Lauritz Melchior
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume 3: Götterdämmerung, Motives and Extras
Studio recordings, 1926-31
Total duration: 2hr 23:59 and 60:30
Florence Austral ∙ Walter Widdop
Rudolf Laubenthal ∙ Maartje Offers ∙ Ivar Andrésen
Lauritz Melchior ∙ Friedrich Schorr
Götterdämmerung: Albert Coates ∙ Leo Blech
Appendix: Lawrance Collingwood ∙ Leo Blech ∙ Karl Muck
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume Two: Siegfried
Studio recordings, 1928-32
Total duration: 2hr 31:10
Lauritz Melchior ∙ Florence Easton ∙ Friedrich Schorr
Heinrich Tessmer ∙ Eduard Habich ∙ Albert Reiss
Rudolf Bockelmann ∙ Emil Schipper ∙ Maria Olszewska ∙ Nora Gruhn
Robert Heger ∙ Albert Coates ∙ Karl Alwin, conductors
WAGNER Die Walküre
Live broadcast stage performance, February 1940
Total duration: 3hr 28:56
Siegmund - Lauritz Melchior
Sieglinde - Marjorie Lawrence
Hunding - Emanuel List
Brünhilde - Kirsten Flagstad
Wotan - Julius Huehn
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
WAGNER Lohengrin
Live broadcast performance, 1940
Total duration: 3hr 8:22
Lohengrin - Lauritz Melchior
Elsa - Elisabeth Rethberg
Ortrud - Kerstin Thorborg
Telramund - Julius Huehn
King Heinrich - Emanuel List
Herald - Leonard Warren
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf
WAGNER Tannhäuser
Live concert recording, 1941
Total duration: 2hr 57:32
Lauritz Melchior - Tannhäuser
Kirsten Flagstad - Elisabeth
Emanuel List - Landgraf Hermann
Herbert Janssen - Wolfram
Kerstin Thorborg - Venus
Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde
Tristan - Lauritz Melchior
Isolde - Kirsten Flagstad
Brangaene - Kerstin Thorborg
Marke - Alexander Kipnis
Kurwenal - Julius Huehn
Live broadcast performance, 1941
Total duration: 3hr 25:56
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf