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Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Jon Tolansky)
• Angela Gheorghiu, soprano. Madama Butterfly. Un bel dì ; Che tua madre / Puccini ; Carmen. La la la la / Bizet ; Early life and formative years ; La Bohème. Sì, mi chiamano Mimì / Puccini ; Manon. N'est ce plus ma main / Massenet
• Mirella Freni, soprano. Aïda. O patria mia / Verdi ; Early life and formative years ; La Bohème. Sono andati? / Puccini ; Otello. Ave Maria / Verdi
• Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano. Carmen. Les tringles des sistres tintaient / Bizet ; Early life and formative years ; Carmen. Habanera / Bizet ; On singing with Jon Vickers in Carmen ; Carmen. Où va tu? / Bizet.
• Jon Vickers, tenor. Fidelio. Gott! Welch Dunkel hier! / Beethoven ; Early life and formative years ; Samson et Dalila. Israël! romps ta chaîne / Saint-Saëns ; Studying oratorio and opera ; Otello. Già nella notte densa ; Ah! Mille vite
• Si, pel ciel ; Il fazzoletto ; Chi è là? Otello? / Verdi
• Nicolai Gedda, tenor. Rigoletto. La donna è mobile / Verdi ; Boris Godunov. O, kak tomitel'no / Mussorgsky ; Early life and formative years ; Le postillon de Lonjumeau. Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire / Adam ; Werther. Lorsque l'enfant ; International singing traditions and schools, and singing Werther ; Traduire
• Ah!
• Pourquoi me réveiller / Massenet
• Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor. Manon. Io son sol / Massenet ; Early life and formative years ; Approach to opera performance ; La bohème. Come va? / Puccini ; More about approach to opera, and singing with Callas ; Un ballo in maschera. Non sai tu che se l'anima mia / Verdi.
• Roberto Alagna, tenor. La traviata. Libiamo ne' lieti calici / Verdi ; Early life and formative years and influences ; Il trovatore. Ah sì, ben mio
• Di quella pira / Verdi ; Carmen. Carmen, je suis las de souffrir! / Bizet
• Ruggero Raimondi, bass-baritone. Macbeth. Come dal ciel precipita / Verdi ; Early life and formative years ; Don Carlo. Ella giammai m'amo / Verdi ; Tosca. Già mi struggea l'amor della diva! / Puccini
• Sir John Tomlinson, bass. Götterdämmerung. Hoiho! / Wagner ; Early life and formative years ; Hier sitz' ich zur Wacht / Wagner ; Bluebeard's castle. Hajnalban az elsöt leitem
• Negyediket éjjel leitem / Bartók.
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone. Die schöne Müllerin. Wohin? / Schubert ; Early life and formative years, singing Winterreise ; Winterreise. Gute Nacht / Schubert ; The Lieder of Hugo Wolf ; Der Feuerreiter / Wolf
• Antonio Pappano, conductor. Le villi. La tregenda / Puccini ; Early life and formative years ; Requiem. Dies irae ; Rex tremendae / Verdi
• Evgeny Kissin, piano. Concerto no. 3 in C, op. 26. Allegro / Prokofiev ; Early life and formative years ; Concerto no. 5 in E flat, op. 73 : Emperor. Allegro / Beethoven
• Mstislav Rostropovich, cello, conductor. Suite no. 1 in G, BWV1007. Prelude / J.S. Bach ; Early life and formative years ; Memories of Britten ; Cello suite no. 1, op. 72. Moto perpetuo ; Canto quarto / Britten ; On Shostakovich ; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Interlude ; On writing to Pravda ; Concerto no. 2 in G, op. 126 / Shostakovich.

Contributors:

Gheorghiu, Angela , singer

Freni, Mirella, 1935-2020 , singer

Vickers, Jon , singer

Gedda, Nicolai , singer

Di Stefano, Giuseppe, 1921-2008 , singer

Alagna, Roberto , singer

Raimondi, Ruggero , singer

Tomlinson, John, 1946 September 22- , singer

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1925-2012 , singer

Pappano, Antonio, 1959- , conductor

Kisin, Evgeniĭ, 1971- , singer

Rostropovich, Mstislav, 1927-2007 , conductor

Languages:

English
Italian
French
German
Russian
Hungarian

Language Notes:

Spoken in English, sung in Italian, French, German, Russian, and Hungarian.

Subjects:

Singers — Interviews

Singers — Biography

Operas — Excerpts

Operas — Stories, plots, etc.

Conductors (Music) — Biography

Conductors (Music) — Interviews

Cellists — Biography

Cellists — Interviews

Pianists — Biography

Pianists — Interviews

Suites (Cello) — Excerpts

Concertos — Excerpts

Requiems — Excerpts

Singers

Operas

Conductors (Music)

Cellists

Pianists

Suites (Cello)

Concertos

Requiems

Biography

Genres:

Interviews

Excerpts

Concertos

Operas

Biographies

Requiems

Stories, plots, etc.

Performers:

Jon Tolansky, interviewer ; various performers.

General Notes:

Interviews and performances (principally excerpts).
(Conversations) recorded 1995-2009.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sound file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

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Online Audio

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