopher Howell |
Amilcare Ponchielli
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La Gioconda (w/arias by Arangi-Lombardi)
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Ebe Stignani, Camilla Rota
La Scala, Milan Ch & O/Lorenzo Molajoli
rec. 1926-1933
8.110112-14
Review by Gwyn
Parry-Jones
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La Gioconda
Maria Callas
Turin RSO and Cetra Chorus/Antonio
Votto
(+ Bellini & Wagner excerpts)
rec. 1952
8.110302-04
Review by Robert
Farr |
Giacomo Puccini - see separate page
Henry Purcell
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Dido & Aeneas
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad
Mermaid Singers and O/Geraint Jones
rec. 1948-52
8.111264
Review by Jonathan
Woolf |
Gioachino Rossini
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Il Turco in Italia
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda
Ch & O Teatro alla Scala, Milan/Gianandrea Gavazzeni
rec.
1953
8.111028-29
Review by Robert J Farr |
Bedrich Smetana
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The Bartered Bride
Jan Konstantin, Marie Pixová, Ada Nordenová
National Opera Company, Prague Ch & O/Otakar Ostrcil
rec. 1933
8.110098-99
Review by Frank Cadenhead |
Johann Strauss II (see Operetta)
Richard Strauss
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Der Rosenkavalier
Lotte Lehman, Elisabeth Schumann
Vienna PO/Robert Heger
rec. 1933
8.110191-92
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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Der Rosenkavalier
Eleanor Steber, Erna Berger,
Risë Stevens
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Fritz Reiner
rec.
1949
8.110277-79
Review by Christopher Howell |
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Der Rosenkavalier
Maria Reining,
Sena Jurinac
Vienna PO/Erich Kleiber
rec. 1954
8.111011-13
Review by Gregor Tassie |
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Salome
Christel Goltz,
Julius Patzak
Vienna PO/Clement Krauss
rec. 1954
8.111014-15
Review by Gregor
Tassie |
Igor Stravinsky
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The Rake’s Progress
Hilde Gueden, Blanche Thebom, Eugene Conley
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Igor Stravinsky
rec. 1953
8.111266-67
Reviews by Ewan
McCormick and Göran
Forsling |
Giuseppe Verdi - see separate page
Richard Wagner - see separate page
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