Archive:Operas (public domain)

Albert Lortzing (1801-1851)

 * Der Waffenschmied (1964) Conductor: unknown (D) (1h 46m 13s)
 * Die Opernprobe (1950) Conductor: unknown (D) (0h 54m 54s)
 * Zar und Zimmermann (1952) Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner (D) (1h 59m 33s)

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

 * Il Trionfo dell'Onore (1950) Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini (I) (1h 17m 55s)

Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)

 * La Wally (1960) Conductor: Arturo Basile (I) (2h 02m 04s)

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)

 * La Giogonda (1952) Conductor: Antonio Votto (I) (2h 45m 01s)

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)

 * Der Dämon (1950) Conductor: Alexander Melik-Paschajev (R) (2h 21m 26s)

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

 * Vanda (1951) Conductor: Frantisek Dyk (CS) (1h 54m 50s)

Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896)

 * Lo schiavo (1959) Conductor: unknown (I) (2h 05m 59s)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

 * La fida ninfa (1962) Conductor: Raffaelo Monterosso (I) - 1st recording (2h 05m 36s)

Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)

 * Mefistofele (1956) Conductor: Angelo Questa (I) (2h 14m 51s)
 * Nerone (1957) Conductor: Franco Capuana (I) (2h 30m 34s)

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)

 * Prodaná nevesta (1962) Conductor: unknown (D) (2h 17m 01s)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

 * Der Freischütz (1954) Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler (D) (2h 31m 37s)

Charles Lecocq (1832-1918)

 * La figlia di Madama Angot (1952) Conductor: Cesare Gallino (I) (1h 37m 04s)

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

 * Ifigenia in Tauride (1957) Conductor: Nino Sanzogno (I) (1h 48m 28s)
 * Orfeo ed Euridice (1951) Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler (I) (1h 53m 04s)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

 * Pelléas et Mélisande (1941) Conductor: Roger Désormière (F) (2h 35m 36s)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

 * Tetide in Sciro (1965) Conductor: unknown (I) (2h 34m 26s)

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)

 * Die Heirat wider Willen (1949) Conductor: Hans Altmann (D) (1h 44m 41s)

Eugène d’Albert (1864-1932)

 * Tiefland (1953) Conductor: Rudolf Albert (D) (2h 12m 27s)

Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)

 * Notre Dame (1949) Conductor: Hans Altmann (D) (2h 07m 59s)

Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883)

 * Martha (1944) Conductor: Johannes Schüler (D) (1h 43m 11s)

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

 * Anna Bolena (1957) Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (I) (2h 20m 08s)
 * Don Pasquale (1954) Conductor: Alberto Erede (I) (2h 18m 06s)
 * Don Pasquale (1964) Conductor: István Kertész (I)
 * Il Campanello (1949) Conductor: Alfredo Simonetto (I) (0h 54m 39s)
 * Il giovedi grasso (1961) Conductor: Edwin Loehrer (I) (0h 59m 55s)
 * L'elisir d'amore (1952) Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (I) (2h 00m 36s)
 * Poliuto (1960) Conductor: Antonio Votto (I) (1h 51m 00s)

Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851)

 * La Vestale (1954) Conductor: Antonio Votto (I) (2h 11m 16s)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

 * Alcina (1959) Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner (I)
 * Il pastor fido (1961) Conductor: Ennio Gerelli (I) (1h 27m 27s)
 * Poros, König von Indien (1958) Conductor: Horst Tanu-Markgraf (D) (2h 36m 58s)
 * Serse (Xerxes) (1965) Deutsche Grammophon (I) (2h 47m 37s)
 * Sosarme, re di Media (1954) Conductor: Anthony Lewis (I) (2h 25m 31s)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

 * Carmen (1931) Conductor: Carlo Sabajno (F)
 * Les pêcheurs de perles (1954) Conductor: André Cluytens (F) (1h 46m 16s)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

 * La Bohème (1946) Conductor: Arturo Toscanini (I) (1h 34m 06s)
 * Madama Butterfly (1929) Dirigent: Lorenzo Molajoli (I)
 * Madama Butterfly (1954) Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (I) (2h 06m 00s)
 * Manon Lescaut (1954) Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (I) (1h 45m 51s)
 * Tosca (1929) Conductor: Carlo Sabajno (I) (1h 46m 56s)
 * Tosca (1953) Conductor: Victor de Sabata (I) (1h 47m 30s)
 * Tosca (1962) Conductor: unknown (I) (1h 53m 28s)
 * Tosca (1964/London) Conductor: unknown (I) (1h 48m 42s)
 * Tosca (1964/Paris) Conductor: unknown (I) (1h 51m 52s)
 * Turandot (1955) Conductor: Alberto Erede (I)
 * Turandot (1957) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I) (1h 57m 33s)

Gilbert and Sullivan
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
 * Ruddigore (1950) Conductor: Isidore Godfrey (E)
 * The Gondoliers (1950) Conductor: Isidore Godfrey (E)
 * The Mikado (1950) Conductor: Isidore Godfrey (E)
 * The Yeomen of the Guard (1950) Conductor: Isidore Godfrey (E)

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

 * Armida (1952) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I) (2h 07m 38s)
 * Il barbiere di Siviglia (1929) Conductor: Lorenzo Molajoli (I)
 * Il turco in Italia (1954) Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (I) (1h 52m 14s)
 * La gazza ladra (1965) Conductor: unknown (I)
 * Le comte Ory (1956) Conductor: Vittorio Gui (F) (1h 52m 31s)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

 * Il geloso schernito (1955) Conductor: Giulio Paternieri (I) (0h 53m 16s)

Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)

 * Fedra (1958) Conductor: Angelo Questa (I) (1h 49m 00s)

Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1818)

 * Don Giovanni Tenorio o sia Il Convitato di Pietra (1963) Conductor: unknown (I) (1h 28m 44s)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

 * Aida (1928) Conductor: Carlo Sabajno (I) (2h 18m 48s)
 * Aida (1952) Conductor: Alberto Erede (I)
 * Attila (1951) Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini (I) - 1st recording
 * Don Carlos (1954) Conductor: Gabriele Santini (I)
 * Ernani (1962) Conductor: unknown (I)
 * Falstaff (1963) Conductor: unknown (I)
 * I vespri siciliani (1951) Conductor: Erich Kleiber (I)
 * Il trovatore (1956) Conductor: Herbert von Karajan (I)
 * Il trovatore (1959) Conductor: Alberto Erede (I)
 * La battaglia di Legnano (1951) Conductor: Fernando Previtali (I)
 * La forza del destino (1953) Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos (I)
 * La traviata (1955) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I)
 * La traviata (1958) Conductor: Franco Ghione (I)
 * Luisa Miller (1951) Conductor: Mario Rossi (I)
 * Nabucco (1965) Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli (I)
 * Macbeth (1952) Conductor: Victor de Sabata (I)
 * Rigoletto (1928) Conductor: Carlo Sabajno (I)
 * Rigoletto (1955) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I)

Heinrich August Marschner (1795-1861)

 * Der Vampyr (1951) Conductor: Kurt Tenner (D)

Hermann Goetz (1840-1876)

 * Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (1944) Conductor: Karl Elmendorff (D) (2h 19m 41s)

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

 * Hoffmann's Erzählungen (1950) Conductor: Eugen Szenkar (D)
 * Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1948) Conductor: André Cluytens (F)

John Blow (1649-1708)

 * Venus & Adonis (1953) Conductor: Anthony Lewis (E)

Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

 * Werther (1953) Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (F)

Karel Kovařovic (1862-1920)

 * Psohlavci (The Dogheads) (1961) Conductor: unknown (CS)

Leóš Janáček (1854-1928)

 * Aus einem Totenhaus (Z mrtvého domu) (1954) Conductor: Alexander Krannhals (D)
 * Souvenirs de la maison des morts (Z mrtvého domu) (1953) Conductor: Jascha Horenstein (F)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

 * Fidelio (1948) Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler (D)

Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)

 * Medea (1953) Conductor: Leonard Bernstein (I)

Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka (1804-1857)

 * Ivan Susanin (1947) Conductor: Alexander Melik-Paschajev (R)

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

 * Boris Godunow (1948) Conductor: Nikolai Golovanov (R)
 * Boris Godunow (1962) Conductor: unknown (R)

Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)

 * Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (1949) Conductor: unbekannt (D) (2h 05m 12s)

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

 * La campana sommersa (1956) Conductor: Franco Capuana (I) (2h 16m 49s)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

 * Die Jungfrau von Orleans (Orleanskaja Dewa) (1946) Conductor: Boris Khaikin (R)
 * Die Pantöffelchen (Cherevichki) (1948) Conductor: unbekannt (R)
 * Eugen Onegin (1954) Conductor: Richard Kraus (D)
 * Pique Dame (Pikowaja Dama) (1949) Conductor: Alexander Melik-Paschajev (R)

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

 * Il piccolo Marat (1961) Conductor: Oliviero de Fabritiis (I) (2h 10m 32s)
 * Iris (1956) Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (I) (2h 00m 22s)
 * Iris (1962) Conductor: Fulvio Vernizzi (1962) (I) (2h 17m 26s)
 * Le maschere (1961) Conductor: Bruno Bartoletti (I) (1h 56m 29s)
 * Lodoletta (1960) Conductor: Graziano Mucci (I) (1h 45m 37s)

Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944)

 * Giulietta e Romeo (1955) Conductor: Angelo Questa (I) (1h 56m 45s)
 * Il bacio (1954) Conductor: Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (I) (0h 52m 00s)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

 * Das Liebesverbot (1963) Conductor: unknown (D) (2h 01m 26s)
 * Das Rheingold (Der Ring der Nibelungen I) (1937) Conductor: Artur Bodanzky (D) (2h 14m 18s)
 * Der fliegende Holländer (1960) Conductor: Franz Konwitschny (D) (2h 18m 36s)
 * Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1951) Conductor: Herbert von Karajan (D) (4h 23m 21s)
 * Die Walküre (Der Ring der Nibelungen II) (1941) Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf (D) (3h 05m 27s)
 * Götterdämmerung (Der Ring der Nibelungen IV) (1936) Conductor: Artur Bodanzky (D) (3h 41m 43s)
 * Lohengrin (1965) Conductor: unknown (D) (3h 36m 04s)
 * Parsifal (1950) Conductor: Boris Christoff (D) (3h 29m 44s)
 * Parsifal (1951) Conductor: Hans Knappertsbusch (D) (4h 31m 38s)
 * Siegfried (Der Ring der Nibelungen III) (1937) Conductor: Artur Bodanzky (D) (3h 23m 30s)
 * Tristan und Isolde (1952) Conductor: Herbert von Karajan (D) (4h 14m 15s)

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

 * Beatrice di Tenda (1964) Conductor: unknown (I)
 * I puritani (1953) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I)
 * Il pirata (1959) Conductor: Nicola Rescigno (I)
 * La sonnambula (1955) Conductor: Leonard Bernstein (I)
 * Norma (1954) Conductor: Tullio Serafin (I)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

 * Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (La finta giardiniera) (1956) Conductor: Josef Dünnwald (D) (1h 49m 53s)
 * Don Giovanni (1958) Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay (I) (2h 46m 29s)
 * Le nozze di Figaro (1955) Conductor: Erich Kleiber (I) (2h 50m 18s)

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