Immortal Performances
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Rene Maison (Hoffmann), Vina Bovy (Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia/Stella), Lawrence Tibbett (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dappertutto/Dr. Miracle), Irra Petina (Nicklausse)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurice Abravanel
2 CDs
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice Kerstin Thorborg (mezzo), Kerstin Thorborg (Orfeo), Jarmila Novotna (Euridice), Marita Farell (Amore), Annamary Dickey (Blessed Spirit)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, RCA Victor Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf, Frieder Weissman, Karl Riedel
2 CDs
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San Francisco Opera Gems: Volume 1
Seasons 1936, 1939 and 1940
Bidú Sayao (Manon), Tito Schipa (Des Grieux), Richard Bonelli (Lescaut), Marjorie Lawrence (Carmen), Raoul Jobin (Don José), Ezio Pinza (Escamillo), Ezio Pinza (Figaro), Bidú Sayao (Susanna), John Brownlee (Count Almaviva), Elisabeth Rethberg (Countess Almaviva), Rise Stevens (Cherubino), Irra Petina...
3 CDs
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Gounod: Faust
Raoul Jobin (Faust), Ezio Pinza (Méphistophélès), Licia Albanese (Marguerite), Martial Singher (Valentin), Lucielle Browning (Siébel), Thelma Votipka (Martha), John Baker (Wagner)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Sir Thomas Beecham
2 CDs
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Ezio Pinza (Don Giovanni), Salvatore Baccaloni (Leporello), Zinka Milanov (Donna Anna), Jarmila Novotna (Donna Elvira), Bidù Sayáo (Zerlina), James Melton (Don Ottavio), Mack Harrell (Masetto), Norman Cordon (Commendatore)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Paul Breisach
Pinza and Baccaloni are indeed wonderful in their recitatives, the words of their native language flashing vividly from their tongues...[Sayáo has] great charm and a real personality, so that... — More…
2 CDs
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 Kirsten Flagstad (Leonore), René Maison (Florestan), Alexander Kipnis (Rocco), Julius Huehn (Pizarro), Karl Laufkoetter (Jaquino), Marita Farell (Marzelline), Herbert Janssen (Fernando)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Bruno Walter
2 CDs
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia John Charles Thomas (Figaro), Bruno Landi (Il Conte Almaviva), Josephine Tuminia (Rosina), Ezio Pinza (Don Basilio), Salvatore Baccaloni (Dr. Bartolo), Irra Petina (Berta), Wilfred Engelman (Fiorello)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Gennaro Papi
2 CDs
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Verdi: Falstaff Leonard Warren (Falstaff), Giuseppe Valdengo (Ford), Giuseppe di Stefano (Fenton), Regina Resnik (Alice Ford), Licia Albanese (Nannetta), Cloe Elmo (Quickly), Martha Lipton (Meg Page), Alessio de Paolis (Bardolpho), Lorenzo Alvary (Pistol)
Metropolitan Opera, Fritz Reiner
2 CDs
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Jo Vincent (soprano), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Toonkunstchoir, Otto Klemperer
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
René Maison (Samson), Gertrud Wettergren (Dalila), Ezio Pinza (Le Grand Prêtre de Dagon, Emanuel List (Le Vieillard Hébreu), John Gurney (Abimélech)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurice Abravanel
2 CDs
$15.00