Trove Thursday

Paolina: Sondra Radvanovsky | Poliuto: Gregory Kunde | Severo:  Gabriele Viviani | Felice: Josep Fadó | Callistene: Ruben Amoretti | Nearco: Alejandro del Cerro | Conductor: Daniele Callegari | Barcelona | 10 January 2018 | Broadcast

Desdemona: Karita Mattila | Emilia: Enkelejda Shkosa | Otello: José Cura | Iago: Anthony Michaels-Moore | Cassio: Cesare Catani | Roderigo: Mirko Guadagnini | Lodovico: Egils Silins | Montano: Juha Kotilainen | Orchestra and Chorus of the Philharmonique de Radio France | Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung | Theatre du Chatelet, Paris | 29 March 2001 Broadcast

Desdemona: Eva Marton | Emilia: Olive Fredricks | Otello: Carlo Cossutta | Jago: Kostas Paskalis | Cassio: John Stewart | Roderigo: Peter Haage | Lodovico: Ernst Wiemann | Montano: Herbert Fliether | Un araldo: Carl Schultz | Conductor: Nello Santi | Hamburgische Staatsoper | 12 February 1979 | In-house recording

Desdemona: Julia Varady | Emilia: Gudrun Wewezow | Otello: Carlo Cossutta | Iago - Piero Cappuccilli | Cassio - Benito Maresca | Montano - Hans Wilbrink | Lodovico - Nikolaus Hillebrandt | Herald - Hermann Sapell | Conductor: Carlos Kleiber | Bayerische Staatsoper | 31 October 1977 | Broadcast

Desdemona: Teresa Stratas | Emilia: Jean Kraft | Otello: Jon Vickers | Iago: Thomas Stewart | Cassio: William Lewis | Lodovico: Paul Plishka | Montàno: Robert Goodloe | Roderigo: Andrea Velis | Herald: David Holloway | Conductor: James Levine

Mrs. Lovett: Felicity Palmer | Johanna: Rebecca Evans | Beggar Woman: Rosalind Plowright | Sweeney Todd: Thomas Allen | Anthony Hope: William Dazeley | Tobias Ragg: Doug Jones | Judge Turpin: Jonathan Veira | Beadle Bamford: Robert Tear | Pirelli: Bonaventura Bottone | Jonas Fogg: Matthew Rose | Conductor: Paul Gemignani | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | 17 December 2003 | Broadcast

Mrs. Lovett: Judith Christin Johanna: Celena Shafer | Beggar Woman: Sheri Greenawald | Sweeney Todd: Bryn Terfel | Anthony Hope: Nathan Gunn | Tobias Ragg: David Cangelosi | Judge Turpin: Timothy Nolen | Beadle Bamford: Matthew Lord | Pirelli: Bonaventura Bottone | Jonas Fogg: Roger Honeywell | Conductor: Paul Gemignani | Lyric Opera of Chicago | 27 November 2002 | In-house recording |

Isolde: Birgit Nilsson | Brangäne: Michèle Vilma | Tristan: Jon Vickers | Kurwenal: William Dooley | King Marke: Paul Plishka | Melot: William Lewis | Sailor's Voice: Raymond Gibbs | Shepherd: Nico Castel | Steersman: Louis Sgarro | Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf | Metropolitan Opera | 30 January 1974 | In-house recording

Kundry: Christa Ludwig | Flower Maidens: Gail Robinson, Frederica von Stade, Jacqueline Pierce, Joy Clements, Nedda Casei, Shirley Love | Voice: Batyah Godfrey Ben-David | First Esquire: Loretta Di Franco | Second Esquire: Ivanka Myhal | Parsifal: Helge Brilioth | Amfortas: Thomas Stewart | Gurnemanz: Cesare Siepi | Klingsor: Ezio Flagello | Titurel: John Macurdy | Third Esquire: Leo Goeke | Fourth Esquire: Robert Schmorr | First Knight: Rod MacWherter | Second Knight: Robert Goodloe | Conductor: Leopold Ludwig | Metropolitan Opera House | 21 November 1970 | In-house recording

Eva: Sena Jurinac | Magdalene: Hetty Plümacher | Walther von Stolzing: Bernd Aldenhoff | David: Gerhard Unger | Hans Sachs: Otto Wiener | Beckmesser: Benno Kusche | Pogner: Otto von Rohr | Vogelsang: Erich Majkut | Nachtigall: Hans Herbert Fiedler | Kothner: Willy Ferenz | Zorn: Renato Ercolani | Eislinger: Georg Walter | Moser: Mariano Caruso | Ortel: Leo Pudis | Schwarz: Odo Ruepp | Foltz: Dimitri Krylov | Nachtwächter: Hans Herbert Fiedler | Conductor: Fritz Rieger | Teatro San Carlo, Napoli | 12 January 1957 | Broadcast/in-house recording?

Isolde: Ursula Schröder-Feinen | Brangäne: Clemntine Voorwelt | Tristan: Gerd Brenneisaf | Kurwenal: Anthony Raffell | Marke: Andrzej Saciuk | Ein Junger Seemann: Julio Julian | Conductor: Lljubumir Romanowsky | Opernhaus Gelsenkirchen | 1974 | In-house recording (cuts out just a few seconds before the end)

Elisabeth: Gabriela Benacková | Venus: Uta Priew | Ein junger Hirt: Ulrike Sonntag | Tannhäuser: Toni Krämer | Wolfram von Eschenbach: Bo Skovhus | Landgraf Hermann: Kurt Moll | Walther von der Vogelweide: Richard Brunner | Biterolf: Monte Pederson | Reinmar von Zweter: Goran Simic | Heinrich der Schreiber: Benedikt Kobel | Conductor: Berislav Klobucar | Wiener Staatsoper | 24 June 1992 | In-house recording

Senta: Edda Moser | Mary: Ruth Hesse | Der Holländer: Robert Hale | Daland: Bengt Rundgren | Erik: John David De Haan | Steuermann: Uwe Peper | Conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser | Deutsche Oper Berlin | 15 January 1993 | In-house recording

Golda Schultz singing Luonnotar on a broadcast from an April BSO concert, Charpentier’s Troisième Leçon ud Vendredi H. 137 from a LAF concert in Gdansk; as Clayton stars in a new production of Handel’s Jephtha at Covent Garden next season, a preview with “Waft her angels;” Anne-Sofie Mutter playing Saint-Georges’s violin concerti earlier this year at Carnegie, plus Vivica Genaux sings an aria from Myslivecek’s La Calliroe at a 2011 Prague concert with Collegium 1730 under Vaclav Luks.

Vitellia: Renata Scotto | Sesto: Ann Murray | Servilia: Gail Robinson | Annio: Ariel Bybee | Tito: Kenneth Riegel | Publio: John Cheek | Conductor: James Levine | Metropolitan Opera | 18 October 1984 | In-house recording

Violanta: Roberta Alexander | Arminda: Christine Weidinger | Serpetta: Joan Rodgers | Don Ramiro: Anne-Sofie von Otter | Belfiore: John Aler | Don Anchise: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson | Nardo: Gilles Cachemaile | Nouvel Orchestre Philarmonique | Conductor: Semyon Bychkov | Aix-en-Provence Festival | 30 July 1984 | Broadcast

Konstanze: Beverly Sills | Blonde: Anne Elgar | Belmonte: John Alexander | Pedrillo: John Lankston | Osmin:  Herbert Beattie | Selim: David Rae Smith | Conductor: Julius Rudel | New York City Opera | 22 October 1966 | In-house recording

Fiordiligi: Julia Varady | Dorabella: Yvonne Minton | Despina: Lucia Popp | Ferrando: Pietro Bottazzo | Guglielmo: Claudio Nicolai | Don Alfonso: Carlos Feller | Conductor: Istvan Kertesz | Cologne Opera | 18 June 1972 | In-house recording

Madame Herz: Joan Sutherland | Mademoiselle Silberklang: Naida Labay | Vogelsang: Alexander Young | Buff: Gwyn Griffiths | Der Schauspieldirektor: Peter Lagger | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Conductor: Bryan Balkwill | Glyndebourne Festival | July 1957 | Broadcast

Elena: Carol Vaness | Arrigo: Chris Merritt | Guido di Monforte: Timothy Noble | Giovanni da Procida: James Morris | Conductor: Charles Mackerras | San Francisco Opera | 10 September 1993 | In-house recording