Royal Opera House Covent Garden : Covent Garden Opera : anniversary album
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Royal Opera House Covent Garden : Covent Garden Opera : anniversary album
Decca, p1968
Musical Sound Recording（Sound Disc,33 1/3 rpm）
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Covent garden anniversary album
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Opera excerpts
Sung in French, Russian, Italian, English, and German
Title from pamphlet
Various soloists ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ; various conductors
Issued in container (32 × 32 cm.)
Pamphlet contains biographies, history of Royal Opera House in English, and librettos in original languages with English translations
Decca: SET.392--SET.393
Contents of Works
- [disc 1]. Prelude to "Carmen" : act 1 / Bizet
- "La fille du régiment" : act 2. Per le rang--salut à la France / Donizetti ; De Saint-Georges, Bayard
- "Les Troyens" : act 4. Je vais mourir / Berlioz
- "Boris Godunov". Prologue / Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
- Coronation scene. Long life to thee--I am oppressed / Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
- "Le nozze di Figaro" : act 3. Dove sono / Mozart ; Da Ponte
- "Otello" : act 1. Fuoco di gioia--Inaffia l'ugola! / Verdi ; Boito
- "Falstaff" : act 3. Eh! taveniere--Mondo ladro / Verdi ; Boito
- "La Boheme" : act 3. Addio dolce svegliare / Puccini ; Giacosa, Illica
- [disc 2]. "A midsummer night's dream" : act 3. Helena!--Hermia! / Britten ; adapt. Britten, Pears
- "Billy Budd" : act 1. O beauty, O handsomeness goodness / Britten ; E.M. Forster, Crozier
- "King Priam" : act 1. O rich soiled land / Tippett
- "Troilus and Cressida" : act 2. How can I sleep? / Walton ; Hassall
- "Fidelio" : act 1. Mir ist so wunderbar / Beethoven ; Sonnleithner
- "Der Rosenkavalier" : act 2. Da--Herr Kavalier! / R. Strauss ; Hoffmannsthal
- "Elektra". Allein! Weh, ganz allein / R. Strauss ; Hofmannsthal
- "Das Rheingold" : scene 4. Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge / Wagner