George London
George London (1920-1985) was a Canadian-American bass-baritone, one of the major dramatic voices of the mid-twentieth century. He was especially admired in Wagner, Mozart, Mussorgsky and twentieth-century opera.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Debussy, Wagner and Metropolitan Opera repertory, including Parsifal from Bayreuth and Pelléas et Mélisande from the Met.
London’s singing combined dark vocal sp...
WAGNER Der Fliegende Holländer
VERDI La Traviata - Prelude to Act 3
Live broadcast production, Met Opera, 5 March 1960
Total duration: 2hr 23:48
Dutchman - George London
Senta - Leonie Rysanek
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Thomas Schippers, conductor
WAGNER Parsifal
Live broadcast performance, 1954
Total duration: 4hr 24:04
Parsifal - Set Svanholm
Kundry - Astrid Varnay
Amfortas - George London
Gurnemanz - Hans Hotter
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
Conducted by Fritz Stiedry
MAHLER Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, “Symphony of a Thousand”
Live recording, Carnegie Hall, New York, 9 April 1950
Total duration: 1hr 17:50
Frances Yeend, Uta Graf, Camilla Williams, Martha Lipton
Louise Bernhardt, Eugene Conley, Carlos Alexander, George London
Westminster Choir
Schola Cantorum of New York
Public School No. 12 Boys’ Chorus
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
