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BELLINI
I Capuleti e i
Montecchi
Roberto Tagliavini, Farcas
I
Puritani
D'Angelo, Salderi, Ferrin,
Dondi
Norma
Vickers & Caballé
Norma
Sutherland
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri
Norma
Dessi, Armiliato
Norma, Act 1
Caballe
La
Sonnambula
Moffo
BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli
Carmen
Bonfitto, Taruntsov
CHERUBINI
Medea
Mazzola-Gavazzeni
Medea
Anna Caterina Antonacci
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
L'Elisir d'Amore
Tagliavini, Noni
Lucia
di Lammermoor
Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor
Moffo, Kozma
Lucia di Lammermoor
Kraus, Serra
Marin
Faliero
Pertusi, Servile, Blake
Roberto Devereux
Sills
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The
Mikado
D’Oyly
Carte
GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli
Andrea Chénier
Tebaldi, Del Monaco
GLUCK
Orphée
et Eurydice
Simoneau, Alarie
GOUNOD
Faust
Kraus, Ghiuselev
Faust
Scotto, Ghiaurov
Mireille (abridged)
Alarie, Simoneau,
Savoie
LEONCAVALLO
I
Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci
I Pagliacci
Domingo, Mauti-Nunziata
Lombardo, Carlo
Cin Ci La'
MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Simionato, Lo
Forese
Cavalleria
Rusticana
Verrett, Johannsson
Cavalleria
Rusticana
Domingo, Cossotto
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
Petri, Stich-Randall,
Gencer, Sciutti, Alva,
Brucsantini
Cosi fan Tutti
Curtin
(Scenes from Act 1)
The
Impresario
Steber, Curtin, others
Le
Nozze di Figaro
Rehfuss, Probbe,
Rossi-Lemeni, Carteri
MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov
Piragov (1954 film)
OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Krauss, Welting,
Hendricks, Ghiuselev
POULENC
La Voix Humaine
Farley
PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Tosca
Corelli, Heredia Capnist
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo
La Fanciulla del West
Stella, Limarilli, Colzani
Manon
Lescaut
Chiara, Romero,
Martinucci
Il Trittico: Il Tabarro,
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi
Pons, Frittoli, Lipovsek, Leo Nucci
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
May Night
Stanislavsky and
Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Sadko
Atlantov, Milashkina, Arkhipova.
Orch. and Chorus: Bolshoi Theatre
ROSSINI
Elisabetta,
Regina D'Inghilterra
Lella Cuberli
L'Italiana in Algeri
Petri, Palombini
Tancredi
Barcellona, Workman,
Cantarero
L'Equivoco
Stravagante
Teatro Comunale
di Modena (2001)
Barber
of Seville
Bonitatibus, Giménez,
Nucci
STRAUSS
Ariadne
auf Naxos
Sills
TCHAIKOVSKY
Iolanta
Eisen,
Kuznetsov
VERDI
Aida
Bergonzi, Cossotto
Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco
Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Don Carlo
Furlanetto, Neill, Jenis
Falstaff
Taddei, Moffo
Il Trovatore
Del Monaco, Gencer
Il
Trovatore
Nucci, Theodossiou
La Forza del Destino
Tebaldi, Corelli
La Traviata
Moffo
La Traviata
Sills
La Traviata
Scotto, Carreras
Otello
Del Monaco, Carteri
Otello
Del Monaco, Tucci
Rigoletto
Kraus, Nucci
Rigoletto
Protti, Tucci, Poggi
Simon
Boccanegra
Cappuccilli, Ricciarelli,
Ghiaurov, Merighi
Un
Ballo in Maschera
Bergonzi, Stella, Zanasi
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie
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Amahl
and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
VAI DVD 4400, $24.95
The yearly live telecasts of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night
Visitorswere a cherished Christmas tradition throughout the 1950s. In addition,
since
its premiere in 1951, Amahl has been performed regularly by community
groups and small opera companies throughout the US, making it the single most
popular American opera. This production, staged by the composer himself and originally
telecast on Christmas Day, 1955, is a testament to the work’s enduring
power to move the heart and stir the soul. Starring Rosemary Kuhlmann as the
Mother and Bill McIver as Amahl. Members of the Symphony of the Air are under
the direction of Thomas Schippers. Also on the DVD, from the same broadcast,
is The Columbus Boychoir performing Christmas carols. The DVD also includes an
exclusive 2007 interview with Rosemary Kuhlmann, who played the Mother in the
premiere and all the subsequent telecasts. 55 minutes (plus 30 min. bonus), Black & White,
Mono, All regions. $24.95
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Opera in One Act
Music and Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti
Amahl: Bill
McIver
Mother: Rosemary Kuhlmann
King Caspar: Andrew McKinley
King Melchior: David Aiken
King Balthazar: Leon Lishner
Servant: Francis Monachino
Dancing Shepherds: John Butler, Glen Tetley, Carmen Gutierrez
Members of
the Symphony of the Air
Thomas Schippers, conductor
Live telecast,
December 25, 1955
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