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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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La Forza del Destino (Verdi)
VAI AUDIO CD 1252-3, $33.95 (specially priced)

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Opera in three acts*
New Orleans Opera
March 12 / 14, 1953

Cast:
Leonora: Zinka Milanov
Don Alvaro: Mario del Monaco
Don Carlo: Leonard Warren
Padre Guardiano: William Wilderman
Preziosilla: Claramae Turner
Marquis of Calatrava: Norman Treigle
Fra Melitone: Gerhard Pechner
Curra: Rosemary Rotolo
A Surgeon: Donald Bernard
A Begger Woman: Lydia Neuman

Orchestra and Chorus of the New Orleans Opera
Walter Herbert, conductor


This legendary production was performed only twice,
on March 12 and March 14, 1953.

Performance of March 14, 1953 (Acts I & II)
Performance March 12, 1953 (Act III)

*Note: Though La Forza del Destino was composed as a
four-act opera, the tracking on this CD follows the act
and scene divisions as performed in this production.


This CD set presents the complete opera plus a bonus disc
of highlights from the alternate p
erformance.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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