METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW YORK 1945 - 1946

1945 – 1946

Singers: Pierrette Alarie, Licia Albanese, Lorenzo Alvary, Josephine Antoine, Salvatore Baccaloni, Mimi Benzell, Joel Berglund, Jussi Björling, John Brownlee, Christina Carroll, Arthur Carron, George Cehanovsky, Nadine Conner, Norman Cordon, Lily Djanel, Flesch, John Garris, Gérard, Frances Greer, Frederic Gynrod, Margaret Harshaw, Osie Hawkins, Mary Henderson, Julius Huehn, Frederick Jagel, Herbert Janssen, Irene Jessner, Raoul Jobin, Anna Kaskas, Arthur Kent, Alexander Kipnis, Dorothy Kirsten, Charles Kullman, Bruno Landi, Karl Laufkötter, Virgilio Lazzari, Martha Lipton, Emanuel List, Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior, James Melton, Robert Merrill, Zinka Milanov, Grace Moore, Nicola Moscona, Patrice Munsel, Jarmila Novotna, Walter Olitzki, Gerhard Pechner, Jan Peerce, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Florence Quartararo, Torsten Ralf, Lillian Raymondi, Regina Resnik, Stella Roman, Bidú Sayao, Kenneth Schon, Martial Singher, Eleanor Steber, Risë Stevens, Alexander Sved, Blanche Thebom, Hugh Thompson, Kerstin Thorborg, Lawrence Tibbett, Armand Tokatyan, Helen Traubel, Richard Tucker, Giacomo Vaghi, Frank Valentino, Astrid Varnay, Ramon Vinay, Leonard Warren

Conductors: Paul Breisach, Fritz Busch, Pietro Cimara, Emil Cooper, Wilfrid Pelletier, Max Rudolf, Cesare Sodero, George Szell, Bruno Walter

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE (Gounod) (6): Munsel/Kirsten, Benzell/Greer, Jobin/Kullman/Gérard, Pinza/Moscona; c. Cooper; Nov 23, Dec 3, 19, Jan 3, 26. Mar 1

LOHENGRIN (Wagner) (4): Traubel/Varnay/Jessner, Thorborg, Ralf/Melchior, Janssen, Cordon/Moscona; c. Busch; Nov 26, Dec 8, 22, Jan 4

FIDELIO (Beethoven) (4): Resnik, Greer/Benzell, Carron/Jagel, Garris, Schon, Alvary; c. Walter/Breisach; Nov 28, Dec 17, Jan 5, Feb 15

RIGOLETTO (Verdi) (6): Sayao/Benzell/Antoine, Lipton/Kaskas, Björling/Peerce/Landi, Warren/Valentino, Moscona/Cordon/Lazzari; c. Sodero; Nov 29, Dec 10, 29, Feb 26, Mar 16, Apr 20

ROSENKAVALIER (Richard Strauss) (5): Jessner/Novotna, Stevens/Novotna, Steber/Conner, List; c. Szell/Rudolf; Nov 30, Dec 12, Jan 18, Feb 16, Mar 2

ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart) (5): Conner/Quartararo, Benzell, Kullman/Melton, Thompson/Brownlee, Pinza/Moscona; c. Walter; Dec 1, 22, Jan 17, Feb 6, Mar 4

BOHÈME (Puccini) (7): Kirsten/Sayao/Roman/Albanese, Greer/Carroll, Peerce/Björling/Jagel, Singher/Brownlee/Valentino, Cehanovsky/Kent/Thompson, Cordon/Vaghi/Moscona; c. Sodero; Dec 1, Jan 1, 24, Feb 18, Mar 2, 15, Apr 20

TOSCA (Puccini) (5): Moore/Resnik/Flesch, Björling/Peerce/Tokatyan, Tibbett/Sved; c. Sodero/Cimara; Dec 5, 20, Jan 11, Feb 9, 23

MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG (Wagner) (5): Steber, Kullman/Ralf, Garris/Laufkötter, Janssen/Gynrod/Berglund, Pechner; c. Szell; Dec 6, 15, Jan 9, Feb 9, Mar 8

BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini) (8): Sayao/Munsel/Antoine, Landi/Martini/Tokatyan, Singher/Brownlee/Valentino, Baccaloni, Pinza/Lazzari/Vaghi; c. Sodero/Cimara; Dec 7, 24, Feb 1, 2, 20, Mar 28, 29, Apr 18

BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi) (6): Milanov/Roman, Alarie, Harshaw, Peerce/Björling, Warren/Sved; c. Walter; Dec 8, 26, Jan 14, 31, Feb 16, Apr 17

DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) (5): Milanov, Novotna/Steber, Conner/Sayao, Kullman/Melton/Garris, Pinza/Brownlee, Baccaloni/Lazzari; c. Szell/Breisach; Dec 13, 28, Jan 12, 28, Mar 20

TANNHÄUSER (Wagner) (5): Traubel/Varnay, Thebom/Djanel/Thorborg, Melchior/Ralf, Singher/Janssen/Huehn, Cordon; c. Busch; Dec 14, 27. Jan 21, Feb 27, Mar 23

TRAVIATA (Verdi) (6): Albanese/Conner/Kirsten/Steber, Tucker/Peerce/Melton/Tokatyan, Merrill/Tibbett/Warren/Valentino; c. Sodero; Dec 15, 31, Jan 23, Mar 7, 23, Apr 15

GIOCONDA (Ponchielli) (6): Milanov/Roman, Stevens/Thebom, Harshaw/Lipton, Tucker/Tokatyan, Warren/Sved, Pinza/Moscona/Vaghi; c. Cooper; Dec 21, Jan 2, 19, Feb 28, Mar 16, 25

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (6): Pons/Munsel/Antoine, Melton/Peerce, Valentino/Merrill/Warren; c. Cimara; Dec 25, 29, Jan 10, Feb 4, 21, Mar 9

CARMEN (Bizet) (10): Stevens/Djanel, Albanese/Quartararo/Raymondi/Henderson, Jobin/Gérard/Vinay, Sved/Merrill/Thompson; c. Pelletier; Dec 28, Jan 7, 18, 26, Feb 7, 22, Mar 13, 15, 21, 30

TABARRO (Puccini) (3): Albanese, Jagel, Tibbett/Sved; c. Sodero/Cimara; Jan 5, 16, Feb 8

DON PASQUALE (Donizetti) (3): Sayao, Martini/Landi, Brownlee, Baccaloni; c. Busch; Jan 5, 16, Feb 8

CONTES D’HOFFMANN (Offenbach) (4): Alarie, Novotna/Steber, Thebom/Djanel, Jobin, Singher; c, Pelletier; Jan 12, Feb 1, 13, 25

MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) (5): Albanese/Roman, Melton/Jagel/Kullman, Brownlee; c. Cimara/Sodero; Jan 19, 30, Mar 9, 21, Apr 3

WALKÜRE (Wagner) (2): Traubel, Varnay, Thorborg, Melchior, Berglund, Kipnis/List; c. Breisach; Jan 25, Mar 30

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) (3): Traubel, Thorborg, Melchior, Berglund/Janssen, Kipnis/Cordon/List; c. Busch; Feb 2, 14, Mar 18

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Wagner) (3): Traubel,Varnay, Melchior, Janssen/Hawkins, Kipnis/List, Olitzki; c. Szell; Feb 11, Mar 14, 27

OTELLO (Verdi) (3): Roman, Ralf, Warren; c. Szell; Feb 23, Mar 11, 29

PARSIFAL (Wagner) (3): Thorborg, Ralf/Melchior, Janssen/Hawkins/Singher, Olitzki/Pechner, Kipnis; c. Cooper; Mar 6, 22, Apr 19

BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER, MÜNCHEN 2001 - 2002

2001 – 2002

Singers: Alexandru Agache, Thomas Allen, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Margarita De Arellano, Monica Bacelli, Juliane Banse, Claudia Barainsky, Patricia Bardon, Josephine Barstow, Maria Bayo, Kim Begley, Tito Beltrán, Nathan Berg, Angela-Maria Blasi, Vladimir Bogachov, Albert Bonnema, Ian Bostridge, Paata Burchuladze, Veronica Cangemi, Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Umberto Chiummo, Laura Claycomb, Andrea Concetti, Alessandro Corbelli, Robert Crowe, Katarina Dalayman, Diana Damrau, Helge Dernesch, Daniela Dessi, Joyce DiDonato, Albert Dohmen, Plácido Domingo, Stella Doufexis, Silvana Dussmann, Kallen Esperian, Rebecca Evans, Norma Fantini, José Fardilha, Hedwig Fassbender, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Inga Fischer, Tom Fox, Mihoko Fujimara, Sara Fulgoni, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Lucio Gallo, Martin Gantner, Miriam Gauci, Paolo Gavanelli, Vassily Gerello, Rita Gorr, Susan Gritton, Edita Gruberova, Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Alison Hagley, Anja Harteros, Alan Held, Ulrike Helzel, Jane Henschel, Hei-Kyung Hong, Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Soile Isokoski, Siegfried Jerusalem, Helena Jungwirth, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Katarina Karnéus, Vesselina Kasarova, Jonas Kaufmann, Michaela Kaune, Inge Keller, Jon Ketilsson, John Keyes, Linda Kitchen, Marita Knobel, Sophie Koch, Axel Köhler, Johanna Kozlowska, Alfred Kuhn, Gregory Kunde, Jochum Kupfer, Philip Langridge, Sergei Larin, Jacek Laszczkowski, Sergei Leiferkus, Marjana Lipovšek, Juan José Lopera, Marcelo Alvarez, Reinaldo Macias, Emily Magee, Mario Malagnini, Catherine Malfitano, Christopher Maltman, Markus Marquardt, Hillevi Martinpelto, Anthony Mee, Waltraud Meier, Nadja Michael, Alastair Miles, Thomas Mohr, Kurt Moll, Tatiana Monogarova, Maurizio Muraro, Heidi Grant Murphy, Ann Murray, Robert Nagy, Liliana Nikiteanu, Paul Nilon, Stephen O’Mara, Dennis O’Neill, Alan Opie, Helmut Pampuch, René Pape, Hasmik Papian, Anne Pellekoorne, Petia Petrova, Francesco Petrozzi, Adrianne Pieczonka, Matthew Polenzani, Nikolai Pulitin, Ildikó Raimondi, Paula Rasmussen, Julia Rempe, Ulrich Reß, Christopher Robson, Joan Rodgers, Amanda Roocroft, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Dorothea Röschmann, Andrea Rost, Kurt Rydl, Winfried Sakai, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Albert Schagidullin, Gabriele Schnaut, Petra-Maria Schnitzer, Eike Wilm Schulte, Peter Seiffert, Ute Selbig, Enric Serra, Neil Shicoff, William Shimell, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Bo Skovhus, Robert Dean Smith, Toby Spence, Krassimira Stoyanova, Christoph Strehl, Cheryl Studer, Annegeer Stumphius, Robert Tear, Bryn Terfel, Zoran Todorovich, John Tomlinson, John Treleaven, Rainer Trost, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Violeta Urmana, Kobie van Rensburg, Ramón Vargas, Raymond Very, Eduardo Villa, Dominique Visse, Michael Volle, David Wakeham, Peter Weber, Bernd Weikl, Cornelia Wulkopf, Catrin Wyn-Davies, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Deborah York, Tatiana Zaharchuk, Jianyi Zhang, Jan Zinkler

Conductors: Harry Bicket, Stefan Blunier, Ivor Bolton, Daniele Callegari, Jacques Delacôte, John Fiore, Friedrich Haider, Fabio Luisi, Jun Märkl, Zubin Mehta, Christopher Moulds, Joshua Rifkin, Peter Schneider, David Stahl, Ralf Weikert

RINALDO (Handel) (5): York, Cangemi, Murray, Crowe, Köhler, Berg; c. Bolton; Oct 27, Nov 1, 4, 8, 12

DON GIOVANNI (Mozart) (6): Pieczonka/Papian, Kozlowska/Kaune, Murphy/Hagley, Gudbjörnsson/Strehl, Shimell, Muraro; c. Bolton; Oct 31, Nov 3, 7, Apr 18, 22, 25

INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (Monteverdi) (P) (5): Wyn-Davies, Bacelli, Kitchen, Visse, Laszczkowski, Köhler, Moll; c. Bolton; Nov 9, 11, 14, 16, 19

OTELLO (Verdi) (4): Gallardo-Domas, Bogachov, Raimondi; c. Mehta; Nov 11, 14, 17, 23

PURITANI (Bellini) (6): Gruberova, Kunde, Miles, Gavanelli/Schagidullin; c. Haider; Nov 16, 21, 25, 29, Jul 5, 10

ACIS AND GALATEA (Handel) (C) (7): Banse, van Rensburg, Marquardt, Spence; c. Rifkin; Nov 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, Dec 2

DIDO AND AENEAS (Purcell) (C) (7): Antonacci, Ketilsson; c. Rifkin; Nov 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, Dec 2

TRAVIATA (Verdi) (5): Gallardo-Domas, Macias/M. Alvarez, Gavanelli; c. Märkl; Nov 27, Dec 4, 7, Jul 27, 30

QUEEN OF SPADES (Tchaikovsky) (6): Monogarova/Fischer/Dalayman, Gorr/Barstow, Smith/Domingo, Pulitin/Leiferkus, Schagidullin/Gerello; c. Märkl; Dec 2, 5, 8, 11, Jul 23, 26

LOHENGRIN (Wagner) (3): Isokoski, Meier, Seiffert/Bonnema, Leiferkus, Rydl; c. Schneider; Dec 9, 13, 16

FAUST (Gounod) (5): Blasi, Nagy/Zhang, Maltman, Rydl; c. Delacôte; Dec 12, 15, 19, 22, 27

BOHÈME (Puccini) (3): Hong, De Arellano, O’Mara, Gantner, Zinkler, Muraro; c. Callegari; Dec 20, 23, 26

CARMEN (Bizet) (8): Uria-Monzon, Blasi/Stoyanova, O’Mara/Malagnini, Chaignaud; c. Delacôte; Dec 30, Jan 2, 5, 13, Mar 17, 19, 30, Apr 2

FLEDERMAUS (Johann Strauss II) (8): Dussmann, De Arellano/Damrau, Robson, Jerusalem, Petrozzi/Mee/Villa, Reß/Gantner, Kuhn; c. Märkl/Mehta; Dec 31, Jan 3, 6, 10, 12, Feb 8, 10, 12

HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Humperdinck) (P) (8): Kaune/Stumphius, Helzel/Jungwirth, Fassbender/Trost, Knobel/Wulkopf/Pampuch, Mohr/Wakeham; c. Stahl; Jan 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 24, 25

BARTERED BRIDE (Smetana) (4): Schnitzer, Smith, Reß, Rydl/Sakai; c. Märkl/Blunier; Jan 15, 17, 20, 22

MANON LESCAUT (Puccini) (9): Esperian, Larin, Gavanelli; c. Luisi/Delacôte; Jan 18, 21, 23, 26, 29, Feb 2, 6, Jul 9, 12

COSI FAN TUTTE (Mozart) (7): Roocroft/Kaune, Nikiteanu/Koch, Kaufmann, Gantner/Kupfer/Zinkler, Gudbjörnsson/Trost, Allen/Weber; c. Schneider; Jan 19, 24, 28, Apr 5, 7, 11, 14

GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO (Handel) (6): Gritton, Bardon, Murray, Karnéus, Robson; c. Bolton; Jan 27, 30, Feb 3, 7, 11, Jul 25

MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini) (6): Zaharchuk/Malfitano, Ikaia-Purdy/Todorovich, Opie/Gavanelli; c. Märkl/Delacôte; Feb 16, 19, 23, Mar 16, 18, 20

TOSCA (Puccini) (4): Dessi, Shicoff, Leiferkus; c. Mehta; Feb 17, 21, 26, Mar 2

RHEINGOLD (Wagner) (5): Lipovsek, Langridge, Pampuch, Tomlinson, Kapellmann; c. Mehta; Feb 24, 28, Mar 6, 10, 14

BERNARDA ALBAS HAUS (Reimann) (4): Dernesch, Keller, Pellekoorne, Trost, De Arellano, Barainsky; c. Mehta; Feb 27, Mar 3, 7, 9

PARSIFAL (Wagner) (3): Malfitano, Keyes, Held, Fox, Moll; c. Schneider; Mar 28, 31, Apr 3

CENERENTOLA (Rossini) (4): Petrova, Lopera, Fardilha/Gantner, Schulte, Corbelli; c. Weikert; Apr 6, 8, 13, 16

RITORNO D’ULISSE IN PATRIA (Monteverdi) (P) (5): Fulgoni, Hagley, Visse, Spence, Allen; c. Moulds; Apr 9, 12, 15, 19, 21

BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi) (6): Esperian, Rempe, Fiorillo, Vargas, Agache; c. Fiore; Apr 17, 20, 23, 26, 28, May 4

ARABELLA (Richard Strauss) (7): Studer, Evans/Selbig, Wyn-Rogers, Very, Weikl/Weber, Kuhn; c. Schneider; Apr 24, 27, May 2, 6, 9, Jul 13, 16

BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini) (3): Bayo, Polenzani, Gantner, Serra, Chiummo; c. Weikert; May 5, 11, 15

CLEMENZA DI TITO (Mozart) (6): Martinpelto, Evans, Kasarova, Rasmussen, Langridge, Concetti/Muraro; c. Bolton; May 12, 14, 17, 20, Jul 18, 21

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti) (3): Rost, Beltrán/O’Neill, Schagidullin, Sigmundsson; c. Weikert; May 19, 24, 28

ARIODANTE (Handel) (4): Rodgers/Claycomb, Kaufmann, Murray, Robson, Nilon, Chiummo; c. Bicket; May 26, 30, Jun 1, Jul 17, 19

CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN (Janacek) (7): Banse, Doufexis, Volle; c. Märkl; May 31, Jun 4, 6, 9, 15, Jul 20, 22

NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart) (3): Harteros, Hagley, DiDonato, Skovhus, Pape; c. Mehta; Jun 5, 8, 12

FREISCHÜTZ (Weber) (3): Kaune, Raimondi, Begley, Dohmen; c. Märkl; Jun 14, 17, 22

AIDA (Verdi) (2): Fantini, Michael, O’Neill, Agache; c. Mehta; Jun 16, 23

WALKÜRE (Wagner) (3): Schnaut, Meier, Fujimara, Seiffert, Tomlinson, Rydl; c. Mehta; Jun 30, Jul 4, 7

FALSTAFF (Verdi) (2): Dessi, Evans, Henschel, Trost, Gallo, Terfel; c. Mehta; Jul 1, 3

DON CARLO (Verdi) (2): Gauci, Urmana, Vargas, Gavanelli, Scandiuzzi, Burchuladze; c. Mehta; Jul 11, 14

RAKE’S PROGRESS (Stravinsky) (P) (5): Röschmann, Robson, Bostridge, Tear, Shimell; c. Bolton; Jul 14, 16, 20, 24, 30

MEISTERSINGER (Wagner) (1): Magee, Treleaven, Reß, Rootering, Schulte; c. Schneider; Jul 31