Introduction to Singers on Singing: The Performer's Perspective
There is no substitute for the real-life experience of a performer who has embodied a role on stage or taken on the persona in a lied, chanson or song when it comes to a discussion of the most subtle living elements in a vocal composition. The performer’s perspective on opera and song does not replace or compete with the important works of writers and lecturers on music, but it does provide a dimension that, arising both from the artist’s in situ personification of the dramatic, poetic and psychological situation and his/her long years of study, is of irreplaceable instructive and intuitive value.
The Singers on Singing archive gives students and music-lovers a precious opportunity to share the unique insights and thoughts on opera and song of some of the very most highly acclaimed performers of the last several decades, supported by actual illustrations of their interpretations.
Within this framework, taken as a whole there are even some comparative instances where a specific opera, role or song is discussed and performed by different artists. So as to give the user of this facility an immediate overview of the repertoire that the artists in these features discuss and perform, we have compiled a database read-out of all the materials, below.
Roles / Operas / Composers
Roles:
Abigaille (Nabucco): Renata Scotto
Adriana Lecouvreur (Adriana Lecouvreur): Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Aida (Aida): Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Alfredo (La Traviata): Giuseppe di Stefano
Alfonse (La Favorita): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Amalia (I Masnadieri): Joan Sutherland
Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera): Maria Callas
Amina (La Sonnambula): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Renata Scotto
Amneris (Aida): Grace Bumbry discusses Amneris
Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann): Joan Sutherland
Arabella (Arabella): Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Arsace (Semiramide): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Marilyn Horne
Arturo Talbot (I Puritani): Luciano Pavarotti
Athanaël(Thaïs): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Azucena (Il Trovatore): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Billy Budd (Billy Budd): Peter Glossop
Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites): Virginia Zeani
Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Tomlinson
Boris Godunov (Boris Godunov): Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Ruggero Raimondi, John Tomlinson
Brünnhilde (Götterdämmerung): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Calaf (Turandot): Luciano Pavarotti
Canio (I Pagliacci): Saluting Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti
Carmen (Carmen): Grace Bumbry discusses Carmen, Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Sophie Koch, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Cascart (Zazà): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Cenerentola/Cinderella (La Cenerentola): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Chapelou (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau): Nicolai Gedda
Charlotte (Werther): Maria Callas, Angela Gheorghiu, Sophie Koch
Chorèbe (Les Troyens): Peter Glossop
Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly): Maria Callas, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Lotte Lehmann, Renata Scotto, Renata Scotto discusses Madama Butterfly, Renata Tebaldi
Claggart/Master-at-Arms (Billy Budd): John Tomlinson
Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos): Sophie Koch
Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro): Thomas Hampson
Dalila (Samson et Dalila): Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Der Holländer/The Dutchman (Die Fliegende Holländer): John Tomlinson
Der Wanderer (Siegfried): John Tomlinson
Desdemona (Otello): Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Dido (Dido and Aeneas): Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Didon (Les Troyens): Singing Berlioz
Don Alvaro (La Forza del Destino): Saluting Caruso
Don Carlo: Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni): Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson, Ruggero Raimondi
Don José (Carmen): Nicolai Gedda, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Don Quichotte (Massenet’s Don Quichotte): José van Dam discusses Massenet’s ‘Don Quichotte’, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Ruggero Raimondi
Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni): Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto): Luciano Pavarotti
Ebolli (Don Carlo: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor): Luciano Pavarotti
Eléazar (La Juive): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Elektra (Elektra): Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Deborah Polaski discusses Elektra
Elisabeth (Tannhäuser): Lotte Lehmann, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Elvira (Ernani): Joan Sutherland
Elvira (I Puritani): Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland
Énée/Aeneas (Les Troyens): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Enzo Grimaldo (La Gioconda): Luciano Pavarotti
Erda (Das Rheingold): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Esclarmonde (Esclarmonde): Joan Sutherland
Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Lotte Lehmann
Falstaff (Falstaff): Tito Gobbi
Faust (Faust): Giuseppe di Stefano
Federico (L’Arlesiana): Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Fiordiligi ( Così Fan Tutte): Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Florestan (Fidelio): Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Ford (Falstaff): Thomas Hampson
Fricka (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Sophie Koch
Germont [Giorgio] (La Traviata): Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson
Gianni Schicchi (Gianni Schicchi): Tito Gobbi
Gilda (Rigoletto): Renata Scotto
Goethe (Friederike): Nicolai Gedda
Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande): Pelléas et Mélisande Feature, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Singing Debussy
Hagen (Götterdämmerung): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan
Hamlet (Hamlet): Thomas Hampson
Hans Sach (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Hortense (Der Opernball): Joan Sutherland
Iago (Otello): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tito Gobbi, Peter Glossop
Idomeneo (Idomeneo): Luciano Pavarotti
Il Cavaliere Renato des Grieux (Manon Lescaut): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Isolde (Tristan und Isolde): Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Jocaste (Oedipus Rex): Marilyn Horne
Julie Jordan (Carousel): Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
King Lear (Lear): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Kundry (Parsifal): Sophie Koch
La Gioconda (La Gioconda): Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Lady Macbeth (Macbeth): Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Laura (La Gioconda): Marilyn Horne
Leonora (Fidelio): Lotte Lehmann
Leonora (Il Trovatore): Renata Tebaldi
Leonora (La Forza del Destino): Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Lucia Lammermoor (Lucia di Lammermoor): Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland
Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrezia Borgia): Montserrat Caballé
Macbeth (Macbeth): Thomas Hampson
Macduff (Macbeth): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Maddalena di Coigny (Andrea Chénier): Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Magda (La Rondine): Angela Gheorghiu
Mandane (Artaxerxes: Joan Sutherland
Mandryka (Arabella): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Manon (Manon): Angela Gheorghiu, Lotte Lehmann, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Manon Lescaut (Manon Lescaut): Angela Gheorghiu, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Virginia Zeani
Manrico (Il Trovatore): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Marguerite (Faust): Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Marguerite de Valois (Les Huguenots): Joan Sutherland
Marie (Wozzeck): Marilyn Horne
Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca): Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier): Lotte Lehmann
Medea (Medea): Maria Callas
Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande): Pelléas et Mélisande Feature, Singing Debussy
Méphistophélès (La damnation de Faust): Singing Berlioz
Michele (Il Tabarro): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Mignon (Mignon): Sophie Koch
Mimi (La Bohème): Mirella Freni, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Minnie (La Fanciulla del West): Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore): Nicolai Gedda
Norma (Norma): Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland
Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier): Sophie Koch
Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Otello (Otello): Saluting Caruso, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande): Pelléas et Mélisande Feature, Singing Debussy
Peter Grimes (Peter Grimes): Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Philip II (Don Carlo): Ruggero Raimondi
Pinkerton [Benjamin] (Madama Butterfly): Nicolai Gedda, Giuseppe di Stefano
Prince Yeletsky (Queen of Spades): Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Princess de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Radamès (Aida): Jon Vickers
Riccardo (Un Ballo in Maschera): Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Rigoletto (Rigoletto): Tito Gobbi, Peter Glossop, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Rinaldo (Rinaldo): Marilyn Horne
Robert (Robert le diable): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Rodolfo (La Bohème): Saluting Caruso, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa (Don Carlo): Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson discusses Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos
Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi): Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Salomé (Hérodiade): Montserrat Caballé
Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Salome (Salome): Montserrat Caballé
Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana): Renata Scotto
Samson (Samson et Dalila): Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Scarpia (Tosca): Tito Gobbi, Ruggero Raimondi
Semiramide (Semiramide): Joan Sutherland
Sieglinde (Die Walküre): Lotte Lehmann
Siegmund (Die Walküre): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
[Don Ruy Gomez de] Silva (Ernani): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra): Tito Gobbi
Suor Angelica (Suor Angelica): Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi
Tamino (Die Zauberflöte): Nicolai Gedda, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Tatjana (Eugene Onegin): Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Thaïs (Thaïs): Virginia Zeani
Tonio (La Fille du Régiment): Luciano Pavarotti
Tosca (Tosca): Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Tristan (Tristan und Isolde): Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Turandot (Turandot): Montserrat Caballé, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Violetta (La Traviata): Maria Callas, Angela Gheorghiu, Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Virginia Zeani
Wally (La Wally): Renata Scotto
Werther (Werther): Nicolai Gedda
Wilhelm (Mignon): Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Wotan (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre): Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan
Wozzeck (Wozzeck): Tito Gobbi
Operas:
Adriana Lecouvreur: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Aida: Grace Bumbry discusses Amneris, Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Jon Vickers
Andrea Chénier: Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Arabella: Singing Strauss Feature, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Ariadne auf Naxos: Singing Strauss Feature, Sophie Koch
L’Arlesiana: Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Artaxerxes: Joan Sutherland
Billy Budd: Singing Britten Feature, Peter Glossop, John Tomlinson
Bluebeard’s Castle: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Tomlinson
Boris Godunov: Nicolai Ghiaurov:
A Never Before Heard Interview, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Ruggero Raimondi, John Tomlinson
Capriccio: Singing Strauss Feature
Carmen: Grace Bumbry discusses Carmen, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch, Jon Vickers–A Memoir, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Cavalleria Rusticana: Renata Scotto
Carousel: Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Così Fan Tutte: Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Curlew River: Singing Britten Feature
Daphne: Singing Strauss Feature
Das Rheingold: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Sophie Koch, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan
Death in Venice: Singing Britten Feature
Der Fliegende Holländer: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Der Opernball: Joan Sutherland
Der Rosenkavalier: Singing Strauss Feature, Sophie Koch, Lotte Lehmann
Dialogues des Carmélites: Virginia Zeani
Dido and Aeneas: Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Die Fliegende Holländer: John Tomlinson
Die Frau ohne Schatten: Singing Strauss Feature
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Lotte Lehmann
Die Walküre: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch, Lotte Lehmann, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Die Zauberflöte: Nicolai Gedda, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Don Carlo: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson discusses Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Ruggero Raimondi
Don Giovanni: Nicolai Ghiaurov:
A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson, Ruggero Raimondi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Don Pasquale: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Don Quichotte: José van Dam discusses Massenet’s ‘Don Quichotte’, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Ruggero Raimondi
Elektra: Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Singing Strauss Feature, Deborah Polaski discusses Elektra
Ernani: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Joan Sutherland
Esclarmonde: Joan Sutherland
Eugene Onegin: Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Falstaff: Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson
Faust: Giuseppe di Stefano, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Feuersnot: Singing Strauss Feature
Fidelio: Lotte Lehmann, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Friederike: Nicolai Gedda
Gianni Schicchi: Tito Gobbi
Götterdämmerung: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan
Guntram: Singing Strauss Feature
Hamlet: Thomas Hampson
Hérodiade: Montserrat Caballé
Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
I Masnadieri: Joan Sutherland
I Puritani: Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland
Idomeneo: Luciano Pavarotti
Il Tabarro: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
Il Trovatore: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Renata Tebaldi
Intermezzo: Singing Strauss Feature
L’Elisir d’Amore: Nicolai Gedda
L’Italiana in Algeri: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
La Bohème: Saluting Caruso, Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
La damnation de Faust: Singing Berlioz
La Cenerentola: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
La Fanciulla del West: Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
La Favorita: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature
La Fille du Régiment: Luciano Pavarotti
La Forza del Destino: Maria Callas, Saluting Caruso, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
La Gioconda: Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
La Juive: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
La Rondine: Angela Gheorghiu, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview
La Sonnambula: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Renata Scotto
La Traviata: Maria Callas, Angela Gheorghiu, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson, Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Virginia Zeani
La Wally: Renata Scotto
Le Nozze di Figaro: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Thomas Hampson
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau: Nicolai Gedda
Lear: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Joan Sutherland
Les Huguenots: Joan Sutherland
Les Troyens: Peter Glossop, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Singing Berlioz, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Lucia di Lammermoor: Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland
Lucrezia Borgia: Montserrat Caballé
Macbeth: Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Thomas Hampson
Madama Butterfly: Maria Callas, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Lotte Lehmann, Renata Scotto, Renata Scotto discusses Madama Butterfly, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi
Manon (Massenet): Angela Gheorghiu, Lotte Lehmann, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Manon Lescaut: Angela Gheorghiu, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Virginia Zeani
Medea: Maria Callas
Mignon: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch
Mosè in Egitto: Renata Tebaldi
Nabucco: Renata Scotto
Norma: Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland
Oedipus Rex: Marilyn Horne
Otello: Saluting Caruso, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Tito Gobbi, Peter Glossop, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Owen Wingrave: Singing Britten Feature
Pacific 1860: Joan Sutherland
Pagliacci: Saluting Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti
Parsifal: Sophie Koch
Pelléas et Mélisande: Pelléas et Mélisande Feature, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Singing Debussy
Peter Grimes: Singing Britten Feature, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Queen of Spades: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Rigoletto: Tito Gobbi, Peter Glossop, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto
Rinaldo: Marilyn Horne
Robert le diable: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Salome: Singing Strauss Feature, Montserrat Caballé
Samson et Dalila: Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Semiramide: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Marilyn Horne, Joan Sutherland
Siegfried: John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan
Simon Boccanegra: Tito Gobbi, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses
Suor Angelica: Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi
Tannhäuser: Lotte Lehmann, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Thaïs: Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Virginia Zeani
The Rape of Lucretia: Singing Britten Feature
The Turn of the Screw: Singing Britten Feature
Tosca: Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Tristan und Isolde: Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Turandot: Montserrat Caballé, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Luciano Pavarotti
Un Ballo in Maschera: Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano
Werther: Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Sophie Koch
Wiener Blut: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Wozzeck: Tito Gobbi, Marilyn Horne
Zazà: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Composers:
Adam, Adolphe: Nicolai Gedda
Arne, Thomas: Joan Sutherland
Bartók, Béla: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Tomlinson
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Lotte Lehmann, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Bellini, Vincenzo: Maria Callas, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland
Berg, Alban: Tito Gobbi, Marilyn Horne
Berlioz, Hector: Peter Glossop, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Singing Berlioz, Jon Vickers
Bizet, Georges: Grace Bumbry discusses Carmen, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch, Jon Vickers–A Memoir, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Brahms, Johannes: Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Britten, Benjamin: Singing Britten Feature, Peter Glossop, John Tomlinson, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Catalani, Alfredo: Renata Scotto
Cherubini, Luigi: Maria Callas
Cilèa, Francesco: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Coward, Noël: Joan Sutherland
Debussy, Claude: Pelléas et Mélisande Feature, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Singing Debussy
Donizetti, Gaetano: Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Joan Sutherland
Giordano, Umberto: Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Gounod, Charles: Giuseppe di Stefano, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Halévy, Fromental: Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Handel, George Frideric: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Marilyn Horne
Heuberger, Richard: Joan Sutherland
Lehàr, Franz: Nicolai Gedda
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero: Saluting Caruso, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Luciano Pavarotti
Mascagni, Pietro: Renata Scotto
Massenet, Jules: Montserrat Caballé, Maria Callas, José van Dam discusses Massenet’s ‘Don Quichotte’, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Sophie Koch, Lotte Lehmann, Ruggero Raimondi, Joan Sutherland, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration, Virginia Zeani
Meyerbeer, Giacomo: Joan Sutherland, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Nicolai Gedda, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Thomas Hampson, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Mussorgsky, Modest: Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Ruggero Raimondi, John Tomlinson
Offenbach, Jacques: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Joan Sutherland
Ponchielli, Amilcare: Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Poulenc, Francis: Virginia Zeani
Puccini, Giacomo: Montserrat Caballé, Maria Callas, Saluting Caruso, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Angela Gheorghiu, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Lotte Lehmann, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Renata Scotto, Renata Scotto discusses Madama Butterfly, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration, Virginia Zeani
Purcell, Henry: Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Ravel, Maurice: Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Reimann, Aribert: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Rodgers, Richard: Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration
Rossini, Gioachino: Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Saint-Saëns, Camille: Angela Gheorghiu, Marilyn Horne, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Jon Vickers–A Memoir
Schubert, Franz: Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos
Strauss, Johann: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Strauss II, Johann: Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Strauss, Richard: Singing Strauss Feature, Montserrat Caballé, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Sophie Koch, Lotte Lehmann, Deborah Polaski discusses Elektra, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Stravinsky, Igor: Marilyn Horne
Tchaikovsky, Peter: Mirella Freni, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos
Thomas, Ambroise: Thomas Hampson, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Vocal Music
Verdi, Giuseppe: Grace Bumbry discusses Amneris, Montserrat Caballé, Maria Callas, Saluting Caruso, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mirella Freni, Angela Gheorghiu, Nicolai Ghiaurov: A Never Before Heard Interview, Tito Gobbi, Peter Glossop, Thomas Hampson, Thomas Hampson discusses Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Renata Scotto, Giuseppe di Stefano, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir, Virginia Zeani
Wagner, Richard: Maria Callas, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Iconic Voices of the Past – Introductory Feature, Iconic Voices of the Past – Baritones and Basses, Iconic Voices of the Past – Mezzo Sopranos and Contraltos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Sopranos, Iconic Voices of the Past – Tenors and Countertenors, Sophie Koch, Lotte Lehmann, Renata Tebaldi: A Centenary Commemoration, John Tomlinson, John Tomlinson discusses Wotan, Jon Vickers, Jon Vickers–A Memoir, Victoria de los Ángeles: A Centenary Commemoration
Wolf, Hugo: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf