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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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Iolanta (Tchaikovsky)
VAI DVD 4514 $39.95

The last of Tchaikovsky’s operas, Iolanta is one of his most beautiful and moving works. This 1982 Bolshoi Opera boasts a lavish staging and a magnificent cast, led by Galina Kalinina in the title role, Artur Eisen as King René, and Lev Kuznetsov as Count Vaudémont; the Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre are under the direction of Ruben Vardanian. 92 minutes, Color, mono, subtitles in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanized Russian, All regions.

Iolanta
Opera in One Act
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky,
after the play “King René’s Daughter” by Henrik Hertz

Iolanta: Galina Kalinina
King René: Artur Eisen
Vaudémont: Lev Kuznetsov
Robert: Igor Morozov
Ibn-Hakia: Vladimir Malchenko
Martha: Nina Grigorieva
Brigitta: Nina Larionova
Laura: Galina Koroleva
Bertrand: Valery Jaroslavtsev
Alméric: Oleg Biktimirov

Production of The Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre
Ruben Vardanian, conductor
Live Performance, 1982

Director: Oleg Moralev
Production Design: Nikolay Zoloatarev
Video Director: Alexander Barannikov
Camera: V. Berdnikov

Produced by Music Department of Soviet TV
Program © 2010 Gosteleradiofond / Auditoria
Creative Content © 2010 Video Artists International, Inc.
All Rights Reserved

Iolanta, the last of Tchaikovsky’s operas, was premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in December 1892, as part of a double-bill with his ballet The Nutcracker. Though eclipsed in fame by the ballet, Iolanta is nonetheless one of Tchaikovsky’s most beautiful and moving works. The opera tells the poignant tale of King René, who shields his daughter Iolanta from the knowledge that she is blind by keeping her secluded from the world. When the Count Vaudémont accidentally chances upon Iolanta in a rare moment alone, he falls in love with her at first sight. Discerning that she is blind, he tries to explain the delights of visual beauty. Iolanta is confused, but responds to Vaudémont’s passion. They are interrupted by the King, who is at first furious that someone has dared to tell Iolanta that she is blind. However, Ibn-Hakia, a Moorish physician, informs the King that it is indeed Iolanta’s desire to see that is essential for her cure. With the physician’s help, Iolanta gains her sight, and the King gives his blessing to her union with Vaudémont.

 

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