This recording was also a kind contribution of Natalia. Thank you very much.

Onegin - Yuri Mazurok

Lensky - Nicolai Gedda

Tatyana - Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Olga - Rossitza Troeva-Mircheva

Gremin - Nicola Ghiuselev

Larina - Stefka Popangelova

Filippyevna - Margarita Lilowa

Company commander - Stoil Georgiev

Zaretzky - Dimiter Stanchev

Triquet - Michel Lecocq

Sofia National Opera Chorus and Sofia Festival Orchestra

Conductor Emil Tchakarov

Recorded in Sofia, 1988

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Recorded in Milan, August 1955

Cio Cio San - Maria Callas

Pinkerton - Nicolai Gedda

Suzuki -  Lucia Danieli

Sharpless - Mario Borriello

 Teatro alla Scala orchestra

Conductor Herbert von Karajan

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1   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart La Clemenza di Tito, opera, K. 621 (Overture)

2   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte , opera, K. 620 (Dies
     Bildnis  ist bezaubernd schön)

3   Benjamin Britten Soirées Musicales ,suite for orchestra, Op. 9  (Marsch /   Canzonetta

     / Tirolese / Tarantella)

4   Gaetano Donizetti L'elisir d'amore, opera (Una furtiva lacrima)

5   Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari I quattro rusteghi, opera (Intermezzo)

6   Friedrich von Flotow Martha, opera (Ach so fromm, ach so traut)

7   Carl Maria von Weber Invitation to the Dance for orchestra (orchestrated by Berlioz)

8   Georges Bizet Les P?cheurs de perles, opera  (Ah cette voix..Je crois entendre encore)

9   Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto, opera (La donna è mobile)

10 Charles Gounod Faust, opera (Ballet music)

11 Charles Gounod Faust, opera (Salut, demeure chaste et pure)

12 Antonin Dvorák Legend No. 4, for orchestra in C major, B. 122/4 (Op. 59/4)

13 Pjotr Iljič Čajkovski Eugene Onegin, opera, Op. 24 (Kuda, kuda – Lenski's aria)

14 Pjotr Iljič Čajkovski  Serenade for strings (or piano, 4 hands) in C major, Op. 48

    (Walz)

  15 Jules Massenet Manon, opera (Je suis seul...c'est le moment suprème)

16 Jakov Gotovac Simfonijsko kolo, Op. 12

17 Nikolaj Rimski-Korsakov Sadko, opera  (Song of the Indian guest)

18 Sergej Rahmaninov Aleko, opera,  (Song of the young gipsy - encore)

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Mood:  accident prone

Barbican Centre, London, 13 December 1989

Candide - Jerry Hadley

Cunegonde - June Anderson

Dr. Pangloss/ Martin - Adolph Green

Old Lady - Christa Ludwig

Governor/ Vanderdendur/ Ragotski - Nicolai Gedda

Paquette - Della Jones

Maximilian/ Captain - Kurt Ollmann

Bear-Keeper/ Inquisitor/ Tsar Ivan - Clive Bayley

Cosmetic merchant/ Inquisitor/ Prince Charles Edwars - Neil Jenkins

Doctor/ Inquisitor/ King Stanislaus - Lindsay Benson

Junkman/ Inquisitor/ King Hermann Augustus - Richard Suart

Alchemist/ Inquisitor/ Sultan Achmet/ Crook - John Treleaven

London Symphony Chorus

London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor  Leonard Bernstein

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Recorded in 1980

Evening bell

I am  lonely on the road

Along the river

The red sarafan

As I will go to the fast river

Monotonously rings the little bell

Here rushes the troika

Snow storm along the road

Steppe, yes steppe all around

Choir of Soviet radiotelevision. Conductor Klavdij Ptica 

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Sung with the choir of the Uspensky cathedral, Helsinki, between 1979 - 1986.

1)      Come, let us grastify the memorable Joseph (harmonisation by Bortnjanski)

2)      Peace, our saviour ( harm. by Smolenski)

3)      Cherubic song (harm. By Lvovski)

4)      Let my prayer arise (harm. by< Glinka)

5)      Your abode (Bortnjanski)

6)      Your Resurrection, O Christ our Savior (harm. By Kastalski)

7)      Cherubic song ( Simonovski, harm. Kastalski)

8)      All-night vigil (fragments)

9)      Cherubic song (harm. by Smolenski)

10)   God is wih us ( harm. by  Kastalski)

11)   Who would not honour you, holiest Virgin (harm. by Miroljubov)

12)   I don't trust (harm. by Miroljubov)

13)   Glorification of the Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam (harm. by Miroljubov)

14)   Troparion of St. John Chrysostom ( harm. by Balakirev)

15)   King of Heaven came on Earth for men (harm. by Miroljubov)

16)   Holy God ( Čajkovski)

17)   Come let us worship, Save the Son of God, Alleluia, Glory, The Apostle (Čajkovski,

 arranged by S. Žarov for Nicolai Gedda)

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Recorded in Paris, February 1975.

Choir of Russian orthodox cathedral

 Conductor  Eugen Evetz

Recorded in July 1992.

Onegin - Thomas Hampson

Tatjana - Kiri Te Kanawa

Lenski - Neil Rosenshein

Olga Patricia Bardon

Gremin - John Connell

Monsieur Triquet - Nicolai Gedda

Madame Larina - Linda Finnic

Filipevna - Elizabeth Bainbridge

A captain/Zaretski - Richard Van Allen

Orchestra and chorus of Welsh National Opera

Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras

Password is 'airfreedom'

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Mood:  celebratory

Recorded in Munich, July 1979.

Paris - Nicolai Gedda

Helena - Anneliese Rothenberger

Menelaus - Ferry Gruber

Agamemnon - Klaus Hirte

Orestes - Brigitte Fassbaender

Kalchas - Benno Kusche

Achilles - Norbert Orth

Ajax I - Martin Finke

Ajax II - Friedrich Lenz

Philokomus - Gerd W. Dieberitz

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

MUncher Rundfunkorchester

Conductor Willy Mattes

Mozart. Requiem KV 626

01.Requiem aeternam
02.Dies irae
03.Tuba miraum
04.Rex tremendae majestatis
05.Recordare
06.Confutatis maledectis
07.Lacrimosa
08.Domine Jesu
09.Hostias
10.Sanctus
11.Benedictus
12.Agnus Dei

Helen Donath, Christa Ludwig,
Robert Tear, Robert Lloyd,

Philharmonia Chorus
Norbert Balatsch

Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini

Recorded: 1979

Schumann. Requiem op.148

1.Requiem aeternam
2.Te decet hymnus
3.Dies irae
4.Liber scriptus proferetur
5.Qui Mariam absolvist
6.Domine Jesu Christe
7.Hostias
8.Sanctus
9.Benedictus

Helen Donath, Doris Soffel,
Nicolai Gedda, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,

Chor des Stadtischen Musikvereins zu Dusseldorf
Harmut Schmidt

Dusseldorfer Symphoniker
Bernhard Klee

Recorded: 1984

Cherubini. Requiem

05.Introitus et Kyrie
06.Graduale
07.Dies irae
08.Offertorium
09.Sanctus
10.Pie Jesu
11.Agnus Dei

The Ambrosian Singers
John McCarthy

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti

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Mood:  flirty

Metropolitan Opera House
April 8, 1967 Matinee Broadcast



Rigoletto - Cornell MacNeil
Gilda - Roberta Peters
Duke of Mantua - Nicolai Gedda
Maddalena - Belén Amparan
Sparafucile - Bonaldo Giaiotti
Monterone - Raymond Michalski
Borsa - Gabor Carelli
Marullo - Robert Goodloe
Count Ceprano - Gene Boucher
Countess Ceprano - Lilian Sukis
Giovanna - Carlotta Ordassy
Page - Loretta Di Franco
Guard - Lloyd Strang

Conductor Lamberto Gardelli

Recital in Memphis, Tennessee, March 7, 1972

Accompanist was Marshall Williamson

1. Non t'accostare all'urna, Schubert

2. Guarda che bianca luna, Schubert

3. Da quel semblante appresi, Schubert

4. Mio ben ricordati, Schubert

5. Der Jünglung an der Quelle, Schubert

6. Rastlose Liebe, Schubert

7. Ganymed, Schubert

8. Du hast die Ruh, Schubert

9. Die Liebe hat gelogen, Schubert

10. Der Schiffer, Schubert

11. Freundliche Vision, R. Strauss

12. Mit deinen blauen Augen, R. Strauss

13. Cäcilie, R. Strauss

14. Heimliche Aufforderung, R. Strauss

15.Die Nacht, R. Strauss

16. Wie sollten wir  Geheim sie halten, R, Strauss

17. Breit' über mein Haupt, R. Strauss

18. Allerseelen, R. Strauss

19. Der Pokal, R. Strauss

20. Encore: Una furtiva lagrima, Donizzetti

21. Encore: Je crois entendre encore, Bizet

 Recital in Salzburg, August 18, 1959

 The accompanist was Erik Werba

 1.  O Nuit Deesse du mystere (Piccini)

 2.  Vezzosette e care pupilette (Falconieri)

 3.  Notte (Respighi)

 4.  Bella porta di rubini (Respighi)

 5.  Stornellatrice (Respighi)

 6.  La strada bianca (Pratella)

 7.  La procession (Franck)

 8.  Beau Soir fur Violine und Harfe (Debussy)

 9.  Mandoline (Debussy)

10. Nell op.18 No.1 (Faure)

11. Fleur jetee op.39 No.2 (Faure)

12. Barcarolle (Glinka)

13. O du herziges trautes Magdelein (Glinka)

14. So bald vergessen op.28 No.4 (Tchaikovsky)

15. Don Juan's Serenade op.38 No.1 (Tchaikovsky)

16. Die Nymphe op.56 No.1 (Rimsky-Korsakov)

17. Die Tanne und die Palme op.3 No.1 (Rimsky-Korsakov)

18. Hier ist es schon op.21 No.7 (Rachmaninov)

19. Und du mein Feld op.4 No.5 (Rachmaninov).

20. Der Ziegenbock (Mussorgsky)

21. Das Sternlein (Mussorgsky)

22. Das Lied von der Armut op.79 No.7 (Shostakovich)

23. Encore - Vzglyani: pod otdalyonnim svodom -  from Aleko

      (Rachmaninov)

24. Encore - Einsam klingt das kleine Glockchen (Trad)

25. Encore - Schneesturm (Trad)

26. Encore - Nacht und Traume D827 (Schubert)

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Grande messe des morts (Requiem), op. 5

Recorded in  Köln, 26. 8. 1956, 

Nicolai Gedda, tenor

Hamburger und Kölner Rundfunk Chor

Kölner Rundfunk - Sinfonie-Orchester

Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos

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Another Faust from the Met

Metropolitan Opera House
December 30, 1972 Matinee Broadcast



Faust - Nicolai Gedda
Marguerite - Colette Boky
Méphistophéles - John Macurdy
Valentin - Matteo Manuguerra
Siebel - Judith Forst
Marthe - Shirley Love
Wagner - Louis Sgarro
Dance - Skiles Fairlie
Dance - Patricia Heyes
Dance - Tania Karina
Dance - Naomi Marritt
Dance - William Breedlove
Dance - Jacques Cesbron
Dance - Donald Mahler

Conductor  Roberto Benzi

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Recorded in London, July 1971

Sheila Armstrong - soprano

Janet Baker - mezzo-soprano

Nicolai Gedda - tenor

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - baritone

John Alldis choir

English Chamber Orchestra

Conductor Daniel Barenboim

Live performance from Carnegie Hall, April 16, 1963.

The cast is the same as in the performance two days later in Philadelphia

Elvira - Joan Sutherland

Arturo - Nicolai Gedda

Riccardo - Ernest Blanc

Giorgio - Justino Diaz

Conductor  Richard Bonynge