The great sopranos [videorecording] : classic performances 1950-1963 / produced by Video Artists International in association with New England Conservatory.
Opera excerpts (principally) and songs. Originally broadcast in 1995 on the television program Voices of Firestone. Firestone Orchestra and Chorus ; Howard Barlow, Richard Bonynge, Harry John Brown, Glenn Osser, conductors.
Contents:
Eleanor Steber: If I could tell you / Firestone (:45) ; Le nozze di Figaro. Dove sono / Mozart (4:36) -- Joan Sutherland: Artaxerxes. The soldier tir'd / Arne (3:20) -- Leontyne Price: Aïda. O patria mia / Verdi (6:33) -- Birgit Nilsson: La gioconda. Suicidio / Ponchielli (4:55) ; Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume / Sieczynski (2:27) -- Anna Moffo: Faust. Jewel song / Gounod (3:47) -- Bidu Sayão: Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (2:10) -- Renata Tebaldi: Madama Butterfly. Un bel dì vedremo / Puccini (4:55) -- Licia Albanese: Pagliacci. Ballatella / Leoncavallo (2:18) -- Helen Traubel: Die Walküre. Du bist der Lenz / Wagner (1:45) -- Roberta Peters: Die Zauberflöte. Der Hölle Rache (2:53) ; Don Giovanni. Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (3:53) / Mozart -- Patrice Munsel: Die Fledermaus. Adele's laughing song / J. Strauss II (4:14) -- Jeanette MacDonald: Naughty Marietta. Italian street song / Herbert (2:00) -- Eleanor Steber: The chocolate soldiers. My hero / Straus (5:50) ; In my garden / Firestone (:55)
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