NEW RELEASES IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES Wagner A TRISTAN A TRIBUTE TRIBUTE UND ISOLDE MELCHIOR - FLAGSTAD TITO GOBBI CESARE VALLETTI WETTERGREN - HUEHN Verdi: NABUCCO - Chicago Lyric Opera Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra Donizetti: DON PASQUALE - Metropolitan Opera - 1956 MASTILOVIC - LA MORENA - CHRISTOFF ARTUR BODANZKY with Corena - Guarrera - Peters / Schippers plus Soiree Ballet Opening Night - 4 October 1963 The Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Massenet: WERTHER - New Orleans Opera (sung in French) also 29 January 1938 with Rankin - Guido - Cosenza / Renato Collini - 1956 Puccini: IL TRITTICO - Covent Garden - 1965 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE RELEASE IL TABARRO - GIANNI SCHICCHI also Scenes from OTELLO and FALSTAFF - Three Interviews The World Premiere Recording Operatic Scenes and Arias with Simionato and others of a Great Performance TITO GOBBI TRISTAN UND ISOLDE CESARE VALLETTI TRIBUTE Met Opera/Bodanzky TRIBUTE Chicago Lyric Theater 29 January 1938 DON PASQUALE Opening Night 1963 PREMIERE with Corena and Peters NABUCCO RELEASE preceded by the Covent Garden 1965 Melchior, Flagstad, Ballet Soiree (Rossini-Britten) PUCCINI TRITTICO Wettergren, Huehn One of Flagstad’s Schippers conducts IL TABARRO & GIANNI Met 1956 SCHICCHI loveliest, most feminine performances WERTHER Together with arias with Nell Rankin with a superb cast. and two interviews. Complete New Orleans A remarkable compendium of one Broadcast commentary Opera performance 1956 of the great singing actors of the era. is included to recreate with extensive notes (4 CDs for the price of 3) the original occasion. (4 CDs for the price of 3) (3 CDs) IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES Verdi Wagner Donizetti UN BALLO IN MASCHERA GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG L’ELISIR D’AMORE PEERCE - MILANOV - THORBORG - WARREN THREE ACTS COMPLETE TAGLIAVINI - SAYÃO - VALENTINO - TAJO Metropolitan Opera (Prologue Omitted) Metropolitan Opera - Giuseppe Antonicelli BRUNO WALTER 3 February 1949 FRIDA LEIDER - LAURITZ MELCHIOR World Premiere Release 15 January 1944 THORBORG - JANSSEN - HABICH - WEBER also Also Furtwängler / Beecham L’AMICO FRITZ BRUNO WALTER Covent Garden 1936-37 Hollywood Bowl All Wagner Concert with Helen Traubel Tagliavini - Tassinari 8 July 1947 WORLD PREMIERE RELEASE MASCAGNI - EIAR 1942 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG TAGLIAVINI Milanov, Peerce, Three Acts complete Premiere release Thorborg, Warren Frida Leider ELISIR D’AMORE Met 1944 Lauritz Melchior Tagliavini, Sayão Bruno Walter Thorborg and Janssen Valentino, Tajo A restoration of a Weber and Habich Met 1949 much-acclaimed broadcast Covent Garden L’AMICO FRITZ by a venerated conductor, 1936-1937 Tagliavini, Tassinari Furtwängler - Beecham now heard without the gaps 1942 EIAR broadcast Finally, Frida Leider in a and pitch lapses, which flawed complete performance of this conducted by previous editions. music drama (without the Pro- the composer. Includes Wagner Concert at logue) in a seamless fusion of Also included original Cetra the Hollywood Bowl sources reconstituting perform- recordings 1940-1948, conducted by Walter ances Leider sang with these casts some with Tassinari, with Helen Traubel. and conductors. Good sound. unblemished by technological (2 CDs) Premiere release. enhancement. (3 CDs) (4 CDs for the price of 3) IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES Box 88, Silverton, British Columbia, Canada V0G 2B0 A Federally Chartered, Non-Profit, Educational Organization www.imm ortalperformances.org Email: [email protected] F Phone: (250) 358 2475 F Fax: (250) 358 2499.