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08/10/2009
73) Christoph Willibald Gluck Alceste
French (Paris) version
Alceste: Jessie Norman
Admete: Nicolai Gedda
Le Grand Pretre: Tom Krause
Un Heraut d'armes: Peter Lika
Hercule: Siegmund Nimsgern
Apollon: Bernd Weikl
Un Dieu Infernal: Kurt Rydl
L'oracle: Roland Bracht
Coryphée: Francoise Pollet
Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Conductor Serge Baudo, 1982
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72) Christoph Willibald Gluck Iphigenie en Tauride (excerpts)
Gorr, Gedda, Blanc, Quilico
Conductor Georges Pretre
Recorded in 1961
01 - Acte 1 O toi qui prolongeas
02 - Acte 1 Dieu! Le malheur
03 - Acte 2 Quel silence effrayant
04 - Acte 2 Dieux qui me poursuivez
05 - Acte 2 Quel langage acclabant
06 - Acte 2 O Malheureuse Iphigénie
07 - Acte 3 Je cède à vos désirs
08 - Acte 3 Je pourrais, du tyran
09 - Acte 3 O moment trop heureux
10 - Acte 3 Ah mon ami, j'implore
11 - Acte 3 Divinités des grandes âmes
12 - Acte 4 Non, cet affreux devoir
13 - Acte 4 Chaste fille de Latone
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71) Gaetano Donizetti Licia di Lammermoor - live performance
70) Georges Bizet Carmen
Amazon.com essential recording
This recording was made near the end of Maria Callas's career. It is a role she never sang onstage, but it suited her almost perfectly, and she gives a deep, compelling performance on this recording. The mezzo-soprano tessitura was comfortable for her voice, and the role did not call for a pretty sound. Nor did the recording studio require the kind of huge vocal power expected in an opera house. And furthermore, the character of a strong-willed, capricious, sexually compelling woman who thinks exclusively of herself was close to the offstage personality that made Callas so famous. --Joe McLellan
Carmen - Maria Callas
Don José - Nicolai Gedda
Escamillo - Robert Massard
Micaela - Andrea Guiot
Frasquita - Nadine Sautereau
Jane Berbié - Mercedes
Conductor Georges Prêtre
Recorded in Wagram Hall, Paris, France, July 1964
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69) Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus
Gabriel von Eisenstein - Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Rosalinde - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Alfred - Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Adele - Rita Streich (soprano)
Dr. Falke - Erich Kunz (baritone)
Frank - Karl Doench (baritone)
Prince Orlowsky - Rudolf Christ (tenor)
Dr. Blind - Erich Majkut (tenor)
Ida - Louise Martini (soprano-speaker)
Frosch - Franz Boeheim (speaker)
Conductor Herbert Von Karajan
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68) Samuel Barber Vanessa
Vanessa has spent twenty years in her country house after being left by her lover, Anatol; she has kept the house shut up, with all of the mirrors covered. Her mother, the Old Baroness, will not speak to her; her only companion is her niece, Erika. As the opera opens, they are preparing for the arrival of Anatol. He is sighted coming towards the house, and Vanessa sends everyone else away; as soon as he arrives at the door, she declares her love for him--then faints when she discovers that the man on the doorstep is not her lover. He is, he explains to Erika, that Anatol's son; he has come to meet the woman whose name haunted his father and mother. The Anatol that Vanessa knew has died.
Anatol, left alone with Erika, seduces her; the next day, after Erika learns that he has been making advances to Vanessa, she confronts him; he offers to marry her, but, offended by the flippancy with which he has proposed, and worried about Vanessa, rejects him. At the party where Vanessa and Anatol's engagement is announced, Erika reveals to the Old Baroness that she is pregnant with Anatol's child. She runs away from the house and causes herself to miscarry; a search party sent out by Vanessa brings her back. Vanessa, still unaware of Anatol's liason with Erika, marries him, and they leave together. Erika, left alone in the house with her grandmother, who now will not speak to her, orders the mirrors covered again and the gates closed and locked, just as before.
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27/09/2009
67) Vincenzo Bellini I puritani - live performance 1970
LORD ARTURO TALBO - NICOLAI GEDDA
ELVIRA - CRISTINA DEUTEKOM
SIR RICCARDO FORTH - SESTO BRUSCANTINI
SIR GIORGIO - AGOSTINO FERRIN
ENRICHETTA DI FRANCIA - FLORA RAFANELLI
LORD GUALTIERO VALTON - GRAZIANO DEL VIVO
SIR BRUNO ROBERTSON - VALIANO NATALI
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI
FIRENZE, TEATRO COMUNALE, 20 DICEMBRE 1970
66) Vincenzo Bellini I puritani - live performance 1963
Live performance from Philadelphia, April 18 1963
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
Company: American Opera Society
Elvira - Joan Sutherland
Arturo - Nicolai Gedda
Riccardo - Ernest Blanc
Giorgio - Justino Diaz
Enrichetta - Betty Allen
Gualtiero - Raymond Michalski
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65) Vincenzo Bellini I puritani
Recording from 1973
Lord Gualtiero Valton - Richard van Allen
Sir Giorgio - Paul Plishka
Lord Arturo Talbot - Nicolai Gedda
Elvira - Beverly Sills
Sir Riccardo Forth - Louis Quilico
Sir Bruno Roberton - Riccardo Cassinelli
Enrichetta di Francia - Heather Begg
Ambrosian opera chorus
London philharmonic orchestra
Conductor Julius Rudel
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