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| Antonina Nezhdanova (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
1. Dimitrij Smirnov, "De' miei bollenti spiriti", Verdi: La Traviata (rec. 1910)
2. Medea Mei-Figner, Tosti: Penso! (rec. 1901)
3. Dimitrij Smirnov, "What is our life?", The Queen of Spades (rec. 1923)
4. Dimitrij Smirnov, "Forgive me, bright celestial vision", The Queen of Spades (rec. 1923)
5. Antonina Nezhdanova, Gounod: Sérénade (rec. 1907)
6. Dimitrij Smirnov, Alexander Gretchaninov: Cradle Song (Rec. 1912)
7. Feodor Chaliapin, Anton Rubinstein: Persian Love Song (rec. 1931)
8. Antonina Nezhdanova, Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Rose and the Nightingale" (rec. 1914)
9. Antonina Nezhdanova, Jewel Song, Gounod: Faust (rec. 1906)
10. Dimitrij Smirnov, Rimsky-Korsakov: The Rose and the Nightingale (rec. 1913)
11. Lydia Lipkowska, "Una voce poco fa", Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (rec. 1912)
12. Dimitrij Smirnov, Rachmaninov: "Before my window"
(rec. 1912)
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| Photo of russian and italian opera singer Medeya Figner (1860-1952) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
14. Leonid Sobinov - Das süße Lied verhallt (Lohengrin) -1911
15. Nezhdanova and Sobinov in Lohengrin .1910
16. Medea Mei Figner - Liza's aria from the opera "The Queen Of Spades"
17. Nicolai Figner - Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame - Forgive me, bright celestial vision
18. Dimitrij Smirnov, "In fernem Land", Wagner: Lohengrin (rec. 1911)
19. Medea Mei-Figner, Anton Rubinstein: "Night" (rec. 1901)
20. Antonina Nezhdanova, "Hymne au soleil", Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or (rec. 1910)
21. Dimitrij Smirnov, "Ah! Lève toi, soleil", Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (rec. 1909)
22. Ivan Yershov, "Plus la blanche que la blanche hermine", Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots (rec. 1903)
23. Ivan Yershov, Forging Scene, Wagner: Siegfried (rec. 1903)
24. Medea Mei-Figner, Adele's Cradle Song, Napravnik: Harold (rec. 1901)
25. Ivan Yershov, "Versez! que tout respire", Meyerbeer: Le prophète (rec. 1903)
26. Ivan Yershov, "Pour, Berthe, moi je soupire", Meyerbeer: Le prophète (rec. 1903)
27. Ivan Yershov, Tchaikovsky: "O child, beneath thy window"
(rec. 1903)
28. Medea Mei-Figner, Davydov: Night, love and the moon (rec. 1901)
29. Dimitrij Smirnov, Song of the Indian Guest, Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (rec. 1911)
30. Maria Kuznetsova, "Sì, mi chiamano Mimì", Puccini: La Bohème (Pathé, 1917)
31. Maria Kuznetsova, "È strano...Ah fors'è lui", Verdi: La Traviata (G&T, 1904)
32. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, Senta's Ballade, Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (rec. 1911)
33. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, "I shall don my robe of byssus", Serov: Judith (rec. 1909)
34. Antonina Nezhdanova, "Quel bonheur!", Auber: Fra Diavolo (rec. 1910)
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| English: Russian composer Petr Tchaikovsky and opera singers Medeya and Nikolai Figner (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
36. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, "Qui Radames verrà!...O Patria mia", Verdi: Aida (rec. 1908)
37. N.Ermolenko-Yuzhina.Natasha's Aria
38. Maria Mikhailova. Aria of Lucia di Lammermoor ("Alfin son tua...") from G. Donizetti's opera " Lucia di Lammermoor". Flute: A. Semenov. Recorded in St.-Petersburg, 1905.
39. The great Russian-French dramatic soprano Félia Litvinne (1860-1936) in Leonore's aria "O mon Fernand" from Donizetti's La Favorite, recorded around 1910-11 for Odeon.
40. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, "Dich teure, Halle", Wagner: Tannhäuser (rec. 1909)
41. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, Cradle Song, Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa (Gramophone Co., 1908)
42. Nikolai Figner. Posledny noneshny denechek (This Last Day). V. Ruzhitsky , lyrics by unknown author. Recorded in 1911.
43. Gavriil Morskoj. Aria Sadko (Oh, you dark little wood!) from the N. Rimsky-Korskov's opera "Sadko". Opera-bylina "Sadko" (1867).
44. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, "Ritorna vincitor!", Verdi: Aida (rec. 1909)
45. Natalija Ermolenko-Yuzhina, "Suicidio!", Ponchielli: La Gioconda (rec. 1908)
46. Ivan Ershov (Yershov), Scenes from Wagner's Tannhäuser, (Columbia, c.1903)
