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  Minerva      
  PAUL AUMONIER (bass)
Charles VI, Le Chalet, Le Pré aux Clercs
La mule de Pedro, Songe d’une nuit d’eté
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
L’Illustre Fregona, Tosca, Pagliacci
Aida, La Bohème, Sadko & Songs
Das Land des Lächelns
Recordings: 1929/1936
MN-A27

VOL. 2
L’Africana, 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, L’elisir d’amore
La Favorita, Faust, Manon, L’Africana
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, L’Africana
L’elisir d’amore, Cavalleria rusticana
Die Zigeunerin, Fra Diavolo
& Songs
Recordings: 1920/1927
MN-A64

EDMOND CLÉMENT (tenor):
(1867-1928)
Robert le Diable, Lakmé, Werther
Le Roi d’Ys, 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 d’Hoffmann
Le nozze di Figaro & Concert Arias
Recordings: 1910’s
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 d’Ys, Martha etc.
Recordings: 1918/1923
MN-A8

HIPOLITO LAZARO (tenor):
L’elisir d’amore, 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
L’Africana, 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
L’elisir d’amore, 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
L’Africana, 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 d’Hoffmann
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, L’Amico Fritz
Mignon, L’elisir d’amore, Falstaff
Manon, La Bohème, Tosca, L’Arlesiana 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, L’Ebreo, Lina
I due ciabattini, La contessa d’Amalfi
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)

 
 

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