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Composer:
Massenet Jules
Title:
WERTHER
Recording Date:
1955
Country:
Milano (Italy) - RAI TV studios
Orchestra:
Orchestra della RAI di Milano
Conductor:
Alfredo Simonetto
Musician:
Juan Oncina (Werther); Leyla Gencer (Carlotta); Enzo Sordello (Alberto); Marcello Cortis (Il podesta); Mario Carlin (Schmidt); Nestore Catalani (Johann); Sandra Ballinari (Sofia); Walter Artioli (Bruhlmann); Elsa Alberti (Katchen)
Notes:
stage director: Daniele d'Anza

RAI TV - transmission and video registration
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Composer:
Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus
Title:
DON GIOVANNI
Recording Date:
1960-04-26
Country:
Milano (Italy) - RAI TV studios
Orchestra:
Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano
Conductor:
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Musician:
Mario Petri (Don Giovanni); Sesto Bruscantini (Leporello); Teresa Stich-Randall (Donna Anna); Leyla Gencer (Donna Elvira); Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina); Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio); Renato Cesari (Masetto); Heinz Borst (Il Commendatore)
Notes:
stage director : Giacomo Vaccari

RAI TV registration
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
INTERVIEW WITH LEYLA GENCER
Recording Date:
1998
Country:
Milano (Italy) - Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (soprano)
Notes:
short interview during the entr'acte in Macbeth TV transmision recorded from greek TV
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
INTERVIEW WITH LEYLA GENCER
Recording Date:
luty 2007
Country:
Milano (Italy) - Casa Gencer
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (soprano); Maria Elena Mexia (interlocutor)
Notes:
Agatarco Productions for Theatrum Psychotechnicum

very interesting interview with many LG performing fragments in video
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
LA SCUOLA DELLE REGINE
Recording Date:
1982-04-27
Country:
Trieste (Italy) - Auditorium RAI
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (soprano); Ennio Silvestri (pianista)
Notes:
within Seminari di primavera in Trieste Leyla Gencer is presenting ' Aspetti della vocalita donizettiana' (study of Donizetti's interpretation) on exemples of Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roerto Devereux

registration of Terza Rete by Mario Licalsi
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
MARIA CALLAS - PASSION
Recording Date:
1997
Country:
Milano (Italy)
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (participant)
Notes:
a film by Gerard Caillat
writer : Claire Alby
LG comments Callas carrier
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
OPERA FANATIC STEFAN & THE DIVAS
Recording Date:
1998
Country:
Milano (Italy) - Teatro alla Scala
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Stefan Zucker (interviewer); Leyla Gencer (participant); Iris Adami Corradetti (participant); Fedora Barbieri (participant); Magda Olivero (participant); Giulietta Simionato (participant); Marcella Pobbe (participant); Anita Cerquetti (participant); Gina Cigna (participant); Gigliola Frazzoni (participant); Carla Gavazzi (participant)
Notes:
Schmidt-Garre, dir
In English and in Italian with English subtitles
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
RECITAR CANTANDO
Recording Date:
1981-04-22
Country:
Bologna (Italy) - Villa Cicogna
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (soprano); Eduardo Muller (piano)
Notes:
RAI TV transmission

Bellini: from 'Tre ariette'
- Il fervido desiderio

Donizetti: 'Tre romanze'
- La Sultana
- Le billet doux
- A mezzanotte

Rossini: from 'Les Soirees musicales':
- La promessa - canzonetta
- Il rimprovero - canzonetta
- La partenza - canzonetta
- L'orgia - arietta
- L'invito - bolero
- La pastorella delle Alpi - tirolese
- La gita in gondola - barcarola
- La danza - tarantella napoletana
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA - THE ANNIVERSARY GALA
Recording Date:
1978-11-19
Country:
San Francisco (USA)
Orchestra:
Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera
Conductor:
different artists
Musician:
Spas Wenkoff (Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Prize Song ); Dorothy Kirsten (Charpentier, Louise - Depuis le jour); Graziella Sciutti (Mozart, Cosi fan tutte - In uomini, in soldati); Cesare Siepi (Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro - Aprite un po' quegli occhi); James McCracken (Leoncavallo, Pagliacci - Vesti la giubba); Lucine Amara (Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Morro, ma prima in grazia ); Louis Quilico (Giordano, Andrea Chénier - Nemico della patria); Carol Vaness (Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Pur ti miro); Barry McCauley (Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Pur ti miro); Leona Mitchell (Verdi, Ernani - Ernani, involami); Walter Berry (Gruber, Mei' Muatterl war a' Wienerin); Gwyneth Jones (Verdi, Macbeth - Vieni, t'affretta!); Giorgio Tozzi (Verdi, Nabucco - Del futuro nel buio discerno); Ileana Cotrubas (Brodiceanu, Pe sub flori ma leganai); Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Mussorgsky, Song of the flea); Mary Costa (Leoncavallo, Pagliacci - Silvio, a quest'ora); Allan Monk (Leoncavallo, Pagliacci - Silvio, a quest'ora); Leyla Gencer (Donizetti, Anna Bolena - Al dolce guidami castel natio); Regina Resnik (Anonymous, A new work); Jaume Aragall (Giordano, Fedora - Amor ti vieta); Leonie Rysanek (Lehár, Giuditta - Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss); Ingwar Wixell (Verdi, Rigoletto - Cortigiani, vil razza dannata); Leontyna Price (Strauss, Die Aegyptische Helena - Zweite Brautnacht); Gwyneth Jones (Aida); Irene Dalis (Amneris); James McCracken (Radames); Chester Ludgin (Il Re); Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis); Alexander Malta (un messaggero)
Notes:
The San Francisco Opera Association
in conjunction with
The San Francisco Opera Guild

presents
THE ANNIVERSARY GALA

In celebration of the Gold and Silver Jubilees of Kurt Herbert Adler

Masters of Ceremonies:
Dorothy Kirsten
Regina Resnik
Lotfi Mansouri
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Sir Geraint Evans
Terry McEwen
Walter Slezak

Wagner, Der Fliegende Holländer -- Overture
Silvio Varviso, conductor

Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Prize Song
Spas Wenkoff
Silvio Varviso, conductor

Charpentier, Louise -- Depuis le jour
Dorothy Kirsten
John Pritchard, conductor

Mozart, Così fan tutte -- In uomini, in soldati
Graziella Sciutti
John Pritchard, conductor

Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro -- Aprite un po' quegli occhi
Cesare Siepi
John Pritchard, conductor

Leoncavallo, Pagliacci -- Vesti la giubba
James McCracken
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera -- Morrò, ma prima in grazia
Lucine Amara
Janos Ferencsik, conductor

Giordano, Andrea Chénier -- Nemico della patria
Louis Quilico
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor

Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel -- Childrens' prayer
San Francisco Boys Chorus
Calvin Simmons, conductor

Monteverdi, L'Incoronazione di Poppea -- Pur ti miro
Carol Vaness
Barry McCauley
John Pritchard, conductor

Verdi, Ernani -- Ernani, involami
Leona Mitchell
Calvin Simmons, conductor

Gruber, Mei' Muatterl war a' Wienerin
Walter Berry
Janos Ferencsik, conductor

Verdi, Macbeth -- Vieni, t'affretta!
Gwyneth Jones
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor

INTERMISSION

Verdi, Nabucco -- Va, pensiero sull'ali dorate
San Francisco Opera Chorus
Richard Bradshaw, conductor

Verdi, Nabucco -- Del futuro nel buio discerno
Giorgio Tozzi
Richard Bradshaw, conductor

Brodiceanu, Pe sub flori ma leganai
Brodiceanu, S'a dus cucul de p' 'aici
Ileana Cotrubas
Philip Eisenberg, piano

Mussorgsky, Song of the flea
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Calvin Simmons, conductor

Leoncavallo, Pagliacci -- Silvio, a quest'ora
Mary Costa
Allan Monk
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Donizetti, Anna Bolena -- Al dolce guidami castel natio
Leyla Gencer
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor

Anonymous, A new work
Regina Resnik
Calvin Simmons, conductor

Giordano, Fedora -- Amor ti vieta
Giacomo Aragall
Calvin Simmons, conductor

Lehár, Giuditta -- Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss
Leonie Rysanek
Janos Ferencsik, conductor

Verdi, Rigoletto -- Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
Ingvar Wixell
Silvio Varviso, conductor

Strauss, Die Aegyptische Helena -- Zweite Brautnacht
Leontyne Price
Janos Ferencsik, conductor

Verdi, Aida -- Finale, Triumphal Scene
Gwyneth Jones
Irene Dalis
James McCracken
Chester Ludgin
Giorgio Tozzi
Alexander Malta
San Francisco Opera Chorus
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor
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NB: Not listed in the program were 'honored guests' who did not perform, but were
introduced on stage:

Licia Albanese
Lorenzo Alvary
Frances Bible
Heinz Blankenburg
Inge Borkh
Sona Cervena
Irene Dalis
Howard Fried
Colin Harvey
Hans Hotter
Frederick Jagel
Raymond Manton
Donna Petersen
Florence Quartararo
Stella Roman
Bidú Sayão
Giulietta Simionato
Blanche Thebom
Claramae Turner
Ramon Vinay

In the audience were:
San Francisco Mayor George Moscone
Roger L. Stevens, Chairman of the Kennedy Center
Livingston Biddle, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
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Composer:
n/a
Title:
VOCI VERDIANE 2007
Recording Date:
2007-09-01
Country:
Busseto (Italy) - Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra:

Conductor:

Musician:
Leyla Gencer (president of the jury)
Notes:
very interesting video telecasted by Arte (French TV) showing young singers in contest with interviews and excerpts of arias during the 4 day Verdi competition at Busseto. The video is also giving an impression on the atmosphere
prevailing in competition as well as a general view of the surroundings of Busseto, native town of Giuseppe Verdi.
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Composer:
Verdi Giuseppe
Title:
AIDA
Recording Date:
1963-08-08
Country:
Verona (Italy) - Arena
Orchestra:
Orchestra e Coro dell'Arena di Verona
Conductor:
Tullio Serafin
Musician:
Leyla Gencer (Aida); Gastone Limarilli (Radames); Giulietta Simionato (Amneris); Giangiacomo Guelfi (Amonasro); Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ramfis); Antonio Zerbini (Il Re); Silvana Tumicelli (una sacerdotessa); Ottorino Begali (un messaggero)
Notes:
stage director : Herbert Graf e Carlo Maestrini
sets & costumes : Pino Casarini
chorus master : Giulio Bertola
choreographer : Ria Teresa Legnani
first dancers : Carmen Panader, Adriano Vitale

RAI TV transmission without IV act, cancelled due to the rain
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Composer:
Verdi Giuseppe
Title:
AIDA
Recording Date:
1966-08-09
Country:
Verona (Italy) - Arena
Orchestra:
Orchestra e Coro dell'Arena di Verona
Conductor:
Franco Capuana
Musician:
Leyla Gencer (Aida); Carlo Bergonzi (Radames); Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris); Anzelmo Colzani (Amonasro); Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ramfis); Franco Pugliese (Il Re); Adalina Grigolato (una sacerdotessa)
Notes:
stage director : Herbert Graf
sets & costumes : Pino Casarini
chorus master : Giulio Bertola
choreographer : Constantin Sergueev
Corps de ballet from the Leningrad's Kirov Theatre

RAI TV - transmission and video registration
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Composer:
Verdi Giuseppe
Title:
IL TROVATORE
Recording Date:
1957-05-29
Country:
Milano (Italy) - RAI TV studios
Orchestra:
Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano
Conductor:
Fernando Previtali
Musician:
Leyla Gencer (Leonora); Ettore Bastianini (Il conte di Luna); Fedora Barbieri (Azucena); Mario del Monaco (Manrico); Plinio Clabassi (Ferrando); Laura Londi (Ines); Athos Cesarini (Ruiz); Sergio Liliani (Un vecchio zingaro); Walter Arlioli (Un messo)
Notes:
stage director : Claudio Fino

RAI TV - transmission and video registration
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Last updated: Sun, 09 November 2008.
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