The Americans — The Golden Age of Singing (DVD)

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All performances digitally remastered for the first time!

The fifth volume in VAI’s acclaimed series of historic performances from the Voice of Firestone television series (1949-1962). This DVD centers on the great American opera stars of the 1950s, including Eleanor Steber, Risë Stevens, Richard Tucker, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, and others. All performances digitally remastered and with English subtitles for the first time. Black & White, Mono, NTSC (Playable all regions), 4:3, 77 minutes.

OPERA:

1. ROBERT MERRILL  Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Largo al factotum (6/1/1959) 4:22

2. RISE STEVENS  Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - Che farò senza Euridice (3/5/1951) 4:39

3. JAN PEERCE  Leoncavallo: Pagliacci - Recitar!... Vesti la giubba (1/9/1950) 2:38

4. FRANK GUARRERA  Bizet: Carmen - Toreador Song (Votre toast) (2/6/1956) 5:13

5. ROBERTA PETERS  Verdi: Rigoletto - Caro nome (1/26/1959) 4:03

6. ELEANOR STEBER  Verdi: La Traviata - Ah, fors'è lui... Sempre libera (2/13/1950) 4:35

7. ELAINE MALBIN & ROBERT MERRILL  Verdi: La Traviata - Imponete... Morrò, la mia memoria (1/30/1956) 3:30

8. ROBERT MERRILL  Verdi: La Traviata - Di Provenza il mar (1/30/1956) 3:20

9. ELEANOR STEBER  Verdi: La Traviata - ‘Teneste la promessa’... Addio del passato (5/1/1950) 4:30

10. RICHARD TUCKER  Puccini: Tosca - E lucevan le stelle (9/22/1958) 3:15

11. RICHARD TUCKER & LISA DELLA CASA   Puccini: La Bohème  - O soave fanciulla (9/22/1958) 3:41

12.-13. DOROTHY KIRSTEN & MARIO SERENI  Puccini: La Fanciulla del West - Poker Scene (12/9/1962) 11:11

SONGS:

14. ROBERTA PETERS  Firestone: If I Could Tell You (8/4/1952) :45

15. LEONARD WARREN  Speaks: On the Road to Mandalay (11/7/1949) 3:15

16. LEONARD WARREN  Tchaikovsky: None But the Lonely Heart (11/7/1949) 2:49

17. PATRICE MUNSEL  Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (Trad.) (1/11/1954) 4:20

18. JAN PEERCE  Herbert:  Eileen - Thine Alone (1/9/1950) 2:35

19. ROBERT MERRILL  Herbert:  Naughty Marietta - I'm Falling in Love with Someone (1/10/1955) 1:54

20. ELEANOR STEBER  Straus: The Chocolate Soldier - My Hero (5/28/1951) 3:53

21. LEONARD WARREN  Firestone: In My Garden (11/7/1949) :50

Firestone Orchestra & Chorus
Howard Barlow,  (1-4, 6-11, 14-18, 20-21), Wilfrid Pelletier (5,19), Walter Hendl (12-13)

 

All performances newly remastered from video sources in The Voice of Firestone Collection, New England Conservatory Archives, Boston, MA