San Francisco Opera recordings 1932-50
The San Francisco Opera regularly broadcast parts of its performances from 1932 onwards (usually complete acts - rarely complete operas), but only a small number of them have survived. This page lists those extracts known to survive. Many of the stars of the Metropolitan Opera sang in San Francisco in October and November before heading to New York for the winter/spring, and possibly on to London for May/June and Buenos Aires for August. Probably the most famous of all the SFO recordings is act 2 of Die Walkure from 1936, the only recording to capture Lotte Lehmann and Kirsten Flagstad on stage together, but SFO also broadcast Martinelli in La Juive, Muzio in Tosca and Lawrence in Carmen, roles they never broadcast elsewhere. The sound is often rough, taken from air checks, but still worth hearing for the historic importance of these broadcasts.
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October 15, 1932 Tosca Act 1 Muzio, Borgioli, Gandolfi c.Merola (extensive commentary before and after the act detailing the opening of the new War Memorial Opera House)
October 30, 1936 La Juive Act 2 Rethberg, Martinelli c.Merola
November 8, 1936 Die Walkure Act 3 abridged extracts (18 mins) with Flagstad and Schorr c. Merola broadcast as part of the Magic Key programme
November 13, 1936 Die Walkure Act 2 (last few mins cut off with commentary before and after) Flagstad, Schorr, Lehmann, Melchior c.Reiner
November 15, 1937 Tristan und Isolde Act 2 Flagstad, Melchior, Huehn c.Reiner [on tour in Los Angeles]
October 15, 1938 Andrea Chenier Act 1 excerpt (15 mins) Gigli, Rethberg c.Merola
October 13, 1939 Manon Act 2 with commentary before and after Sayao, Schipa, Bonelli c.Merola
October 20, 1939 Tristan und Isolde (excerpts - last 44 mins of Act 1 with commentary before and after) Flagstad, Melchior, Meisle c.MacArthur
October 24, 1939 Die Walkure Act 2 (last few mins cut off with commentary before and after) Flagstad, Destal, Melchior, Lawrence, c.MacArthur
November 3, 1939 Madama Butterfly Acts 1 and 2 Novtona, Bartlett, Cehanovsky c.Papi (reference recording made for audition purposes - commentary before act 1)
October 12, 1940 Le Nozze di Figaro Act 2 Pinza, Sayao, Rethberg c.Leinsdorf
October 23, 1940 Un Ballo in Maschera Act 2 excerpt (24 mins with commentary before and after) Bjorling, Rethberg, Bonelli c.Papi
October 25, 1940 Carmen Act 2 Lawrence, Jobin, Pinza c.Merola
October 8, 1944 Martha Act 3 excerpt Albanese, Landi c.Riedel (GAO169)
October 13, 1944 Salome Djanel, Jagel, Harshaw c.Sebastien
Merola 26 Sept 1945 Traviata highlights (Albanese Garris)
Merola 21 Oct 1945 Carmen highlights (Stevens, Kullmann)
October 7, 1945 Pagliacci Act 1 Albanese, Jobin, c.Adler
October 12, 1945 Boris Gudonov Acts 3 and 4 excerpts total 60 mins Pinza, Jagel, c.Sebastien
October 18, 1945 Rosenkavalier Act 3 Lehmann, Stevens, Conner c.Sebastien
October 27, 1945 Aida Roman, Jagel, Petrov c.Merola
Sept 8, 1946 Bizet Carmen selections broadcast on the Standard Hour (Djanel, Kullmann c.Merola) sides 1 & 3 only 31 mins
Sept 15, 1946 Puccini La Boheme selections broadcast on the Standard Hour(Albanese, Peerce c.Merola) 2nd in series from Seattle [no.1010] sides 1 & 2 only 30 mins
Sept 22 1946 Boris Godunov selections broadcast on the Standard Hour (Pinza, Glaz c.Merola)
Sept 29, 1946 Verdi Rigoletto selections broadcast on the Standard Hour (Peerce, Conner c.Merola) [no.1012] sides 1 & 3 only 30 mins
Oct 13, 1946 Gounod: Romeo and Juliet selections broadcast on the Standard Hour (Jobin, Sayao c.Merola) [no.1014] sides 1 & 3 only 30 mins
October 20, 1946 Forza del Destino selections broadcast on the Standard Hour Roman, Moscona, c.Merola
Sept 21 1947 Traviata selections broadcast on the Standard Hour Albanese, Peerce sides 1 & 2 only 30 mins
Sept 28 1947 Marriage of Figaro selectionsbroadcast on the Standard Hour (Quartararo, Conner, Pinza, Baccaloni c.Merola) 15 mins only
12 Oct 1947 Puccini La Boheme selections broadcast on the Standard Hour (Sayao, Kullmann c.Merola)
19 Oct 1947 La Gioconda selectionsbroadcast on the Standard Hour(Roman, Thebom, Baum c.Merola) sides 1, 2 and 4 40 mins
25 Oct 1947 Otello selectionsbroadcast on the Standard Hour[Svanholm, Albanese, Warren c.Merola]
Nov 2 1947 Romeo selectionsSayao and Jobin broadcast on the Standard Hourc.Merola 47 mins
17 Oct 1948 Carmen selections broadcast on the Standard HourResnik, Baum, Valentino c.Merola [mp3]
There was a long hiatus in live broadcasts from San Francisco, they did not resume until 1970. The opera house attracted the world's leading artists during the 1970s, often in repertoire they did not perform at the Met. The list below is relatively complete between 1971 and 1982
28 November 1970 | Puccini | Tosca | Dorothy Kirsten, Placido Domingo, Louis Quilico | James Levine |
17 September 1971 | Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Christa Ludwig, Sena Juninac, Helen Donath, Manfred Jungwirth | Silvio Varviso |
24 September 1971 | Puccini | Madama Butterfly | Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows, Helen Vanni | James Levine |
1 October 1971 | Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Theo Adam, Arlene Saunders, Geraint Evans, James King | Otmar Suitner |
8 October 1971 | Massenet | Manon | Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Ragnar Ulfung, Allen Monk | Jean Perisson |
22 October 1971 | Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Evelyn Lear, Thomas Stewart, Ara Berberian, Stuart Burrows | Charles Mackerras |
29 October 1971 | Verdi | Il Trovatore | Leontyne Price, Ramond Wolansky, James King, Margarita Lilowa | Carlo Felice Cillario |
11 November 1971 | Verdi | Un Ballo in Maschera | Luciano Pavarotti, Martina Arroyo, Franco Bordoni, Irene Dalis | Charles Mackerras |
16 November 1971 | Donizetti | Maria Starda | Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, Stuart Burrows, Ara Berberian | Richard Bonynge |
19 November 1971 | Berg | Lulu | Anja Silja, John Reardon, Josef Hopferweiser, Ragnar Ulfung | Christoph von Dohnanyi |
26 November 1971 | Puccini | Il Tabarro | Gabriel Bacquier, Leontyne Price | Nino Sanzogno |
22 September 1972 | Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro | Geraint Evans, Ingvar Wixell, Judith Blegen, Frederika von Stade | Reynald Giovaninetti |
6 October 1972 | Bellini | Norma | Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, John Alexander, Clifford Grant | Richard Bonynge |
17 October 1972 | Wagner | Das Rheingold | Thomas Stewart, Richard Holm, Marius Rinzler, Margarita Lilowa | Otmar Suitner |
20 October 1972 | Wagner | Die Walküre | Jess Thomas, Berit Lindholm, Birgit Nilsson, Thomas Stewart | Otmar Suitner |
22 October 1972 | Wagner | Siegfried | Jess Thomas, Wolf Appel, Thomas Stewart, Berit Lindholm | Otmar Suitner |
24 October 1972 | Wagner | Götterdämmerung | Jess Thomas, Birgit Nilsson, Clifford Grant, Thomas Stewart, Marita Napier | Otmar Suitner |
27 October 1972 | Puccini | Tosca | Hanna Janku, Placido Domingo, Ingvar Wixell, Marius Rinzler | Nino Sanzogno |
3 November 1972 | Meyerbeer | L'Africaine | Shirley Verrett, Placido Domingo, Simon Estes, William Wildermann | Jean Perisson |
10 November 1972 | Von Einem | The Visit of the old Lady | Regina Resnik, Richard Cassilly, Raymond Wolansky, Allan Monk | Maurice Peress |
17 November 1972 | Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Beverly Sills, Luciano Pavarotti, Simon Estes, Raymond Wolansky | Jesus Lopez-Cobos |
7 September 1973 | Donizetti | La Favorita | Maria Luisa Nave, Luciano Pavarotti, Renato Bruson, Bonaldo Giaotti | Carlo Felice Cillario |
14 September 1973 | J. Strauss | Der Fledermaus | Joan Sutherland, Ragnar Ulfung, Judith Blegen, Nolan van Way | Richard Bonynge |
28 September 1973 | Verdi | Rigoletto | Sherrill Milnes, Giacomo Aragall, Isabella Nawe, Clifford Grant | Kazimierz Kord |
5 October 1973 | Mozart | Cosi Fan Tutte | Evelyn Lear, Frederika von Stade, Ryland Davies, Geraint Evans | John Pritchard |
12 October 1973 | Wagner | Tannhäuser | Jess Thomas, Marita Napier, Thomas Stewart, Leonie Rysanek | Otmar Suitner |
19 October 1973 | Mussorgsky | Boris Godunov | Martti Talvela, Ragnar Ulfung, Evelyn Lear, Alberto Remedios | Kazimierz Kord |
26 October 1973 | Strauss | Elektra | Ingrid Steger, Marita Napier, Irene Dalis, Thomas Stewart, Ragnar Ulfung | Otmar Suitner |
9 November 1973 | Britten | Peter Grimes | Jess Thomas, Ava June, Geraint Evans, Michael Langdon | John Pritchard |
16 November 1973 | Puccini | La Boheme | Jose Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Ariel bybee, Bruce Yarnell | Jean Perisson |
23 November 1973 | Verdi | Don Carlo | Alberto Remedios, Gwyneth Jones, Norman Mittelmann, Martti Talvela | Silvio Varviso |
13 September 1974 | Puccini | Manon Lescaut | Leontyne Price, Giorgio Merighi, Julian Patrick, Renato Capecchi | Reynald Giovaninetti |
20 September 1974 | Wagner | Parsifal | Kurt Moll, Jess Thomas, Thomas Stewart, Eva Randova, Peter van Ginkel | Otmar Suitner |
4 October 1974 | Strauss | Salome | Leonie Rysanek, Hans Hopf, Siegmund Nimsgern | Otmar Suitner |
11 October 1974 | Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Birgit Nilsson, Jess Thomas, Yvonne Minton, Jef Vermeersch, Kurt Moll | Silvio Varviso |
18 October 1974 | Puccini | Madame Butterfly | Renata Scotto, Jose Carreras | Kurt Herbert Adler |
1 November 1974 | Rossini | Cenerentola | Frederika von Stade, Ugo Benelli, Renato Capecchi, Paolo Montarsolo | John Pritchard |
8 November 1974 | Massenet | Esclarmonde | Joan Sutherland, Giacomo Aragall | Richard Bonynge |
15 November 1974 | Verdi | Otello | James King, Pilar Lorengar, Wassili Janulako, Clifford Grant | Jesus Lopez-Cobos |
22 November 1974 | Mozart | Don Giovanni | Roger Soyer, Anna Tomova-Sintov, Gösta Winberg, Rachel Yakar | John Pritchard |
26 November 1974 | Donizetti | Fille du Regiment | Beverly Sills, William Harness, Spiro Malas | Anton Guadagno |
29 November 1974 | Verdi | Luisa Miller | Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Louis Quilico | Jesus Lopez-Cobos |
19 September 1975 | Monteverdi | L'Incoronazione di Poppea | Tatiana Troyanos, Eric Tappy, Maureen Forrester, Peter Meven | Raymond Leppard |
3 October 1975 | Verdi | Il Trovatore | Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Elena Obratzova, Ingvar Wixell, | Richard Bonynge |
10 October 1975 | Donizetti | L'Elisir D'Amore | Jose Carreras, Judith Blegen, Ingvar Wixell | Carlo Felice Cillario |
24 October 1975 | Tchaikovsky | Pique Dame | Galina Vishnevskaya, Peter Gougaloff, Regina Resnik, Anita Terzian | Mstislav Rostropovich |
26 October 1975 | Wagner | Der Fliegende Holländer | Theo Adam, Marita Napier, William Lewis Marius Rinzler | Kenneth Schermerhorn |
31 October 1975 | Bellini | Norma | Christina Deutekom, Tatiana Troyanos, Robletto Merolla, Clifford Grant | Carlo Felice Cillario |
7 November 1975 | Massenet | Werther | Giacomo Aragall, Heather Harper | Elyakum Shapirra |
14 November 1975 | Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Ingvar Wixell, Martti Talvela, Giorgio Merighi, Kiri te Kanawa | Paolo Peloso |
21 November 1975 | Giordano | Andrea Chenier | Placido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Josella Ligi | Emmerson Buckley |
25 November 1975 | Mozart | The Magic Flute | William Harness, Pamela South, Allen Titus, Zdzislawa Donat | Kurt Herbert Adler |
10 September 1976 | Massenet | Thais | Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Claes H Ahnsjö | John Pritchard |
11 September 1976 | Wagner | Die Walküre | Jon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Hans Sotin, Roberta Knie, Clifford Grant | Otmar Suitner |
24 September 1976 | Verdi | La Forza del Destino | Anna Tomova-Sintov, Barry Morell, Renato Bruson, Paul Plishka | Kurt Herbert Adler |
8 October 1976 | Puccini | Tosca | Janis Martin, Giacomo Aragall, Ingvar Wixell, James Johnston | Paolo Peloso |
15 October 1976 | Strauss | Die Frau Ohne Schatten | Leonie Rysanek, Matti Kastu, Ruth Hesse, Walter Berry, Ursula Schröder-Feinen | Karl Böhm |
22 October 1976 | Britten | Peter Grimes | Jon Vickers, Heather Harper, Geraint Evans, Paul Crook | John Pritchard |
29 October 1976 | Janacek | The Macropoulos Case | Anja Silja, Geraint Evans, William Lewis | Christoph von Dohnanyi |
5 November 1976 12 November 1976 |
Leoncavallo Mascagni Rossini |
Pagliacci Cavalleria Rusticana Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Bruno Prevedi, Raina Kabaivanska, Peter Glossop, Brent Ellis Tatiana Troyanos, Placido Domingo Timothy Nolan, John Brecknock, Frederica von Stade |
Kenneth Schermerhorn Silvio Varviso |
16 September 1977 |
Cilea | Adriana Lecouvreur | Renata Scotto, Giacomo Aragall, Giuseppe Taddei, Elena Obratzova | Gianandrea Gavazzeni |
23 September 1977 | Mozart | Idomeneo | Christiane Eda-Pierre, Carol Neblett, Maria Ewing, Eric Tappy | John Pritchard |
30 September 1977 | Janacek | Katya Kabanova | Elizabeth Söderström, Beverly Wolff, William Cochran, Barry McCauley | Rafael Kubelik |
14 October 1977 | Gounod | Faust | Giacomo Aragall, Nancy Shade, Giorgio Tozzi, Giorio Zancanaro | Jean Perisson |
21 October 1977 | Verdi | Aida | Maria Parazzini, James McCracken, Fiorenza Cossotto, William Wildermann | Gianandrea Gavazzeni |
28 October 1977 | Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Leontyne Price, Alan Cathcart, Patricia Welting, Tatiana Troyanos | Janos Ferencsik |
4 November 1977 | Puccini | Turandot | Montserrat Caballe, Luciano Pavarotti, Leona Mitchell, Giorgio Tozzi | Riccardo Chailly |
11 November 1977 | Bellini | I Puritani | Beverley Sills, Carol Vaness, Giorgio Zancanaro, Cesar Antonio Surez | Paolo Peloso |
25 November 1977 | Verdi | Un Ballo in Maschera | Jose Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Yuri Mazurok, Kathleen Battle, Pat. Payne | Kurt Herbert Adler |
15 September 1978 | Bellini | Norma | Shirley Verrett, Alexandrina Milcheva, Nunzio Todisco, Clifford Grant | Paolo Peloso |
27 September 1978 | Britten | Billy Budd | Dale Duesing, Richard Lewis, Forbes Robinson, Raimund Herincx | David Atherton |
6 October 1978 | Wagner | Lohengrin | Guy Chauvet, Anne Evans, Raimund Herincx, Janis Martin, Gwynne Howell | Kurt Herbert Adler |
20 October 1978 | Puccini | Tosca | Montserrat Caballe, Luciano Pavarotti, Giuseppe Taddei | Paolo Peloso |
3 November 1978 | Massenet | Werther | Jose Carreras, Maria Ewing, Kathleen Battle, Allan Monk | Antonio de Almeida |
10 November 1978 | Puccini | La Boheme | Giacomo Aragall, Illiana Cotrubas, Brent Ellis, Julia Migenes | Silvio Varviso |
17 November 1978 | Strauss | Der Rosekavalier | Leonie Rysanek, Hanna Schwarz, Carol Malone, Walter Berry, F Edgerton | Janos Ferencsik |
6 September 1979 | Verdi | La Forza del Destino | Leontyne Price, Veriano Luchetti, Renato Bruson, Martti Talvela, Giuseppe Taddei | Kurt Herbert Adler |
21 September 1979 | Ponchielli | La Gioconda | Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto, Norman Mittelmann, Feruccio Furlanetto | Bruno Bartoletti |
28 September 1979 | Strauss | Elektra | Danica Mastilovic, Leonie Rysanek, Anny Schlemm, Franz Mazura | Berislav Klobucar |
5 October 1979 | Verdi | Don Carlo | Giacomo Aragall, Wolfgang Brendel, Anna Tomova-Sintov, Evgeny Nesterenko | Silvio Varviso |
12 October 1979 | Wagner | Der Fliegende Holländer | Simon Estes, Marita Napier, William Lewis, Marius Rinzler | Christof Perick |
19 October 1979 | Dallapiccola | Il Prigioniero | Janis Martin, Michael Devlin, Werner Götz, Francis Egerton | Reynald Giovaninetti |
19 October 1979 | Poulenc | La Voix Humane | Magda Olivera | Reynald Giovaninetti |
19 October 1979 | Puccini | Gianni Schicchi | Giuseppe Taddei, Fedora Barbieri, Yordi Ramiro, Sheri Greenawald | Reynald Giovaninetti |
26 October 1979 | Donizetti | Roberto Devereux | Montserrat Caballe, Carlo Bini, Juan Pons | Gianfranco Masini |
2 November 1979 | Puccini | Fanciulla Del West | Carol Neblett, Placido Domingo, Benito Di Bella | Giuseppe Patane |
6 November 1979 | Verdi | La Forza del Destino | Leontyne Price, Veriano Luchetti, Renato Bruson, Martti Talvela, Giuseppe Taddei | Kurt Herbert Adler |
9 November 1979 | Verdi | La Forza del Destino | Leontyne Price, Veriano Luchetti, Renato Bruson, Martti Talvela | Kurt Herbert Adler |
26 September 1980 | Verdi | Simon Boccanegra | Renato Bruson, Margaret Price, Giorgio Lamberti, Cesare Siepi | Lamberto Gardelli |
?? September 1980 | Strauss | Die Frau Ohne Schatten | Leonie Rysanek, James King, Gerd Feldhoff, Birgit Nilsson | Berislav Klobucar |
3 October 1980 | Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Geraint Evans, Ruth Welting, David Rendall, Timothy Nolan | Uwe Mund |
10 October 1980 | Janacek | Jenufa | Elizabeth Söderström, Sena Jurinac, William Lewis, Allan Cathcart | Albert Rosen |
17 October 1980 | Verdi | La Traviata | Valerie Masterson, Beniamino Prior, Lorenzo Saccomani | Antonio de Almeida |
24 October 1980 | Saint-Saens | Samson et Dalila | Placido Domingo, Shirley Verrett | Julius Rudel |
31 October 1980 | Mozart | The Magic Flute | Perry Price, Sheri Greenawald, Rita Shane, Dale Duesing | Ulrich Weder |
14 November 1980 | Strauss | Arabella | Kiri te Kanawa, Ingwar Wixell, Barbara Daniels, Alexander Malta | Wolfgang Rennert |
21 November 1980 | Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Spas Wenkoff, Gwyneth Jones (1st) Ruza Baldani, Thomas Stewart, Simon Estes | Kurt Herbert Adler |
28 November 1980 | Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana | Olivia Stapp, Mikhael Svetlev, Benito di Bello | Niksa Bareza |
28 November 1980 | Leoncavallo | Pagliacci | James King, Benito di Bella, Emily Rawlins | Niksa Bareza |
5 December 1980 | Puccini | Madame Butterfly | Yasuko Hayashi, Luis Lima, Judith Forst, Allan Monk | Myung-Wha Chung |
12 June 1981 | Reimann | Lear | Thomas Stewart, Helga Dernesch, Rita Shane, Robert Lloyd, William Lewis | Gerd Albrecht |
1 July 1981 | Verdi | Rigoletto | Matteo Manuguerra, Patricia Wise, Peter Dvorsky, Kurt Rydl | Niksa Bareza |
13 July 1981 | Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Karl Ridderbusch, William Johns, Hannelore Bode, Gottfried Hornik | Kurt Herbert Adler |
25 September 1981 | Shostakovich | Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk | Anja Silja, William Lewis, Jacque Trussel | Calvin Simmons |
26 September 1981 | Rossini | Semiramide | Montserrat Caballe, Marilyn Horne, James Morris, Dalmacio Gonzalez | Richard Bonynge |
10 October 1981 | Massenet | Manon | Reri Grist, Stuart Burrows, Dale Duesing Alexander Malta | Julius Rudel |
17 October 1981 | Massenet | Le Cid | William Lewis, Carol Neblett, Feruccio Furlanetto, Timothy Noble | Julius Rudel |
30 October 1981 | Bizet | Carmen | Teresa Berganza, Franco Bonisolli, | Kurt Herbert Adler |
18 November 1981 | Verdi | Aida | Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Simon Estes, Stefania Toczyska | Garcia Navarra |
20 November 1981 | Wagner | Die Walküre | James King, Leonie Rysanek, Manfred Schenk, Birgit Nilsson | Otmar Suitner |
20 June 1982 | Verdi | Nabucco | Matteo Manuguerra, Olivia Stapp, Paul Plishka, Gorgon Greer | Kurt Herbert Adler |
3 September 1982 | Handel | Giulio Cesare | Tatiana Troyanos, Valerie Masterson, Sarah Walker, James Bowman | Charles Mackerras |
10 September 1982 | Verdi | Un Ballo in Maschera | Luciano Pavarotti, Silvano Carroli, Montserrat Caballe | Kurt Herbert Adler |
1 October 1982 | Puccini | Turandot | Linda Kelm, Niccola Martinucci, Barbara Daniels | Myung-Wha Chung |
15 October 1982 | Mozart | Il Nozze di Figaro | Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Helena Döse, Tom Krause, Faith Esham | Silvio Varviso |
22 October 1982 | Rossini | Cenerentola | Marilyn Horne, Francisco Araiza, Sesto Bruscantini, Paolo Montarsolo | Mario Bernardi |
29 October 1982 | Poulenc | The Carmelites | Carol Vaness, Regine Crespin, Virginia Zeani, Leontyne Price | Henry Lewis |
5 November 1982 | Stravinsky | The Rake's Progress | Dennis Bailey, Diana Soviero, Donald Gramm, Mignon Dunn | David Agler |
13 November 1982 | Massenet | Cendrillon | Sheri Greenaway, Delia Wallis, Donald Gramm, Maureen Forrester | Mario Bernardi |
19 November 1982 | Wagner | Lohengrin | Peter Hofmann, Pilar Lorengar, Leonie Rysanek, David Ward, Hermann Becht | Heinrich Hollreiser |
9 September 1983 | Verdi | Otello | Placido Domingo, Margaret Price, Silvano Carroli | Marek Janowski |
17 November 1983 | Puccini | Manon Lescaut | Mirella Freni, Ermanno Mauro, Vincente Sardinero, Renato Capecchi | Maurizio Arena |
30 November 1983 | Ponchielli | La Gioconda | Maria Slatinaru, Franco Bonisolli, Matteo Manuguerra, | Andrew Meltzer |
2 June 1985 | Wagner | Das Rheingold | James Morris, Walter Berry, William Lewis, Hanna Schwarz, Roland Bracht | Edo de Waart |
4 June 1985 | Wagner | Die Walküre | Peter Hofmann, Jeannine Altmeyer, John Tomlinson, James Morris, Gwyneth Jones | Edo de Waart |
5 June 1985 | Wagner | Siegfried | Rene Kollo, Helmut Pampuch, Thomas Stewart, Walter Berry, Eva Marton | Edo de Waart |
8 June 1985 | Wagner | Götterdämmerung | Eva Marton, Rene Kollo, Michael Devlin, John Tomlinson, Helga Dernesch, Walter Berry | Edo de Waart |