Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94448 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-04-22
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 119 minutes

From the back cover
Birgit Nilsson: "In questa reggia" (Turandot), "Dich, teure Halle" (Tannhauser), "Almacht'ge Jungfrau" (Tannhauser), "Vieni, t'affretta" (Macbeth)
George London: "Credo in un Dio crudel" (Otello)
Franco Corelli & Lisa Della Casa: "Amaro sol per te" (Tosca)
Renata Tebaldi: "Vissi d'arte" (Tosca), "Io son l'umile ancella" (Adriana Lecouvreur), "Voi lo sapete" (Cavalleria Rusticana), "Suicido!" (La Gioconda)
Giuseppe Stefano & Teresa Stratas: "Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance" (Massenet)
Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill: "Gypsy Song," "Toreador Song," "Sit u m'aimes, Carmen" (Carmen)
Nicolai Gedda & Giorgio Tozi: "May I have your ear..." (The Bartered Bride)
Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda, and Theodor Uppman: Act I Trio (Die Fledermaus)
Teresa Berganza: "Nacqui all'affanno" (La Cenerentola)
Anna Moffo & George London: "La ci darem la mano" (Don Giovanni)
Ann Moffo: "Ah, fors'e lui" (La Traviata)
Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill: "O tu che in seno," "Solenne in quest'ora," "Eglie e salvo" (La Forza del Destino)
Leontyne Price: "Pace, pace mio Dio!" (La Forza del Destino), "Tacea la notte" (Il Trovatore), "Io son l'umile ancella" (Adriana Lecourvreur)

Customer Reviews

A must for any opera lover!
These two DVD's are happy in my collection and are essential to anyone who were lucky enough to see some of these wonderful programs in their living rooms on television. I certainly miss programs as wonderful as these. If you are old enough to remember these singers you have to have these DVD's (volume 1 and 2) if not, you need to have them to see and hear the singers that older people refer to in conversation and in print. All the singers are fun to see and hear again the these are true treasures for any opera lover. Price is priceless! Each performance is a jewel to keep entertaining far into the future.
A definite buy!

wonderful
This is a treasure that I've found that I can't do without. Price was the star here. But check out an even better find...
Volumn One... The Great Stars of Opera - Telecasts from the Bell Telephone Hour 1959-1966

Great Opera Stars of Opera, Vol. 2; telecasts from the bell...
Truly a magnificent find for me. The uncomparable Leontyne Price proves over and over that she is, "first among her her peers", a real diva. I'm not surprised she received an unrivaled 42 minute standing ovation at the Met. This record still stands today.

I heard her in person in the 80's in Tennessee and was overwhelmed beyond belief. I waited in line for her autograph and went back several times for additional ones.

Had Leontyne Price not been included (and there was no way possible she could have been excluded) in this dvd I would not have made this purchase. I must add; however, the other sopranos were good and am pleased.

Franco Corelli was magnificent as usual and never a disappointment; Nicolai Gedda, Georgio Tozzi, Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill were fantastic. Also George London, whom I had no knowledge, was good.

Must close but not without saying that I wish Leontyne Price well for she is a true American Treasure.