Great Stars of Opera, Vol.1: Bell Telephone Hour 1959-1966 (DVD)

Highlights from the legendary Bell Telephone Hour. This magnificent collection features performances by some of opera's best loved stars - listed below.
Color, 119 minutes, 4:3, All regions

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