Playlist Humperdinck:  Hansel & Gretel  “Ra-la-la”  Walter Berry with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan  EMI 7 69293 2 Humperdinck:  Hansel & Gretel  “Prelude ACT II”  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Georg Solti  LONDON  OSA12112 Humperdinck:  Hansel & Gretel  “Der Kleine Sandman bin ich” Norma Burrowes, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp with the […]

Playlist Donizetti:  Don Pasquale “So anch’ io la virtu magica”  Beverly Sills with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sarah Caldwell  EMI 5 66030 2 Donizetti:  Don Pasquale  “Pronta io son”   Ruth Ann Swenson and Thomas Hampson with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Kohn  EMI 5 55554 2 Donizetti:  Don Pasquale  “Povero Ernesto . […]

Playlist Massenet:  Werther  ACT I  Duet: “Il faut nous separer . .”  Victoria de los Andeles & Nicolai Gedda with Le Orchestre de Paris conducted by George Pretre  Recorded in Paris in 1968  EMI 5 62630 2 Massenet:  Werther  Act III  “Letter Scene”   Maria Callas with Le Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire […]

Playlist Donizetti:  Don Pasquale  “Com’e gentil”   Juan Diego Florez with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi conducted by Riccardo Frizza  DECCA B0000031-02 Tosti:  La Serenata  Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge, piano  LONDON 425 048-2 Leoncavallo:  I Pagliacci  “O Colombina”  Roberto Alagna with guitars  EMI 7243 5 56426 2 2 Mozart:  Don Giovanni  “Deh vieni alla […]

Playlist Verdi:  Simon Boccanegra  “Ah te l’estremo . . . Il lacerato spirito”  Boris Christoff with unnamed orchestra  EMI CDM 7 69542 2 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra “Figlia! A tu nome palpiti”  Astrid Varnay and Leonard Warren with orchestra conducted by Renato Cellini  NAXOS 8.110148-49 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra  “Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo! . . . Piango su […]

Playlist Strauss:  Elektra  “Recognition Scene”  Inge Borkh and Paul Schoeffler with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner  RCA VICTOR 09026-68636-2

Playlist Kamarinskaya:  Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra PHILIPS 434 080-2 Tchaikovsky: Whether the Day Reigns Dimitri Hvorostovsky with Mikhail Arkadiev, piano Rimsky-Korsakoff: The Rose & the Nightingale Galina Vishnevskaya & Mstislav Rostropovich, piano EMI 5 62654 2 Rachmaninoff: O Cease thy Singing Maiden Fair Placido Domingo, Itzak Perlman, violin with the New York Studio Orchestra conducted […]

Wagner: Lohengrin Entweihte Gotter Rita Gorr with the National Theatre Orchestra of Paris conducted by Andre Cluytens EMI 4 40497 2 Saint-Saens: Sampson et Dalila Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix Rita Gorr and JonVickers with the National Theatre Orchestra of Paris conducted by George Pretre Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites Mes filles, voila que […]

Mozart: Die Zauberflote Ein Madchen oder Weibchen Heinz Holliger, oboe PHILIPS 426 288-2 Mozart:  Die Zauberflote Ein Madchen oder Weibchen Walter Berry with the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch  EMI 40497 2 Verdi: Paraphrase on Themes from Rigoletto Claudio Arrau, piano PHILIPS 456 052-2 Verdi: Rigoletto Quartet Alfredo Kraus, Anna Moffo, Robert […]

Playlist Gounod: Faust Le Veau d’or Rene Pape with the Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Sebastian Weigle DGG 477 6408 Verdi: Otello Credo Tito Gobbi with the Rome Opera House Orchestra conducted by Tulio Serafin RCA 09026-63180-2 Mozart: Don Giovanni  Finch, han dal vino Dimitri Hvorostovsky with the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra conducted by Richard Bradshaw […]