Enjoy a Bel Canto spectacular with Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Placido Domingo, Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Leopold Simoneau in selections from operas by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
Arias from the Age of Bel Canto
Playlist
Donizetti: L’elisir D’amore, “Una Furtiva Lagrima”
Leopold Simoneau with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin
Conducted by Paul Strauss
Recorded in Berlin in 1957
DGG 457 752-2
Bellini: I Puritani, “Quartet”
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicola Rossi- Lemeni
Carlo Forti with the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conducted by Tulio Serafin
Recorded in Milan in 1955
EMI CDC 7 47308 2
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, “Fra poco a me ricovero”
Placido Domingo with the Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
Conducted by James Levine
Recorded in Tokyo in 1988
DGG 427 686-2
Rossini: Semiramide, “Serbami Ognor si Fido”
Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne
The London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
London in 1969
LP: LONDON OS 26086