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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, Troyanos
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri
Norma
Dessi, Armiliato

Norma, Act 1
Caballe, others
La Sonnambula
Moffo, others

BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli
Carmen
Bonfitto, Taruntsov

BORODIN
Prince Igor
Nesterenko

CHERUBINI
Medea

Mazzola-Gavazzeni
Medea
Anna Caterina Antonacci

CILÈA
Adriana Lecouvreur
Caballé, Cossotto

DARGOMYZHSKY
The Stone Guest
Atlantov, Milashkina, Vedernikov,
others


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
Il Campanello
Torriani, Miotto, Ito, Dekita
Rita, ou Le Mari Battu
Quagliata, Giacchetta,
Torriani;

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

HERBERT
Naughty Marietta
Munsel, Drake

LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci
I Pagliacci
Domingo,
Mauti-Nunziata

LOMBARDO

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
Le Nozze di Figaro
Sciutti, Güden, Evans, Lear
Fischer-Dieskau
Die Zauberflöte
Berry, Lorengar, Kmentt,
Peters
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Hallstein, Grist, Alva,
Corena, Unger

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov
Piragov (1954 film)

OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Kraus, Welting,
Hendricks, Ghiuselev


PORTER, COLE
Kiss Me, Kate
Drake, Morison


POULENC
La Voix Humaine
Farley

PUCCINI

Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi, London
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Tosca
Corelli, Heredia Capnist
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo
La Fanciulla del West
Stella, Limarilli, Colzani
M
anon Lescaut
Chiara,
Romero, Martinucci
Il Trittico: Il Tabarro,
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi

Pons, Frittoli, Lipovsek, Leo Nucci

RACHMANINOFF
Aleko
Nesterenko

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
May Night
Stanislavsky and
Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Sadko
Atlantov, Milashkina, Arkhipova.
Orch. and Chorus: Bolshoi Theatre
The Golden Cockerel
Gondjian, Kubelian, Shakhverdian,
Chakhoyan, Martirosian, others.
The Tsar's Bride
Vedernikov, Kovaleva, Grigoriev,
others.
Mozart and Salieri
Maslennikov, Eizen, L. Novikov
Kashchey The Immortal
Pluzhnikov

ROMBERG
The Desert Song
Eddy, Sherwood

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

SHOSTAKOVICH

The Nose

STRAUSS, JOHANN
The Great Waltz
Munsel, Novotna

STRAUSS, RICHARD
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sills

TCHAIKOVSKY
Iolanta
Eisen, Kuznetsov

TOBIAS
Jonah’s Mission

VERDI

Aida
Bergonzi, Cossotto
Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco

Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Don Carlo
Furlanetto, Neill, Jenis
Don Carlo
Caballé, Bumbry,
Aragall
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
La Forza del Destino
Caballé, Carreras,
Ghiaurov

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie

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Verdi: Aida
VAI DVD 4483 $39.95

This 1973 Aida stars two of the most celebrated singers of their time, tenor Carlo Bergonzi and Fiorenza Cossotto, both in prime form here. In true Italian tradition, their voices are as affective in the lyrical passages calling for velvety beauty of tone as in the fiery dramatic sections of the opera. The title role is sung by Orianna Santunione, a dramatic soprano of remarkable power, evenness, and intensity.

The other principal singers in this performance are Gianpiero Mastromei, a commanding Amonasro, and Ivo Vinco, an imposing and dignified Ramfis, The forces of the NHK Symphony Orchestra are under the direction of conductor Oliviero De Fabritiis, who backs up the singers with an emotionally charged account of the masterful score. The beautiful and lavish sets and costumes are by the renowned designer Pier Luigi Pizzi.

Embedded Japanese subtitles with subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. 1973, 160 min.,Color, Mono, All regions


AIDA
Opera in Four Acts
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni

Aida: ORIANNA SANTUNIONE
Radamès: CARLO BERGONZI
Amneris: FIORENZA COSSOTTO
Amonasro: GIAN PIERO MASTROMEI
Ramfis: IVO VINCO
Il Re: FRANCO PUGLIESE
Messenger: FERNANDO IACOPUCCI
Priestess: ANNA ID STASIO

NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
NHK ITALIAN OPERA CHORUS
(FEDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL CHOIRS OF JAPAN)

Conductor
OLIVIERO DE FABRITIISLive Performance, September , 1973
NHK Hall, Tokyo

© 1973 NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), Japan

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