Works on This Recording
1.
Manon Lescaut: C'est l'histoire amoureuse by Daniel-François Auber
Performer:
Rosa Ponselle (Soprano),
Luisa Tetrazzini (Soprano),
Maggie Teyte (Soprano),
Ninon Vallin (Mezzo Soprano),
Richard Tauber (Tenor),
Dmitri Smirnov (Tenor),
Boris Slovtsov (Tenor),
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Alto),
Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano),
Lotte Schöne (Soprano),
Heinrich Schlusnus (Baritone),
Tito Schipa (Tenor),
Helge Rosvaenge (Tenor),
Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano),
Ezio Pinza (Bass),
Claudia Muzio (Soprano),
Lauritz Melchior (Tenor),
Giovanni Martinelli (Tenor),
Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone),
Tiana Lemnitz (Soprano),
Frida Leider (Soprano),
Lotte Lehmann (Soprano),
Nina Koshetz (Soprano),
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (Tenor),
Alexander Kipnis (Bass),
Marcel Journet (Bass),
Helen Jepson (Soprano),
Gerhard Hüsch (Baritone),
Herbert Ernst (),
Frieda Hempel (Soprano),
Alma Gluck (Soprano),
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor),
Mary Garden (Soprano),
Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano),
Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano),
Feodor Chaliapin (Bass),
Eugenia Bronskaya (Soprano),
Lucrezia Bori (Soprano),
Jussi Björling (Tenor),
Erna Berger (Soprano),
Grace Anthony (Soprano),
Marian Anderson (Alto)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1856; France
Date of Recording: 03/05/1917
Length: 2 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: French
2.
Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Italy
Date of Recording: 10/27/1926
Length: 2 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: Italian
3.
Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/19/1923
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: Italian
4.
Martha: Ach, so fromm by Friedrich von Flotow
Performer:
Geraldine Farrar (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 1925
Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: Italian
5.
May Night: Sleep, my beauty by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Boris Slovtsov (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878-1879; Russia
Date of Recording: 10/24/1913
Length: 4 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: Russian
Notes: This selection begins with "How quiet here..."
6.
Mefistofele: L'altra notte in fondo al mare by Arrigo Boito
Performer:
Claudia Muzio (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Italy
Date of Recording: 06/06/1935
Length: 4 Minutes 11 Secs.
Language: Italian
7.
Mefistofele: Giunto sul passo estremo by Arrigo Boito
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/1921
Length: 3 Minutes 37 Secs.
Language: Italian
8.
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Morgenlich leuchtend by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Lauritz Melchior (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867; Germany
Date of Recording: 1939
Length: 4 Minutes 1 Secs.
Language: German
9.
Mignon: Connais-tu le pays? by Ambroise Thomas
Performer:
Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866; France
Date of Recording: 1931
Length: 4 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: French
10.
Mignon: Adieu, Mignon! Courage! by Ambroise Thomas
Performer:
Tito Schipa (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866; France
Date of Recording: 05/1924
Length: 3 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: Italian
11.
Mignon: Je suis Titania la blonde by Ambroise Thomas
Performer:
Luisa Tetrazzini (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866; France
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 4 Minutes 41 Secs.
Language: Italian
12.
Mignon: De son coeur j'ai calmé la fièvre "Berceuse" by Ambroise Thomas
Performer:
Ezio Pinza (Bass)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1866; France
Date of Recording: 1927
Length: 4 Minutes 5 Secs.
Language: French
13.
Mireille: O légère hirondelle "Waltz Song" by Charles Gounod
Performer:
Frieda Hempel (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1864; France
Date of Recording: 04/09/1912
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.
Language: Italian
14.
Norma: Casta diva by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:
Rosa Ponselle (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Italy
Date of Recording: 01/30/1929
Length: 4 Minutes 59 Secs.
Notes: This selection begins with "Sediziose voci ... "
15.
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Se vuol ballare, Signor contino by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Giuseppe de Luca (Bass)
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 03/28/1917
Length: 3 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: Italian
16.
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1928
Length: 3 Minutes 0 Secs.
Language: Italian
17.
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Voi che sapete che cosa è amor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Elisabeth Schumann (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 05/19/1926
Length: 3 Minutes 18 Secs.
Language: Italian
18.
Der Opernball: Im chambre séparée "Midnight Bells" by Richard Heuberger
Performer:
Herbert Ernst Groh (Tenor)
Conductor:
Otto Dobrindt
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Odeon-Künstler Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1898; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1932
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
19.
Otello: Ora e per sempre addio by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 12/28/1910
Length: 2 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Italian
20.
Otello: Era la notte by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)
Conductor:
Wilfrid Pelletier
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 05/03/1939
Length: 4 Minutes 14 Secs.
Language: Italian
Notes: This selection begins with "E qual certezza sognate..."
21.
Otello: Ave Maria by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Eidé Noréna (Soprano)
Conductor:
Piero Coppola
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Date of Recording: 06/07/1932
Length: 4 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: Italian
22.
Les pêcheurs de perles: Au fond du temple saint by Georges Bizet
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor),
Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; France
Date of Recording: 11/28/1927
Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.
Language: Italian
23.
Les pêcheurs de perles: Je crois entendre encore by Georges Bizet
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; France
Date of Recording: 12/18/1929
Length: 4 Minutes 17 Secs.
Language: Italian
24.
Porgy and Bess: Summertime by George Gershwin
Performer:
Helen Jepson (Soprano)
Conductor:
Alexander Smallens
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; USA
Date of Recording: 10/23/1935
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English
25.
Porgy and Bess: Oh Bess, where's my Bess? by George Gershwin
Performer:
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)
Conductor:
Alexander Smallens
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; USA
Date of Recording: 10/23/1935
Length: 3 Minutes 16 Secs.
Language: English
26.
Le postillon de Lonjumeau: Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire by Adolphe Adam
Performer:
Helge Rosvaenge (Tenor)
Conductor:
Bruno Seidler-Winkler
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: ?1836; France
Date of Recording: 05/1936
Length: 3 Minutes 1 Secs.
Language: French
27.
I puritani: A te, o cara, amor talora by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (Tenor)
Conductor:
Rosario Bourdon
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Italy
Date of Recording: 01/16/1928
Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: Italian
28.
I puritani: Qui la voce sua soave by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:
Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/14/1917
Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.
Language: Italian
29.
Rienzi: Allmächt'ger Vater, blick herab by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Lauritz Melchior (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840-1843; Germany
Date of Recording: 1930
Length: 5 Minutes 10 Secs.
Language: German
30.
Rigoletto: Questa o quella by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
John McCormack (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 05/01/1917
Length: 2 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: Italian
31.
Rigoletto: Parmi veder le lagrime...Possente amor mi chiama by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Written: 1851
Date of Recording: 02/24/1913
Length: 4 Minutes 47 Secs.
Language: Italian
32.
Rigoletto: Povero Rigoletto...Cortigiani, vil razza dannata! by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone),
Grace Anthony (Soprano)
Conductor:
Giulio Setti
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Chorus,
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 1927-28
Length: 8 Minutes 21 Secs.
Language: Italian
33.
Rigoletto: La donna è mobile by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 12/04/1936
Length: 2 Minutes 18 Secs.
Language: Italian
34.
Rinaldo, HWV 7: Armida dispietata...Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Soprano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1711; London, England
Date of Recording: 09/18/1909
Length: 4 Minutes 22 Secs.
Language: Italian
35.
Rizurrezione: Dio pietoso by Franco Alfano
Performer:
Mary Garden (Soprano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1902-1903; Italy
Date of Recording: 1926
Length: 3 Minutes 55 Secs.
Language: French
36.
Le Roi d'Ys: Vainement, ma bien-aimée [Aubade] by Edouard Lalo
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1875-1888; France
Date of Recording: 03/1922
Length: 3 Minutes 38 Secs.
Language: French
37.
Roméo et Juliette: Ah! lève-toi, soleil by Charles Gounod
Performer:
Dmitri Smirnov (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867; France
Date of Recording: 1909
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
Language: Russian
38.
Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Ist ein Traum by Richard Strauss
Performer:
Erna Berger (Soprano),
Tiana Lemnitz (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1909-1910; Germany
Date of Recording: 1936
Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.
Language: German
39.
Sadko: no 4, Song of the Indian Guest by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894-1896; Russia
Date of Recording: 05/31/1932
Length: 3 Minutes 33 Secs.
40.
Sadko: no 7, Sleep went along the river "Berceuse" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Nina Koshetz (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894-1896; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/12/1928
Length: 4 Minutes 11 Secs.
Language: Russian
41.
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Printemps, qui commence by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:
Conchita Supervia (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:
Gustav Cloëz
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877; France
Date of Recording: 10/24/1931
Length: 4 Minutes 31 Secs.
Language: French
42.
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:
Marian Anderson (Alto)
Conductor:
Lawrence Collingwood
Period: Romantic
Written: 1877; France
Date of Recording: 09/04/1930
Length: 4 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: English
43.
Lo schiavo: Quando nascesti tu by Antonio Carlos Gomes
Performer:
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Brazil
Date of Recording: 01/09/1929
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: Italian
44.
Semele, HWV 58: O Sleep, why dost thou leave me? by George Frideric Handel
Performer:
John McCormack (Tenor)
Period: Baroque
Written: 1744; London, England
Date of Recording: 04/01/1920
Length: 3 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: English
45.
Simon Boccanegra: Il lacerato spirito by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Alexander Kipnis (Bass)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1857; Italy
Date of Recording: 04/01/1920
Length: 4 Minutes 43 Secs.
Language: Italian
46.
Snow Maiden: Mighty nature, full of wonders by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Boris Slovtsov (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880/1895; Russia
Date of Recording: 10/24/1913
Length: 3 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: Russian
47.
La sonnambula: Ah, non credea mirarti by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:
Claudia Muzio (Soprano)
Conductor:
Lorenzo Molajoli
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Italy
Date of Recording: 06/06/1935
Length: 4 Minutes 1 Secs.
Language: Italian
48.
La sonnambula: Ah, non giunge uman pensiero by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:
Luisa Tetrazzini (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Italy
Date of Recording: 1911
Length: 3 Minutes 12 Secs.
Language: Italian
49.
Tannhäuser: Dir töne Lob! Die Wunder sei'n gepriesen by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Lauritz Melchior (Tenor)
Conductor:
Sir John Barbirolli
Orchestra/Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 1929
Length: 3 Minutes 36 Secs.
Language: German
50.
Tannhäuser: Allmächt'ge Jungfrau "Elisabeth's Prayer" by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Kirsten Flagstad (Soprano)
Conductor:
Hans Lange
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 10/09/1935
Length: 7 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: German
51.
Tannhäuser: O, du mein holder Abendstern by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Marcel Journet (Baritone)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 01/17/2006
Length: 4 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: German
52.
Tosca: Recondita armonia by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Giovanni Martinelli (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Italy
Date of Recording: 01/08/1914
Length: 2 Minutes 22 Secs.
Language: Italian
53.
Tosca: Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Geraldine Farrar (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/27/1913
Length: 3 Minutes 45 Secs.
Language: Italian
54.
Tannhäuser: Dich, teure Halle by Richard Wagner
Performer:
Tiana Lemnitz (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 1934
Length: 3 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: German
55.
Tosca: E lucevan le stelle by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Jussi Björling (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/04/1937
Length: 2 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: Italian
56.
I Pagliacci: Sì può? [Prologue] by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer:
Lawrence Tibbett (Baritone)
Conductor:
Rosario Bourdon
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; Italy
Date of Recording: 06/07/1926
Length: 7 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Italian
57.
I Pagliacci: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer:
Beniamino Gigli (Tenor)
Conductor:
Franco Ghione
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1892; Italy
Date of Recording: 07/1934
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.
Language: Italian
58.
Serenata d'Arlecchino by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer:
Tito Schipa (Tenor)
Period: Romantic
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 02/1922
Length: 2 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: Italian
59.
La Périchole: Tu n'es pas beau by Jacques Offenbach
Performer:
Maggie Teyte (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868/1874; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 09/22/1932
Length: 3 Minutes 52 Secs.
Language: French
60.
La perle du Brésil: Charmant oiseau "Couplets de Mysoli" by Félicien César David
Performer:
Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano),
Clement Barone (Flute)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 09/14/1917
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
Language: French
61.
Prince Igor: I hate a dreary life by Alexander Borodin
Performer:
Feodor Chaliapin (Bass)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Period: Romantic
Written: 1869-1887; Russia
Date of Recording: 11/22/1922
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: Russian
62.
Prince Igor: Ah, bitterly I weep "Yaroslavna's Lament" by Alexander Borodin
Performer:
Nina Koshetz (Soprano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1869-1887; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/12/1928
Length: 4 Minutes 42 Secs.
Language: Russian
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