The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 2 – Enrico Caruso, Tito Schipa & Rosa Ponselle

1

Manon Lescaut: C'est l'histoire amoureuse (L'eclat de rire) (Recorded 1917)

Amelita Galli-Curci & Daniel-François Auber

2:33

2

Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai (Recorded 1926)

Beniamino Gigli & Giacomo Puccini

2:54

3

Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide (Recorded 1923)

Rosa Ponselle & Giacomo Puccini

3:14

4

Martha: M'apparì tutt' amor (Recorded 1925)

Tito Schipa

3:28

5

May Night: How quiet here...Sleep, my beauty (Recorded 1913)

Boris Slovtsov & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

4:15

6

Mefistofele: L'altra notte in fondo al mare (Recorded 1935)

Claudia Muzio

4:11

7

Mefistofele: Giunto sul passo estremo (Recorded 1921)

Beniamino Gigli

3:37

8

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein (Recorded 1939)

Lauritz Melchior & Richard Wagner

4:01

9

Mignon: Connais-tu le pays? (Recorded 1931)

Conchita Supervia & Ambroise Thomas

4:35

10

Mignon: Addio, Mignon (Recorded 1924)

Tito Schipa & Ambroise Thomas

3:23

11

Mignon: Io son Titania (Recorded 1911)

Luisa Tetrazzini & Ambroise Thomas

4:41

12

Mignon: De son coeur j'ai calmé (Recorded 1927)

Ezio Pinza & Ambroise Thomas

4:05

13

Mireille: O légère hirondelle (Recorded 1912)

Frieda Hempel & Charles-François Gounod

2:49

14

Norma: Sediziose...Casta Diva (Recorded 1928)

Rosa Ponselle & Vincenzo Bellini

4:59

15

Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Se vol ballare (Recorded 1917)

Giuseppe de Luca & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3:24

16

Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Non so più (Recorded 1928)

Conchita Supervia & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3:00

17

Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Voi che sapete (Recorded 1926)

Elisabeth Schumann & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3:19

18

Der Opernball: Im Chambre séparée (Recorded 1932)

Herbert Ernst Groh

3:12

19

Otello: Ora e per sempre addio (Recorded 1910)

Enrico Caruso

2:27

20

Otello: E qual cetezza sognate...Era la notte (Recorded 1939)

Lawrence Tibbett & Giuseppe Verdi

4:15

21

Otello: Ave Maria (Recorded 1932)

Eidé Norena & Giuseppe Verdi

4:31

22

Pagliacci: Si può? (Recorded 1926)

Lawrence Tibbett & Ruggiero Leoncavallo

7:27

23

Pagliacci: Recitar! ... Vesti la giubba (Recorded 1934)

Beniamino Gigli, Iva Pacetti, Mario Basiola & Giuseppe Nessi

3:32

24

Pagliacci: Serenata d'Arlecchino (Recorded 1922)

Tito Schipa & Ruggiero Leoncavallo

2:13

25

Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13: Del tempio al limitar (Recorded 1927)

Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe De Luca & Georges Bizet

4:36

26

Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13: Mi par d'udir ancora (Recorded 1929)

Beniamino Gigli & Georges Bizet

4:17

27

La Périchole: Tu n'es pas beau (Recorded 1932)

Maggie Teyte & Jacques Offenbach

3:52

28

La perle du Brésil: Charmant oiseaux (Recorded 1917)

Amelita Galli-Curci

4:08

29

Porgy and Bess: Summertime (Recorded 1935)

Helen Jepson

2:40

30

Porgy and Bess: Where Is My Bess? (Recorded 1935)

Lawrence Tibbett

3:16

31

Le postillion de Longjumeau: Mes amis écoutez (Recorded 1936)

Helge Roswaenge

3:01

32

Prince Igor: Galitzky's song (Recorded 1922)

Feodor Chaliapin & Alexander Borodin

3:35

33

Prince Igor: Jaroslavana's aria (Recorded 1928)

Nina Koshetz & Alexander Borodin

4:43

34

I Puritani: A te, o cara (Recorded 1928)

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi & Vincenzo Bellini

3:42

35

I Puritani: Qui la voce sua soave (Recorded 1917)

Amelita Galli-Curci & Vincenzo Bellini

4:36

36

Resurrection: Dieu de grâce (Recorded 1926)

Mary Garden

5:10

37

Rienzi: Allmächt'ger Vater, blick' herab (Recorded 1930)

Lauritz Melchior & Richard Wagner

2:07

38

Rigoletto: Questa o quella (Recorded 1913)

John McCormack & Giuseppe Verdi

4:42

39

Rigoletto: Caro nome (Recorded 1917)

Amelita Galli-Curci & Giuseppe Verdi

4:47

40

Rigoletto: Ella mi fu rapita...Parmir veder le lagrime (Recorded 1913)

Enrico Caruso

8:21

41

Rigoletto: Povero Rigoletto...Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Recorded 1927)

Giuseppe de Luca & Giuseppe Verdi

2:18

42

Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (Recorded 1936)

Jussi Björling & Giuseppe Verdi

4:22

43

Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga (Recorded 1909)

Ernestine Schumann-Heink & George Frederic Handel

3:55

44

Le Roi d'Ys: Vainement ma bien aimée (Recorded 1922)

Beniamino Gigli

3:38

45

Roméo et Juliette, CG 9: Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (Recorded 1913)

Yevgeniya Bronskaya & Charles-François Gounod

4:08

46

Roméo et Juliette, CG 9: Ah, lève-to, soleil (Recorded 1909)

Dmitri Smirnov & Charles-François Gounod

3:50

47

Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirlich sein (Recorded 1936)

Erna Berger & Tiana Lemnitz

4:49

48

Sadko: Chanson Hindoue (Recorded 1932)

Beniamino Gigli & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

3:31

49

Sadko: Berceuse (Recorded 1928)

Nina Koshetz & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

4:11

50

Samson et Dalila: Printemps qui commence (Recorded 1931)

Conchita Supervia & Camille Saint-Saëns

4:31

51

Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Recorded 1930)

Marian Anderson & Camille Saint-Saëns

4:59

52

Semele, HWV 58: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Recorded 1920)

John McCormack & George Frederic Handel

4:04

53

Simon Boccanegra: A te l'estremo addio...Il lacerato spirito (Recorded 1931)

Alexander Kipnis & Giuseppe Verdi

3:30

54

The Snow Maiden: Full of wonders (Recorded 1913)

Boris Slovtsov & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

4:43

55

La Sonnambula: Ah! Non credea mirarti (Recorded 1935)

Claudia Muzio & Vincenzo Bellini

3:04

56

La Sonnambula: Ah! non giunge (Recorded 1911)

Luisa Tetrazzini & Vincenzo Bellini

4:01

57

Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Dir töne Lob (Recorded 1929)

Lauritz Melchior & Richard Wagner

3:12

58

Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Dich, teure Halle (Recorded 1934)

Tiana Lemnitz & Richard Wagner

3:36

59

Tannhäuser, WWV 70: Allmächt'ge Jungfrau (Elisabeth's Prayer) (Recorded 1935)

Kirsten Flagstad & Richard Wagner

3:27

60

Tannhäuser, WWV 70: O du, mein holder Abendstern (Recorded 1906)

Marcel Journet & Richard Wagner

7:23

61

Tosca, S.69: Recondita armonia (Recorded 1914)

Giovanni Martinelli & Giacomo Puccini

4:28

62

Tosca, S.69: Vissi d'arte (Recorded 1913)

Geraldine Farrar & Giacomo Puccini

2:22

63

Tosca, S.69: E lucevan le stelle (Recorded 1937)

Jussi Björling & Giacomo Puccini

3:45

64

Die Tote Stadt, Op. 12: Glück, das mir verblieb (Recorded 1924)

Richard Tauber & Lotte Lehmann

4:21

65

La Traviata: Ah fors' è lui … sempre libera (Recorded 1911)

Luisa Tetrazzini & Giuseppe Verdi

4:42

66

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

John McCormack & Giuseppe Verdi

3:53

67

La Traviata: Addio del passato (Recorded 1913)

Luisa Tetrazzini & Giuseppe Verdi

4:52

68

La Traviata: Parigi o cara (Recorded 1914)

John McCormack, Lucrezia Bori & Giuseppe Verdi

3:18

69

Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Liebestod (Recorded 1931)

Frida Leider & Richard Wagner

5:01

70

Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida (Recorded 1922)

Rosa Ponselle & Giuseppe Verdi

4:17

71

Il Trovatore: Il balen del suo sorriso (Recorded 1937)

Heinrich Schlusnus & Giuseppe Verdi

3:12

72

Il Trovatore: Di quella pira (Recorded 1915)

Giovanni Martinelli & Giuseppe Verdi

2:51

73

The Tsar's Bride: Liuba's air (Recorded 1913)

Alma Gluck & Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

3:33

74

Turandot: Signore, ascolta (Recorded 1927)

Lotte Schöne & Giacomo Puccini

2:54

75

Turandot: Nessun dorma (Recorded 1942)

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi & Giacomo Puccini

2:51

76

La Vestale: O Nume tutelar (Recorded 1926)

Rosa Ponselle & Gasparo Spontini

3:32

77

Die Walkure, WWV 86B: Du bist der Lentz (Recorded 1937)

Kirsten Flagstad & Richard Wagner

2:14

78

Die Walkure, WWV 86B: Winter stürme wichen dem Wonne mond (Recorded 1931)

Lauritz Melchior & Richard Wagner

3:02

79

Werther: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Recorded 1928)

Ninon Vallin & Jules Massenet

2:36

80

Werther: Ah! Non mi ridestar (Recorded 1934)

Tito Schipa & Jules Massenet

4:05

81

Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act I: Der Vögelfanger bin ich ja (Recorded 1937)

Gerhard Hüsch, Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz & Erna Berger

2:56

82

Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubend schön (Recorded 1938)

Richard Tauber & Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

4:00

83

Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act II: Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinen Herzen (Recorded 1937)

Gerhard Hüsch, Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz & Erna Berger

3:01

84

Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act II: Ach, ich fühl's (Recorded 1937)

Gerhard Hüsch, Helge Roswaenge, Tiana Lemnitz & Erna Berger

4:54