Flower Duet
The World's Most Beautiful Duets
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
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Delibes: Lakmé / Act 1
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo-soprano)
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte‐Carlo
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1967-10
Viens, Mallika, ... Dôme épais (Flower Duet)
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 2
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano)
- Chorus Pro Arte Lausanne Du Brassus, Radio Suisse Romande Chorus, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1972-06
- Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva
"Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel / Act 2
- Lucia Popp (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (contralto)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1978-06
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
"Abends will ich schlafen gehn"
Rossini: Semiramide / Act 1
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1966-01-13
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
Alle più calde immagini
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict / Act 1
- Helen Watts (contralto), Christiane Eda-Pierre (soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Sir Colin Davis
- Recorded: 1977-12-22
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London
"Vous soupirez, madame?" - "Nuit paisible et sereine!"
Handel: Rodelinda, HWV 19 - Ed. Bonynge / Act 2
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Alicia Nafé (mezzo-soprano)
- Welsh National Opera Orchestra
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1985-05-04
- Recording Venue: St. Barnabas, North Finchley
"Io t'abbraccio
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle / Gloria
- Daniela Dessì (soprano), Gloria Scalchi (mezzo-soprano)
- Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
- Riccardo Chailly
- Recorded: 1993-05
- Recording Venue: Teatro Comunale, Bologna
Qui tollis
Excerpt,
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1967-10-28
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
2g. Recordare
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227 / Act 2
- Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Hilde Gueden (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Silvio Varviso
- Recorded: 1964-09-11
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 2
- Fiorenza Cossotto (soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Tullio Serafin
- Recorded: 1958-07-14
- Recording Venue: Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Una nave da guerra
Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio
Berlioz: Les Troyens / Act 3
- Françoise Pollet (soprano)
- Montreal Symphony Orchestra
- Charles Dutoit
- Recorded: 1993-10-23
- Recording Venue: L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montreal
Sa voix fait naître dans mon sein
Bellini: Norma / Act 2
- Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1964-07-14
- Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
Mira, O Norma...Si, fino all'ore