Browse: Met Matinées (series)
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Jussi Björling (Roméo), Bidú Sayão (Juliette), John Brownlee (Mercutio), Nicola Moscona (Frére Laurent), Mimi Benzell (Stéphano), Claramae Turner (Nurse) & Thomas Hayward (Tybalt)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Emil Cooper
it's the sheer ardour of Björling's chaste lover which counts, and Bidú Sayão's flat-at-first Juliette eventually rises to the challenge. — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
Risë Stevens (Carmen), Richard Tucker (Don José), Nadine Conner (Micaëla), Paolo Silveri (Escamillo), Lucine Amara (Frasquita), Margaret Roggero (Mercédès), George Cehanovsky (Le Dancaïre), Alessio De Paolis (Le Remendado), Clifford Harvuot (Moralès), Osie Hawkins (Zuniga)
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Montserrat Caballé (Luisa), Richard Tucker (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Miller), Giorgio Tozzi (Walter), Louise Pearl (Federica), Ezio Flagello (Wurm), Nancy Williams (Laura), Lou Marcella (Contadino)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Schippers
Compared with the later recordings...Caballe sings with a more natural rather than a manufactured vocal lightness particularly evident in the more pastoral and gentle episodes with her trill... — More…
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Lily Pons (Marie), Raoul Jobin (Tonio), Irra Petina & Salvatore Baccaloni (Sulpice), Irra Petina (La Marquise), Louis D'Angelo (Hortensius), Wilfred Engelman (Corporale), Lodovico Oliviero (Un Paysan), Maria Savage (La Duchesse)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Gennaro Papi
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Roberta Peters (Gilda), Robert Merrill (Rigoletto), Richard Tucker (Il Duca di Mantova), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Sparafucile), Mignon Dunn (Maddalena), Carlotta Ordassy (Giovanna), John Macurdy (Monterone), Calvin Marsh (Marullo), Arthur Graham (Borsa), Robert Patterson (Il Conte di Ceprano), Joy Clements...
essentially a decent house revival of an old production...Richard Tucker keeps the Duke of Mantua light on his feet. Robert Merrill's gruff jester has plenty of voice, too, though again giving... — More…
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Thomas, Ambroise: Mignon
Risë Stevens (Mignon), Mimi Benzell (Philine), James Melton (Wilhelm Meister), Ezio Pinza (Lothario), Lucielle Browning (Frédéric), Donald Dame (Laërte), John Gurney (Jarno), Osie Hawkins (Antonio)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Wilfrid Pelletier
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Birgit Nilsson (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Hermann Uhde (Don Pizarro), Oskar Czerwenka (Rocco), Laurel Hurley (Marzelline), Charles Anthony (Jaquino) and Giorgio Tozzi (Don Fernando)
The Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Karl Böhm
There is much to recommend this performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, recorded in clean mono sound. Karl Böhm was an immensely experienced conductor of this opera, and his account of the Leonore... — More…
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Lily Pons (Rosina), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Count Almaviva), Giuseppe Valdengo (Figaro), Salvatore Baccaloni (Don Bartolo) & Jerome Hines (Don Basilio)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Alberto Erede
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Puccini: Tosca
Leontyne Price (Tosca), Franco Corelli (Mario Cavaradossi), Cornell MacNeil (Scarpia), Norman Scott (Angelotti), Paul Franke (Spoletta), George Cehanovsky (Sciarrone), Alan Fischer (Shepherd), Ezio Flagello (Sacristan), Roald Reitan (Gaoler)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Kurt Adler...
it features the most impressive singing of any Tosca ever recorded...what we hear are big, exciting voices...in their prime. Price lightens her tone when needed but otherwise unleashes waves... — More…
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act version
Leonie Rysanek (Elisabetta), Irene Dalis (Eboli), Franco Corelli (Don Carlo), Nicolae Herlea (Rodrigo), Giorgio Tozzi (Filippo II), Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore), Marcia Baldwin (Tebaldo), Junetta Jones (Una voce dal cielo), Justino Díaz (Un Frate)
Metropolitan Opera, Kurt Adler
Corelli, one of the period's most viscerally exciting tenors, adds high notes and generally shows off, but in a way that is regularly thrilling. Leonie Rysanek's Elisabetta possesses discretion... — More…
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