First up is Galina Vishnevskaya in Prokofiev’s Semyon Kotko co-starring Elena Obraztsova, Vladimir Atlantov and Yuri Mazurok; followed by Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson pursued by Simon Keenlyside; and finally a late-career Julia Varady as Tove in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder along with Hanna Schwarz and Thomas Moser.

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 Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko

Sofya: Galina Vishnevskaya
Lyubka: Nina Lebedeva
Frosya: Elena Obraztsova
Khivrya: Veronika Borisenko
Semyon’s mother: Nina Novosyolova
First woman: Nina Fomina
Second woman: Galina Borisova
Third woman: Nina Grigoryeva
Semyon: Vladimir Atlantov
Mikola: Aleksandr Arkhipov
Tsaryov: Yuri Mazurok
Von Vichrov: Vladimir Valaitis
Tkachenko: Artur Eizen
Ivasenko: Stanislav Frolov
A worker: Aleksey Maslennikov
A translator: Vitali Vlasov
Old men: Boris Morozov & Yuri Korolyov
First Gaydamak: Vladimir Filippov
Second Gaydamak: Anatolit Mishutin

Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Bolshoi Opera visiting La Scala
6 November 1973

In-house recording

Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

Lucretia: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Female Chorus: Geraldine McGreevy
Lucia: Lisa Milne
Bianca: Catherine Wyn-Rogers
Tarquinius: Simon Keenlyside
Male Chorus: Ian Bostridge
Collatinus: John Reylea
Junius: Neal Davies

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Donald Runnicles

Edinburgh Festival
19 August 1998

Broadcast

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder

Tove: Julia Varady
Wood-Dove: Hanna Schwarz
Waldemar: Thomas Moser
Klaus: Volker Vogel
Peasant: Günter von Kannen
Speaker: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Philharmonische Chöre von Bratislava und Bonn
Philharmonisches Orchester Dortmund

Conductor: Ralf Weikert

Konzerthaus, Dortmund
1998

In-house recording

All three works can be downloaded by clicking on the icon of a cloud with an arrow pointing downward on the audio player above and the resulting mp3 file will appear in your download directory. Come back next Tuesday for more diva delicacies.

Last week’s combo of Pikovaya Dama and Le Comte Ory.