VA - Ultimate Opera, The Essential Masterpieces (5CD) [2007]
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Record Label: Decca (4758365)
Genre: Classical
CD 1: Ultimate Opera01. Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - "Oh! mio babbino caro"
Renata Tebaldi (Lauretta) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Lamberto Gardelli / 1962
02. Verdi: Nabucco (Act 3) - Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Staatsopernorchester / Lamberto Gardelli / 1965
03. Handel: Rodelinda (Act 1) - Dove sei, amato bene?
Marilyn Horne (Bertarido) / Vienna Cantata Orchestra / Henry Lewis / 1967
04. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (Act 2) - "Una furtiva lagrima"
Giuseppe di Stefano (Nemorino) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1955
05. Delibes: Lakmé (Act 2) - Ou va la jeune Indoue (Bell song)
Dame Joan Sutherland (Lakmé) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1960
06. Puccini: Tosca (Act 3) - "E lucevan le stelle"
Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Lorin Maazel / 1966
07. Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - "Regina coeli laetare"
Julia Varady (Santuzza) / The London Opera Chorus / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1976
08. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Act 3) - "Morgenlich leuchtend"
James King (Walther) / Wiener Opernorchester / Dietfried Bernet / 1967
09. Wagner: Tannhäuser (Paris version) (Act 3) - "Beglückt darf nun dich, o Heimat" (Pilgrims Chorus)
Helga Dernesch (Wolfram) / Victor Braun (Elisabeth) / Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti / 1970
10. Dvorák: Rusalka, Op.114 (Act 1) - Mesicku na nebi hlubokém
Pilar Lorengar (Rusalka) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Giuseppe Patane / 1966
11. Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo sinfonico
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Tullio Serafin / 1960
12. Donizetti: La Favorita (Italian version) (Act 4) - Spirto gentil
Luciano Pavarotti (Fernando) / Wiener Opernorchester / Sir Edward Downes / 1968
13. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Sung in Italian/Vienna version) (Act 3) - Aria: "Che faro senza Euridice?"
Teresa Berganza (Orfeo) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Alexander Gibson / 1960
14. Puccini: Tosca (Act 1) - "Recondita armonia"
Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi) / Alfredo Mariotti (Sacristan) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Lorin Maazel / 1966
15. Verdi: Rigoletto (Act 3) - "Bella figlia dell'amore"
Dame Joan Sutherland (Gilda) / Huguette Tourangeau (Maddalena) / Luciano Pavarotti (Duke) / Sherrill Milnes (Rigoletto) / Martti Talvela (Sparafucile) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1971
CD 2: Ultimate Opera01. Puccini: La Boheme (Act 1) - "Che gelida manina"
Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / 1972
02. Delibes: Lakmé (Act 1) - Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet)
Dame Joan Sutherland (Lakmé) / Jane Berbié (Mallika) / Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo / Richard Bonynge / 1967
03. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 (Original version, Vienna 1786) (Act 1) - "Non piu andrai"
Tom Krause (Figaro) / Vienna Haydn Orchestra / István Kertész / 1971
04. Mozart: Cosi fan tutte, K.588 (Act 1) - "Soave sia il vento"
Lucia Popp (Fiordiligi) / Brigitte Fassbaender (Dorabella) / Tom Krause (Alfonso) / Vienna Haydn Orchestra / István Kertész / 1971
05. Gounod: Faust (Version 1860/1869) (Act 3) - No.14b Air des bijoux: "Ah! Je ris de me voir"
Dame Joan Sutherland (Marguerite) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1960
06. Bizet: Les pecheurs de perles (Act 1) - No.2a) "C'est toi" No.2b) "Au fond du temple saint"
Libero De Luca (Nadir) / Jean Borthayre (Zurga) / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Alberto Erede / 1953
07. Catalani: La Wally, Drama lirica in quattro atti (Act 1) - Ebben? Ne andro lontana
Renata Tebaldi (Wally) / Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo / Fausto Cleva / 1968
08. Verdi: Luisa Miller (Act 2) - "Oh! fede negar potessi" - "Quando le sere al placido"
Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1957
09. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Act 1) - I zampognari!...Don din don
James McCracken (Canio) / Coro dei Ragazzi del Colosseo / Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Lamberto Gardelli / 1967
10. Massenet: Werther (Act 3) - "Pourquoi me réveiller, o souffle du printemps?"
Giuseppe di Stefano (Werther) / Tonhalle Orchester Zurich / Franco Patané / 1958
11. Bellini: I Puritani (Act 1) - "Son vergin vezzosa"
Dame Joan Sutherland (Elvira) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1960
12. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Prologue) - Prelude...Si puo? Signore! Signori!
Ingvar Wixell (Tonio) / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Giuseppe Patane / 1977
13. Puccini: Tosca (Act 2) - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"
Kiri Te Kanawa (Tosca) / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti / DDD 1984
14. Verdi: La traviata (Act 1) - "Un di felice, eterea"
Luciano Pavarotti (Alfredo) / Dame Joan Sutherland (Violetta) / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / DDD 1979
15. Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Act 2) - "Cielo e mar"
Jussi Björling (Enzo) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Alberto Erede / 1957
16. Puccini: Tosca (Act 1) - "Tre sbirri... Una carozza... Presto" - Te Deum
Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia) / Piero de Palma (Spoletta) / Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / 1962
CD 3: Ultimate Opera01. Wagner: Die Walküre (Dritter Aufzug) - Vorspiel...Hojotoho! Hojotoho! (Ride of the Valkyries)
Berit Lindholm, Brigitte Fassbaender, Claudia Hellmann, Helen Watts, Helga Dernesch, Marilyn Tyler, Vera Schlosser (Valkyries) / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti / 1965
02. Wagner: Tannhäuser (Act 3) - "O du, mein holder Abendstern"
Tom Krause (wolfram) / Wiener Opernorchester / Argeo Quadri / 1967
03. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Sung in Italian/Vienna version 1762) (Act 2) - Arioso: "Che puro ciel, che chiaro sol"
Teresa Berganza (Orfeo) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Alexander Gibson / 1960
04. Mozart: Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527 (Act 1) - "La ci darem la mano"
Lucia Popp (Zerlina) / Tom Krause (Don Giovanni) / Vienna Haydn Orchestra / István Kertész / 1971
05. Verdi: Il Trovatore (Act 3) - "Ah si ben mio"
Carlo Bergonzi (Manrico) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1957
06. Verdi: Aida (Act 1) - Ritorna vincitor!
Leontyne Price (Aida) / Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma / Sir Georg Solti / 1961
07. Bizet: Carmen (Act 2) - "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"
Plácido Domingo (Don José) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti / 1975
08. Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Act 2) - Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)
Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / 1974
09. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila (Act 2) - "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix"
Marilyn Horne (Dalila) / Wiener Opernorchester / Henry Lewis / 1967
10. Gounod: Faust (Version 1860/1869) (Act 4) - No.24 Sérénade: "Vous qui faites l'endormie"
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Méphistophéles) / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Edward Downes / 1964
11. Verdi: Don Carlo (Version 1867 for the Paris Opéra) (Act 4) - "O don fatale"
Grace Bumbry (Eboli) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Georg Solti / 1965
12. Puccini: Turandot (Completed by Franco Alfano) (Act 1) - Signore, ascolta
Maria Chiara (Liu) / Wiener Volksopernorchester / Nello Santi / 1971
13. Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (Act 1) - La dolcissima effigie sorridente
Renata Tebaldi (Adriana) / Mario del Monaco (Maurizio) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Franco Capuana / 1961
14. Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Act 2) - Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour
Dame Joan Sutherland (Giulietta) / Huguette Tourangeau (Nicklausse) / Chorus Pro Arte de Lausanne et Du Brassus / Radio Suisse Romande Chorus / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Richard Bonynge / 1972
15. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (Act 3) - "Morro, ma prima in grazia"
Renata Tebaldi (Amelia) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Oliviero de Fabritiis
16. Bizet: Carmen (Act 2) - Vivat! Vivat le torero!...Toreador Song: Votre toast
José van Dam (Don José) / The John Alldis Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti / 1975
CD 4: Ultimate Opera01. Verdi: Rigoletto (Act 3) - "La donna e mobile"
Luciano Pavarotti (Duke) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1971
02. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Act 1) - Una voce poco fa
Teresa Berganza (Rosina) / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson / 1959
03. Mozart: Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527 (Act 2) - "Deh! vieni alla finestra"
Gabriel Bacquier (Don Giovanni) / English Chamber Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1968
04. Verdi: Il Trovatore (Act 2) - "Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Anvil Chorus)
Norma Burrowes, Graham Clark, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Ingvar Wixell, Dame Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti / The London Opera Chorus / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1976
05. Puccini: La Boheme (Act 2) - "Quando m'en vo'" (Musetta's Waltz)
Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta) / Mirella Freni (Mimi) / Rolando Panerai (Marcello) / Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / 1972
06. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 (Original version, Vienna 1786) (Act 3) - "Dove sono i bei momenti"
Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti / DDD 1981
07. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 (E. Schikaneder) (Act 1) - "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja"
Tom Krause (Papageno) / Vienna Haydn Orchestra / István Kertész / 1971
08. Bellini: Norma (Tragica lirica in due atti di Felice Romani) (Act 1) - Casta Diva
Dame Joan Sutherland (Norma) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Richard Bonynge / 1964
09. Verdi: Il Trovatore (Act 2) - "Stride la vampa!"
Giulietta Simionato (Azucena) / L'Orchestre du Grand Théâtre de Geneve / Alberto Erede / 1956
10. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Act 1) - "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba"
Mario del Monaco (Canio) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1959
11. Mozart: Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K.527 (Act 1) - "Fin ch'han dal vino"
Tom Krause (Don Giovanni) / Vienna Haydn Orchestra / István Kertész / 1971
12. Puccini: Turandot (Completed by Franco Alfano) (Act 2) - In questa reggia
Dame Joan Sutherland (Turandot) / Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf) / The John Alldis Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Zubin Mehta / 1972
13. Bizet: Carmen (Act 1) - "Pres des remparts de Séville" - "Tais-toi"
Regina Resnik (Carmen) / Mario del Monaco (Don José) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Thomas Schippers / 1963
14. Meyerbeer: L'Africaine (Lib: Eugene Scribe /N. di Santo Magno) (Act 4) - Mi batte il cor...O Paradiso!
Carlo Bergonzi (Vasco da Gama) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1957
15. Ponchiell: La Gioconda (Act 4) - Suicidio!
Elena Suliotis (Gioconda) / Orchestra di Roma / Silvio Varviso / 1966
16. Verdi: La forza del destino (original) (Act 3) - Solenne in quest'ora
Mario del Monaco (Don Alvaro) / Ettore Bastianini (Don Carlo) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli / 1955
17. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Act 3) - "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod)
Birgit Nillson (Isolde) / Wiener Philharmoniker / Hans Knappertsbusch / 1959
18. Wagner: Die Walküre (Dritter Aufzug) - Loge hör! (Magic Fire Music)
Hans Hotter (Wotan) / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti / 1965
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CD 5: Ultimate Opera01. Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Act 2) - Un bel di vedremo
Mirella Freni (Butterfly) / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan / 1974
02. Verdi: Aida (Act 1) - "Se quel guerrier io fossi!" - "Celeste Aida"
Luciano Pavarotti (Radames) / Wiener Volksopernorchester / Leone Magiera / 1974
03. Verdi: La traviata (Act 1) - Prelude
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Sir John Pritchard / 1962
04. Verdi: La traviata (Act 1) - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici (Brindisi)
Dame Joan Sutherland (Violetta) / Carlo Bergonzi (Alfredo) / Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Sir John Pritchard / 1962
05. Verdi: Rigoletto (Act 1) - "Questa o quella" (Ballata)
Luciano Pavarotti (Duke) / London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1971
06. Puccini: La Rondine (Act 1) - Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Doretta's Dream Song)
Renata Tebaldi (Magda) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Oliviero de Fabritiis / 1964
07. Donizetti: La Favorita (Italian version) (Act 3) - O mio Fernando, della terra il trono
Fiorenza Cossotto (Leonora) / Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Richard Bonynge / 1974
08. Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Act 3) - Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano
Jussi Björling (Johnson) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Alberto Erede / 1957
09. Puccini: Turandot (Completed by Franco Alfano) (Act 3) - Tu che di gel sei cinta
Felicia Weathers (Liu) / Wiener Opernorchester / Argeo Quadri / 1966
10. Verdi: Il Trovatore (Act 3) - "Squilli, echeggi la tromba"
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ferrando) / The London Opera Chorus / The National Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge / 1976
11. Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Act 1) - "Donna non vidi mai"
Carlo Bergonzi (Des Grieux) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1957
12. Verdi: I vespri siciliani (Act 5) - "Merce, dilette amiche"
Maria Chiara (Elena) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Nello Santi / 1972
13. Gounod: Faust (Version 1860/1869) (Act 2) - No.7 Ronde du veau d'or: "Le veau d'or"
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Méphistophéles) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Edward Downes / 1964
14. Giordano: Andrea Chénier, Dramma di ambiente storico in quattro quadri (Act 1) - Colpito qui m'avete ... Un di all'azzura spazio
Mario del Monaco (Chénier) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1957
15. Verdi: Otello (Act 1) - Fuoco di gioia!
Orchestra & Chorus of Accademia of Santa Cecilia / Carlo Franci / 1964
16. Cilea: L'Arlesiana (Libretto: Leopoldo Marenco after Daudet) (Act 2) - E la solita storia
Jussi Björling (Federico) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Alberto Erede / 1957
17. Verdi: Aida (Act 3) - Qui Radames verra!...O Patria mia
Anita Cerquetti (Aida) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Gianandrea Gavazzeni / 1956
18. Verdi: La traviata (Act 2) - "Di Provenza il mar, il suol"
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Giorgio Germont) / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Lorin Maazel / 1968
19. Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - "Voi lo sapete, o mama" (Romanza)
Renata Tebaldi (Santuzza) / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Oliviero de Fabritiis / 1964
20. Verdi: Il Trovatore (Act 3) - "Di quella pira"
Mario del Monaco (Manrico) / Renata Tebaldi (Leonrora) / Athos Cesarini (Ruiz) / Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / L'Orchestre du Grand Théâtre de Geneve / Alberto Erede / 1956
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