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Norma (Bellini)
Live performance from the San Francisco Opera
15 September 1978

Norma: Shirley Verrett
Adalgisa: Alexandrina Milcheva
Pollione: Nunzio Todisco

Oroveso: Clifford Grant
Clotilde: Gwendolyn Jones
Flavio: Barry Busse

Conductor: Paolo Peloso


Fidelio (Beethoven)
Live performance from the Bayerischen Staatsoper, Munich
30 January 1978

Leonore: Hildegard Behrens
Florestan: James King
Rocco: Kurt Moll
Don Pizarro: Donald McIntyre
Marzelline: Lucia Popp

Jacquino: Norberth Orth
Don Fernando: Nikolaus Hillebrand
Erster Gefangener: Friedrich Lenz
Zweiter Gefangener: Hans Wilbrink

Conductor: Karl Böhm


Faust (Gounod)
Abridged recording, 1918, in Italian

Faust: Giuliano Romagnoli
Marguerite: Gemma Bosini
Mephistopheles: Fernando Autori

Valentin: Adolfo Pacini
Siebel: Gilda Timitz
Martha: Nelda Garrone

Conductor: Carlo Sabajno


La traviata (Verdi)
Live performance from Lisbon
27 March 1958

Violetta Valéry: Maria Callas
Alfredo Germont: Alfredo Kraus
Giorgio Germont : Mario Sereni
Flora Bervoix : Laura Zanini
Annina : Maria Cristina de Castro

Gastone:  Piero da Palma
Barone Doùphol:  Alvaro Malta
Marchese d'Obigny:  Vito Susca
Dottore Grenvil : Alessandro Maddalena
Messagero : Manuel Leitao

Conductor: Franco Ghione


Die Walkuere (Wagner)
Abridged recording MORC, 1950s

Brünnhilde:  Margaret Harshaw
Sieglinde:  Marianne Schech
Siegmund : Ramon Vinay

Wotan:  Hermann Uhde
Fricka: Blanche Thebom
Hunding:  Norman Scott

Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos


L'assedio di Corinto (Rossini)
Live performance from La Scala
April 14, 1969

Pamira: Beverly Sills
Neocle: Marilyn Horne

Cleomene: Franco Bonisolli
Maometto II: Justino Diaz

Conductor: Thomas Schippers



Jenufa (Janacek)
Live performance from the San Francisco Opera
10 October 1980

Jenufa:  Elizabeth Söderström
Kostelnicka:  Sena Jurinac

Laca:  Allen Cathcart
Steva:  William Lewis

Conductor: Albert Rosen