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BELLINI
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Farcas, Gardina
I Puritani

D'Angelo, Salderi, Ferrin,
Dondi
Norma
Vickers & Caballé
Norma
Sutherland
Norma
Dragoni, Zampieri
Norma
Dessi, Armiliato

La Sonnambula
Moffo

BIZET
Carmen
Franco Corelli
Carmen
Bonfitto, Taruntsov

CHERUBINI
Medea

Mazzola-Gavazzeni

DEBUSSY
Pelléas et Mélisande (Act 2)
Danco, Jeannotte, Savoie


DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena
Sutherland
Daughter of the Regiment
Sills
Don Pasquale
Tajo,
Bruscantini, Valletti
La Favorita
Cossotto, Kraus
L'Elisir d'Amore

Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor
Scotto, Bergonzi
Lucia di Lammermoor

Moffo, Kozma
Lucia di Lammermoor
Kraus, Serra
Roberto Devereux
Sills
Marin Faliero
Pertusi, Servile, Blake

GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Mikado
D’Oyly Carte

GIORDANO
Andrea Chénier
Franco Corelli
Andrea Chénier
Tebaldi, Del Monaco

GLUCK
Orphée et Eurydice
Simoneau, Alarie

GOUNOD
Faust
Kraus, Ghiuselev
Faust
Scotto, Ghiaurov
Mireille (abridged)
Alarie, Simoneau, Savoie

LEONCAVALLO
I Pagliacci
Vickers
I Pagliacci
Corelli
I Pagliacci
Del Monaco, Tucci
I Pagliacci
Domingo,
Mauti-Nunziata

Lombardo, Carlo
Cin Ci La'

MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Simionato, Lo Forese
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verrett,
Johannsson
Zanetto
Mazzola Gavazzeni, Basso
Cavalleria Rusticana
Domingo,
Cossotto

MENOTTI
Amahl & The Night Visitors
Kuhlmann, McIver
The Consul

Patricia Neway
The Medium
Powers, Alberghetti
The Medium
Forrester
The Telephone
Farley, Smythe

MOZART
Don Giovanni
Petri, Stich-Randall,
Gencer, Sciutti, Alva,
Brucsantini
Cosi fan Tutti
Curtin
(Scenes from Act 1)
The Impresario
Steber, Curtin, others
Le Nozze di Figaro
Rehfuss, Probbe,
Rossi-Lemeni, Carteri

MUSSORGSKY
Boris Godunov
Piragov (1954 film)

OFFENBACH
Les Contes D’Hoffmann
Krauss, Welting,
Hendricks, Ghiuselev


POULENC
La Voix Humaine
Farley

PUCCINI

Madama Butterfly
Moffo
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Tebaldi
Tosca
Olivero
Tosca
Corelli, Duval, Poli
Tosca
Corelli, Heredia Capnist
Turandot
Corelli
La Rondine
Carteri, Gismondo
La Fanciulla del West
Stella, Limarilli, Colzani
M
anon Lescaut
Chiara,
Romero, Martinucci

ROSSINI
Elisabetta, Regina D'Inghilterra
Lella Cuberli
L'Italiana in Algeri
Petri, Palombini


Tancredi

Barcellona, Workman,
Cantarero

L'Equivoco Stravagante
Teatro Comunale
di Modena (2001)

Barber of Seville
Bonitatibus, Giménez,
Nucci

STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos
Sills

VERDI

Aida
Bergonzi, Cossotto
Aida
Tucci, Del Monaco

Aida
Gencer, Bergonzi
Falstaff
Taddei, Moffo
Il Trovatore
Del Monaco, Gencer
Il Trovatore
Nucci, Theodossiou
La Forza del Destino

Tebaldi, Corelli

La Traviata
Moffo
La Traviata
Sills
La Traviata
Scotto,
Carreras
Otello
Del Monaco, Carteri

Otello
Del Monaco, Tucci
Rigoletto
Kraus, Nucci
Un Ballo in Maschera
Bergonzi, Stella, Zanasi

WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde
extended scenes
Vickers, Knie

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Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) (Extended Scenes)
VAI DVD 4259, $34.95

Jon Vickers and Roberta Knie star in this abridged 1976 production, staged by the L’Opéra du Québec, and filmed by the CBC, Montreal. Supporting cast includes Maureen Forrester,  Victor Braun, and William Wilderman; the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of L’Opéra du Québec are under the direction of Franz-Paul Decker. 

Video also includes background on the opera and the life of Richard Wagner, hosted and narrated by Jon Vickers. 88 minutes, Color, sung in German, with English subtitles.

88 minutes, Color, sung in German, with English subtitles - optional.

CAST

JON VICKERS
(Tristan)
ROBERTA KNIE
(Isolde)
MAUREEN FORRESTER
(Brangäne)
VICTOR BRAUN
(Kurwenal)
WILLIAM WILDERMAN
(King Marke)
ROBERT CALVERT
(Melot)
FRANZ-PAUL DECKER

conducts the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
and Chorus of L’Opéra du Québec


Act I
Prelude (3:52)

2. Auf das Tau! Ankerlos! . . . Tristan! - Isolde! - Treuloser Holder!  
(Sailors, Tristan, Isolde, Brangäne, Kurwenal) (9:35)

Act 2
3. Prelude (1:18)

4. Dein Werk? O thör’ge Magd! . . . Isolde! - Tristan! Geliebter! 
(Isolde, Brangäne, Tristan) (8:13)

5. In des Tages eitlem Wähnen . . . O sink’ hernieder, Nacht der Liebe . . .
Einsam wachend in der Nacht
(Tristan, Isolde, Brangäne) (9:55)

  6. So starben wir, um ungetrennt . . . Thatest du’s wirklich? . . . O König, das kann ich dir nicht sagen
(Tristan, Isolde, Brangäne, Kurwenal, Melot, Marke) (24:12)


Act 3
7. O Wonne! Nein! Er regt sich, er lebt! . . . Mild und leise (Liebestod)
(Kurwenal, Tristan, Isolde) (22:49)

 

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