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Gounod: Faust (Hamburg 1985)

Marguerite: Ileana Cotrubas Siebel: Rachel Joselson Marthe: Olive Fredricks Faust: Neil Shicoff Mephisto: Ruggero Raimondi Valentin: Franz Grundheber Conductor: Alain Lombard Hamburgische Staatsoper 28 October 1985 In-house recording

Aug 28

2 hr 29 min

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Vienna 1985)

Nedda: Ileana Cotrubas Canio: Plácido Domingo Tonio: Matteo Manuguerra Silvio: Wolfgang Schöne Beppe: Heinz Zednik Conductor: Adam Fischer Wiener Staatsoper 6 June 1985 In-house recording

Aug 28

1 hr 11 min

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (New York 1984)

Tatyana: Ileana Cotrubas Olga: Cleopatra Ciurca Larina: Ariel Bybee Filippyevna: Batyah Godfrey Onegin: Leo Nucci Lenski: Vladimir Popov Prince Gremin: Sergei Koptchak Triquet: Anthony Laciura Conductor: Neeme Järvi Metropolitan Opera 26 September 1984 In-house recording

Aug 28

2 hr 34 min

Bellini: La sonnambula (London 1981)

Amina: Ileana Cotrubas Lisa: Elizabeth Gale Teresa: Phyllis Cannan Elvino: Dennis O'Neill Rodolfo: Robert Lloyd Conductor: Manfred Ramin (Cotrubas's husband) Royal Opera, Covent Garden 18 November 1981 Broadcast

Aug 28

2 hr 13 min

Bellini: Norma, "In mia man alfin tu sei" (Parma 2026)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Dmitry Korchak Teatro Regio di Parma February 2026 In-house

Mar 11

7 min

Chellini: Alessandro Severo, "Jesu, lär oss här lefva" (Copenhagen 2025)

Ann Hallenberg Concerto Copenhagen Conductor: Lars Mortensen Christians Kirke, Copenhagen 15 August 2025 Broadcast

Mar 4

7 min

Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis Extracts

Massenet: Werther Dupuis—Lyon 2020 Puccini: Manon Lescaut Car—Melbourne 2024 Verdi: Don Carlo Car, Elina Garanca & Dupuis—Vienna 2025 Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera Car & Dupuis—Melbourne 2025 Dvořák: Rusalka Car & Piotr Beczala—Vienna 2026

Feb 27

42 min

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (New York 1968)

Contessa Almaviva: Ilva Ligabue Susanna: Graziella Sciutti Cherubino: Biancamaria Casoni Marcellina: Silvana Zanolli Barbarina: Emilia Ravaglia Figaro: Rolando Panerai Conte Almaviva: Tito Gobbi Bartolo: Angelo Nosotti Basilio: Florindo Andreolli Curzio: Mario Carlin Antonio: Giorgio Onesti Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Met 26 June 1968 In-house recording https://parterre.com/2025/08/09/corriam-tutti-a-festeggiar/

Sep 10, 2025

2 hr 45 min

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (New York 1971)

Countessa Almaviva: Margaret Price Susanna: Mirella Freni Cherubino: Frederica von Stade Marcellina: Jane Berbié Barbarina: Daniele Perriers Figaro: José Van Dam Conte Almaviva: Gabriel Bacquier Bartolo: Kurt Moll Basilio: Michel Sénéchal Curzio: Jacques Loreau Antonio: Jules Bastin Conductor: Sir Georg Solti Paris Opéra at the Met 8 September 1976 In-house recording

Sep 10, 2025

3 hr 11 min

Janáček: Káťa Kabanová (Chicago 2009)

Káťa: Karita Mattila Kabanicha: Judith Forst Varvara: Liora Grodnikkaite Boris: Brandon Jovanovich Tichon: Jason Collins Dikoj: Andrew Shore Conductor: Markus Stenz Lyric Opera of Chicago 22 November 2009 Broadcast

Sep 5, 2025

1 hr 39 min