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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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