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Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Elektra

Astrid Varnay (Elektra)
Elena Nicolaidi (Klytemnestra)
Irene Jessner (Chrysothemis)
Herbert Janssen (Orest)
Frederick Jagel (Aegisth)
Michael Rhodes (Servant)
Miriam Stockton, Edith Evans, Elinor Warren, Beverly Dame (slave girls)
Other roles including confidante and 5th slave girl unstated
New York Philharmonic, Dmitri Mitropoulos (conductor)
Carnegie Hall, New York, 25 December 1949
Carl Maria von WEBER (1786-1826)

Und ab die Wolke (Die Freischütz)
Ozean, du Ungeheuer (Oberon)
Richard WAGNER (1813-83)

Senta’s Ballad (Der Fliegende Holländer)
Pietro MASCAGNI (1863-1945)

Vol lo sapete (Cavalleria Rusticana)
Jules MASSENET

Il est gon (Herodiade)
Giacomo PUCCINI (1858-1924)

In quelle trine morbide (Manon Lescaut)
Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)

Ecco l’orride campo (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Come in quest’ ora bruna (Simon Boccanegra)
Astrid Varnay with unstated conductors and orchestras