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• Belle nuit, O nuit d'amour / Jacques Offenbach (Edita Gruberova, soprano ; Claudia Eder, mezzo-soprano ; French Radio and Television Chorus & Orchestra ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor)
• Un bel dì vedremo / Giacomo Puccini (Mirella Freni, soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor)
• Sempre libera / Giuseppe Verdi (Ileana Cotrubas, soprano ; Bavarian State Orchestra ; Carlos Kleiber, conductor)
• Si, mi chiamano Mimi / Giacomo Puccini (Renata Scotto, soprano ; Gianni Poggi, tenor ; Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra ; Antonino Votto, conductor)
• Der Hölle Rache / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Karin Ott, soprano ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor)
• Ritorna vincitor! / Giuseppe Verdi (Grace Bumbry, soprano ; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra ; Hans Lowlein, conductor)
• O mio babbino caro (Rita Streich, soprano ; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra ; Reinhard Peters, conductor) ; Vissi d'arte (Mirella Freni, soprano ; Samuel Ramey, bass ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor) / Giacomo Puccini
• Il etait un roi de Thule / Charles-Francois Gounod (Montserrat Caballe, soprano ; New Philharmonia Orchestra ; Reynald Giovaninetti, conductor)
• Adieu, notre petite table / Jules Massenet (Beverly Sills, soprano ; New Philharmonia Orchestra ; Julius Rudel, conductor)
• Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro ; Dove sono i bei momenti / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor)
• Le Spectre de la rose / Hector Berlioz (Regine Crespin, soprano ; Swiss Romande Orchestra ; Ernest Ansermet, conductor)
• Mild und leise wie er lächet / Richard Wagner (Birgit Nilsson, soprano ; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra ; Karl Böhm, conductor).

Contributors:

Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791

Gounod, Charles, 1818-1893

Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

Languages:

French
German
Italian

Language Notes:

Sung in French, German and Italian.

Included Works:

Contes d'Hoffmann [by Offenbach, J.] > Belle nuit

Madama Butterfly [by Puccini, G.] > Un bel dì, vedremo

Traviata [by Verdi, G.] > Sempre libera

Bohème [by Puccini, G.] > Sì, mi chiamano Mimì

Zauberflöte [by Mozart, W.A.] > Hölle Rache

Aïda [by Verdi, G.] > Ritorna vincitor

Trittico [by Puccini, G.] > Gianni Schicchi > O mio babbino caro

Tosca [by Puccini, G.] > Vissi d'arte

Faust [by Gounod, C.] > Il était un roi de Thulé

Manon [by Massenet, J.] > Adieu, notre petite table

Nozze di Figaro [by Mozart, W.A.] (Selections)

Nuits d'été [by Berlioz, H.] > Spectre de la rose

Tristan und Isolde [by Wagner, R.] > Liebestod

Related Series:

Collection du millénaire (Deutsche Grammophon (Firm))

Subjects:

Operas — Excerpts

Songs (High voice) with orchestra

Operas

Genres:

Excerpts

Operas

Performers:

Various performers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file).

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

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Publisher Number, Decca: 00028948052486

OCLC Numbers:

982699461