From Which We Came
The following are the titles on the disc of first opera sets. The folder
with the data is shown in ITALIC CAPS after the name of the conductor.
Several of the sets defy identification of casts; they are listed simply with
their folder names.
Bizet: Carmen - Seidler-Winkler - CARMEN
- Carmen - Emmy Destinn
- Don Jose - Karl Jörn
- Micaela - Minnie Nast
- Escamillo - Hermann Bachmann
Bizet: Carmen - Weigert - KURZ CAR
- Carmen - Else Ruziczka
- Don Jose - Helge Rosvaenge
- Micaela - Elfriede Marherr
- Escamillo - Karl Armster
Flotow: Martha - Weigert - KURZ EH1
- Nancy - Sabine Meyer
- Lionel - Eugen Transky
- Julia - Charlotte Müller
- Plunkett - Otto Helgers
Gounod: Faust - Seidler-Winkler - FAUST FAUST08
- Faust - Karl Jörn
- Marguerite - Emmy Destinn
- Mephistopheles - Paul Knüpfer
- Valentin - Desider Zador
Gounod: Faust - Sabajno - FAUST FAUST18
- Faust - Giuliano Romagnoli
- Marguerite - Gemma Bosini
- Mephistopheles - Fernando Autori
- Valentin - Adolfo Pacini
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci - Sabajno - PAG PAG07
- Canio - Antonio Paoli
- Nedda - Josefina Huguet
- Tonio - Francesco Cigada
- Silvio - Ernesto Badini
- Beppe - Gaetano Pini-Corsi
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci - Sabajno - PAG PAG18
- Canio - Luigi Bolis
- Nedda - Annita Conti
- Tonio - Giuseppe Montanelli
- Silvio - Ernesto Badini
- Beppe - A. Prat
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci - Goossens - PAG PAG27
- Canio - Frank Mullings
- Nedda - Miriam Licette
- Tonio - Harold Williams
- Silvio - Dennis Noble
- Beppe - Heddle Nash
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Kark - CAV CAV09
- Santuzza - Frances Rose
- Turiddu - Franz Naval
- Lola - Frieda Hempel
- Alfio - Cornelis Bronsgeest
- Mamma Lucia - Ida von Scheele-Müller
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Sabajno - CAV CAV16
- Santuzza - Giorgina Ermolli
- Turiddu - Franco Tumminello
- Lola - Elvira Ravelli
- Alfio - Eugenio Perna
- Mamma Lucia - Elvira Ravelli
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Buesst - CAV CAV27
- Santuzza - May Blyth
- Turiddu - Heddle Nash
- Lola - Marjorie Parry
- Alfio - Harold Williams
- Mamma Lucia - Justine Griffith
Puccini: Boheme - Sabajno - BOHEME
- Mimi - Gemma Bosini
- Rodolfo - Remo Andreini
- Musetta - Adalgisa Giana
- Marcello - Ernesto Badini
Puccini: Boheme - Weigert - KURZ BOH
- Mimi - Felicie Hüni-Mihaczek
- Rodolfo - Helge Rosvaenge
- Musetta - Hedwig Jungkurth
- Marcello - Armin Weltner
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Goossens - BUTTER
- Cio-Cio-San - Rosina Buckmann
- Pinkerton - Tudor Davies
- Suzuki - Nellie Walker / Gladys Peel (last side only)
- Sharpless - Frederick Ranalow
Rossini: Barbiere - Sabajno - BARBIERE
- Figaro - Ernesto Badini
- Rosina - Malvina Pereira
- Almaviva - Edoardo Taliani
- Bartolo - Davide Carnevali
- Basilio - Umberto di Lelio
Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore - ? - GS HMS
- Sir Joseph - Frederic Ranalow
- Captain Corcoran - Sydney Granville
- Ralph Rackstraw - James Hay / Waiter Glynne
- Dick Deadeye - Darrell Fancourt / Frederick Hobbs
- Josephine - Violet Essex / Bessie Jones
- Buttercup - Bertha Lewis / Nellie Walker
Sullivan: Mikado - Byng - GS MIKADO
- Mikado / Poo-Bah - Robert Radford
- Yum-Yum - Violet Essex
- Nanki-Poo - John Harrison
- Ko-Ko / Pish-Tush - George Baker
- Pitti-Sing - Violet Oppenshaw
- Peep-Bo / Katisha - Edna Thornton
Sullivan: Princess Ida - Norris - GS IDA
- Princess Ida - Winifred Lawson
- Kiln Hildebrand - Leo Sheffield
- Lady Psyche - Kathleen Anderson
- Hildarion - Derek Oldham
- Lady Blanche - Bertha Lewis
- King Gama - Henry Lytton
- Cyril - Leo Darnton
- Florian - Sydney Granville
- Arac - Darrell Fancourt
Sullivan: Ruddigore - ? - GS RUD
- Richard - Derek Oldham
- Sir Ruffiven - George Baker
- Rose Maybud - Elsie Griffin
- Dame Hannah - Bertha Lewis
- Mad Margaret - Eileen Sharp
- Sir Roderic - Darrell Fancourt
Verdi: Aida - various - AIDA
Verdi: Rigoletto - Ruhlmann - RIG RIG12
- Rigoletto - Jean Noté
- Gilda - Aline Vallandri
- Duke - Robert Lassalle
- Sparafucile - Pierre Dupré
- Maddalena - Ketty Lapeyrette
Verdi: Rigoletto - Sabajno - RIG RIG16
- Rigoletto - Cesare Formichi
- Gilda - Ines Ferraris
- Duke - Giuseppe Taccani
- Sparafucile - Vincenzo Bettoni
- Maddalena - G. Caiani
Verdi: Rigoletto - Sabajno - RIG RIG17
- various artists in most roles
Verdi: Rigoletto - Sassano - RIG RIG18
- Rigoletto - Antonio Armentano Anticorona
- Gilda - Angela De Angelis
- Duke - Fernando De Lucia.
- Sparafucile - Luis Muñoz
- Maddalena - Vida Ferluga
Verdi: Traviata -Archimbaud - TRAV TRAV12
- Violetta - Jane Morlet
- Alfredo - Maurizio Trosselli
- Germont - Henri Albers
Verdi: Traviata - Sabajno - TRAV TRAV15
- Violetta - Margherita Bevignani
- Alfredo - Franco Tuminello
- Germont - Ernesto Badini
Verdi: Trovatore - Ruhlman - TROV
- Manrico - Fontaine
- Leonore - Morlet
- Azucena - Lapeyrette
- di Luna - Noté
Wagner: Lohengrin - Weiger - KURZ LOH
- Lohengrin - Fritz Wolff
- Elsa - Beata Malkin
- Ortrud - Henriette Gottlieb
- Friedrich von Telramund - Rudolf Natzke
- König Heinrich - Otto Helgers
Wagner: Ring - various - RING RING1
- various artists in each role - in English
Wagner: Ring - von Hoesslin - RING RING2
- Wotan - Ludwig Weber
- Brünnhilde - Henriette Gottlieb
- Loge, Siegmund, Siegfried - Walther Kirchhoff
- Sieglinde, Waldvogel - Mme. Schram-Tschoerner
- Erda - Margarete Klose
- Hagen - Ludwig Hoffmann
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Künneke - TANN2
- Tannhäuser - Fritz Vogelstrom
- Elisabeth - Annie Krull
- Wolfram - Hermann Weil
- Landgraf - Lèon Rains
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Coates/Blech - TRISTAN3
- Tristan - Walter Widdop
- Isolde - Göta Ljungberg
- Brangäne - Genia Guszalewic
- Kurvenal - Howard Fry / Eduard Habich
- König Marke - Ivar Andrésen
Wagner: Walküre - von Strauss - WALKURE1
- Sieglinde - Erna Denera
- Siegmund - Jacques Decker
- Hunding - Gustav Schwegler
Weber: Freischütz - Weigert - KURZ FRSCH
- Max - Fritz Soot
- Agathe - Elfriede Marherr
- Kaspar - Eduard Kandl
- Ännchen - Tilly de Garmo
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