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001) Martha, 1969
002) Hoffmann 1960
003) Rigoletto, 1967
004) Faust, Colon 1971
005) Evening bells, 1963
006) Prophete, live 1970
007) Grafin Mariza, 1973
008) Wiener Blut, 1970
009) Rahmaninov, 1970
010) Cellini, live 1966
011) Russian arias, 1969
012) Sonnambula, Met 1963
013) Elisir, 1966
014) I vespri, Met 1974
015) Prodana nevesta, Met1978
016) Recital Salzburg, 1961
017) Swedish duets 1983
018) Recital Leningrad, 1980
018) Recital Moscow 1, 1980
020) Les pecheurs, 1960
021) Faust, Paris 1975
022) Liederabend Hannover 1964
023)Entfuhrung, Aix-en-Provence
024) Fra Diavolo, 1984
025) La Boheme 1962
026) Graf von Luxemburg 1968
027) Boris Godunov 1976
028) Carmen 1959
029) Orphee... Aix 1955
030) Manon 1970
031) Huguenots, Vienna 1970
032) Guillaume Tell 1972
033) Early arias
034) Great moments
035) Donizetti, Bellini duets
036) First 10 years
037) I Capuleti e i Montecchi 19
038) Dame blanche, Hilversum 196
039) Gedda sings Lehar
040) Zigeunerbaron 1969
041) Don Giovanni 1965
042) Lady Macbeth from..., 1978
043) Werther Carnegie Hall 1965
044) Barbier von Bagdad 1956
045) Carmen 1964
046) Favorite encores 1964
047) Palestrina 1973
048) Oedipus Rex, Rome 1952
049) Pikovaja dama, Met 1972
050) Capriccio 1957
051) Idomeneo 1971
052) Turco in Italia 1954
053) Don Giovanni, Met 1967
054) Der Zarewitsch 1968
055) Land das Lachelns 1952
056) Barbiere di Siviglia 1974
057) Messiah 1964
058) Tosca, Boston 1971
059) Pelleas et. Mel. Met 1962
060) Cosi fan tutte 1974
061) Verdi Requiem 1963
062) Lakme Carnegie Hall 1981
063) I puritani 1971
064) Puritani Philadelphia 1963
065) Puritani Florence 1970
066) Vanessa 1958
067) Die Fledermaus 1955
068) Carmen 1964
069) Don Giovanni, Aix 1956
070) Faure 1982
071) Life for the Tsar 1957
072) Zauberflote 1964
073) Lucia, Met 1977
074) Iphigenie en Tauride 1961
075) Alceste 1982
076) Paganini 1977
077) Csardasfurstin 1973
078) Szenen aus Faust 1981
079) Boris Godunov 1953
080) Cendrillon 1978
081) North.&Russ. songs 1971
082) Platee Aix-en-P. 1956
083) Bettelstudent 1973
084) Giuditta 1984
085) Bach Mass 1967
086) Betrogene Kadi 1975
087) First recital 1953
088) Zar & Zimmermann 1966
089) La damnation, Rome 1969
090) Rosenkavalier 1956
091) Wunder der Heliane 1992
092) La traviata 1971
093) Padmavati 1983
094) Ballo, Vienna 1975
095) Thais 1976
096) Oedipe 1989
097) Devin du village 1956
098) Lohengrin Stockholm 1966
099) Gustav Wasa 1992
100) Satie 1969
101) Kalanus 1986
102) Undine 1966
103) Traviata Covent Garden 1972
104) Traviata, Vienna 1971
105) Christus am Olberge 1970
106) Tell, Florence 1972
107) Carmen, La Scala 1974
108) Orfeo ed E., Edinburgh 1067
109) Sonnambula, Met 1972
110) Gedda&Slovenski oktet
111) Onegin, Met 1977
112) Entfuhrung 1966
113) Euryanthe 1974
114) Gerontius 1975
115) Lustige Witwe 1967
116) Lustige Witwe 1962
117) Lustige Witwe 1952
118) Louise 1977
119) Iolanta, Paris 1984
120) Faust 1958
121) Recital Zurich 1998
122) Nacht in Venedig 1854
123) Candide 1989
124) Opernprobe 1975
125) Elisir, Met 1965
126) La damnation 1973
127) Werther 1968
128) Mireille, Aix 1954
129) Verdi Requiem Vienna 1954
130) Verdi Requiem, NY 1972
131) Benvenuto Cellini 1972
132) Recital Vienna 1984
133) Last savage Met 1964
134) Cantata BWV Rome 1969
135) Recital Leningrad 1980
136) Zauberflote video 1970
137) Elijah 1968
138) Recital 1970
139) Zauberflote, Rome 1953
140) Ballo video Stockholm 1985
141) Les introuvables
142) War and Peace 1986
143) Don Giovanni, Met 1971
144) Lady Macbeth video 1992
145) La damnation 1969
146) Rigoletto, Stockholm 1959
147) Onegin, Met 1979
148) Onegin, Florence 1980
149) Moscow 1980 video
150) Budapest 1984 video
151) Faust 1953
152) Monte Carlo 1984 video
153) Les Troyens, Rome 1971
154) Recital with Moore video
155) Ballo, Covent Garden 1977
156) Manon San Francisco 1971
157) Oeduipus Rex Stockholm 1991
158) Elisir, Vienna 1973
159) Manon, Met 1959
160) Recital Amsterdam 1982
161) Beethoven's songs 1969
161a) Beethoven's songs
162) Arias and songs
163) Ciboulette 1982
164) Zigeunerbaron, Met 1959
165) Interview Da capo 1989
166) Matthaus Passion 1961
167) Pecheurs Carnegie Hall 1974
168) Documentary video 1968
169) Persephone 1955
170) Lelio 1974
171) Lehar and Kalman
172) Oberon Carnegie Hall 1978
173) Met 25. anniversary 1982
174) Pushkin's poems 1987
175) Wiener Blut 1954
176) La Boheme Munich 1975
177) Alceste, Met 1961
178) Faust, Met 1969
179) Zauberflote, Met 1970
180) Rosenkavalier Met 1969
181) Cellini Carnegie Hall 1983
182) Orfeo ed. E., Aix 1955
183) Manon, Met 1963
184) Boris Godunov Met 1963
185) Lucia, Met1969
186) Hoffmann, Met 1959
187) Traviata, Met 1964
188) Man who disappeared 1984
189) Forza del destino 1964
190) Postillon 1965
191) Don Carlos 1973
192) Freischutz 1969
193) Matthaus Passion 1969
194) Dalibor Carnegie Hall 1977
195) Gedda Icon-85th bithday
196) Rinaldo, Milan 1983
197) P. m. solenelle 1984
198) Schule Salzburg 1957
199) Lakme 1961
200) Evocations 1986
201) Missa solemnis 1958
202) Recital Vienna 2001
203) Concert Munich 1969
204) Fra Diavolo, SF 1968
205) La clemenza di Tito 1955
206) La damnation 1959
207) Alceste 1962
208) Champagner operette
209) Budapest concert 1984
210) Liszt's songs 1986
211) Faust, Met 1966
212) Paradies und Peri 1973
213) Tosca 1988
214) Cosi fan tutte Aix 1955
215) Recital 1999
216) Idomeneo, Rome 1971
217) Romeo et Juliette 1964
218) La damnation Montreux 1959
219) Abu Hassan 1973
220) Romeo&Juliette Met 1968
221) Carmen, Vienna 1954
222) Tosca, Stockholm 1975
223) Ein Walzertraum 1970
224) Puritani Naples 1971
225) Faust Met 1958
226) Puritani Carnegie Hall 63
227) Mozart Requiem 1971
228) Faust Met 72
229) Berlioz Grande messe
230) Recit. Salzburg 1959
231) Recit. Memphis 1972
231) The very best
232) The very best
233) Rigoletto Met 1967
234) Onegin Boston 1976
235) Three Requiems
236) Die Schone Helena
237) Onegin English 1992
238) Russian lith. chant
239) Orthodox chants
240) Russian songs 1980
241) Candide video 1989
242) Gala concert Munich
243) Butterfly 1955
244) Zigeunerbaron 1954
245) Onegin 1988
246) Swedish songs 1980
247) Fledermaus 1972
248) Beethoven's 9. Symph
249) B. Godunov 87 audio
250) B. Godunov 87 video
251) Hoffmann Met 1970
252) Recital London 1973
253) Bach Magnificat
254) Land des Lächeln 67
255) Schauspieldirector
256) Mesplé& Gedda duos
257) Hugo Wolf
258) Robert Stolz
259) Zwillingsbrüder 1975
260) French connection
261) Beethoven 9th, 1973
262) Kienzl Evangelimann
263) Berlioz Romeo et J.
264) Strauss Venedig 1967
265) Cellini live 1964
266) Salzburg 1971
267) Onegin Met 1978 live
268) Operetta duets 1972
269) Hoffmann live 1971
270) Russian romances '60
271) Mozart Krönungsmesse
272) Bach B minor Mass
273) Entführung Met 1979
274) Beethoven Missa 1959
275) Mozart Requiem live
276) Poulenc Melodies
277) Pelléas et Mélis. 71
278) Don Giovanni live 62
279) Schubert rec. Rome74
280) Russian hymns&chants
281) Arias&songs
284) Manon, Colon 1970
285) Viennese delights
286) Orphée Gluck live 75
287) L'enfance du Christ
288) Zauberflöte Met 1958
289) Iphigenie Taur. 1956
290) Cosi fan tutte 1959
291) Zauberflote Scala55
292) Butterfly German
293) Bruckner 9th symph.
293) G. Tell highlights
294) Sjögren songs
295) Verdi Requiem 1979
296) Entführung 1968

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NICOLAI GEDDA IN OPERAS AND RECITALS

Saturday, 20 June 2009

68) George Bizet Carmen - recording from 1964
Mood:

accident prone
Topic: 068) Carmen 1964

Amazon.com essential recording

This recording was made near the end of Maria Callas's career. It is a role she never sang onstage, but it suited her almost perfectly, and she gives a deep, compelling performance on this recording. The mezzo-soprano tessitura was comfortable for her voice, and the role did not call for a pretty sound. Nor did the recording studio require the kind of huge vocal power expected in an opera house. And furthermore, the character of a strong-willed, capricious, sexually compelling woman who thinks exclusively of herself was close to the offstage personality that made Callas so famous. --Joe McLellan

Carmen - Maria Callas

Don José - Nicolai Gedda

Escamillo - Robert Massard

Micaela - Andrea Guiot

Frasquita - Nadine Sautereau

Jane Berbié - Mercedes

Conductor Georges Prêtre

Recorded in Wagram Hall, Paris, France, July 1964

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 7:38 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:54 PM MEST
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67) Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus - recording from 1955
Mood:

mischievious
Topic: 067) Die Fledermaus 1955

Recording from April 1955.

Gabriel von Eisenstein - Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

Rosalinde - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)

Alfred - Helmut Krebs (tenor)

Adele - Rita Streich (soprano)

Dr. Falke - Erich Kunz (baritone)

Frank - Karl Doench (baritone)

Prince Orlowsky - Rudolf Christ (tenor)

Dr. Blind - Erich Majkut (tenor)

Ida - Louise Martini (soprano-speaker)

Frosch - Franz Boeheim (speaker)

Conductor Herbert Von Karajan

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 12:16 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:51 PM MEST
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66) Samuel Barber Vanessa
Mood:

flirty
Topic: 066) Vanessa 1958

Vanessa has spent twenty years in her country house after being left by her lover, Anatol; she has kept the house shut up, with all of the mirrors covered. Her mother, the Old Baroness, will not speak to her; her only companion is her niece, Erika. As the opera opens, they are preparing for the arrival of Anatol. He is sighted coming towards the house, and Vanessa sends everyone else away; as soon as he arrives at the door, she declares her love for him--then faints when she discovers that the man on the doorstep is not her lover. He is, he explains to Erika, that Anatol's son; he has come to meet the woman whose name haunted his father and mother. The Anatol that Vanessa knew has died.

Anatol, left alone with Erika, seduces her; the next day, after Erika learns that he has been making advances to Vanessa, she confronts him; he offers to marry her, but, offended by the flippancy with which he has proposed, and worried about Vanessa, rejects him. At the party where Vanessa and Anatol's engagement is announced, Erika reveals to the Old Baroness that she is pregnant with Anatol's child. She runs away from the house and causes herself to miscarry; a search party sent out by Vanessa brings her back. Vanessa, still unaware of Anatol's liason with Erika, marries him, and they leave together. Erika, left alone in the house with her grandmother, who now will not speak to her, orders the mirrors covered again and the gates closed and locked, just as before.

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:24 AM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:45 PM MEST
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Friday, 19 June 2009

65) Vincenzo Bellini I Puritani - live performance, Florence 1970
Topic: 065) Puritani Florence 1970

Live performance from 1970

LORD ARTURO TALBO - NICOLAI GEDDA
ELVIRA - CRISTINA DEUTEKOM
SIR RICCARDO FORTH - SESTO BRUSCANTINI
SIR GIORGIO - AGOSTINO FERRIN
ENRICHETTA DI FRANCIA - FLORA RAFANELLI
LORD GUALTIERO VALTON - GRAZIANO DEL VIVO
SIR BRUNO ROBERTSON - VALIANO NATALI

ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO

CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI

FIRENZE, TEATRO COMUNALE, 20 DICEMBRE 1970

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Posted by nf/amenemhat at 11:01 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:48 PM MEST
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64) Vincenzo Bellini I Puritani - live performance Philadelphia 1963
Mood:

accident prone
Topic: 064) Puritani Philadelphia 1963

Live performance from Philadelphia, April 18 1963

Conductor: Richard Bonynge

Company: American Opera Society

Elvira: Joan Sutherland
Arturo: Nicolai Gedda
Riccardo: Ernest Blanc
Giorgio: Justino Diaz
Enrichetta: Betty Allen
Gualtiero: Raymond Michalski

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 8:16 PM MEST
Updated: Wednesday, 28 December 2011 4:04 PM CET
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63) Vincenzo Bellini I Puritani - recording
Mood:

accident prone
Topic: 063) I puritani 1971

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 8:11 PM MEST
Updated: Saturday, 1 October 2011 10:43 PM MEST
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62) Leo Delibes Lakme - live performance, Carnegie Hall 1981
Mood:

suave
Topic: 062) Lakme Carnegie Hall 1981

Live performance from Carnegie Hall, April 13, 1981

Lakmé - Mariella Devia

Gerald – Nicolai Gedda

Nilakantha – Paul Plishka

Mallika – Emily Golden

Frederick – Lawrence Cooper

Miss Bentson – Carolyne James

Ellen – Maria Spacagna

Rose –Michele Boucher

Hadji – Norman Large

Conductor - Eve Queler

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:05 AM MEST
Updated: Thursday, 14 July 2011 3:46 PM MEST
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Thursday, 18 June 2009

61) Giuseppe Verdi Requiem, Quatro Pezzi Sacri - recording from 1963
Topic: 061) Verdi Requiem 1963

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 11:01 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:19 PM MEST
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60) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte - recording
Topic: 060) Cosi fan tutte 1974

Fiordiligi ....... Montserrat Caballé
Dorabella ........ Janet Baker
Guglielmo ........ Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Ferrando ......... Nicolai Gedda
Despina .......... Ileana Cotrubas
Don Alfonso ...... Richard Van Allan

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Douglas Robinson, chorus master

Sir Colin Davis, conductor

Recording date and location: May 1974, Watford Town Hall, London

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:50 PM MEST
Updated: Thursday, 29 September 2011 7:59 AM MEST
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59) Claude Debussy Pelleas et Melisande - live performance from 1962
Mood:

amorous
Topic: 059) Pelleas et. Mel. Met 1962

Live performance from MET on December 27, 1962

Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, George London, Jerome Hines

Conductor Ernest Ansermet

LINK:

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 4:59 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:24 PM MEST
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58) Giacomo Puccini Tosca - live performance from 1971, Boston
Mood:

sad
Topic: 058) Tosca, Boston 1971

Live performance from Boston Symphony Hall, April 1972

Tosca - Marilyn Niska

Cavaradossi - Nicolai Gedda

Scarpia - Donald Gramm

Conductor Sarah Caldwell

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:14 AM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:21 PM MEST
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57) Georg Friedrich Haendel Messiah
Topic: 057) Messiah 1964

Soloists:

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Grace Hoffman

Nicolai Gedda

Jerome Hines

The Philharmonia orchestra and chorus, London, September 1964

Conductor Otto Klemperer

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 8:33 AM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 6:14 PM MEST
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

56) Gioachino Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Mood:

amorous
Topic: 056) Barbiere di Siviglia 1974

Recorded in London, August 1974

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 7:19 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 12:00 PM MEST
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55) Franz Lehar Das Land des Lachelns
Mood:

lyrical
Topic: 055) Land das Lachelns 1952

Recording from November, 1952

Lisa - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Gustl - Erich Kunz

Prinz Sou-Chong - Nicolai Gedda

Mi - Emmy Loose

Tschang - Otakar Kraus

Philharmonia orchestra and chorus London

Conductor Otto Ackermann

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:50 AM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:56 AM MEST
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54) Franz Lehar Der Zarewitsch
Mood:

amorous
Topic: 054) Der Zarewitsch 1968

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 9:46 AM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:53 AM MEST
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Monday, 15 June 2009

53) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni - live performance from 1967
Mood:

incredulous
Topic: 053) Don Giovanni, Met 1967

Metropolitan Opera House

January 28, 1967 Matinee Broadcast

Don Giovanni............Cesare Siepi
Donna Anna..............Joan Sutherland
Don Ottavio.............Nicolai Gedda
Donna Elvira............Pilar Lorengar
Leporello...............Ezio Flagello
Zerlina.................Laurel Hurley
Masetto.................Theodor Uppman
Commendatore............Bonaldo Giaiotti

Conductor............ .Karl Böhm

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 10:16 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:48 AM MEST
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52) Gioachino Rossini Il Turco in Italia
Topic: 052) Turco in Italia 1954

Fiorilla, a young Napolitana ( soprano ) - Maria Callas
Selim, the Turk ( bass ) - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Narciso, her lover ( tenor ) - Nicolai Gedda
Geronio, her husband ( bass ) - Franco Calabrese
Zaida, a Turk ( mezzo-soprano ) - Jolanda Gardino
Albazar, a Turk ( tenor ) - Piero de Palma
Il Poeta, Prosdocimo, a poet ( baritone ) - Mariano Stabile

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
Chorus master: Vittore Veneziani

Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor

Recorded: 31 Aug - 8 Sept 1954, Milano

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 8:02 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:50 AM MEST
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51) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Idomeneo - recording
Topic: 051) Idomeneo 1971

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 5:55 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:42 AM MEST
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50) Richard Strauss Capriccio
Mood:

amorous
Topic: 050) Capriccio 1957

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Strauss's last opera is one of the wonders of lyric art: an intelligent conversation piece about aesthetic principles (which is more important, words or music?) wrapped in achingly beautiful music. Its humor and drama are subtler than we're used to, but the opera is no less pleasurable for it. Capriccio's reputation as a connoisseur's piece is well served by this 1957 recording that features a superb cast led by the distinguished Straussian Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. True, she could be mannered, but the role of the Countess who must decide between the poet and the musician fits her like a glove, and she's radiant in the final, soaring monologue. Everyone else in the cast is outstanding, and the monophonic sound is so clear that you almost won't miss stereo. Sawallisch has the Philharmonia playing with the utmost transparency. Karl Böhm's DG stereophonic version with Gundula Janowitz is almost as fine (although currently out of print), but this one, like vintage wine, just gets better and better. --Dan Davis

Countess Madeleine - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

The count - Eberhard Wächter

Flamand - Nicolai Gedda

Olivier - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

La Roche - Hans Hotter

Clairon - Christa Ludwig

Monsieur Taupe - Rudolf Christ

Italian singer - Anna Moffo

Italian tenor - Karl Schmitt-Walter

Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, London 1957

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 5:49 PM MEST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:30 AM MEST
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Sunday, 14 June 2009

49) Pjotr Iljic Cajkovskij Pikovaja Dama (The Queen of Spades) - live performance
Topic: 049) Pikovaja dama, Met 1972

Live performance in MET, 1972

Lisa....................Raina Kabaivanska
Gherman.................Nicolai Gedda
Countess................Regina Resnik
Prince Yeletsky.........William Walker
Count Tomsky............John Reardon
Chekalinsky.............Paul Franke
Surin...................Andrij Dobriansky
Paulina.................Joann Grillo
Masha...................Carlotta Ordassy
Master of Ceremonies....Gene Boucher
Chloé...................Loretta Di Franco
Chaplitsky..............Robert Schmorr
Narumov.................Edmond Karlsrud
Dance...................Naomi Marritt
Dance...................Ivan Allen

Conductor...............Kazimierz Kord

Posted by nf/amenemhat at 9:38 PM MEST
Updated: Monday, 28 November 2022 6:12 PM CET
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