Mood:  celebratory

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French (Paris) version 

Alceste:  Jessie Norman
Admete:   Nicolai Gedda
Le Grand Pretre: Tom Krause
Un Heraut d'armes: Peter Lika
Hercule:  Siegmund Nimsgern
Apollon:  Bernd Weikl
Un Dieu Infernal: Kurt Rydl
L'oracle:  Roland Bracht
Coryphée:  Francoise Pollet

Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Conductor Serge Baudo, 1982

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Mood:  not sure

Gorr,  Gedda, Blanc,  Quilico

Conductor Georges Pretre
Recorded in 1961


01 - Acte 1 O toi qui prolongeas
02 - Acte 1 Dieu! Le malheur
03 - Acte 2 Quel silence effrayant
04 - Acte 2 Dieux qui me poursuivez
05 - Acte 2 Quel langage acclabant
06 - Acte 2 O Malheureuse Iphigénie
07 - Acte 3 Je cède à vos désirs
08 - Acte 3 Je pourrais, du tyran
09 - Acte 3 O moment trop heureux
10 - Acte 3 Ah mon ami, j'implore
11 - Acte 3 Divinités des grandes âmes
12 - Acte 4 Non, cet affreux devoir
13 - Acte 4 Chaste fille de Latone

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Lucia - Bevery Sills
Edgardo - Nicolai Gedda 
Enrico - Ryan Edwards
Raimondo - Ezio Flagello

Conductor Richard Woitach

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, January 15, 1977.

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Mood:  incredulous

Tamino -  Nicolai Gedda
Pamina -  Gundula Janowitz
Papageno -  Walter Berry
The Queen of the Night -  Lucia Popp
Sarastro -  Gottlob Frick
Sprecher (speaker) -  Franz Crass
Erste Dame (First Lady) -  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Zweite Dame (Second Lady) -  Christa Ludwig
Dritte Dame (Third Lady) -  Marga Höffgen
Papagena, soprano - Ruth-Margret Pütz
Monostatos, tenor  -  Gerhard Unger
Zwei Geharnischten (two armed men) -  Karl Liebl (tenor),
                                                      Franz Crass (bass)
Erster Priester (First Priest) -  Gerhard Unger
Zwiter Priester (Second Priest) -  Franz Crass
Three Boys, trebles - Agnes Giebel (soprano),
                             Anna Reynolds (soprano),
                             Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)

Otto Klemperer, conductor

Recorded: March & April 1964, Kingsway Hall, London

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Recorded in spring 1982, Toulouse

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Live performance from Aix-en-Provence, 1956.

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Mood:  mischievious

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

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Mood:  flirty

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.

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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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Mood:  accident prone

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

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Mood:  accident prone

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Mood:  suave

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

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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

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Mood:  amorous

Live performance from MET on December 27, 1962

Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, George London, Jerome Hines

Conductor Ernest Ansermet

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Mood:  sad

Live performance from Boston Symphony Hall, April 1972

Tosca - Marilyn Niska

Cavaradossi - Nicolai Gedda

 Scarpia - Donald Gramm

Conductor Sarah Caldwell

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Soloists:

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Grace Hoffman

Nicolai Gedda

Jerome Hines

The Philharmonia orchestra and chorus, London, September 1964

Conductor Otto Klemperer 

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