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Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4)

nir0bateman 2024-10-11 | Life Of Brian- 1979 Debate (1/4)

La Bohéme - Rome 1987 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-12 | Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Roma, 1987

Conductor - Leonard Bernstein

Mimi - Angelina Réaux
Musetta - Barbara Daniels
Rodolfo - Jerry Hadley
Marcello - Thomas Hampton
Schaunard - James Busterud
Colline - Paul Plishka
Benoit - Joseph McKee
Alcindoro - Gimi Beni

00:57 Act 1
37:39 Act 2
59:53 Some news
1:10:05 Act 3
1:36:27 Act 4

Tosca - Milano 1959 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-10 | Teatro alla Scala
December 12, 1959

Conductor - Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Floria Tosca: Renata Tebaldi
Mario Cavaradossi: Giuseppe di Stefano
Il barone Scarpia: Tito Gobbi
Il Sagristano: Virgilio Carbonari
Cesare Angelotti: Nicola Zaccaria
Spoletta: Piero De Palma
Sciarrone: Giuseppe Morresi

00:25 Act 1
46:40 Act 2
1:32:03 Act 3

Plácido Domingo At The Philharmonic - NYC 1988 (Incomplete - Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-08 | Missing some of the instrumental pieces.

Avery Fisher Hall
December 31, 1988

Conductor - Zubin Mehta

00:00 Amor ti vieta
01:57 Comrades, This Is The Life For Me!
05:00 L'Amico Fritz - Cherry Duet (With Adriana Morelli)
14:06 Granada (Starts a few seconds in)
18:31 Intermission features
33:40 Voices Of Spring
41:27 Lunge Da Lei...De´Miei Bollenti Spiriti
45:47 Ideale
50:50 O Mio Babbino Caro (Adriana Morelli)
54:40 Musica Proibita
59:04 Die Fledermaus overture (Conducted by Domingo)
1:08:52 Libiamo (With Adriana Morelli)
1:13:48 Auld Lang Syne

Faust - NYC 1979 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-06 | New York City Opera
March 18, 1979

Conductor - Christopher Keene

Faust - Richard Taylor
Marguerite - Glenys Fowles
Méphistophélès - Samuel Ramey
Valentin - Dominic Cossa
Siebel - Faith Esham
Marthe - Jane Shaulis
Wagner - James Sergi

00:00 Act 1
48:16 Interview with Ramey
1:01:12 Act 2
1:47:54 Act 3

Le Nozze di Figaro - Salzburg 1979 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-04 | August 11, 1979
Salzburg Festival

Conductor - Bernhard Klee

Count Almaviva - Tom Krause
Countess Almaviva - Kiri Te Kanawa
Susanna - Edith Mathis
Figaro - José van Dam
Cherubino - Maria Ewing
Marcellina - Jane Berbié
Don Bartolo - Carlos Feller
Don Basilio - Michel Sénéchal
Don Curzio - Horst Nitsche
Barbarina - Janet Perry
Antonio - Kurt Rydl

01:45 Act 1
49:02 Act 2
1:40:46 Act 3
2:25:36 Act 4

Lohengrin - Hamburg 1968 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-02-02 | Hamburg State Opera
January 14, 1968

Conductor – Matthias Kuntzsch

Lohengrin – Plácido Domingo (Role debut)
Elsa – Arlene Saunders
Ortrud – Ruth Hesse
Telramund – David Ohanesian
King Henry – Hans Sotin
Heerrufer - Tom Krause

00:00 Act 1
1:01:11 Act 2
2:16:08 Act 3

Met Centennial Gala - 1983 - Unreleased bits (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-31 | The official DVD, despite being 4 hours long, only has slightly more than half of the selections that day (Yep, that's right, a whole day). Here is most of the material that only aired once. Not available in stereo like the official releases, but I did what I could to clean up the broadcast audio.

Conductors: James Levine, Richard Bonynge, Jeffrey Tate, John Pritchard, Thomas Fulton

00:14 Die Walküre: Act I Duet - Jessye Norman, Jess Thomas
16:01 Carmen Quintet - James Courtney, Isola Jones, Shirley Love, Charles Anthony, Louise Wohlafka
21:45 Dio mi potevi - James McCracken
26:39 Bess you is my woman now - Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart
32:34 Carmen - Habañera - Regine Crespin
37:28 Man of La Mancha medley - James Morris
43:47 When the sky grows brighter - Richard Cassilly
49:49 Die Zauberflöte - Papagena-Papageno Duet - Betsy Norden, Christian Boesch
53:23 Reverenza! - Bianca Berini, Louis Quilico
59:14 Prince Gremin's Aria - Paul Plishka
1:06:15 Ch'ella mi creda - Giuseppe Giacomini
1:09:30 Là ci darem la mano - Myra Merritt, John Cheek
1:13:43 O Mimì tu più non torni - Gösta Winbergh, Vernon Hartman
1:19:17 Viens Mallika - Jean Kraft, Mariella Devia
1:26:48 Signorina in tanta fretta - Barbara Daniels, Italo Tajo
1:36:55 Wie aus der Ferne - Carol Neblett, Simon Estes
1:54:10 Ebbene Donnina innamorata; Nemico della patria - Cornell MacNeil, Andrea Velis
2:02:16 Fu la sorte - Martina Arroyo, Mignon Dunn
2:14:57 Dio, che nell'alma infondere - Pablo Elvira, Ermano Mauro
2:22:21 Sweethearts (Maytime) - Anna Moffo, Robert Merrill
2:26:53 Vanessa Quintet - Johanna Meier, Regina Resnik, Rosalind Elias, John Alexander, John MacCurdy
2:31:12 Vecchia zimarra - Jerome Hines
2:34:21 L'amo come il fulgor del creato! - Lucine Amara, Bianca Berini
2:39:04 Allmächt'ger Vater - Timothy Jenkins
2:48:11 Va pour Kleinzach - Neil Shicoff (Incomplete)

Tosca - Brussels 1959 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-28 | Underneath a literal mountain of noise was a pretty great performance that can now be better enjoyed (Until a better source surfaces as the sound is still pretty rough, even for the time, likely sourced from an AM radio broadcast)

Tosca - Renata Tebaldi
Cavaradossi - Giuseppe di Stefano
Scarpia - Ettore Bastianini
Il Sagristano - Carlo Badioli
Cesare Angelotti - Nicola Zaccaria
Spoletta - Rinaldo Pelizzoni
Sciarrone - Giuseppe Morresi
Un pastore - Antonio Negri
Un carceriere - Franco Piva

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
June 26, 1958

00:00 Act 1
44:40 Act 2
01:28:15 Act 3

Un Ballo in Maschera - SFO 1977 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-26 | San Francisco
November 25, 1977

Conductor - Kurt Herbert Adler

Gustavus III - Jose Carreras
Amelia - Katia Ricciarelli
Count Anckarstrom - Yuri Mazurok
Oscar - Kathleen Battle
Count Horn - Aldo Bramante
Count Warting - James Courtney
A Judge - Michael Talley
Madame Arvidson - Patricia Payne
Christian - Lawrence Cooper
Amelia's servant - John Davies

00:00 Act 1, Scene 1
23:06 Act 1, Scene 2
54:51 Interview with Carreras and Ricciarelli
1:11:19 Act 2
1:45:48 Act 3, Scene 1
2:13:48 Act 3, Scene 2

Le Nozze di Figaro - NYC 1970 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-24 | April 11, 1970

Conductor - Josef Krips

Figaro - Cesare Siepi
Susanna - Teresa Stratas
Count Almaviva - Tom Krause
Countess Almaviva - Teresa Zylis-Gara
Cherubino - Rosalind Elias
Dr. Bartolo - Paul Plishka
Marcellina - Nedda Casei
Don Basilio - Paul Franke
Antonio - Lorenzo Alvary
Barbarina - Gail Robinson
Don Curzio - Gabor Carelli

00:40 Act 1
43:59 Act 2
1:30:19 Act 3
2:12:02 Act 4

L Italiana in Algeri - Milano 1973 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-22 | La Scala
December 14, 1973

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Isabella: Teresa Berganza
Mustafá: Paolo Montarsolo
Lindoro: Ugo Benelli
Taddeo: Enzo Dara
Elvira: Margherita Guglielmi
Zulma: Laura Zannini
Haly: Angelo Romero

00:00 Act 1
1:10:08 Act 2

Don Carlo - Vienna 1970 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-20 | Other sources of this sound very compressed with little detail in the higher frequencies, this is the best source I've heard of this performance. (Yep, I know It's Grace Bumbry's picture instead of Shirley Verrett, too late to fix it now)

Wiener Staatsoper
October 25, 1970

Conductor - Horst Stein

Don Carlo - Franco Corelli
Filippo II - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Rodrigo - Eberhard Wächter
Elisabetta di Valois - Gundula Janowitz
Princess Eboli - Shirley Verrett
Grand Inquisitor - Martti Talvela
Friar - Tugomir Franc
Tebaldo - Edita Gruberova
Count of Lerma - Ewald Aichberger
A heavenly voice - Judith Blegen

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
18:59 Act 1 Scene 2
1:01:16 Act 2 Scene 1
1:16:38 Act 2 Scene 2
1:32:36 Act 3 Scene 1
2:13:20 Act 3 Scene 2
2:30:02 Act 4

Faust - Amsterdam 1972 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-18 | October 28, 1972

Conductor - Roberto Benzi

Faust - Albert Lance
Méphistophélès - Roger Soyer
Marguerite - Andrée Esposito
Valentin - Robert Massard
Siébel - Rina Cornelissens
Marthe - Elisabeth Cooymans
Wagner - Cor Niessen

00:00 Act 1
23:45 Act 2
50:31 Act 3
1:37:50 Act 4 scene 1
1:50:06 Act 4 scene 2
1:59:45 Act 4 scene 3
2:22:46 Act 5 scene 1
2:48:38 Act 5 scene 2

I Puritani - Buenos Aires 1961 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-16 | Teatro Colón
June 30, 1961

Elvira - Leyla Gencer
Arturo Talbot - Gianni Raimondi
Sir Riccardo Forth - Manuel Ausensi
Sir Giorgio - Ferruccio Mazzoli
Enrichetta di Francia - Luisa Bartoletti
Sir Bruno Robertson - Umberto di Toto
Lord Gualtiero Valton - Mario Verazzi

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
21:15 Act 1 Scene 2
32:28 Act 1 Scene 3
1:08:46 Act 2
1:50:18 Act 3

Carmen - London 1973 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-14 | Other sources of this sound very compressed with little detail in the higher frequencies, this is the best source I've heard of this performance.

Royal Opera House
July 4, 1973

Conductor - Georg Solti

Carmen - Shirley Verrett
Don José - Plácido Domingo
Micaëla - Kiri Te Kanawa
Escamillo - José van Dam
Frasquita - Teresa Cahill
Mercédès - Anne Pashley
Le Dancaïre - John Dobson
Le Remendado - Francis Egerton
Moralès - Thomas Allen
Zuniga - Richard Van Allan

00:00 Act 1
56:52 Act 2
1:44:14 Act 3
2:26:16 Act 4

Un Ballo in Maschera - Roma 1969 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-12 | Some tape related glitches during "Teco io sto", but otherwise, the source is pretty well preserved.

Conductor - Bruno Bartoletti

Riccardo - Flaviano Labò
Renato - Mario Sereni
Amelia - Montserrat Caballé
Ulrica - Erszébet Komlóssy
Oscar - Valeria Mariconda
Silvano - Giorgio Giorgetti
Samuele - Mario Rinaudo
Tom - Giovanni Gusmeroli
Judge - Gabriele De Julis

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
20:53 Act 1 Scene 2
50:56 Act 2
1:22:05 Act 3 Scene 1
1:46:47 Act 3 Scene 2

Tannhäuser - London 1973 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-10 | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
September 23, 1973

Conductor - Colin Davis

Tannhäuser - Wolfgang Kassel
Elisabeth - Jessye Norman
Wolfram von Eschenbach - Norman Bailey
Venus - Josephine Veasey
Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen - Karl Ridderbusch
Walther von der Vogelweide - Derek Blackwell
Biterolf - Robert Lloyd
Heinrich der Schreiber - Adrian De Peyer
Reinmar von Zweter - Gwynne Howell
Hirt - Joseph Law

00:00 Act 1
1:13:31 Act 2
2:23:35 Act 3

Il Trovatore - New Orleans 1968 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-08 | March, 1968

Conductor: Knud Andersson

Manrico: Plácido Domingo
Leonora: Montserrat Caballé
Azucena: Ruza Pospinov (Baldani)
Count di Luna: Enzo Sordello
Ferrando: George Mayer
Inez: JoAnn Yockey
Ruiz: Bennie Ray
Old Gypsy: John Reed Campbell
Messenger: Tony Lopez

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
10:34 Act 1 Scene 2
27:10 Act 2 Scene 1
51:02 Act 2 Scene 2
1:07:05 Act 3 Scene 1 (Missing opening bars)
1:17:11 Act 3 Scene 2
1:25:33 Act 4 Scene 1
1:46:17 Act 4 Scene 2

Le Nozze di Figaro - Salzburg 1986 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-06 | Some rough spots here and there due to various faults in the FM broadcast that couldn't be fixed, but most of the performance sounds great.

Salzburg Festival
August 2, 1986

Conductor - James Levine

Almaviva - James Morris
Countess - Lucia Popp
Susanna - Kathleen Battle
Figaro - Ferruccio Furlanetto
Cherubino - Diana Montague
Marcellina - Jocelyne Taillon
Don Bartolo - Günter von Kannen
Don Basilio - Ricardo Cassinelli
Don Curzio - José Denisty
Barbarina - Dawn Upshaw
Antonio - Federico Davià

00:00 Act 1
48:46 Act 2
1:40:36 Act 3
2:25:25 Act 4

Cavalleria Rusticana - NYC 1974 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-04 | This is an odd one from early 1970s Met. Stereo sound, looks like it was meant to be telecast but wasn't. I saw a bit from the Pagliacci with Richard Tucker that followed, but couldn't find the full performance.

November 5, 1974
Conductor - John Nelson

Santuzza - Grace Bumbry
Turiddu - Franco Tagliavini
Alfio - Anselmo Colzani
Mama Lucia - Batyah Godfrey Ben-David
Lola - Joann Grillo

Carmen - Paris 1980 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-02 | For English subtitles, press C

Palais Garnier
May 14, 1980

Conductor - Pierre Dervaux

Carmen - Teresa Berganza
Don José - Plácido Domingo
Micaela - Katia Ricciarelli
Escamillo - Ruggero Raimondi
Frasquita - Daniele Perriers
Mercédès - Jane Berbie
Remendado - Michel Senechal
Dancaïre - Michel Philippe
Zuniga - Jean Laine
Moralès - Yves Bisson

00:12 Act 1
50:53 Act 2
1:36:43 Act 3
2:14:38 Act 4

Pavarotti recital - Tokyo 1977 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2024-01-01 | Tokyo Bunkan Keikan
December 9, 1977

Piano - John Wustman

01:50 Caro mio ben (Giordani)
04:32 Che farò senza Euridice? (Gluck)
07:17 Che Fiero costume (Legrenzi)
09:54 In questa tomba oscura (Beethoven)
13:40 Il barcaiolo (Donizetti)
16:47 La Danza (Rossini)
20:32 "Oh! fede negar potessi...Quando le sere al placido" (Luisa Miller - Verdi)
25:48 “L’ara ol’avello” (Luisa Miller -Verdi)
29:09 Intermission feature
32:22 Benedetto sia ‘I giorno (Liszt)
38:55 Pace non trovo (Liszt)
46:03 “Tombe degli avi miei, … Fra poco a me ricovero” (Lucia di Lammermoor – Donizetti)
53:45 Chanson de l’adieu (Tosti)
57:51 Aprile (Tosti)
1:01:32 Ideale (Tosti)
1:06:55 Marechiare (Tosti)
Encores:
1:13:04 A Vuchella (Tosti)
1:18:43 “Nessun Dorma” (Turandot – Puccini)
1:25:11 “E lucevan le stelle” (Tosca – Puccini)

Die Fledermaus - Vienna 1980 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-31 | Wiener Staatsoper
December 31, 1980

Conductor - Theodor Guschlbauer

Eisenstein - Bernd Weikl
Rosalinde - Lucia Popp
Alfred - Josef Hopferwieser
Blind - Anton Wendler
Falke - Walter Berry
Adele - Edita Gruberova
Orlofsky - Brigitte Fassbaender
Frank - Erich Kunz
Frosch - Helmut Lohner
Ida - Karin Göttling

00:46 Act 1
52:07 Act 2
1:49:18 Act 3

Don Giovanni - Vienna 1973 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-30 | Wiener Staatsoper
September 7, 1973

Conductor - Hans Swarowsky

Don Giovanni - Kostas Paskalis
Leporello - Giuseppe Taddei
Donna Anna - Eva Marton
Don Ottavio - Peter Schreier
Donna Elvira - Teresa Zylis-Gara
Zerlina - Edith Mathis
Commendatore - Walter Kreppel
Masetto - Heinz Holecek

00:00 Act 1
1:33:28 Act 2

Werther - SFO 1978 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-28 | San Francisco
November 3, 1978

Conductor - Antonio de Almeida

Werther - José Carreras
Charlotte - Maria Ewing
Sophie - Kathleen Battle
Albert - Allan Monk
The Bailiff - Paul Hudson
Johann - Stephen West
Schmidt - Raymond Manton
Brühlmann - Samuel Byrd
Kätchen - Patricia Schuman

00:00 Act 1
39:53 Act 2
1:09:44 Act 3 and 4

Simon Boccanegra - Milano 1972 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-24 | La Scala
January 8, 1972

Conductor - Claudio Abbado

Simon Boccanegra - Piero Cappuccilli
Jacopo Fiesco - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Amelia Grimaldi - Mirella Freni
Gabriele Adorno - Gianni Raimondi
Paolo Albiani - Felice Schiavi
Pietro - Giovanni Foiani
Un'ancella - Milena Pauli
Un capitano dei balestrieri - Gianfranco Manganotti

00:00 Prologue
27:10 Act 1 scene 1
1:01:22 Act 1 scene 2
1:22:42 Act 2
1:51:17 Act 3

Les Troyens - Chicago 1978 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-22 | Ravinia Festival
June 30 (Act 1-2), July 1 (Act 3-5), 1978

Conductor - James Levine

Cassandra - Nadine Denize
Dido – Shirley Verrett
Aeneas – Guy Chauvet
Helenus, Iopas - David Kuebler
Chorebus - Lenus Carlson
Ascanius - Kathleen Battle
Hecuba - Patricia O’Neill
Greek Captain, Second Sentry – Philip Kraus
Anna; Ghost of Cassandra - Claudine Carlson
Trojan Soldier, Pantheus, Mercury, Ghost of Priam - John Cheek
Priam, Narbal, Ghost of Hector - Ara Berberian
Hylas - Philip Creech
First Sentry; Ghost of Chorebus - James Kalkbrenner

00:00 Act 1
58:10 Act 2
1:20:52 Act 3
2:03:45 Act 4
2:57:27 Act 5

A Salute to American Music - NYC 1991 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-20 | Conductor: James Conlon
Host: Leontyne Price

03:57 America the Beautiful - Leontyne Price
08:19 Ice Cream Sextet - Maureen O'Flynn, Phyllis Pancella, Jerry Hadley, Paul Groves, Daniel Smith and Jeff Mattsey
13:24 The Lament of Ian the Proud - Renée Fleming
17:26 Chichester Psalms - First movement
21:38 At the River - Tatiana Troyanos
25:32 Rain Quartet - Maureen O'Flynn, Renée Fleming, Denise Woods, Samuel Ramey, Jeff Mattsey
35:04 Leavin' for the promised land - Denise Woods
39:53 Intermission features
42:44 Too weak to kill the man I hate - Sherrill Milnes
49:16 Must the winter come so soon? - Frederica von Stade
52:45 Give me my robe - Carol Vaness
1:03:11 Night and Day - Samuel Ramey
1:08:07 September Song - Robert Merrill
1:12:01 Maria - Jerry Hadley
1:16:14 God Bless America - Marilyn Horne
1:20:05 Make our garden grow - Renée Fleming, Jerry Hadley

Manon Lescaut - Barcelona 1971 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-18 | Gran Teatro del Liceo
December 18, 1971

Manon Lescaut - Virginia Zeani
Des Grieux - Plácido Domingo
Lescaut - Attilio D'Orazi
Geronte - Diego Monjó
Edmondo - José Manzaneda
Una voce sola - Mildred Tyree
Il maestro di ballo - Josep Ruiz
Un comandante di Marina - Rafael Campos

00:00 Act 1
33:15 Act 2
1:09:44 Act 3
1:28:18 Act 4

Corelli and Guelfi in selections from Forza and Carmen (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-17 | Conductor - Arturo Basile

La Forza del Destino - 1957
00:00 Forza - Act 3
26:26 Forza - Act 4

Carmen (With Pia Tassinari and Margherita Benetti) - 1961
37:34 Carmen - Act 1
53:13 Carmen - Act 2
1:03:11 Carmen - Act 3
1:07:06 Carmen - Act 4

Le Nozze di Figaro - Salzburg 1966 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-16 | For English subtitles, press C

Salzburg Festival
August 11, 1966

Conductor - Karl Böhm

Count Almaviva - Ingvar Wixell
Countess Almaviva – Claire Watson
Susanna - Reri Grist
Figaro - Walter Berry
Basilio – David Thaw
Bartolo – Zoltan Kelemen
Marcellina – Margarethe Bence
Cherubino - Edith Mathis
Antonio – Klaus Hirte
Barbarina – Deirdre Aselford
Don Curzio – Alfred Pfeifle

3:50 Act 1
48:48 Act 2
1:38:21 Act 3
2:21:28 Act 4

Falstaff - Chicago 1958 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-14 | Chicago Lyric Opera
October 10, 1958

Conductor - Tullio Serafin

Falstaff - Tito Gobbi
Fenton - Alvino Misciano
Ford - Cornell MacNeil
Alice Ford - Renata Tebaldi
Nannetta - Anna Moffo
Meg Page - Anna Maria Canali
Mistress Quickly - Giulietta Simionato
Dr. Cajus - Mariano Caruso
Bardolfo - Luigi Vellucci
Pistola - Kenneth Smith

00:00 Act 1 scene 1
16:08 Act 1 scene 2
31:07 Act 2 scene 1
56:27 Act 2 scene 2
1:16:29 Act 3 scene 1
1:32:34 Act 3 scene 2

Don Carlo - Salzburg 1975 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-12 | Salzburg Festival
August 11, 1975

Conductor - Herbert von Karajan

Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo)
Mirella Freni (Elisabetta)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo)
Christa Ludwig (Eboli)
Piero Cappuccilli (Rodrigo)
Gheorghe Crasnaru (Grand Inquisitor)
Jose van Dam (A Monk)
Gabriele Fuchs (Tebaldo)
Robert Kerns (A Herald)
Giorgio Stendoro (Lerma)
Anna Tomova-Sintow (Voice from Heaven)

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
18:30 Act 1 Scene 2
56:28 Act 2 Scene 1
1:12:44 Act 2 Scene 2
1:32:27 Act 3 Scene 1
2:11:59 Act 3 Scene 2
2:27:12 Act 4

Ernani - Firenze 1957 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-10 | Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos

Ernani - Mario Del Monaco
Elvira - Anita Cerquetti
Carlo - Ettore Bastianini
Silva - Boris Christoff
Riccardo - Athos Cesarini
Iago - Aurelian Neagu
Giovanna - Luciana Boni

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
13:45 Act 1 Scene 2
43:27 Act 2
1:15:18 Act 3
1:38:44 Act 4

Andrea Chenier - Napoli 1958 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-08 | Chénier: Franco Corelli
Maddalena: Antonietta Stella
Gérard: Ettore Bastianini
Contessa: Maria Luisa Castellano
Bersi: Loretta Di Lelio
Madelon: Miriam Pirazzini
Roucher: Antonio Cassinelli
Fouquier-Tinville: Giovanni Amodeo
Fléville: Augusto Frati
Matthieu: Vito De Taranto
L'incredibile: Antonio Pirino
L'abate: Renato Ercolani
Schmidt: Mario Bianchi

Conductor - Franco Capuana

00:00 Act 1
29:13 Act 2
56:28 Act 3
1:37:06 Act 4

Un Ballo in Maschera - London 1975 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-06 | Royal Opera House
February 8, 1975

Conductor - Claudio Abbado

Riccardo - Plácido Domingo
Renato - Piero Cappuccilli
Amelia - Katia Ricciarelli
Ulrica - Elizabeth Bainbridge
Oscar - Reri Grist
Silvano - William Elvin
Samuele - Gwynne Howell
Tom - Paul Hudson

1:11 Act 1 Scene 1
21:57 Act 1 Scene 2
50:11 Act 2
1:20:32 Act 3 Scene 1
1:45:51 Act 3 Scene 2

Le Nozze di Figaro - Salzburg 1974 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-04 | Salzburg Festival
August 10, 1974

Conductor - Herbert von Karajan

Count Almaviva - Tom Krause
Countess Almaviva - Elizabeth Harwood
Susanna - Mirella Freni
Figaro - José van Dam
Cherubino - Frederica von Stade
Marcellina - Jane Berbié
Don Bartolo - Paolo Montarsolo
Don Basilio - Michel Sénéchal
Don Curzio - Willy Caron
Barbarina - Elke Schary
Antonio - Zoltan Kelemen

00:20 Act 1
46:16 Act 2
1:36:57 Act 3
2:21:40 Act 4

Il Trovatore - Milano 1962 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-03 | Teatro alla Scala
December 7th, 1962

Conductor - Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Manrico - Franco Corelli
Azucena - Fiorenza Cossotto
Leonora - Antonietta Stella
Conte di Luna - Ettore Bastianini
Ferrando - Ivo Vinco
Ines - Mirella Fiorentini
Ruiz - Piero Di Palma

00:00 Act 1 scene 1
11:01 Act 1 scene 2
27:19 Act 2 scene 1
50:26 Act 2 scene 2
1:07:08 Act 3 scene 1
1:19:20 Act 3 scene 2
1:28:58 Act 4 scene 1
1:48:08 Act 4 scene 2

Carmen - Palermo 1959 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-02 | Teatro Massimo
February 8, 1959

Conductor - Pierre Dervaux

Carmen - Giulietta Simionato
Don José - Franco Corelli
Micaëla - Mirella Freni
Escamillo - Giangiacomo Guelfi
Frasquita - Loretta Di Lelio
Mercédès - Norma Palmieri
Le Dancaïre - Renato Ercolani
Le Remendado - Guido Malfatti
Moralès - Mario Rossetti
Zuniga - Enzo Viaro

00:00 Act 1
44:38 Act 2
1:20:34 Act 3
1:57:08 Act 4

Lohengrin - SFO 1982 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-12-01 | San Francisco
19 November 1982

Conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser

Lohengrin: Peter Hofmann
Elsa: Pilar Lorengar
Ortrud: Leonie Rysanek (Role debut)
Telramund: Hermann Becht
König Heinrich: David Ward
Herald: Thomas Woodman
Four Nobles: Jeffrey Thomas, Robert Tate, Carl Glaum, Gregory Stapp

00:00 Act 1
1:00:28 Act 2
2:20:26 Act 3

Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti 1979 concert (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-30 | Live from Lincoln Center
January 22, 1979
Conductor: Richard Bonynge

02:00 Le Nozze di Figaro - Overture
08:09 Libiamo
12:09 A la paterna mano
17:14 Ernani, involami
26:25 Un di felice
31:35 Pourquoi me reveiller
36:25 Mad Scene - Hamlet
47:45 Signor ne principe (With Madelyn Renee)
55:50 Intermission feature
1:16:43 Parigi o cara
1:22:10 Cielo e mar
1:29:13 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls
1:35:49 O paradiso
1:40:33 Ah! non credea
1:55:55 Amor ti vieta
1:59:32 Sulla tomba
2:16:43 Nessun dorma"
2:21:37 Io non sono piu l'Annetta

Carmen - Tokyo 1959 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-28 | February 19, 1959
Tokyo Takarazuka Hall

Conductor - Nino Verchi

Carmen – Giulietta Simionato
Don José – Mario del Monaco
Micaela – Gabriella Tucci
Escamillo – Scipio Colombo
Frasquita – Santa Chissari
Mercedes – Anna Di Stasio
Morales – Arturo La Porta
Zuniga – Paolo Montarsolo

00:00 Act 1
43:50 Act 2
1:18:34 Act 3
1:55:43 Act 4

Pavarotti Plus - NYC 1991 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-26 | Avery Fisher Hall
January 30, 1991

Conductor - Julius Rudel

4:12 Le Nozze di Figaro - Overture
10:07 Un’aura amorosa (Luciano Pavarotti)
15:20 Au fond du temple saint (Marcello Giordani and Haijing Fu)
21:05 Una parola, o Adina (Luciano Pavarotti and Ruth Ann Swenson)
28:57 Nel mirarti un solo istante (Renee Fleming and Marcello Giordani)
37:54 Venti scudi (Luciano Pavarotti and Lucio Gallo)
46:22 Signorina in tanta fretta (Ruth Ann Swenson and Paul Plishka)
54:55 Madre, non dormi? (Luciano Pavarotti and Dolora Zajick)
1:04:20 Me voici (Marcello Giordani and Paul Plishka)
1:13:32 Sulla tomba (Cheryl Studer and Luciano Pavarotti)
1:26:00 Intermission features
1:50:55 O paradiso (Luciano Pavarotti)
1:55:10 Là ci darem la mano (Ruth Ann Swenson and Lucio Gallo)
1:59:38 L’amico Fritz - Cherry Duet (Renee Fleming and Luciano Pavarotti)
2:09:26 Fu la sorte dell'armi (Cheryl Studer and Dolora Zajick)
2:19:47 Solenne in quest'ora (Luciano Pavarotti and Haijing Fu)
2:24:35 Suoni la tromba (Haijing Fu and Andrea Silvestrelli)
2:34:04 Lucia di Lammermoor - Sextet

Encores:
2:41:41 Recondita armonia
2:46:38 E lucevan le stelle
2:50:51 O sole mio

Lyric Opera of Chicago - 25th Anniversary Gala - 1979 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-25 | October 14, 1979

Master of Ceremonies - Sam Wanamaker
Host - Tito Gobbi

Conductors - George Pretre, Nicola Rescigno, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Bartoletti, John Pritchard, Krzysztof Penderecki

00:00 Intro
03:07 March from "The Love for 3 Oranges"
04:42 Speeches
11:28 Batti, batti, o bel Masetto - Judith Blegen
15:34 Speeches
17:48 Fin'chan dal vino - Sherrill Milnes
19:37 Speeches
25:06 La Boheme (End of Act 1) - Mirella Freni & Luciano Pavarotti
40:28 Speeches
43:50 Au fond du temple saint - Alfredo Kraus & Richard Stilwell
50:55 Speeches
1:00:08 Winterstürme - Jon Vickers
1:03:34 Speeches
1:04:26 Boris Godunov (Death Scene) - Nicolai Ghiaurov & Kathleen Kuhlmann
1:14:31 Speeches
1:20:12 Cheti, cheti immantinenti - Richard Stilwell & Sir Geraint Evans
1:29:16 Speeches
1:32:13 Pourquoi me reveiller - Alfredo Kraus
1:36:30 Speeches
1:41:28 Otello (Willow Song & Ave Maria) - Margaret Price
1:58:29 Speeches
1:59:22 Otello (End of Act 2 - Si Pel Ciel) - Carlo Cossutta & Sherrill Milnes
2:04:28 Speeches
2:09:44 Ritorna vincitor - Leontyne Price
2:17:20 Speeches
2:18:07 Peter Grimes (Sea Interlude and Final Scene) - Jon Vickers, Geraint Evans, Martha Monastero, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Duane Carter, William Mitchell & Daniel McConnell
2:31:30 Speeches
2:34:20 Paradise Lost (Final Scene) - Frank Little, Ellen Shade & William Stone
2:44:23 Speeches

Don Carlo - Firenze 1956 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-24 | Another fantastically sung performance that was recorded with very rough AM radio sound, unfortunately.

Conductor: Antonino Votto

Don Carlo - Angelo Loforese
Filippo II - Cesare Siepi
Rodrigo - Ettore Bastianini
Il Grande Inquisitore - Giulio Neri
Un Frate - Paolo Washington
Elisabetta di Valois - Anita Cerquetti
La principessa Eboli - Fedora Barbieri
Tebaldo - Liliana Poli
Il Conte di Lerma - Enzo Guagni
Un Araldo Reale - Alberto Lotti-Camici
Una voce dal cielo - Iselle Favati

00:00 Act 1 Scene 1
18:04 Act 1 Scene 2
1:00:25 Act 2 Scene 1
1:15:14 Act 2 Scene 2
1:36:25 Act 3 Scene 1
2:14:04 Act 3 Scene 2
2:28:43 Act 4

Le Nozze di Figaro - Milano 1982 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-22 | La Scala, Milano, 1982

Figaro - Samuel Ramey
Almaviva - Wolfgang Brendel
Countess Almaviva - Margaret Marshall
Susanna - Norma Burrowes
Cherubino - Faith Esham
Marcellina - Raquel Pierotti
Don Bartolo - Roberto Scandiuzzi
Don Basilio - Gennaro De Sica
Don Curzio - Ernesto Gavazzi
Antonio - Claudio Giombi
Barbarina - Adelina Scarabelli

Conductor: Riccardo Muti

02:08 Act 1
50:32 Act 2
1:40:45 Act 3
2:24:17 Act 4

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - La Scala - Tour 1964 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-20 | La Scala tour in Moscow

Barber of Seville

Rosina - Fiorenza Cossotto
Count Almaviva - Renzo Casellato
Figaro - Sesto Bruscantini
Bartolo - Carlo Badioli
Basilio - Nicolai Ghiaurov
Fiorello - Dino Montovani
Berta - Stefania Malagu
Ambrogio - Walter Gullino

Conductor - Nino Sanzogno

00:20 Act 1
1:36:03 Act 2

Pavarotti Plus - NYC 1990 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-19 | Live From Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall
February 28, 1990

Conductor: Anton Guadagno

03:15 Tosca - First scene and Recondita Armonia -Alan Held, Robert Briggs, Luciano Pavarotti
11:45 Vissi d'arte - Leona Mitchell
15:35 Tosca - Act 3 - Luciano Pavarotti, Leona Mitchell, Ted Huffman, Alan Held
40:15 Intermission features
1:02:15 Di tu se fedele - Luciano Pavarotti
1:06:41 Un Ballo in Maschera - Act 3, Scene 1 - Carol Vaness, Leo Nucci
1:20:12 Un Ballo in Maschera - Act 3, Scene 2 - Ensemble
1:45:34 Tra voi belle - Luciano Pavarotti
1:47:13 Donna non vidi mai - Luciano Pavarotti
1:51:15 O sole mio - Luciano Pavarotti
1:55:45 Torna a Surriento - Luciano Pavarotti

Lelisir damore - SFO 1975 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-17 | San Francisco
10 October 1975

Conductor - Carlo Felice Cillario

Adina: Judith Blegen
Nemorino: José Carreras
Belcore: Ingvar Wixell
Dulcamara: Paolo Montarsolo
Giannetta: Pamela South

00:00 Act 1
1:06:06 Act 2

Simon Boccanegra - Chicago 1979 (Upgraded Sound)

nir0bateman 2023-11-15 | Chicago Lyric Opera
November 3, 1979

Simon Boccanegra - Sherrill Milnes
Maria Boccanegra - Ellen Shade
Gabriele Adorno - Carlo Cossutta
Jacopo Fiesco - James Morris
Amelia's maid servant - Penelope Doner
Paolo Albani - William Stone
Pietro - Edmund Toliver
Captain of the Cross - William Mitchell

Conductor - Bruno Bartoletti

00:00 Prologue
28:02 Act 1 scene 1
01:02:53 Act 1 scene 2
01:25:16 Act 2
01:53:59 Act 3