Royal Opera House Covent Garden: An Early History on Record

1

Faust: Ah! je ris de me voir... (Recorded 1910)

Nellie Melba & Charles-François Gounod

3:07

2

Rigoletto: Questa o quella (Recorded 1904)

Enrico Caruso & Giuseppe Verdi

2:19

3

Lucia di Lammermoor: Quando rapita in estasi (Recorded 1909)

Luisa Tetrazzini & Gaetano Donizetti

4:17

4

La Traviata: De' miei bollenti spiriti (Recorded 1910)

John McCormack & Giuseppe Verdi

3:54

5

Madama Butterfly: Con onor muore (Recorded 1908)

Emmy Destinn & Giacomo Puccini

2:20

6

Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Fliegt heim ihr Raben (Recorded 1909)

Johanna Gadski & Richard Wagner

2:58

7

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Was duftet doch der Flieder (Recorded 1930)

Friedrich Schorr & Richard Wagner

6:22

8

Tosca, S.69: Vissi d'arte (Recorded 1928)

Eva Turner & Giacomo Puccini

3:07

9

Otello: Ora e per sempre addio (Recorded 1929)

Renato Zanelli & Giuseppe Verdi

2:15

10

Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Trio (Marie Theres') (Recorded 1933)

Lotte Lehmann, Elisabeth Schumann & Maria Olczewska

4:20

11

Boris Godunov: Prayer & Death of Boris (Recorded 1928)

Modest Mussorgsky, Feodor Chaliapin & Margherita Carosio

8:16

12

Andrea Chénier: Sì, fui soldato (Recorded 1933)

Beniamino Gigli

2:46

13

Carmen, GB 9: Les tringles des sistres (Recorded 1930)

Conchita Supervia & Georges Bizet

3:29

14

Tosca, S.69: Te Deum (Recorded 1929)

Lawrence Tibbett & Giacomo Puccini

4:17

15

Don Giovanni, K. 527: Dalla sua pace (Recorded 1939)

Richard Tauber & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4:16

16

Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: The Love Duet (Recorded 1939)

Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior & Richard Wagner

17:27