Boris Goldovsky: Mr. Opera
Recollections of the Metropolitan
Opera/Texaco Intermission
Broadcasts

BERLIOZ
Benvenuto Cellini
Vickers, Gramm, Reardon, Wells
Les Troyens
Steber, Resnik, Cassilly
Les Troyens
Del Monaco, Simionato

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
Cavalleria Rusticana
Milanov, Gismondo

MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci
Breviario, Sanzio, Biasini,
Valente, Saraceni, Granforte
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
Bork, Resnik, Schuh
Daphne
Bampton, Svanholm

VERDI
Aida
Arangi-Lombardi, Capuana
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"