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Ambrosian Singers

Index Ambrosian Singers

The Ambrosian Singers are one of the best-known London choral groups, particularly appreciated for its great variety of recorded repertory. [1]

153 relations: Adriana Lecouvreur, Alan Titus, Alfredo Kraus, Amadeus (film), Arrigo Boito, Attila (opera), Baroque music, BBC Music, Beatrice di Tenda, Beverly Sills, Beverly Wolff, Brainstorm (1983 film), Carlo Bergonzi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Carmen, Cavalleria rusticana, Cendrillon, Chariots of Fire, Charles Gounod, Charles Mackerras, Children of the Stones, Claudio Abbado, Cristina Deutekom, Decca Records, Denis Stevens, Deutsche Grammophon, Don Carlos, Don Pasquale, Donald Gramm, Elena Obraztsova, Elizabeth Bainbridge, EMI, Empire of the Sun, English Chamber Orchestra, Ennio Morricone, Enzo Dara, Faust (opera), Fiorenza Cossotto, Francesco Cilea, Franco Corelli, Frederica von Stade, Gabriel Bacquier, Gaetano Donizetti, Gérard Souzay, Georges Bizet, Georges Prêtre, Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanna d'Arco, ..., Giuseppe Sinopoli, Giuseppe Verdi, Grace Jones, Gustave Charpentier, Henry Lewis (musician), Henry Mancini, Hermann Prey, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I puritani, Il tabarro, Il trittico, Il trovatore, Ileana Cotrubaș, Ingvar Wixell, Italo Montemezzi, James Levine, Jane Berbié, Joan Sutherland, José Carreras, Joseph Rouleau, Jules Bastin, Jules Massenet, Julie Andrews, Julius Rudel, Justino Díaz, Kiri Te Kanawa, Krull (film), L'amore dei tre re, L'elisir d'amore, La forza del destino, La Navarraise, La rondine, Lamberto Gardelli, Le Villi, Leo Nucci, Leontyne Price, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Louis Quilico, Louise (opera), Lucia di Lammermoor, Luciano Pavarotti, Luigi Alva, Madama Butterfly, Manon, Manon Lescaut (Puccini), Marilyn Horne, Martina Arroyo, Matteo Manuguerra, Mefistofele, Miklós Rózsa, Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé, Nabucco, Neil Diamond, Nello Santi, Nicolai Gedda, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Nino Rota, Norma (opera), Norman Treigle, Otello, Pablo Elvira, Paolo Montarsolo, Paul Plishka, Peter Glossop, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philips, Piero Cappuccilli, Pietro Mascagni, Plácido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, Róbert Ilosfalvy, Renaissance, Renata Scotto, Renato Bruson, Renato Capecchi, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Bonynge, Rigoletto, Roberto Devereux, Rosalind Plowright, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ruggero Raimondi, Ruth Welting, Sarah Caldwell, Semiramide, Sherrill Milnes, Spiro Malas, Stiltskin, Studio recording, Talk Talk, Tenor, Teresa Berganza, The Barber of Seville, The Secret of NIMH, Thomas Schippers, Tosca, Vincenzo Bellini, Viola, William Tell (opera), World War II, Zubin Mehta. Expand index (103 more) »

Adriana Lecouvreur

Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé.

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Alan Titus

Alan Titus (born in New York City, on October 28, 1945) is an internationally celebrated baritone.

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Alfredo Kraus

Alfredo Kraus Trujillo (24 November 192710 September 1999) was a distinguished Spanish tenor from the Canary islands (known professionally as Alfredo Kraus), particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles.

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Amadeus (film)

Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus.

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Arrigo Boito

Arrigo Boito (24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

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Attila (opera)

Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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BBC Music

BBC Music is an umbrella title used by the BBC to collect together its music output.

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Beatrice di Tenda

Beatrice di Tenda is a tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini, from a libretto by Felice Romani, after the play of the same name by.

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Beverly Sills

Beverly Sills (born Belle Miriam Silverman, May 25, 1929July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.

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Beverly Wolff

Beverly Wolff (November 6, 1928 – August 14, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s.

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Brainstorm (1983 film)

Brainstorm is an 1983 American science fiction film directed by Douglas Trumbull, and starring Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood (in her final film role), Louise Fletcher and Cliff Robertson.

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Carlo Bergonzi

Carlo Bergonzi (13 July 1924 – 25 July 2014) was an Italian operatic tenor.

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Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana (Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.

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Cendrillon

Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale.

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Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

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Charles Gounod

Charles-François Gounod (17 June 181817 or 18 October 1893) was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria, based on a work by Bach, as well as his opera Faust.

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Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor.

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Children of the Stones

Children of the Stones is a British television drama serial for children produced by HTV in 1976 and broadcast on the United Kingdom's ITV network in January and February 1977.

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Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor.

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Cristina Deutekom

Cristina Deutekom, also known as Christine Deutekom and Christina Deutekom (28 August 1931 as Stientje Engel – 7 August 2014, Amsterdam), was a Dutch coloratura soprano opera singer.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Denis Stevens

Denis William Stevens CBE (2 March 1922 – 1 April 2004) was a British musicologist specialising in early music, conductor, professor of music and radio producer.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Don Carlos

Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller.

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Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer.

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Donald Gramm

Donald Gramm (February 26, 1927 – June 2, 1983) was an American bass-baritone whose career was divided between opera and concert performances.

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Elena Obraztsova

Elena Vasiliyevna Obraztsova (Елена Васильевна Образцова; 7 July 1939 – 12 January 2015) was a Russian mezzo-soprano.

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Elizabeth Bainbridge

Elizabeth Bainbridge (born 28 March 1930) is a retired English opera singer.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

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English Chamber Orchestra

The English Chamber Orchestra (ECO) is a British chamber orchestra based in London.

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player.

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Enzo Dara

Enzo Dara (13 October 1938 – 25 August 2017) was an Italian basso buffo.

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Faust (opera)

Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One.

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Fiorenza Cossotto

Fiorenza Cossotto (born April 22, 1935) is an Italian mezzo-soprano.

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Francesco Cilea

Francesco Cilea (also Cilèa; Palmi, 23 July 1866 – Varazze, 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer.

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Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.

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Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade (born June 1, 1945) is an American mezzo-soprano.

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Gabriel Bacquier

Gabriel Bacquier (born 17 May 1924) is a French operatic baritone.

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Gaetano Donizetti

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer.

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Gérard Souzay

Gérard Souzay (8 December 1918 – 17 August 2004) was a French baritone, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie (French art song) in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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Georges Prêtre

Georges Prêtre (14 August 1924 – 4 January 2017) was a French orchestral and opera conductor.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".

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Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18.

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Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.

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Giovanna d'Arco

Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for Nabucco and I Lombardi.

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Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli (2 November 1946 – 20 April 2001) was an Italian conductor and composer.

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Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer.

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Grace Jones

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, and actress.

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Gustave Charpentier

Gustave Charpentier (25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.

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Henry Lewis (musician)

Henry Jay Lewis (October 16, 1932 – January 26, 1996) was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Hermann Prey

Hermann Prey (Berlin, 11 July 1929 – Krailling, 22 July 1998) was a German lyric baritone, who was equally at home in the Lied, operatic and concert repertoires.

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I Lombardi alla prima crociata

I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (The Lombards on the First Crusade) is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a child of its age; a grand historical novel with a patriotic slant".

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I puritani

(The Puritans) is an opera in by Vincenzo Bellini.

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Il tabarro

Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play La houppelande.

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Il trittico

Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini.

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Il trovatore

(Italian for "The Troubadour") is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.

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Ileana Cotrubaș

Ileana Cotrubaș (born June 9, 1939) is a Romanian opera soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Ingvar Wixell

Karl Gustaf Ingvar Wixell, (May 7, 1931October 8, 2011) was a Swedish baritone who had an active international career in operas and concerts from 1955 to 2003.

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Italo Montemezzi

Italo Montemezzi (August 4, 1875 – May 15, 1952) was an Italian composer.

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James Levine

James Lawrence Levine (born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist.

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Jane Berbié

Jane Berbié (born 6 May 1931) is a French mezzo-soprano particularly associated with Mozart and Rossini roles.

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Joan Sutherland

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE (7 November 192610 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

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José Carreras

José Carreras, is the stage name of Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (born 5 December 1946), a tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.

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Joseph Rouleau

Joseph A. Rouleau, (born February 28, 1929) is a French-Canadian bass opera singer, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertories.

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Jules Bastin

Jules Bastin (18 August 1933 – 2 December 1996; Waterloo) was a Belgian operatic bass.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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Julie Andrews

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, (born 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.

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Julius Rudel

Julius Rudel (6 March 1921 – 26 June 2014) was an American opera and orchestra conductor.

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Justino Díaz

Justino Díaz (born January 29, 1940) is a Puerto Rican operatic bass-baritone.

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Kiri Te Kanawa

Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa (born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand soprano.

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Krull (film)

Krull is a 1983 science fantasy swashbucklerNathan, Ian (10 October 2015).

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L'amore dei tre re

L'amore dei tre re ("The Love of the Three Kings") is an opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi.

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L'elisir d'amore

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.

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La forza del destino

(The Power of Fate, often translated The Force of Destiny) is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

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La Navarraise

La Navarraise is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie and Henri Cain, based on Claretie's short story La Cigarette.

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La rondine

La rondine (The Swallow) is a comic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and.

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Lamberto Gardelli

Lamberto Gardelli (8 November 191517 July 1998) was a Swedish conductor of Italian birth,Lamberto Gardelli.

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Le Villi

Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.

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Leo Nucci

Leo Nucci (born 16 April 1942) is an Italian operatic baritone, particularly suited to Verdi roles.

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Leontyne Price

Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.

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Louis Quilico

Louis Quilico, (January 14, 1925 – July 15, 2000) was a Canadian opera singer.

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Louise (opera)

Louise is an opera in four acts by Gustave Charpentier to an original French libretto by the composer, with some contributions by Saint-Pol-Roux, a symbolist poet and inspiration of the surrealists.

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Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

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Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.

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Luigi Alva

Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva (Paita, Peru 10 April 1927) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the second half of the 20th century.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Manon

Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost.

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Manon Lescaut (Puccini)

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, composed between 1890 and 1893.

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Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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Martina Arroyo

Martina Arroyo (born February 2, 1936) is an American operatic soprano who had a major international opera career from the 1960s through the 1980s.

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Matteo Manuguerra

Matteo Manuguerra (5 October 1924 – 25 July 1998) was a Tunisian-born French baritone, one of the leading Verdi baritones of the 1970s.

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Mefistofele

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he was librettist only).

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Miklós Rózsa

Miklós Rózsa (18 April 1907 – 27 July 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931), and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953.

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Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni (born Mirella Fregni on 27 February 1935) is an Italian soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

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Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé (born 12 April 1933) is a Spanish operatic soprano.

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Nabucco

Nabucco (short for Nabucodonosor ~, English Nebuchadnezzar) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

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Nello Santi

Nello Santi (born September 22, 1931) is an Italian conductor.

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Nicolai Gedda

Harry Gustaf Nikolai Gädda, known professionally as Nicolai Gedda (11 July 1925 – 8 January 2017), was a Swedish operatic tenor.

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Nicolai Ghiaurov

Nicolai Ghiaurov (or Nikolai Gjaurov, Nikolay Gyaurov, Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period.

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Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

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Norma (opera)

Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ou L'infanticide (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet.

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Norman Treigle

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Otello

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Pablo Elvira

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Paolo Montarsolo

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Paul Plishka

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Peter Glossop

Peter Glossop (6 July 1928 – 7 September 2008) was an English baritone who was the only Englishman to have sung Verdi's great tragic baritone roles at La Scala, Milan.

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Philharmonia Orchestra

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Philips

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Piero Cappuccilli

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Pietro Mascagni

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Plácido Domingo

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Raina Kabaivanska

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Róbert Ilosfalvy

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Renaissance

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Renata Scotto

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Renato Bruson

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Renato Capecchi

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Riccardo Chailly

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Richard Bonynge

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Rigoletto

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Roberto Devereux

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Rosalind Plowright

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Ruggero Raimondi

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Ruth Welting

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Sarah Caldwell

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Semiramide

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Sherrill Milnes

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Spiro Malas

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Stiltskin

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Studio recording

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Talk Talk

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Tenor

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Teresa Berganza

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The Barber of Seville

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The Secret of NIMH

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Thomas Schippers

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Tosca

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer,Lippmann and McGuire 1998, in Sadie, p. 389 who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania".

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Viola

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William Tell (opera)

Guillaume Tell (William Tell, Guglielmo Tell) is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play William Tell which drew on the William Tell legend.

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World War II

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Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosian_Singers

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