PAUL
AUMONIER (bass)
Charles VI, Le Chalet, Le Pré aux Clercs
La mule de Pedro, Songe dune nuit deté
Le Cid, Mignon, Samson et Dalila
Les Huguenots, Roméo et Juliette
& Songs
Recordings: 1897/1909
MN-A39
MATTIA
BATTISTINI (baritone):
Ernani, Macbeth, Il Trovatore
La Traviata, Un ballo in maschera
La forza del destino, Don Carlo
Recordings: 1906/1924
MN-A25
JUSSI BJÖRLING (tenor):
VOL. 1
Roméo et Juliette, Rigoletto, Prince Igor
LIllustre Fregona, Tosca, Pagliacci
Aida, La Bohème, Sadko & Songs
Das Land des Lächelns
Recordings: 1929/1936
MN-A27
VOL. 2
LAfricana, La fanciulla del West
Manon, Carmen, La Belle Hélène
Der Zigeunerbaron, Marta, Fedora
Turandot, Faust etc.
Recordings: 1930/1945
MN-A16
ALESSANDRO BONCI (tenor):
Paride ed Elena, I Puritani
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lelisir damore
La Favorita, Faust, Manon, LAfricana
Rigoletto, Luisa Miller, La Bohème
La fanciulla del West, Tosca
La Gioconda, Pagliacci, Fedora
Recordings: 1905/1913
MN-A44
LUCREZIA BORI (soprano):
La Traviata, Mignon, Louise
La Bohème, Madama Butterfly
& Songs
Recordings: 1925/1928
MN-A70
FEODOR CHALIAPIN (bass):
Boris Godunov, Sadko, Prince Igor
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Norma, Faust
Lucrezia Borgia, Don Carlo, Mefistofele
La Sonnambula, Roberto il Diavolo
Recordings: 1907/1928
MN-A72
MARIO CHAMLEE (tenor):
Tosca, Marta, Il Trovatore, Faust
La Gioconda, LAfricana
Lelisir damore, Cavalleria rusticana
Die Zigeunerin, Fra Diavolo
& Songs
Recordings: 1920/1927
MN-A64
EDMOND CLÉMENT (tenor):
(1867-1928)
Robert le Diable, Lakmé, Werther
Le Roi dYs, Manon, Roméo et Juliette
Les pêcheurs de perles, Dante
Mefistofele, Cavalleria rusticana
& Songs
Recordings: 1911/1914
MN-A51
GIUSEPPE DE LUCA (baritone):
Don Pasquale, Ernani, Rigoletto
La Traviata, La forza del destino
Aida, I pescatori di perle
La Gioconda, La Bohème
Recordings: 1918/1930
MN-A23
BERNARDO DE MURO (tenor):
Il Trovatore, Isabeau, Carmen
La fanciulla del West, Andrea Chénier
Recordings: 1912/1928
MN-A47
EDWIG FRANCILLO-KAUFMANN
(soprano):
La Sonnambula, Il Trovatore
Don Pasquale, La Traviata, Lakmé
Rigoletto, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor,
Les contes dHoffmann
Le nozze di Figaro & Concert Arias
Recordings: 1910s
MN-A60
AMELITA GALLI-CURCI (soprano)
Rigoletto, Manon Lescaut, Lakmé
Dinorah, La Sonnambula, I Puritani
Le nozze di Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor
La Traviata, Mignon, Don Pasquale etc.
Recordings: 1916/1920
MN-A26
BENIAMINO GIGLI (tenor):
Mefistofele, Tosca, Lodoletta, Iris
La Gioconda, La Favorita, Faust
Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci
Fedora, Le Roi dYs, Martha etc.
Recordings: 1918/1923
MN-A8
HIPOLITO LAZARO (tenor):
Lelisir damore, Gli Ugonotti
I pescatori di perle, Carmen
Mefistofele, Andrea Chénier
La fanciulla del West, Turandot
& Songs
Recordings: 1926/1927
MN-A63
LOTTE LEHMANN (soprano):
Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Der Freischütz
Faust, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly
Eugene Onegin, Mignon, Carmen
Le nozze di Figaro, Manon etc.
Recordings: 1914/1917
MN-A10
MAX LORENZ (tenor)
Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer
Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger
Die Jüdin, Carmen, Die Afrikanerin
Aida, Der Bajazzo
Die Macht des Schicksals etc.
Recordings: 1927/1930
MN-A57
FERNANDO DE LUCIA
Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia (abridged)
Resemba, Novelli, Schottler - Sassano
Recording: 1918
MN-A75
JOZEF MANN (tenor)
Pagliacci, Aida, Carmen, La Juive
Cavalleria Rusticana, Tannhäuser
Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde
Tiefland, Mona Lisa
Recordings: 1910/1918
MN-A43
GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (tenor)
VOL. 1
La Bohème, Tosca, Aida, Carmen
Un ballo in maschera, Il Trovatore
Ernani, Rigoletto, La Traviata
LAfricana, Cavalleria rusticana etc.
Recordings: 1913/1918
MN-A41
VOL. 2
Iris, Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo Tell
Fedora, Pagliacci, Lucia di Lammermoor
Andrea Chénier etc.
Recordings: 1915/1927
MN-A11
JOHN McCORMACK (tenor):
Rigoletto, La Favorita, La Traviata
Lelisir damore, Lucia di Lammermoor
La Bohème, Carmen, Lakmé, Faust
La figlia del reggimento, Manon, Aida etc.
Recordings: 1907/1914
MN-A6
ZINKA MILANOV (soprano):
Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto
Don Giovanni, Cavalleria rusticana
etc. & Songs
Recordings: 1940/1944
MN-A15
BERTA MORENA (soprano):
La Juive, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin
Aida, Die Walküre
Recordings: 1908/1911
MN-A62
CLAUDIA MUZIO (soprano):
VOL. 1
Eugene Onegin, La Wally, Zazà
Loreley, Erodiade, Bianca e Fernando
LAfricana, Rinaldo, Paride ed Elena
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata & Songs
Recordings: 1920/1925
MN-A31
VOL. 2
The Puccini Recordings
Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly,Tosca
La Bohème, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi
Recordings: 1917/1935
MN-A76
TANCREDI PASERO (bass):
Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Sonnambula
Norma, Nabucco, Ernani, Luisa Miller
Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo
La forza del destino, La Gioconda etc.
Recordings: 1927/1944
MN-A4
TINO PATTIERA (tenor):
(1890-1966)
Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Aida
Un ballo in maschera, Otello
Carmen, Cavalleria rusticana
Pagliacci, La Bohème etc. & Songs
Recordings: 1916/1930
MN-A66
PAUL PAYAN (bass):
Le Caïd, Le Jongleur de Nôtre Dame
Louise, La Flûte enchantée, La Bohème
Faust, Les deux Reines, Robert le Diable
La Juive, La Fauvette du Temple
Cendrillon & Songs
Recordings: 1908/1919
MN-A59
JAN PEERCE (tenor):
Turandot, La Traviata, Tosca
La fanciulla del West, Faust
Don Giovanni, Il Trovatore, La Bohème
Recordings: 1942/1944
MN-A19 (but unavailable for a long time )
AURELIANO PERTILE (tenor):
Lucia di Lammermoor, Lohengrin
Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida
Nerone, Iris, Pagliacci, Manon Lescaut
Andrea Chénier, Fedora etc.
Recordings: 1923/1925
MN-A2
ARMIDA PARSI-PETTINELLA (mezzo-soprano):
Il Profeta, Les Huguenots
La Favorita, Faust, Carmen, Aida
Mignon, La Gioconda, Il Trovatore
Le Roi de Lahore, Un ballo in maschera
La forza del destino etc.
Recordings: 1906/1909
MN-A46
LILY PONS (soprano):
VOL. 1
Rigoletto, Mireille
Les contes dHoffmann
Lucia di Lammermoor, Lakmé
Il barbiere di Siviglia & Songs
Recordings: 1928/1939
MN-A38
VOL. 2
Songs by Rachmaninov, Glinka
Fauré, Coward, Gounod
Rimsky-Korsakov etc.
Recordings: 1940/1944
MN-A1
ROSA PONSELLE (soprano):
Songs by Tosti, Novello, Di Capua
Hewitt, Dupont, Bond, Kreisler
Lehmann, Scott, Herbert, Bishop etc.
Recordings: 1918/1939
MN-A7
ANNE ROSELLE (soprano):
Turandot, Madama Butterfly
Tosca, La Bohème, Otello
Aida, Carmen, Faust
Recordings: 1926/1928
MN-A65
HELGE ROSVAENGE (tenor):
Martha, Die Meistersinger, Oberon
Der Freischütz, Fidelio, Die Zauberflöte
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Der Barbier von Bagdad
Recordings: 1928/1942
MN-A35
TITTA RUFFO (baritone):
Songs by
Ferradini, Capolongo, Titta
Soriano, Costa, Padilla, Goublier
Buzzi-Peccia, De Curtis etc.
Recordings: 1912/1929
MN-A17
AUGUSTO
SCAMPINI (tenor):
Il Trovatore, La Gioconda, Ernani
Saffo, Guglielmo Tell, Poliuto
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata
Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino
Recordings: 1908/1913
MN-A61
ELISABETH
SCHUMANN (soprano):
SCHUBERT
Lieder
Recordings: 1933/1945
MN-A22
CARL SCHURICHT (conductor):
MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde
Kerstin Thorborg
Carl Martin Öhman
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Recording: 1939
MN-A30
MARCELLA SEMBRICH (soprano):
Ernani, La Traviata, Rigoletto
Alessandro, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Hamlet, Le nozze di Figaro
I Puritani & Songs
Recordings: 1903/1919
MN-A40
LEO SLEZAK (tenor):
Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger, La Juive
Pagliacci, Otello, Euryanthe, Il Profeta
La muette de Portici, Guglielmo Tell
Rigoletto, Il Trovatore etc.
Recordings: 1906/1928
MN-A67
FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI (tenor):
Rigoletto, La Sonnambula, LAmico Fritz
Mignon, Lelisir damore, Falstaff
Manon, La Bohème, Tosca, LArlesiana etc.
Recordings: 1940/1943
MN-A24
FRANCESCO TAMAGNO (tenor):
Otello, Andrea Chénier
Il Profeta, Hérodiade
Gugliemo Tell, Il Trovatore
Recordings: 1903/1905
MN-A68
RICHARD TAUBER (tenor):
Don Giovanni, Martha, Rigoletto
Il Trovatore, Carmen, Pagliacci
Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly etc.
Recordings: 1923/1939
MN-A5
LUISA TETRAZZINI (soprano):
Rigoletto, La Sonnambula
La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor
Linda di Chamounix, I Puritani
Il barbiere di Siviglia, I Vespri Siciliani
Semiramide, Aida etc.
Recordings: 1907/1914
MN-A13
BRUNO WALTER (conductor):
BACH
St. Matthew Passion
Part One
Walter Hain, Lorenzo Alvary
Nadine Conner, Jean Watson
Mack Harrell, Herbert Janssen
New York Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
Recording: 1945
MN-A20
LEONARD WARREN (baritone):
Aida, La Traviata, Rigoletto
Carmen, Pagliacci
Recordings: 1940-1944
MN-A9
GIUSEPPINA ZINETTI (mezzo-soprano):
Orfeo ed Euridice, La Favorita
Un ballo in maschera, La Gioconda
Mignon, Samson et Dalila, Carmen
Recordings: 1930
MN-A52
OPERAS
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (composer):
(1770-1827)
Arias, Duets & Ensembles
Grete Forst, Arthur Preuss
Adele Kern, Erna Berger
Henriette Gottlieb, Marcel Wittrisch Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Richard Mayr, Friedrich Schorr
Frida Leider, Franz Völker
Walter Ludwig
Recordings: 1908/1933
MN-A74
GIUSEPPE VERDI (composer):
(1813-1901)
FALSTAFF
Mariano Stabile, Piero Biasini
Franca Somigli, Giuseppe Nessi
Mita Vasari, Dino Borgioli
Wiener Philharmoniker und Chor
Arturo Toscanini, conductor
Recording: 1937
MN-A36/37 (2 CD set)
LA TRAVIATA
Maria Caniglia, Beniamino Gigli
Mario Basiola
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus
Vittorio Gui, conductor
Recording: 1939
MN-A28/29 (2 CD set)
RICHARD WAGNER (composer):
PARSIFAL
Act III
Gotthelf Pistor, Cornelis Bronsgeest
Ludwig Hofmann
Chor und Orchester der Berliner Staatsoper
Karl Muck, conductor
Recording: 1928
MN-A56
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
Complete Scenes and Arias from
Die Walküre & Götterdämmerung
Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Arturo Toscanini, conductor
Recording: 1941
MN-A32
TANNHÄUSER
Act II
Fritz Vogelstrom, Annie Krull
Hermann Weil, Walter Kirchhoff
Großes Odeon-Orchester & Chor
Eduard Künneke, conductor
Recording: 1909
MN-A55
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Fragments
Kirsten Flagstad, Einar Beyron
Elsa Cavelti, Paul Schöffler
Ferdinand Franz
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Victor De Sabata, conductor
Recording: 1947
MN-A54 (but unavailable for a long time )
DIE WALKÜRE
Act II
Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte Lehmann
Lauritz Melchior, Friedrich Schorr
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Recording: 1936
MN-A34
MISCELLANEOUS
ANTICHE VOCI ITALIANE
Ramon Blanchart, Oreste Luppi
Antonio Aramburo, Fernando Valero
Cesira Ferrani, Guerrina Fabbri
Angelica Pandolfini, Elvino Ventura
Francesco Navarrini etc.
Recordings: 1901/1907
MN-A3
THE BASS
The French Voices
Pol Plançon, Marcel Journet
Pedro Gailhard, Juste Nivette
Jean-François Delmas
Recordings: 1902/1912
MN-A45
BEETHOVEN
An die ferne Geliebte
Selected Lieder in historical
Performances
Hans Hotter, Karl Schmitt-Walter
Martha Fuchs, Emmi Leisner
Peter Anders, Lorenz Fehremberger
Recordings: 1942/1944
MN-A69
RARE ITALIAN OPERAS
I Promessi Sposi, Il Guarany
Ero e Leandro, Ruy Blas
Amleto, Jone, LEbreo, Lina
I due ciabattini, La contessa dAmalfi
Le educande di Sorrento, Esmeralda
Recordings: 1904/1940
MN-A58
THE CASTRATO VOICE
AN THE FIRST DIVAS
Alessandro Moreschi, Adelina Patti
Emma Albani, Marcella Sembrich
Nellie Melba
Recordings: 1902/1908
MN-A73
FAMOUS VERDI SINGERS
Victor Maurel, Adelina Patti
Francesco Tamagno
Antonio Pini Corsi
Recordings: 1903/1912
MN-A12
GREAT MOZART SINGERS
Mariano Stabile, Elisabeth Schumann
Ninon Vallin, Mattia Battistini
Emilia Corsi, Ezio Pinza
Adelina Patti, Elisabeth Rethberg
Richard Tauber, Alexander Kipnis etc.
Recordings: 1905/1944
MN-A14
ITALIAN SOPRANOS
Adelina Patti, Emma Albani
Ines De Frate, Ada Adini
Fanny Torresella, Medea Mei-Figner
Elena Teodorini, Cesira Ferrani
Gemma Bellincioni, Teresa Arkel
Maria De Macchi, Olimpia Boronat
Angelica Pandolfini, Luisa Tetrazzini
Recordings: 1900/1909
MN-A33
ITALIAN TENORS
Enrico Caruso, Giovanni Zenatello
Amedeo Bassi, Piero Schiavazzi
Elvino Ventura
Recordings: 1903/1913
MN-A53
TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Mattia Battistini, Alessandro Bonci
Fernando De Lucia, Carlo Galeffi
Gemma Bellincioni
Rosina Storchio, Giuseppe Borgatti
Nazareno De Angelis etc.
Recordings: 1903/1934
MN-A18
SINGERS AT LINDENOPER
Max Lorenz, Erna Berger
Gitta Alpar, Alexander Kipnis
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
Walther Ludwig, Tiana Lemnitz
Josef Greindl, Friedrich Schorr etc.
Recordings: 1927/1945
MN-A21
RARE ITALIAN TENORS
Giulio Crimi, Giuseppe Taccani
Francesco Signorini, Nicola Zerola
Amedeo Bassi, Fernando Carpi
Aristodemo Giorgini
Giuseppe Krismer etc.
Recordings: 1905/1924
MN-A71
THE VOICES OF THE CZAR
Volume 1
Nicolai Figner, Ivan Erschov
Tadeusz Leliwa, Andrei Labinsky
Leonid Sobinov, Alexander Davidov
Ivan Altchevsky, Ivan Grizounov
Dimitri Smirnov, Alexander Bragin
Lev Sibiriakov etc.
Recordings: 1901/1915
MN-A42
THE VOICES OF THE CZAR
Volume 2
Nina Friede, Anastasia Vialzeva
Antonina Nezhdanova
Natalia Yuzina, Eugenia Bronskaya,
Klaudia Tugarinova etc.
Recordings: 1902/1916
MN-A48
WARSAW OPERA HOUSE
Salomea Kruszelnicka, Ada Sari
Matylda Polinska-Lewicka,
Adam Ostrowski, Tadeusz Orda
Aleksander Michalowski, Adam Didur
Edouard De Reszke
Recordings: 1902/1927
MN-A49/50 (2 CD set)