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50 years of great operatic singing

Title: 50 years of great operatic singing [sound recording].
Publication: Camden, N.J. : RCA Victor, [1955]

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Description

5 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono.; 12 in.

Alternative Title

Fifty years of great operatic singing

Subject

Operas > Excerpts

Note

Opera excerpts.
In container; manual sequence.
Program and biographical notes by G.R. Marek and Irving Kolodin in English (41 p. : ill.) bound in container.

Event (note)

Recorded 1905-1951.
Selections recorded from "the vast files of RCA Victor and its European affiliates."

Language (note)

Sung in Italian, French, English, German, Russian and Czech.

Contents

v. 1. 1900-1910.--v. 2. 1910-1920.--v. 3. 1920-1930.--v. 4. 1930-1940.--v. 5. 1940-1950.
Il trovatore. Di quella pira (Francesco Tamagno, tenor) ; A masked ball. Alla vita che t'arride (Mattia Battistini, baritone) ; Don Carlos. Elle ne m'aime pas (Pol Plançon, bass) / Verdi -- Don Giovanno. Batti, batti, o bel masetto / Mozart (Adelina Patti, soprano) -- Norma. Casta diva che inargenti / Bellini (Marcella Sembrich, soprano) -- Semiramide. Bel raggio lusinghier / Rossini (Marcella Sembrich, soprano) -- Hamlet. Scène de folie / Thomas (Nellie Melba, soprano) -- La bohème. O soave fanciulla / Puccini (Nellie Melba, soprano) -- La favorita. Spirito gentil / Donizetti (Enrico Caruso, tenor) -- Falstaff. L'onore! Ladri! / Verdi (Antonio Scotti, baritone) -- Don Pasquale. Cado, corro / Donizetti (Marcella Sembrich, soprano) -- The damnation of Faust. Chanson de la puce (Pol Plançon, bass) -- Hérodiade. Vision fugitive / Massenet (Maurice Renaud, baritone) -- The merry widow. Dolce amor / Lehár (Marcella Sembrich, soprano) -- Carmen. Habañera / Bizet (Emma Calvé, soprano) -- Manon. Obéissons, quand leur voix appelle / Massenet (Geraldine Farrar, soprano) -- I pagliacci. No pagliaccio no son! / Leoncavallo (Enrico Caruso, tenor).
Carmen. Parle-moi de ma mère (Lucy Isabelle Marsh, soprano ; John McCormack, tenor) ; Si tu m'aimes (Margarete Matzenauer, contralto ; Pasquale Amato, baritone) / Bizet -- Macbeth. Ah! La paterna mano / Verdi (Enrico Caruso, tenor) -- Manon. La rêve (Edmond Clément, tenor) ; On l'appelle Manon (Geraldine Farrar, soprano ; Enrico Caruso, tenor) / Massenet -- Aida. O patria mia / Verdi (Emmy Destinn, soprano) -- I puritani. Qui la voce sua soave / Bellini (Frieda Hempel, soprano) -- La traviata. Dite alla giovine / Verdi (Frieda Hempel, soprano ; Pasquale Amato, baritone) -- La bohème. Mi chiamano Mimì / Puccini (Claudia Muzio, soprano) -- Joseph. Champs paternels / Méhul (John McCormack, tenor) -- Manon Lescaut. In quelle trine morbide (Frances Alda, soprano) ; Tosca. Gia! Mi dicon venal! (Tita Ruffo, baritone) / Puccini -- La gioconda. O monumento / Ponchiello (Titta Ruffo, baritone) -- The queen of Sheba. Magische töne / Goldmark (Leo Slezak, tenor) -- Manon Lescaut. Donna non vidi mai / Puccini (Enrico Caruso, tenor).
L'Africana. Deh ch'io ritorni / Meyerbeer (Enrico Caruso, tenor) -- Andrea Chénier. Un dì all' azzurro spazio / Giordano (Beniamino Gigli, tenor) -- Carmen. En vain pour éviter / Bizet (Mary Garden, soprano) -- The flying Dutchman. Senta's ballad (Florence Austral, soprano) -- William tell. O muto asil del pianto / Rossini (Giovanni Martinelli, tenor) -- La forza del destino, Io muojo ; Non imprecare / Verdi -- Don Quichotte. Mort de Doin Quichotte / Massenet (Feodor Chaliapin, bass) -- Hamlet. Scène de folie / Thomas (Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano) -- Don Carlo. O don fatale / Verdi (Sigrid Onegin, contralto) -- Prince Igor. Arioso of Jaroslavna / Borodin (Nina Koshetz, soprano) -- The barber of Seville. Se il mionome / Rossini (Tito Schipa).
Don Giovanni. Finch' han del vino ; Deh, vieni alla finestra (Ezio Pinza, bass) ; The marriage of Figaro. Dove sono (Tiana Lemnitz, soprano) ; Don Giovanni. Or sai chi l'onore (Frida Leider, soprano) / Mozart -- Die Walküre. Winterstürme wichen / Wagner (Lauritz Melchior, tenor) -- Oberon. Ozean, du ungeheuer / Weber (Kirsten Flagstad, soprano) -- Der Rosenkavalier. Herr Kavalier / Strauss (Alexander Kipnis, bass) -- Lakmé. Là-bas dans la forêt / Delibes (Lily Pons, soprano) -- A masked ball. Morrò ma prima in grazia (Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano) ; Simon Boccanegra. Piango su voi (Lawrence Tibbett, baritone, baritone ; Giovanni Martinelli, tenor ; Rose Bampton, soprano) ; Il trovatore. Ah! Sì ben mio coll'essere (Jussi Bjoerling, tenor) / Verdi -- Andrea Chénier. La mamma morta / Giordano (Rosa Raisa, soprano) -- Ernani. Ernani, involvami / Verdi (Ina Souez, soprano).
Louise. Depuis le jour / Charpentier (Dorothy Maynor, soprano) -- The damnation of Faust. D'amour l'ardente flamme / Berlioz (Rose Bampton, soprano) -- Alceste. Divinités du Styx / Gluck (Helen Traubel, soprano) -- The tales of Hoffmann. Scintille diamant / Offenbach (Leonard Warren, baritone) -- Le tableau parlant. Vous étiez, ce que vous n'êtes plus / Grétry (Maggie Teyte, soprano) -- Norma. Casta diva / bellini (Zinka Milanov, soprano) -- Il trovatore. Ai nostri monti (Cloe Elmo, mezzo-soprano ; Beniamino Gigli, tenor) ; La traviata. Ah! Dite alla giovine (Licia Albanese, soprano ; Robert Merrill, baritone) / Verdi -- Turandot. Nessun dorma / Puccini (Jussi Bjoerling, tenor) -- Porgy and Bess. Summertime / Gershwin (Eleanor Steber, soprano) -- The marriage of Figaro. Non so più cosa son / Mozart (Rïsé Stevens, mezzo-soprano) -- Hubička. Cradle song / Smetana (Jarmila, Novotna, soprano) -- Lucia de Lammermoor. Fra poco a me ricovero / Donizetti (Jan Peerce, tenor).

Call Number

*LZR 70997

OCLC

6905605

Title

50 years of great operatic singing [sound recording].

Imprint

Camden, N.J. : RCA Victor, [1955]

Performer

Various performers.

Event

Recorded 1905-1951.

Selections recorded from "the vast files of RCA Victor and its European affiliates."

Language

Sung in Italian, French, English, German, Russian and Czech.

Added Author

Kolodin, Irving, 1908-

Tamagno, Francesco, 1850-1905.

Battistini, Mattia, 1856-1928.

Plançon, Pol, 1851-1914.

Patti, Adelina, 1843-1919.

Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935.

Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931.

Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921.

Scotti, Antonio, 1866-1936.

Renaud, Maurice, 1861-1933.

Calvé, Emma, 1858-1942.

Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967.

Marsh, Lucy Isabelle.

McCormack, John, 1884-1945.

Matzenauer, Margarete, 1881-1963.

Amato, Pasquale.

Clément, Edmond, 1867-1928.

Destinnová, Ema, 1878-1930.

Hempel, Frieda, 1885-1955.

Muzio, Claudia, 1889-1936.

Alda, Frances.

Ruffo, Titta, 1877-1953.

Slezak, Leo, 1873-1946.

Gigli, Beniamino, 1890-1957.

Garden, Mary, 1874-1967.

Austral, Florence, 1894-1968.

Martinelli, Giovanni, 1885-1969.

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981.

Pinza, Ezio.

Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich, 1873-1938.

Galli-Curci, Amelita, 1882-1963.

Onégin, Sigrid, 1889-1943.

Koshetz, Nina, -1965.

Schipa, Tito, 1889-1965.

Lemnitz, Tiana.

Leider, Frida, 1888-1975.

Melchior, Lauritz.

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962.

Kipnis, Alexander, 1891-1978.

Pons, Lily, 1898-1976.

Rethberg, Elisabeth, 1894-1976.

Tibbett, Lawrence, 1896-1960.

Bampton, Rose.

Björling, Jussi, 1911-1960.

Raisa, Rosa, 1893-1963.

Souez, Ina.

Maynor, Dorothy.

Traubel, Helen.

Warren, Leonard, 1911-1960.

Teyte, Maggie, 1888-1976.

Milanov, Zinka.

Elmo, Cloe.

Albanese, Licia.

Merrill, Robert, 1917-2004.

Steber, Eleanor.

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013.

Novotná, Jarmila, 1907-1994.

Peerce, Jan, 1904-1984.

Publisher No.

LCT 6701 RCA Victor

Research Call Number

*LZR 70997 Program notes on container.

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