Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
"In questa reggia", extrait de "Turandot"
Extraits de "Madame Butterfly"
Extraits de "La Bohème"
"O mio babbino caro", extrait de "Gianni Schicchi"

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
"Liebestod", extrait de "Tristan et Isolde"

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
"Salut à la France", extrait de "La Fille du Régiment"

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
"Una voce poco fa", extrait de "Le Barbier de Séville"

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
"Casta Diva", extrait de "Norma"

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Scène finale, extrait de "Faust"

Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Scène de folie, extrait de "Hamlet"

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
"La chanson du Saule", extrait de "Otello"
Finale de l'Acte 1, extrait de "La Traviata"
"Tu che le vanità", extrait de "Don Carlo"
"Ritorna vincitor!", extrait de "Aida"
"Pace, pace, mio Dio", extrait de "La force du Destin"

Birgit Nilsson, soprano
Eileen Farrell, soprano
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Renata Scotto, soprano
Beverly Sills, soprano
Montserrat Caballé, soprano
Roberta Peters, soprano
Lisa della Casa, soprano
Joan Sutherland, soprano
Anna Moffo, soprano
Mirella Freni, soprano
Leontyne Price, soprano
Brian Sullivan, ténor
Nicolai Gedda, ténor
Cesare Siepi, basse

A stellar collection of live television, stage, and concert performances by some of the most celebrated sopranos of the twentieth century, including Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland, Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, and more, in opera arias and scenes. Includes the first release of the complete Faust “Prison Scene” featuring Lisa Della Casa, Nicolai Gedda, and Cesare Siepi (Bell Telephone Hour, 1963), as well as Joan Sutherland’s 1961 American TV debut, singing arias from Hamlet and Otello, newly re-mastered and released for the first time in color.