An Era Recaptured: Highlights From The Metropolitan Opera Record Club
Contents: Le nozze di Figaro. Overture; Se vuol ballare; Finale / Mozart -- Die Zauberflöte. The wrath of hell; Within these holy portals; So must we too forever part?; A sweetheart or a maiden / Mozart -- Don Pasquale. Via, da brava; Com’ è gentil / Donizetti -- Rigoletto. Pari siamo!...Figlia! mio padre! / Verdi -- Il trovatore. Condotta ell’era in ceppi; Il balen del suo sorriso / Verdi -- Aida. Ma tu, re; O patria mia / Verdi -- Die Walküre. Winterstürme...Du bist der Lenz; Ride of the Valkyries; War es so schmählich; Loge hör! / Wagner -- Hänsel und Gretel. Prelude; Forest scene and pantomime; Hocus-pocus / Humperdinck -- Carmen. Seguidilla; Toreador song; Quintet / Bizet -- La périchole. The soldier and the Indian maid; Oh my dearest / Offenbach -- Les contes d’Hoffmann. Act II finale / Offenbach -- Boris Godunov. My heart is sad; You have come / Mussorgsky -- Eugene Onegin. How happy, how pleased am I; Letter scene; Oh where, oh where have flown / Tchaikovsky -- Die Fledermaus. The graying sea, the leaden sky; Orlofsky’s aria; Look me over once / J. Strauss -- La bohème. Si. mi chiamano Mimì / Puccini -- Tosca. Recondita harmonia; Ah, quegli occhi!; La povera mia cena fu interrotta...Vissi d’arte / Puccini -- Madama Butterfly. Love duet; Tu? Tu? piccolo iddio! / Puccini -- Pagliacci. Prologue; Ballatella; Vesti la giubba / Leoncavallo -- Andrea Chénier. Nemico della patria; Come un bel dì di maggio; La nostra morte / Giordano. Note(s): Program notes in English by Paul Gruber, and texts in French, German, and Italian with English translations (94, 38 p. : ill.) inserted in container./ Participants: Various performers, including Lucine Amara, Mildred Miller, Regina Resnick, Rosalind Elias, Patrice Munsel, Dorothy Kirsten, Giorgio Tozzi, Martial Singher, Salvatore Baccaloni, Jerome Hines, Richard Tucker and others ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra ; various conductors./ Recorded between 1955 and 1957.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra  (Orchestra)    Format: Audio CD
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