Gounod : Faust (2 CDs)

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

FAUST 

• Mephisto (Baß) .... Ezio Pinza
• Faust (Tenor) .... Raoul Jobin
• Margerethe (Sopran) .... Licia Albanese
• Valentin (Bariton) .... John Charles Thomas
• Marthe (Alt) .... Thelma Votipka
• Siebel (Sopran) .... Lucille Browning
• Wagner (Bariton) .... Wilfred Engelman

Chor & Orchester der Metropolitan Opera New York /Dirigent: Sir Thomas Beecham

Aufführungsmitschnitt vom 30. Januar 1943

Debussy : Pelleas et Melisande (2 CDs)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Melisande (Sopran) .... Bidu Sayao
• Pelleas (Tenor) .... Martial Singher
• König Arkel (Baß) .... Alexander Kipnis
• Golaud (Bariton) .... Lawrence Tibbett
• Genevieve (Alt) .... Margaret Harshaw
• Yniold (Sopran) .... Lillian Raymondi

Chor & Orchester der Metropolitan Opera New York / Dirigent: Emil Cooper

Aufgenommen 1945 in New York

Leoncavallo : I Pagliacci

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)

• Canio - Bajazzo (Tenor) .... Giovanni Martinelli
• Nedda - Colombine (Sopran) .... Norina Greco
• Tonio - Taddeo (Bariton) .... Lawrence Tibbett
• Beppo - Harlekin (Tenor) .... Alessio de Paolis
• Silvio (Bariton) .... Francesco Valentino

Chor & Orchester der Metropolitan Opera New York / Dirigent: Ferruccio Calusio

Aufführungsmitschnitt 1941