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vocal concert & recital
& selected opera acts

compilations or telecasts
starring various artists:

New Years Concert 2008
- From the Teatro La Fenice

Mireille (Abridged)
- & Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 2)
Alarie, Simoneau, Savoie,
Chiocchio, Dulude, Harbour,
Rouleau. Danco, Savoie, Jeanotte.

Harold Arlen:
- An All-Star Tribute

Operafest
Reopening the Zurich Opera House

Cole Porter - All Star Tribute
Ethel Merman, John Raitt,
Martha Wright, Gretchen Wyler,
Peter Nero, and Jillana

Bell Telephone Hour!
Great Stars of Opera
- Vol 1, 2 & 3

Producers' Showcase:
Festival of Music, Vol 1 & 2

Great Singers of Russia Vol 1
"Chaliapin to Reizen"
Great Singers of Russia Vol 2
"Petrov to Kazarnovskaya"

Sherrill Milnes - All-Star Gala
Domingo, Freni, Miguenes,
Milnes, Schreier


by artist last name:

Anderson, Marian
A Portrait in Music

Britten, Benjamin
Rehearsal & Performance
with Peter Pears

Bumbry, Grace
Art of Grace Bumbry
in Concert

Caballé, Montserrat
In Concert

Cook, Barbara
Bell Telephone Appearances

Curtin, Phyllis
Cosí fan Tutte, Act 1

Del Monaco, Mario
Scenes: Carmen and Pagliacci

De Los Angeles, Victoria
Glory of Spain
with McGill Chamber Orchestra

Di Stefano, Giuseppe
La Voce del Cuore

Farrell, Eileen
American Prima Donna

Gray, Dolores
Bell Telephone Hour

Horne, Marilyn
Berlioz: Les Nuits d’Été
In Recital - Milan, 1981
in Concert

Hvorostovsky, Dimitri
Songs of the Russian War Years
In Concert

Jackson, Mahalia
TV from 1957 to 1962

Jones, Gwyneth
In Concert

Kraus, Alfredo
Live in Salzburg

Larmore, Jennifer
In Performance

Lawrence, Carol
Bell Telephone Hour

London, George
A Tribute

Lenya, Lotte
Theater Songs of Brecht & Weill

May, Gisela
Theater Songs of Brecht & Weill

Martin, Mary
& Merman, Ethel
Ford's 50th Anniversary

Milnes, Sherrill
An All Star Gala

Moffo, Anna
A Tribute

Nikolaidi, Elena
In Recital

Nilsson, Birgit
Bell Telephone Hour

Oberlin, Russell
America's Legendary
Countertenor

Olivero, Magda
Songs and Arias

Pavarotti, Luciano
The 1984 Bari Recital

Pears, Peter
Britten in Rehearsal
& Performance

Price, Leontyne
Art of
Christmas With

Quilico, Louis
Concerto Italiano
A Portrait (w/ Tebaldi)

Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
A Viennese Evening

Scotto, Renata
In Concert and Recital
In Budapest

Souzay, Gérard
The Art of Vols. 1 & 2

Steber, Eleanor
Cosí fan Tutte, Act 1

Sutherland, Joan
Complete Bell Telephone
The Art of Joan Sutherland

Tebaldi, Renata
Concerto Italiano
A Portrait

Te Kanawa, Kiri
An Evening with

Vickers, Jon
Four Operatic Portraits
Vickers & Böhm
Early TV Appearances

VAI DVD 4201, Vol. 1, $34.95

Giuseppe Di Stefano (1963)
Manon (Massenet):
Je suis seul . . . Ah, fuyez, douce image (4:20)

Renata Tebaldi (1959)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini):
Un bel dì (4:34);
Con onor muore (3:58)

Risë Stevens (1959)
Natoma (Herbert):
Beware of a hawk, my baby . . . Lonely am I (9:12)

Robert Merrill & Robert Peters (1962)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini): Largo al factotum (4:01);
Dunque io son (2:45)

Anna Moffo & Nicolai Gedda (1962)
La Traviata (Verdi):
Libiamo . . . Un dì felice (7:49)

Leontyne Price (1963)
Il Trovatore (Verdi):
D’amor sull’ali rosee (6:43)

Leontyne Price (1966)
Aida (Verdi):
Ritorna vincitor! (6:30)

Giulietta Simionato & Jon Vickers (1964)
Aida (Verdi):
Già i sacerdotti adunansi (8:29)

Richard Tucker (1965)
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo):
Recitar! . . . Vesti la giubba (2:45)

George London (1964)
Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky):
Farewell, my son (9:58)

Régine Crespin & Franco Corelli (1964)
Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi):
Teco io sto! (8:42)

Victoria de los Angeles (1960)
La Bohème (Puccini):
Si, mi chiamano Mimì (4:32)

Régine Crespin (1965)
Tosca (Puccini):
Vissi d’arte (2:54)

Franco Corelli (1962)
Tosca (Puccini):
E lucevan le stelle (2:45)

Birgit Nilsson (1963)
Turandot (Puccini):
In questa reggia (5:33)

Birgit Nilsson (1963)
Götterdämmerung (Wagner):
Immolation Scene (Finale) (2:09)

Eileen Farrell (1959)
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner):
Mild und leise (Liebestod) (5:52)

Joan Sutherland (1962)
Lucia di Lammermoor: (Donizetti):
Mad Scene (13:40)

with the Bell Telephone Orchestra and Chorus
under the direction of Donald Voorhees

George London (1962)
Otello (Verdi):
Vanne! la tua meta . . . Credo in un Dio crudel (4:40)

Franco Corelli & Lisa Della Casa (1962)
Tosca (Puccini):
Amaro sol per te (4:37)

Renata Tebaldi (1961, 67)
Tosca (Puccini):
Vissi d’arte (2:55);

Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa):
Del sultano Amuratte . . . Io son l’umile ancella (4:07);

Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni):
Voi lo sapete ast (3:23);

La Gioconda (Ponchielli):
Suicidio! (4:06)

Giuseppe Di Stefano & Teresa Stratas (1963)
Manon (Massenet):
Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance (St. Sulpice Duet) (8:15)

Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill (1965)
Carmen (Bizet):
Les tringles des sistres tintaient (Gypsy Song);
Votre toast (Toreador Song);
Si tu m’aimes, Carmen (8:50)

Nicolai Gedda & Giorgio Tozzi (1959)
The Bartered Bride (Smetana):
May I have your ear . . . ? (7:40)

Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda, & Theodor Uppman (1961)
Die Fledermaus (Strauss):
Act I Trio (7:26)

Teresa Berganza (1964)
La Cenerentola (Rossini):
Naqui all’affanno (5:22)

Anna Moffo & George London (1962)
Don Giovanni (Mozart):
Là ci darem la mano (3:00)

Anna Moffo (1962)
La Traviata (Verdi):
Ah, fors’è lui . . . Sempre libera (6:03)

Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill (1965)
La Forza del Destino (Verdi):
O tu che in seno;
Solenne in quest’ora;
Qui v’ha un ritratto . . . Egli è salvo (9:20)

Leontyne Price (1963, 67)
La Forza del Destino (Verdi):
Pace, pace, mio Dio (5:17);

Il Trovatore (Verdi)
Tacea la notte (5:54);

Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilèa):
Io son l’umile ancella (3:00)

Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus
conducted by Donald Voorhees

Special Features:

Donald Voorhees in conversation with Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, and Renata Tebaldi (from the program “First Ladies of Opera”, originally telecast 1/1/67)

VAI DVD 4280, Vol. 3, $34.95

Victoria de los Angeles & Brian Sullivan (1960)
La Boheme (Puccini):
O soave fanciulla (3:19)

James McCracken & Robert Merrill (1964)
Otello (Verdi):
Credo in um Dio crudel (4:29);
Ora e per sempre, addio (2:15);
Si, pel ciel (2:28)

Birgit Nilsson (1963)
La Forza del Destino (Verdi):
Pace, pace, mio Dio! (5:22);

Tosca (Puccini):
Vissi d'arte (3:24)

Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda, Jerome Hines (1968)
Faust (Gounod):
Final Scene (9:35)

Roberta Peters (1962)
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini):
Una voce poco fa (4:37)

Gabriella Tucci, Richard Tucker (1960)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini):
Love Duet (7:13)

Anna Moffo, Sándor Kónya (1967)
Romeo et Juliette (Gounod):
Héles! Moi, le haïr (11:06)

Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda, Mildred Miller,
Charles Anthony, Jerome Hines (1968)
Die Meistersinger (Wagner): Quintet (4:03)

Richard Tucker, Lucine Amara (1965)
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Finale (6:13)

Birgit Nilsson (1963)
Im Prater blüh'n wieder die Bäume! (Stolz) (2:37);
Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Sieczynski) (1:25)

Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker (1961)
La Boheme (Puccini):
Act 1 Finale (11:31)

Regine Crespin, Sándor Kónya (1965)
Tosca (Puccini):
E lucevan le stelle (2:48); Amaro sol per te (2:51)

Patrice Munsel, Brian Sullivan (1959)
La Fanciulla del West (Puccini):
Final Scene (sung in English) (10:07)

Jan Peerce, Gianna D'Angelo (1961)
Rigoletto (Verdi):
È il sol dell'anima... Addio, addio (5:34);
Caro nome (4:33)

Birgit Nilsson (1961)
Messiah (Handel): Come unto Him (3:08);
Stabat Mater (Rossini): Inflammatus (5:39)

Bonus:
Lisa Della Casa, Nicolai Gedda (1963)
Faust (Gounod): Prison Scene Duet (5:58)

The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra and Chorus
Donald Voorhees, conductor