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BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Farcas, Gardina
I Puritani

D'Angelo, Salderi, Ferrin,
Dondi
Norma
Vickers & Caballé
Norma
Sutherland
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri,
La Sonnambula
Moffo

BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli

CHERUBINI
Medea


DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 2)
Danco, Jeannotte, Savoie


DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena
Sutherland
Daughter of the Regiment
Sills
Don Pasquale
Tajo,
Bruscantini, Valletti
La Favorita
Cossotto, Kraus
L'Elisir d'Amore

Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor
Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor

Moffo, Kozma
Lucia di Lammermoor
Kraus, Serra
Roberto Devereux
Sills
Marin Faliero
Pertusi, Servile, Blake

GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Mikado
D’Oyly Carte

GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli
Andrea Chénier
Tebaldi, Del Monaco

GLUCK
Orphée et Eurydice

GOUNOD
Faust
Kraus, Ghiuselev
Faust
Scotto, Ghiaurov
Mireille (abridged)
Alarie, Simoneau, Savoie

LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci

MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Simionato, Lo Forese
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verrett,
Johannsson
Zanetto
Mazzola Gavazzeni, Basso

MENOTTI
Amahl & The Night Visitors
Kuhlmann, McIver
The Consul

Patricia Neway
The Medium
Powers, Alberghetti
The Medium
Forrester
The Telephone
Farley, Smythe

MOZART
Don Giovanni

Cosi fan Tutti

Curtin
(Scenes from Act 1)
The Impresario
Steber, Curtin, others
Le Nozze di Figaro

MUSSOURGSKY
Boris Godunov

OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann

POULENC
La Voix Humaine

PUCCINI

Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo

ROSSINI
Elisabetta, Regina D'Inghilterra
Lella Cuberli

Tancredi


L'Equivoco Stravagante

Barber of Seville

STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sills

VERDI

Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco

Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Falstaff
Taddei, Moffo
Il Trovatore
Del Monaco, Gencer
Il Trovatore
Nucci, Theodossiou
La Forza del Destino

Tebaldi, Corelli

La Traviata
Moffo
La Traviata
Sills
Otello
Del Monaco, Carteri
Otello
Del Monaco, Tucci
Rigoletto
Kraus, Nucci
Un Ballo in Maschera
Bergonzi, Stella, Zanasi

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie

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Falstaff (Verdi)
VAI DVD 4333, $39.95

This sparkling 1956 telecast of Verdi’s comic masterpiece presents a rare opportunity to see Giuseppe Taddei in his most celebrated role. He is joined by an equally illustrious cast, including Rosanna Carteri as Alice, Anna Moffo as Nannetta, Fedora Barbieri as Quickly, Luigi Alva as Fenton, and Scipione Colombo as Ford. The legendary conductor Tullio Serafin leads the forces of Radiotelevisione Italiana. Optional subtitles in English, French, and German. Black and White. 118 minutes.

Sir John Falstaff: Giuseppe Taddei
Ford: Scipione Colombo
Fenton: Luigi Alva
Dr. Cajus: Mario Carlin
Bardolfo: Renato Ercolani
Pistola: Franco Calabrese
Mrs. Alice Ford: Rosanna Carteri
Nannetta: Anna Moffo
Mrs. Quickly: Fedora Barbieri
Mrs. Meg Page: Anna Maria Canali

Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan
Conducted by Tullio Serafin

Production staged by Herbert Graf
Telecast date: May 9, 1956


Region 0 encoding, playable worldwide

 

 

 

 

 

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