Francis Robinson

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Francis Robinson

Assistant manager of the Metropolitan Opera and author of Caruso: His Life In Pictures

APPEARANCES +

Songs By Schubert · Wagner · Strauss · Grieg · Sibelius

Romantic/Modern/Opera/Vocal

The Complete Album Collection

2011, 103xCD + DVD-V, NTSC + Box, Comp, Dlx, Ltd, RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical, Sony Music,

Baroque/Classical/Romantic/Modern/Impressionist

Tutte Le Registrazioni = The Complete Recordings

2010, Box + 31xCD, Comp, Nireo,

Heifetz In Performance

Classical/Baroque/Romantic/Impressionist/Modern

Johann Strauss Jr.

The Great Moments From Die Fledermaus (In English)

Romantic/Opera/Musical

The Music Of Islām - Volume One: Al-Qāhirah, Classical Music Of Cairo

1998, CD, Album, Celestial Harmonies

The Music Of Islām - Volume Twelve: Music Of Iran

1998, CD, Album, Celestial Harmonies

Various Produced By David Parsons

Music Of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan

The Music Of Islām - Volume Eleven: Music Of Yemen, Sanaʾa, Yemen

The Music Of Islām - Volume Seven: Al-Andalūs Andalusian Music - Tetouan, Morocco

The Music Of Islām - Volume Three: Music Of The Nubians, Aswān, Egypt

Selim Seliman Ensemble

The Music Of Islām - Volume Two: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins

The Music Of Islām

Lotfi Jormana Group , Produced By David Parsons

Folkloric Music Of Tunisia

1997, CD, Album, Celestial Harmonies

Whirling Dervishes*

Mawlawiyah Music Of The Whirling Dervishes

Ottoman Classical

The Music Of Islām - Volume Four: Music Of The Arabian Peninsula, Doha, Qatar

The Music Of Islām - Volume Five: ʾAīssāoua Ṣūfī Ceremony, Marrakesh, Morocco

The Music Of Islām - Volume Ten: Qurʾān Recitation, Istanbul, Turkey

Gnāwa* , Produced By David Parsons

Al-Maghrib, Gnāwa Music, Marrakesh, Morocco

Memorable Moments From The Met Radio Broadcast Intermissions (Part 2)

1989, Cass, Comp, Texaco, The Metropolitan Opera,

The Legendary Enrico Caruso 21 Favorite Arias

Leontyne Price / Philharmonia Orchestra / Henry Lewis

Prima Donna / Volume 5

1980, LP, RCA Red Seal,

The Complete Caruso - Volume 4 - 1906-1907

Jussi Bjoerling* & Robert Merrill

The Pearl Fishers Duet And Other Operatic Duets And Scenes

Mascagni* - Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, Pablo Elvira, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine

Cavalleria Rusticana

Caruso At The Met

Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti - Steber*, Gedda*, Elias*, Tozzi*, Resnik*, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra* & Chorus*, Dimitri Mitropoulos

A Legendary Performer

Romantic/Classical/Baroque

The Tenor Of The Century - Caruso

1973, 4xLP, Comp, Mono, Dyn + Box, RCA Red Seal,

The Tenor Of The Century - The Greatest Hits of Enrico Caruso Vol. 2

The Greatest Hits Of Enrico Caruso Volume 1

Kirsten Flagstad And Lauritz Melchior

The Incomparable Wagnerian Duo

1972, LP, Comp, Mono, RCA Victrola

The Art Of Ina Souez

1972, LP, Comp, Orion Master Recordings Inc.

Songs Of My People

Geraldine Farrar, Caruso* / Scotti* / Homer*

The Met's First Butterfly

1971, LP, Comp, Mono, Ind, RCA Victrola

Sings Donizetti

1971, LP, Album, RCA Red Seal

Heifetz On Television

Because And Other Songs Of Sentiment

Gladys Swarthout

The Art Of Gladys Swarthout

Immortal Performances 1904-1906

Richard Crooks (2), Lawrence Tibbett With Trinity Choir, Mark Andrews At The Organ*

The Crucifixion

Enrico Caruso, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Emmy Destinn, Zinka Milanov, Tito Schipa, Sigrid Onegin, Margarete Matzenauer, Giuseppe De Luca (3), Johanna Gadski, Pasquale Amato, Florence Quartararo, Ramón Vinay

Unforgettable Voices Sing Italian Opera

Arias From / Faust • Manon • Roméo Et Juliette • Lohengrin • Die Meistersinger / Don Giovanni • L'Elisir D'Amore • Tosca • Fedora • Werther • Sadko / Le Roi D'Ys • L'Arlesiana • Les Pêcheurs De Perles

Schumann-Heink*

Arias From Orfeo / Sapho / Rienzi / Mignon / Rinaldo / Le Prophète / Das Rheingold / Lucrezia Borgia / Samson Et Dalila / La Clemenza Di Tito

Tebaldi*, Richard Bonynge, Anton Guadagno, New Philharmonia Orchestra

A Tebaldi Festival

Arias From Lucia Di Lammermoor – Lakme – Rogoletto – Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail – Dinorah – Mignon – Le Coq D'Or

Boston Symphony Orchestra / Leinsdorf*, Wagner*

Leinsdorf Conducts Wagner

Richard Strauss - Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, Orchestra* And Chorus Of The German Opera, Berlin*, Heinrich Hollreiser

Scenes From Richard Strauss': Elektra, Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Der Rosenkavalier

Wagner* - Toscanini*, NBC Symphony Orchestra

Tristan And Isolde: Prelude & Love Death / Parsifal: Prelude & Good Friday Spell

Verdi* - Price*, Bergonzi*, Sereni*, Flagello*, Schippers*

Sutherland*, Bellini*

Norma (Highlights)

Opening Nights At The Met

Leontyne Price, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

Prima Donna-Great Soprano Arias From Purcell To Barber

Leontyne Price And Choir Of Men And Boys Of St. Thomas Episcopal Church*

My Favorite Hymns

Verdi*, Moffo*, Bergonzi*, Verrett*, MacNeil*, Tozzi*, Flagello*, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra And Chorus*, Fausto Cleva

Licia Albanese, RCA Italiana Symphony Orchestra, René Leibowitz

Songs Of Verdi And Italian Folk Songs

Operatic Rarities

Richard Wagner, Eileen Farrell, Set Svanholm, Erich Leinsdorf, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Siegfried, Act 3, Scene 3

Jussi Bjoerling* With Robert Merrill

Johann Strauss, Jr.*, Anna Moffo, Sergio Franchi, Risë Stevens, Jeanette Scovotti, Richard Lewis (3), George London (2), John Hauxvell, Oscar Danon*, Vienna State Opera Orchestra* And Chorus*

The Great Moments From Die Fledermaus (In English)

Giovanni Martinelli

Giovanni Martinelli

Marian Anderson

Christmas Carols

1962, LP, Mono, RCA,

Golden Voices Sing Light Music

Verdi* - Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*, Arturo Basile

Il Trovatore Highlights

Caruso - The Voice Of The Century

Great Tenor Arias

Verdi* – Price*, Vickers*, Gorr*, Merrill*, Tozzi*, Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*, Solti*

Puccini* - Moffo*, Tucker*, Costa*, Merrill*, Tozzi*, Maero*, Erich Leinsdorf

Great Tenors Sing Neapolitan Songs

Canzone Napoletana/Classical

Florence Foster Jenkins / Jenny Williams And Thomas Burns

The Glory (????) Of The Human Voice / A Faust Travesty

Verdi*, Solti* Conducting Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*, Price*, Vickers*, Gorr*, Merrill*, Tozzi*

Aïda (Highlights)

Marian Anderson

Christmas Carols

Beniamino Gigli

Gigli In His Glorious Prime

The Robert Shaw Chorale

Operatic Choruses

Arias From Faust / La Bohème / Dinorah / Carmen / Semiramide / Turandot / Lakmé

Verdi*, Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker (2), Robert Merrill, Rome Opera House Orchestra* and Chorus*, Fernando Previtali

La Traviata Highlights

Cesare Valletti

Favorite Songs From His Town Hall Recital, 1960

Verdi* / Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus* Conducted By Fernando Previtali, Anna Moffo, Richard Tucker (2), Robert Merrill

Mario Lanza Sings Caruso Favorites

Vocal/Light Music

50 Years Of Great Operatic Singing - Tenors

Beniamino Gigli

Beniamino Gigli

From The Best Of Caruso

The Art of Grace Moore

Romantic/Musical

Saint-Saëns*, Risë Stevens - Mario Del Monaco, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra* And Chorus*, Fausto Cleva

Samson And Delilah (Abridged)

Rossini* - Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Fernando Corena, Giorgio Tozzi, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra* And Chorus*, Erich Leinsdorf

The Barber Of Seville

The Art Of Song

Ponchielli*, Zinka Milanov, Giuseppe di Stefano, Leonard Warren, Rosalind Elias, Fernando Previtali

La Gioconda (Abridged)

Milanov Operatic Arias

Geraldine Farrar

Solti*, Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Tozzi* / Jean Morel

Presenting Tozzi

1958, LP, Album, Mono, RCA Victor, RCA Victor

The Best Of Caruso - Volume One

The Best Of Caruso

Mascagni* - Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjoerling*, Ettore Bastianini, Alberto Erede, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra*

Cavalleria Rusticana (Selected By The Metropolitan Opera)

The Art Of Galli-Curci

Gluck* - Risë Stevens, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Rome Opera Orchestra* And Chorus*, Pierre Monteux

Orfeo Ed Euridice

Gluck* - Risë Stevens, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Pierre Monteux, Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*

Orfeo And Euridice (Abridged)

Donizetti*, Peters* / Peerce* / Tozzi* / Maero*, Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*, Leinsdorf*

Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor

Famous Baritone Arias

The Art Of Rosa Ponselle

The Art Of Ezio Pinza

Peters*, Bjoerling*, Merrill*, Tozzi*, Rome Opera House Orchestra* and Chorus*, Jonel Perlea

Chopin*, Schumann*, Sergei Rachmaninoff*

The Art Of Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vol. 1

1955, LP, Album, Mono, RCA Victor Red Seal

Rosa Ponselle Sings Today

Gertrude Lawrence

Lady In The Dark And Nymph Errant

1954, 10", RCA Victor

Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence Successes

10", Album, Mono, His Master's Voice,

Albanese* / Bori* / De Los Angeles* / Flagstad* / Galli-Curci* / Lehmann* / Milanov* / Ponselle* / Rethberg* / Traubel*

Ten Sopranos / Ten Arias

LP, Comp, RCA Victor, RCA Victor Red Seal

The Best Of Caruso Vol. 2

LP, Comp, RCA Red Seal

Berühmte Liebesduette - Great Love Duets

LP, Album, Mono, RM, RCA Red Seal,

Verdi*, Solti* Conducting Rome Opera House Orchestra* And Chorus*, Price*, Vickers*, Gorr*, Merrill*, Tozzi*

Aïda (Querschnitt)

Gaetano Donizetti

DVD-V, La Maison de la Lirique,

Mario Lanza, Enrico Caruso

Mario Lanza Sings Caruso Favourites / From The Best Of Caruso

The Best Of Caruso Volume 2

Verdi*, Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker (2), Leonard Warren, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi

Il Trovatore - Der Troubadour

Victoria De Los Angeles, Orchestra Del Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma, Giuseppe Morelli

De Los Angeles In Opera

Kirsten Flagstad • Lauritz Melchior, Lotte Lehmann

Kundry-Parsifal Duet / Prologue To Die Gotterdammerung / Five Duets

Historische Aufnahmen 1907-1920

Kirsten Flagstad

Belcanto, Vol. 3

Verdi*, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra*, Anderson*, Milanov*, Peerce*, Peters*, Warren*, Mitropoulos*

Highlights From Verdi'S A Masked Ball

Great Love Duets From Opera