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Georges Bizet
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Carmen
Solange Michel, Raoul Jobin, Michel Dens
Opéra-Comique Ch & O, Paris/André Cluytens
rec. 1950
8.110238-39
Review by Richard Lee-Van den Daele
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Gustav Charpentier
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Louise (excerpts)
Ninon Vallin, Georges Thill
Le Choeurs Raugel and Orchestra Paris/ Eugène Bigot
rec. 1935
8.110225
Reviews by Robert
Hugill and Jonathan Woolf |
Gaetano Donizetti
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Lucia Di Lammermoor
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Ch & O/Tullio Serafin
rec. 1953
8.110131-32
Reviews by Arthur
Baker and Robert Hugill |
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Lucia di Lammermoor
Lina Pagliughi, Giovanni Malipiero, Giuseppe Manacchini
Italian Broadcasting Authority Ch & O/Ugo Tansini
rec. 1939
8.110150-51
Review by Frank Cadenhead
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George Gershwin
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Porgy and Bess
Selections from early recordings
rec. 1935-45
8.110219-20
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
Charles Gounod
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Romeo et Juliette
Eide Norena, Charles Hackett
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Louis Hasselmans
rec. 1935
8.110140-41
Reviews by Robert
Hugill and Robert Farr |
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Faust (w/arias & song by Björling)
Jussi Björling, Cesare Siepi, Dorothy Kirsten
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Fausto Cleva
rec. 1949-52
8.111083-85
Review by Göran
Forsling
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Faust
Georges Noré, Roger Rico
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
rec. 1947-48
8.110117-18
Reviews by Jonathan
Woolf and Roy Brewer |
Jules Massenet
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Werther
George Thill,
Charlotte Ninon
Paris Opera Ch & O/Elie Cohen
rec. 1931
8.11061-62
Review by Ian Lace |
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Manon
Germaine Féraldy
Opéra-Comique, Paris Ch & O/Elie Cohen
rec.
1928-29
8.110203-04
Reviews by Jonathan
Woolf and Richard Lee-Van den Daele |
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Victoria de los Angeles, Henri Legay
Ch & O Théâtre National de l’Opéra Comique/Pierre
Monteux
rec. 1955
8.111268-70
Review by Robert
Hugill |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Die Zauberflöte
Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz, Gerhard Hüsch,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham
rec. 1937/8
8.110127-28
Review by Tony Duggan |
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Don Giovanni
John Brownlee, Ina Souez, Luise Helletsgruber
Glyndebourne Festival Ch& O/Fritz Busch
rec. 1936
8.110135-37
Review by Roy Brewer |
Modest Mussorgsky
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Boris Godunov
Boris Christoff, Eugenia
Zareska, Kim Borg
Russian Ch Paris, French Ntl Radio O/Issay
Dobrowen
rec. 1952
8.110242-44
Reviews by Colin
Clarke and Robert Farr |
Amilcare Ponchielli
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La Giaconda (w/arias by Arangi-Lombardi)
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Ebe Stignani, Camilla Rota
La Scala, Milan Ch & O/Lorenzo Molajoli
rec. 1926-1933
8.110112-14
Review by Gwyn Parry-Jones |
Giacomo Puccini
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La Bohème
Licia Albanese, Beniamino Gigli
La Scala Ch & O/Umberto Berrettoni
rec. 1938
8.110072-73
Review by Roy Brewer |
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Tosca
Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Armando
Borgioli
Teatro Reale dell’Opera,
Rome Ch & O/Oliviero de Fabritiis
rec. 1938
8.110096-97
Review by Tony Haywood |
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Madame Butterfly
Toti Dal Monte, Beniamino
Gigli
Royal Opera House, Rome Ch & O/Oliviero de Fabritiis
rec. 1939
8.110183-84
Review by Uwe Schneider |
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Turandot
Armando Gianotti, Gina Cigna
E.I.A.R. Turin Ch & O/Franco Ghione
rec. 1938
8.110193-94
Review by Robert Hugill |
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Madame Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Campora
Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome Ch & O/Alberto Erede
rec. 1951
8.110254-55
Review by Colin Clarke |
Henry Purcell
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Dido & Aeneas
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad
Mermaid Singers and O/Geraint Jones
rec. 1948-52
8.111264
Review by Jonathan
Woolf |
Bedrich Smetana
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The Bartered Bride
Jan Konstantin, Marie Pixová, Ada Nordenová
National Opera Company, Prague Ch & O/Otakar Ostrcil
rec. 1933
8.110098-99
Review by Frank Cadenhead |
Richard Strauss
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Der Rosenkavalier
Lotte Lehman, Elisabeth Schumann
Vienna PO/Robert Heger
rec. 1933
8.110191-92
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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Der Rosenkavalier
Eleanor Steber, Erna Berger,
Risë Stevens
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Fritz Reiner
rec.
1949
8.110277-79
Review by Christopher Howell |
Igor Stravinsky
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The Rake’s Progress
Hilde Gueden, Blanche Thebom, Eugene Conley
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Igor Stravinsky
rec. 1953
8.111266-67
Reviews by Ewan
McCormick and Göran
Forsling |
Giuseppe Verdi
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Aida
Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco
Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome Ch & O/Alberto Erede
rec. 1952
8.110129-30
Reviews by Christopher
Howell, Robert
Farr and Colin Clarke |
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Aida
Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli, Italo Tajo
Opera House, Rome Ch & O/Tulio Serafin
rec. 1946
8.110156-57
Review by Robert Farr |
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Il Trovatore
Bianca Scacciati, Enrico Molinari, Giuseppe Zinetti
La Scala, Milan Ch & O/Lorenzo Molajoli
rec. 1930
8.110162-63
Review by Christopher Fifield |
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Falstaff
Giacomo Rimini, Pia Tassinari
La Scala Milan Ch & O/Lorenzo Molajoli
rec. 1932
8.110198-99
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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La Forza del Destino
Maria Caniglia, Galliano Masini
EIAR, Turin Ch & SO/Gino Marinuzzi
rec. 1941
8.110206-07
Review by Calvin Goodwin |
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Il trovatore
Jussi Björling, Zinka Milanov
Robert Shaw Ch, RCA Victor O/Renato Cellini
rec. 1952
8.110240-41
Reviews by Robert
Farr and Tony Haywood |
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Otello
Giovanni Martinelli, Elizabeth Rethberg, Lawrence Tibbett
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Ettore Panizza
rec. 1938
8.111018-19
Reviews by John
Quinn and Göran
Forsling |
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La Traviata
Antonietta Stella, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, La Scala, Milan Ch & O/Tullio
Serafin
rec. 1955
8.111272-73
Review by Göran
Forsling |
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Un ballo in maschera
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Toti Gobbi
Ch & O La Scala, Milan/Antonino Votto
rec. 1956
8.111278-79
Review by Göran
Forsling |
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Il Trovatore
Giuseppe
Di Stefano, Maria Callas, Ch & O La Scala, Milan/Herbert
von Karajan
rec. 1956
8.111280-81
Reviews by Ewan
McCormick and Göran
Forsling |
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Otello
Ramón Vinay, Herva Nelli
NBC SO & Ch/Arturo Toscanini
rec. 1947
8.111320-21
Review by Ewan
McCormick |
Richard Wagner
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Die Walküre
Astrid Varnay, Alexander Kipnis
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Erich Leinsdorf
rec.
1941
8.110058-60
Review by Tony Duggan |
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Tristan and Isolde
Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad
London PO/Fritz Reiner
rec. 1936
8.110068-70
Review by Tony Duggan |
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Siegfried (highlights)
Lauritz Melchior, Heinrich Tessmer, Florence Easton
Vienna State Opera O/Karl Alwin;
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden O/Robert Heger
rec. 1929-32
8.110091-92
Reviews by Colin
Clarke and Robert Hugill
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Tannhäuser
Sigismund Pilinszk, Maria Müller
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Karl Elmendorff
rec. 1930
8.110094-95
Review by Robert Farr |
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Tristan and Isolde
Nanny Larsen-Todsen, Gunnar Graarud
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Karl Elmendorff
rec. 1928
8.110200-02
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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Parsifal
Wolfgang Windgassen, Martha Modl, George London
Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Hans Knappertsbusch
rec. 1951
8.110221-24
Reviews by Robert
Farr, Tony Haywood and Jonathan Woolf |
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Lohengrin
Lauritz Melchior, Astrid Varnay
Metropolitan Opera Ch & O/Erich Leinsdorf
rec. 1943
8.110235
Review by Göran
Forsling |
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Die Walküre (Acts I & II)
Lauritz Melchior, Hans Hotter, Lotte
Lehmann
Vienna PO/Bruno Walter
rec.
1935-38
8.110250-51
Reviews by Robert
Farr and Jonathan Woolf |
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The Ring Cycle
Artur Bodanzky, Erich Leinsdorf
rec. 1936-41
8.501106
Review by Jonathan Woolf |
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