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Articles by Fanfare Contributor Leonard J. Brandt
ARIA. By Brown Meggs. 466 pages. • New York: Atheneum. • $10.95 | LULLY: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (La Petite Bande) |
THE OPERAS OF VERDI: Volume Two (From Il Trovatore to La Forza del Destino). By Julian Buden. 532 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, $39.95 | Makvala Kasrashvili: Fragments and Arias From... (Makvala Kasrashvili) |
THE VERDI COMPANION. Edited by William Weaver and Martin Chusid. 366 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $19.95 | MARIA BARRIENTOS (Maria Barrientos) |
A GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SPECTACULAR (Marion Studholme) | MATTIA BATTISTINI (Mattia Battistini) |
A MOZART GALA WITH PETER SCHREIER (Peter Schreier) | Maurice André: IL TROMPETTO ASSOLUTO: FAMOUS OPERA... (Maurice André) |
Alexandra Hunt: SONGS BY CARPENTER, GRIFFES, AND... (Alexandra Hunt) | MEYERBEER: Dinorah (Deborah Cook) |
ANDREII M. LABINSKÜ (Andreii M. Labinskü) | MEYERBEER; GOUNOD, CHARLES; ROSSINI... (Giuseppe Campanari) |
AURELIANO PERULE (Aureliano Pertile) | MEYERBEER; SCHUBERT; ARDITI... (Ernestine Schumann-Heink) |
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN; BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (Leonie Rysanek) | Montserrat Caballé: Falla: Seven Popular Spanish... (Montserrat Caballé) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma Act I (Maria Callas) | MOZART: Cosi Fan Tutte (Kiri Te Kanawa) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma Highlights (Maria Callas) | MOZART: Così Fan Tutte (Ch of the Opéra du Rhin) |
BENIAMINO GIGLI (Beniamino Gigli) | MOZART: Il Sogno di Scipione, K. 126 (Peter Schreier) |
BERG, ALBAN: Lulu (Vienna PO) | MOZART: La Clemenza di Tito (Peter Schreier) |
BERLIOZ: Roméo et Juliette (Nadine Denize) | MOZART: La Clemenza di Tito (Royal Op House Covent Garden O & Ch) |
BIZET: Carmen (Giulietta Simionato) | MOZART; MOZART (Judith Blegen) |
BIZET: Carmen (Teresa Berganza) | MOZART; MOZART (Peter Schreier) |
BIZET: Les Pécheurs de Perles (Ileana Cotrubas) | MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov (Feodor Chaliapin) |
BIZET: The Pearl Fishers (Pierrette Alarie) | MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death; “Sunless“... (Evgeny Nesterenko) |
BIZET; LEONCAVALLO, RUGGERO; MOZART (Antonio Scotti) | NINON VALLIN (Ninon Vallin) |
BOITO, ARRIGO: Mefistofele (Feodor Chaliapin) | OFFENBACH: Christopher Columbus (Geoffrey Mitchell Ch) |
Claudia Muzio: LIVE! PUCCINI: Tosca: Act One (Claudia Muzio) | OFFENBACH: Orpheus in the Underworld (Mady Mesplé) |
COLUMBIA'S 1903 GRAND OPERA SERIES (soloists) | PAUL FRANZ (Paul Franz) |
DEBUSSY: Pelléas et Mélisande (Ch of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin) | PERILHOU; FAURÉ, GABRIEL; ALARY... (Charles Gilibert) |
DINO BORGIOLI (Dino Borgioli) | POL PLANÇON (Pol Plançon) |
DMITRI A. SMIRNOV (Dimitri Smirnov) | PRELUDES AND INTERMEZZOS FROM ZARZUELAS (English C O) |
DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale (recorded 1932) (Ernesto Badini) | PUCCINI II, GIACOMO: La Boheme (Margaret Sheridan) |
DONIZETTI: Gabriella di Vergy (Geoffrey Mitchell Ch) | RICCARDO STRACCIARI (Riccardo Stracciari) |
DONIZETTI: Ugo, Conte di Parigi (Geoffrey Mitchell Ch) | ROSSINI: Armida (Maria Callas) |
DONIZETTI; DONIZETTI (Margreta Elkins) | ROSSINI: Otello (José Carreras) |
DVOŘÁK, ANTONIN: The Jacobin (Karel Průša) | ROSSINI: Petite Messe Solennelle (Mirella Freni) |
EMMA LUART (Emma Luart) | ROSSINI: Petite Messe Solennnelle (Kari Lövaas) |
ENRICO CARUSO (Enrico Caruso) | ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN HISTORIC RECORDINGS... (Ch of the Royal Op House) |
ENRICO CARUSO. CARUSO IN DUET (Enrico Caruso) | STRAUSS, RICHARD: Elektra (P State O) |
Enrico Caruso. THE COMPLETE CARUSO, Volume 8,... (Enrico Caruso) | Sylvia Sass DRAMATIC COLORATURA (Sylvia Sass) |
ERNESTINE SCHUMANN-HEINK (Ernestine Schumann-Heink) | Teresa Berganza: EXCERPTS FROM SPANISH OPERETTAS (Teresa Berganza) |
FERNANDO DE LUCIA. PHONOTYPES (Fernando De Lucia) | The Complete Caruso: -- Volumes 6 and 7 (Enrico Caruso) |
FERNANDO DE LUCIA. THE G-T GRAMOPHONE COMPANY... (Fernando De Lucia) | THE GERMAN SCHOOL OF BAR/TONES, VOLUME 7 (Karl Hammes) |
FLORENCE EASTON (Florence Easton) | Tito Schipa. Recital (Tito Schipa) |
Frederica von Stade -- Song Recital (Frederica von Stade) | Tito Schipa: IN LIVE PERFORMANCE 1934-1949 (Tito Schipa) |
Frederica von Stade. ROSSINI, HAYDN, MOZART (Frederica von Stade) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Don Carlos (Four-Act Italian version) (Ch of the Deutche Oper, Berlin) |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN: The Gondoliers (Sir Henry Lytton) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei) |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN: The Mikado (Darrell Fancourt) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: I Due Foscari (Piero Cappuccilli) |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN: The Yeomen of the Guard. Victoria... (Michael Rayner) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: La Traviata (Maria Caniglia Alfredo) |
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN; SULLIVAN (John Reed) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Otello (Giovanni Zenatello) |
GIUSEPPE ANSELMI (Giuseppe Anselmi) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Requiem (Lucine Amara) |
GOUNOD, CHARLES: Faust (Feodor Chaliapin) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Rigoletto (Beverly Sills) |
GOUNOD, CHARLES; FONTENAILLES, HERCULE DE; STERN, LEO... (Suzanne Adams) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Rigoletto (Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli O & Ch) |
GRANADOS, ENRIQUE: Tonadillas; Canciones Amatorias (Pilar Lorengar) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Un Ballo in Maschera (José Carreras) |
GRIEG, EDVARD; SINDING, CHRISTIAN; SINDING, CHRISTIAN (Kirsten Flagstad) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE; FLOTOW, FRIEDRICH VON; TCHAIKOVSKY (Edouard de Reszke) |
Helge Roswaenge, Marcell Wittrisch: The Golden... (Helge Roswänge) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE; PUCCINI II, GIACOMO (Nellie Melba) |
HUMPERDINCK: Hansel and Gretel (Brigitte Fassbaender) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE; STRAUSS II, JOHANN (Marcella Sembrich) |
HUMPERDINCK: Hansel and Gretel (Frederica von Stade) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE; VERDI, GIUSEPPE (Hilde Gueden) |
J. STRAUSS, II: Eine Nacht in Venedig (Ch of the Hungarian R & Television) | VERDI, GIUSEPPE; VERDI, GIUSEPPE (Wolfgang Windgassen) |
JANÁČEK, LEOŠ: Fate (Magdaléna Hajóssyová) | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Orlando Furioso (edited and revised... (Amici della Polifonia Ch) |
JANÁČEK, LEOŠ: The Diary of One who Disappeared (Vilem Přibyl) | WAGNER, RICHARD: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Torsten Ralf) |
JANÁČEK, LEOŠ: The Makropulos Case (Elisabeth Söderström) | WAGNER, RICHARD: Die Walküre (Lauritz Melchior) |
JOHN McCORMACK (John McCormack) | WAGNER, RICHARD: Götterdämmerung (Ludwig Weber) |
José Carreras: Zarzuela (José Carreras) | WAGNER, RICHARD: Twilight of the Gods (sung in English,... (English Natl Op Ch) |
Jussi Björling THE ART OF JUSSI BJÖRLING (Jussi Björling) | WAGNER, RICHARD; WAGNER, RICHARD (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) |
LEONCAVALLO, RUGGERO; MASCAGNI, PIETRO (Luciano Pavarotti) | |
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