Trove Thursday

Isolde: Birgit Nilsson | Brangäne: Michèle Vilma | Tristan: Jon Vickers | Kurwenal: William Dooley | King Marke: Paul Plishka | Melot: William Lewis | Sailor's Voice: Raymond Gibbs | Shepherd: Nico Castel | Steersman: Louis Sgarro | Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf | Metropolitan Opera | 30 January 1974 | In-house recording

Kundry: Christa Ludwig | Flower Maidens: Gail Robinson, Frederica von Stade, Jacqueline Pierce, Joy Clements, Nedda Casei, Shirley Love | Voice: Batyah Godfrey Ben-David | First Esquire: Loretta Di Franco | Second Esquire: Ivanka Myhal | Parsifal: Helge Brilioth | Amfortas: Thomas Stewart | Gurnemanz: Cesare Siepi | Klingsor: Ezio Flagello | Titurel: John Macurdy | Third Esquire: Leo Goeke | Fourth Esquire: Robert Schmorr | First Knight: Rod MacWherter | Second Knight: Robert Goodloe | Conductor: Leopold Ludwig | Metropolitan Opera House | 21 November 1970 | In-house recording

Eva: Sena Jurinac | Magdalene: Hetty Plümacher | Walther von Stolzing: Bernd Aldenhoff | David: Gerhard Unger | Hans Sachs: Otto Wiener | Beckmesser: Benno Kusche | Pogner: Otto von Rohr | Vogelsang: Erich Majkut | Nachtigall: Hans Herbert Fiedler | Kothner: Willy Ferenz | Zorn: Renato Ercolani | Eislinger: Georg Walter | Moser: Mariano Caruso | Ortel: Leo Pudis | Schwarz: Odo Ruepp | Foltz: Dimitri Krylov | Nachtwächter: Hans Herbert Fiedler | Conductor: Fritz Rieger | Teatro San Carlo, Napoli | 12 January 1957 | Broadcast/in-house recording?

Isolde: Ursula Schröder-Feinen | Brangäne: Clemntine Voorwelt | Tristan: Gerd Brenneisaf | Kurwenal: Anthony Raffell | Marke: Andrzej Saciuk | Ein Junger Seemann: Julio Julian | Conductor: Lljubumir Romanowsky | Opernhaus Gelsenkirchen | 1974 | In-house recording (cuts out just a few seconds before the end)

Elisabeth: Gabriela Benacková | Venus: Uta Priew | Ein junger Hirt: Ulrike Sonntag | Tannhäuser: Toni Krämer | Wolfram von Eschenbach: Bo Skovhus | Landgraf Hermann: Kurt Moll | Walther von der Vogelweide: Richard Brunner | Biterolf: Monte Pederson | Reinmar von Zweter: Goran Simic | Heinrich der Schreiber: Benedikt Kobel | Conductor: Berislav Klobucar | Wiener Staatsoper | 24 June 1992 | In-house recording

Senta: Edda Moser | Mary: Ruth Hesse | Der Holländer: Robert Hale | Daland: Bengt Rundgren | Erik: John David De Haan | Steuermann: Uwe Peper | Conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser | Deutsche Oper Berlin | 15 January 1993 | In-house recording

Golda Schultz singing Luonnotar on a broadcast from an April BSO concert, Charpentier’s Troisième Leçon ud Vendredi H. 137 from a LAF concert in Gdansk; as Clayton stars in a new production of Handel’s Jephtha at Covent Garden next season, a preview with “Waft her angels;” Anne-Sofie Mutter playing Saint-Georges’s violin concerti earlier this year at Carnegie, plus Vivica Genaux sings an aria from Myslivecek’s La Calliroe at a 2011 Prague concert with Collegium 1730 under Vaclav Luks.

Vitellia: Renata Scotto | Sesto: Ann Murray | Servilia: Gail Robinson | Annio: Ariel Bybee | Tito: Kenneth Riegel | Publio: John Cheek | Conductor: James Levine | Metropolitan Opera | 18 October 1984 | In-house recording

Violanta: Roberta Alexander | Arminda: Christine Weidinger | Serpetta: Joan Rodgers | Don Ramiro: Anne-Sofie von Otter | Belfiore: John Aler | Don Anchise: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson | Nardo: Gilles Cachemaile | Nouvel Orchestre Philarmonique | Conductor: Semyon Bychkov | Aix-en-Provence Festival | 30 July 1984 | Broadcast

Konstanze: Beverly Sills | Blonde: Anne Elgar | Belmonte: John Alexander | Pedrillo: John Lankston | Osmin:  Herbert Beattie | Selim: David Rae Smith | Conductor: Julius Rudel | New York City Opera | 22 October 1966 | In-house recording

Fiordiligi: Julia Varady | Dorabella: Yvonne Minton | Despina: Lucia Popp | Ferrando: Pietro Bottazzo | Guglielmo: Claudio Nicolai | Don Alfonso: Carlos Feller | Conductor: Istvan Kertesz | Cologne Opera | 18 June 1972 | In-house recording

Madame Herz: Joan Sutherland | Mademoiselle Silberklang: Naida Labay | Vogelsang: Alexander Young | Buff: Gwyn Griffiths | Der Schauspieldirektor: Peter Lagger | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Conductor: Bryan Balkwill | Glyndebourne Festival | July 1957 | Broadcast

Elena: Carol Vaness | Arrigo: Chris Merritt | Guido di Monforte: Timothy Noble | Giovanni da Procida: James Morris | Conductor: Charles Mackerras | San Francisco Opera | 10 September 1993 | In-house recording

Hélène: Angela Meade | Henri: John Osborn | Guy de Monfort: Marco Nisticò | Procida: Barak Biligi | Conductor: Will Crutchfield | Caramoor Festival | 6 July 2013 | Broadcast

Béatrice: Frederica von Stade | Héro: Sylvia McNair | Ursule: Janice Taylor | Bénédict: Jon Garrison | Don Pedro: John Ostendorf | Claudio: David Parsons | Somarone: Italo Tajo | Tanglewood Festival Chorus | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Conductor: Seiji Ozawa | Tanglewood Festival | 4 August 1984 | Broadcast

Four scenes | Arabella: Anja Harteros | Zdenka: Hanna-Elisabeth Müller | Mandryka: Thomas J. Mayer | Conductor: Philippe Jordan | Bavarian State Opera | 6 July 2015 | Broadcast

Four scenes | Arabella: Anne Schwanewilms | Zdenka: Genia Kühmeier | Mandryka: Morten Frank Larsen | Conductor: Ulf Schirmer | Wiener Staatsoper | 27 March 2009 | In-house recording

Four scenes | Arabella: Nina Stemme | Zdenka: Kristina Hansson | Mandryka: Anders Larsson | Conductor: Olaf Henzold | Gothenberg Opera | 25 November 2006 | Broadcast

Four scenes | Arabella: Karita Mattila | Zdenka: Barbara Bonney | Mandryka: Thomas Hampson | Philharmonia Orchestra | Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi | Théâtre du Châtelet | In-house recording

Four scenes | Arabella: Renée Fleming | Zdenka: Christine Schäfer | Mandryka: Wolfgang Brendel | Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach | Houston Grand Opera | 19 April 1998 | Broadcast