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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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L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti)
VAI DVD 4492 $39.95

In L’elisir d’amore, Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani created some of the most human and ingratiating characters in all of opera. This 1959 Tokyo production features the legendary singers Ferruccio Tagliavini and Alda Noni in their only complete live performances captured on film. Sung and acted with a refreshing spontaneity, humor, and lightness of touch, the performance is a rare and precious memento of a bygone era when opera was still part of popular Italian culture. Embedded Japanese subtitles remain on screen throughout. Optional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. 107 minutes, Black & White, mono, 4:3, All regions.

Note: there is a gap in the video image for the first nine minutes of Dulcamara's entrance scene which has been filled in with still images from the production; the audio continues without interruption.

L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Opera in Two Acts
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani, after
Eugène Scribe's libretto for Auber’s Le philtre

Nemorino: Ferruccio Tagliavini
Adina: Alda Noni
Belcore: Arturo La Porta
Dulcamara: Paolo Montarsolo
Giannetta: Santa Chissari

The NHK Symphony Orchestra
Tokyo Broadcasting Chorus
Osaka Broadcasting Chorus
Nikikai Chorus Group
Fujiwara Opera Chorus
Japan Ballet Association

Alberto Erede, conductor
Chorus Master: Tadashi Mori

Stage Director: Bruno Nofri
Set Design: Mario Pompei
Choreography: Hiroshi Shimada

February 8, 1959
Tokyo Takarazuka Hall

© 1959 NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), Japan
Packaging, Design, and DVD Authoring © 2009 Video Artists International, Inc.

Subtitle translations by Cesar Dillon, Shany Guillotte, Lothar Nickel, Fiorella Sampirisi


CHAPTER SELECTION

Act I
1. Preludio; Bel conforto al mietitore (Giannetta, Coro)
2. Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (Nemorino, Giannetta, Coro)
3. Benedette queste carte!... Della crudele Isotta (Adina, Nemorino, Coro)
4. Come Paride vezzoso! (Belcore, Adina, Giannetta, Nemorino, Coro)
5. Più tempo, oh Dio!, non perdere (Belcore, Adina, Nemorino, Coro)
6. Una parola, o Adina (Nemorino, Adina)
*7. Che vuol dire codesta sonata? (Coro)
*8. Udite, udite, o rustici (Dulcamara, Coro, Nemorino)
9. Dottore, perdonate… Obbligato, obbligato (Nemorino, Dulcamara)
10. Caro elisir ! sei mio! (Nemorino, Adina)
11. Tran, tran, in guerra ed in amore (Belcore, Adina, Nemorino)
12. Signor sargente! (Giannetta, Belcore, Nemorino, Adina, Coro)
13. Adina, credimi te ne scongiuro (Nemorino, Belcore, Adina, Giannetta, Coro)

Act II
14. Cantiamo, facciam brindisi (Belcore, Adina, Dulcamara, Coro)
15. La Nina Gondoliera, e il senator Tredenti (Dulcamara, Adina, Belcore, Coro)
16. Le feste nuziali (Dulcamara, Nemorino, Belcore)
17. Venti scudi (Nemorino, Belcore)
18. Sarà possibile? (Giannetta, Coro)
19. Dell’elisir mirabile (Nemorino, Giannetta, Coro)
20. Come sen va contento… Quanto amore (Adina, Dulcamara)
21. Una furtiva lacrima (Nemorino)
22. Eccola!... Prendi; per me sei libero (Nemorino, Adina)
23. Alto! Fronte!... Ei corregge ogni difetto (Belcore, Adina, Dulcamara, Nemorino, Coro)
24. Closing Credits

*the video image is missing for chapters 7 & 8

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