Rolf Kühne (above) is the Wanderer and Ortrun Wenkel is Erda in the opening scene of Act III of Wagner’s SIEGFRIED.
Listen here.
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Erda & The Wanderer
Rolf Kühne (above) is the Wanderer and Ortrun Wenkel is Erda in the opening scene of Act III of Wagner’s SIEGFRIED.
Listen here.
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Sharon Sweet as Aida
Sharon Sweet (above) sings Aida, with Michael Sylvester as Radames and Juan Pons as Amonasro, in a scene from Act III of Verdi’s AIDA:
AIDA – Act III scene – Sharon Sweet – Michael Sylvester – Juan Pons – Met 1997 bcast
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Bastianini & Tucci ~ scene from ANDREA CHENIER
Ettore Bastianini is Carlo Gerard (above) and Gabriella Tucci is Maddalena di Coigny in a scene from Act III of Giordano’s ANDREA CHENIER. Listed as being from Torino 1963, this seems to be a studio recording or radio broadcast: the sound quality is amazingly clear. Both singers are at their very finest.
Listen to them here.
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Tebaldi/Bergonzi ~ TOSCA – Act I scene – Buenos Aires 1953
A scene from Act I of Puccini’s TOSCA with Renata Tebaldi (above) and Carlo Bergonzi from Buenos Aires 1953. This was Bergonzi’s role debut as Cavaradossi.
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The Garden of Love
I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore;And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tombstones where flowers should be;
And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briers my joys and desires.– William Blake (1757 – 1827)
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Yvonne Minton ~ Sea Pictures
Yvonne Minton (above) sings Edward Elgar’s Sea Pictures with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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