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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 3

OPERATIC LP RECORDINGS 12" DECCA E1/19/9 each LXT 2536/38 IL SERAGLIO (Mozart). Complete Recording of the Vienna State Opera production, with the following cast: Costanze (soprano ) Wilma Lipp; Blonde soprano ) Emmy Loose; Belmonte (tenor ) Walther Ludwig; Pedrillo (tenor ) Peter Klein; Osmin (bass ) , Endre Koreh; Pasha Selim speaking part ) , Heinz Woester . Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips. LXT 2597 99 DER FREISCHUTZ (Weber) . Complete recording with the following cast: Prince Ottokar (baritone) , Alfred Poell; Max (tenor Hans Hopf; Kaspar (bass Marjan Rus; A Hermit (bass Otto Edelmann; Agathe soprano ) , Maud Cunitz; Aennchen soprano Emmy Loose. Vienna State Opera Chorus and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Otto Ackermann LXT 2615/17 CARMEN (Bizet). Complete recording by the following cast: Carmen (soprano) , Suzanne Juyol; Micaela (soprano ) Janine Micheau; Jon Jose tenor Libero de Luca; Escamillo (bass ) , Julien Giovannetti; Frasquita soprano Denise Boursin. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera Comique, Paris, conducted by Albert Wolff . LXT 2618/20 MANON (Massenet) Complete recording with the following cast: Manon (soprano) Janine Micheau; Pousette (soprano) Claudine Collart; Chevalier des Grieux (tenor ) Libero de Luca; Lescaut baritone) , Roger Bourdin; Comte des Grieux (bass ) , Julien Giovannetti; De Bretigny (baritone ) , Guy Godin. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera-Comique, Paris, conducted by Albert Wolff . LXT 2622/23 LA BOHEME (Puccini) Complete recording with the following cast: Rodolfo (tenor )= Giacinto Prandelli; Schaunard (bass ) , Fernando Corena; Benoit (bass Melchiorre Luise; Marcello (baritone Giovanni Inghilleri; Colline (bass Raphael Arie; Alcindoro (bass ) Melchiorre Luise; Mimi (soprano ) , Renata Tebaldi; Musetta soprano) , Hilde Gueden. Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome. LXT 2730/31 TOSCA (Puccini)_ Complete recording with the following cast: Tosca (soprano) Renata Tebaldi; Cavaradossi (tenor Guiseppe Campora; Scarpia (baritone ) Enzo Mascherini, etc. with Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, conducted by Alberto Erede. LXT 2845/46 PAGLIACCI (Leoncavallo)_ Mario del Monaco tenor ) as Canio; Clara Petrella (soprano) as Nedda; Aldo Protti (baritone ) as Silvio; Afro Poli (baritone V as Tonio; Piero di Palma (tenor ) as Peppe_ With the Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, conducted by Alberto Erede OPERATIC RECITAL BY MARAO DEL MONACO_~La Forza del Destino (Verdi La Vita e Inferno All' Infelice (recit: ) ; 0 Tu Che In Seno Agli Angeli (aria 3 Rigoletto Verdi ) : Questa 0 Quella; La Donna e Mobile. La Gioconda (Ponchielli ) Cielo e Mar. La Juive (Halevy ) : Rachel, Quand du Seigneur (one side) . Mario del Monaco (tenor with the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, conducted by Alberto Erede. 12" COLUMBIA LIGHT BLUE LABEL 33CX 1058/1060 I PURITANI (Bellini) Cast: Maria Meneghini Callas soprano ) Guiseppe di Stefano (tenor ) , Rolaudo Panerai (baritone ) Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (bass Angelo Mercuriali (tenor ) , Carlo Forti (bass ) , Aurora Cattelani mezzo-soprano) In Italian. With Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Opera House, Milan, conducted by Tullio Serafin. Chorus Master , Vittore Veneziani. Recorded in co- operation with the E.A. Teatro alla Scala, Milan ) = 33CX 1096/1097 HANSEL AND GRETEL. Cast: Josef Metternich, Peter the father ) ; Maria von Ilosvay, Gertrud the mother ) ; Elisabeth Grummer , Hansel; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gretel; Else Schur- hoff , the Witch; Anny Felbermayer Sandman and Dew Fairy . Choirs of Loughton High School for Girls and Bancroft's School, and the Philharmonia Orchestra cone ducted by Herbert von Karajan. Sung in German. 12" HMV. RED ALP 1126/1128 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA AND PAGLIACCI: Cast of Cavalleria Rusticana: Jussi Bjorling tenor ) Turridu; Zinka Milanov soprano ) Santuzza; Margaret Roggero (mezzo-soprano ) Lucia; Robert Merrill (baritone Alfio; Carol Smith (contralto) Lola. And the Robert Shaw Chorale conducted by Robert Shaw_ Cast of Pagliacci Jussi Bjorling (tenor ) Canio; Victoria de los Angeles (soprano ) Nedda; Leonard Warren (baritone ) Tonio; Paul Frank tenor ) > Beppe; Robert Merrill (baritone) Silvio; George Cehanovsky (baritone ) , and Richard Wright (tenor Peasants. And the Robert Shaw Chorale, conducted by Robert Shaw, with the Columbus Boy Choir, director Herbert Huffman. Both with the RCA: Victor Orchestra; conducted by Renato Cellini. Both sung in Italian. ALP 1095 , 1098 LOHENGRIN (Wagner) _ Cast: Gottlob Frick (bass Henry the Fowler , King of S7 Rudolf Schock (tenor Lohengrin; Maud Cunitz soprano ) Elsa of Brabant; Metternich (bass Friedrich of Telremund; Margarete Klose mezzo-soprano ) Ortud, his wife; Horst Gunter (bass ) Royal Herald; Four Nobles of Brabant; Joshard Daus, Gunter Genersch, Ernst Max Luhr Horst Sellentin; Four Pages, Dorothea Foster-Georgi; Karla Durring, Margot Fehling, Anny Cornelius; and the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, and Male Chorus of the Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks, Cologne, conducted by Wilhelm Schuchter. Chorus Masters: Max Thurn and Otto Franze. Sung in German. ALP 1072/1073 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi). Cast: Licia Albanese (soprano Violetta Valery; Maxine Stellman (mezzo-soprano) Flora Bervoix; Johanne Moreland soprano ) Annina; Jan Peerce (tenor ) , Alfredo Germont; Robert Merrill baritone ) , Giorgio Germont; John Garris (tenor ) Gaston, Visconte de Letorieres; Arthur Newman (bass ) Dottore Grenvil; George Cehanovsky baritone) Barone Douphol; Paul Dennis (bass ) Marchese d'Obigny; and the NBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Toscanini. Chorus Master: Peter Wilhousky. Sung in Italian.