April: Featured Classical Music CDs

Anselmo Colzani
V0997. Arias from La Favorita, Lucia, Cavalleria, Ernani, Forza, Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Falstaff, Otello, Macbeth, Andrea Chénier, La Fanciulla del West, Adriana Lecouvreur, I Pagliacci, La Gioconda & Il Tabarro; w.Renata Tebaldi: Duets from Tosca & Simon Boccanegra. (Italy) 2-GOP 834, Live Performances, 1957-77. Long Out of Print. 39.90, the Set.

“Anselmo Colzani, an operatic baritone whose dramatic sensibility helped make him a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera and other houses in the 1950s and 1960s, died [19 March, 2006] in Milan. He was 87….it was at the Met that he established his most lasting foothold in the United States.”
- Anne Midgette, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24 March, 2006

Madama Butterfly
OP1162. (in Russian), recorded 1953, w.Bron Cond. Moscow Radio Ensemble; Yelizaveta Shumskaya, Ivan Kozlovsky, Pavel Lisitsian, etc.; Pavel Lisitsian: Zazà – Excerpts (in Russian). (Portugal) 2-Gala 100.775. 23.90, the Set.

La Traviata
OP1163. (in Russian), recorded c.1953, w.Orlov Cond. Moscow Radio Ensemble; Yelizaveta Shumskaya, Ivan Kozlovsky, Pavel Lisitsian, etc.; La Traviata - Excerpts (in Russian), w.Kaikhin Cond. Galina Vishnevskaya, Sergei Lemeshev, etc.; Rigoletto – Excerpts (in Russian), w.Orlov Cond. Yelizaveta Shumskaya & Ivan Kozlovsky. (Portugal) 2-Gala 100.777. 23.90, the Set.

Fra Diavolo
OP1164. (in Russian), recorded c.1949, w.Khaikin Cond. Bolshoi Opera Ensemble; Sergei Lemeshev, Elena Gribova, Andrei Sokolov, Victor Gorbunov, etc.; La Boheme – Excerpts (in Russian), w.Samosud Cond. Moscow Radio Ensemble; Sergei Lemeshev, Irina Maslennikova, Pavel Lisitsian, etc. (Portugal) 2-Gala 100.778. 23.90, the Set.