La Vestale (Spontini)
Giulia: Leyla Gencer; Cinna: Renato Bruson; Licinio: Robleto Merolla; Il Sommo Sacerdote: Agostino Ferrin; La Gran Vestale: Franca Mattiucci; Un Aruspice: Sergio Sisti; Un Console: Enrico Campi. Orchestra e coro del Teatro Massino di Palermo; Fernando Previtali. 4 December 1969.
Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)
Francesca: Leyla Gencer: Samaritana: Annamaria Gasparini; Paolo: Renato Cioni: Giovanni: Anselmo Colzani, Malatestino: Mario Ferrara. Franco Capuana; Trieste March 16, 1961.
Don GIovanni (Mozart)
Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), David Ward (Commendatore), Leyla Gencer (Donna Anna), Mirella Freni (Zerlina), Richard Lewis (Don Ottavio), Robert Savoie (Masetto), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Sir Geraint Evans (Leporello); Sir Georg Solti, Covent Garden 1962.
La Gioconda (Ponchielli)
Leyla Gencer defines grandezza in this live 1971 performance from La Fenice. Also starring Umberto Grilli (Enzo), Maria Luisa Nave (Laura) and Mario Zanasi (Barnaba); Oliviero de Fabriitis conducts.
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