Osie Hawkins

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut

Live broadcast performance, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 13:13

Manon - Licia Albanese
Des Grieux - Jussi Björling
Lescaut - Frank Guarrera
Geronte - Fernando Corena
Edmondo - Thomas Hayward

Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos

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

R. STRAUSS Salome
R. STRAUSS Elektra

Live recordings, 1952
Total duration: 3hr 12:58

Ljuba Welitsch – Salome
Hans Hotter – Jochanaan
Set Svanholm – Herodes

Astrid Varnay – Elektra
Elisabeth Höngen – Clytemnestra
Paul Schöffler – Orest

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Reiner

GLUCK Alceste (performed in English)

Live broadcast performance, 1952
Total duration: 2hr 11:59

Alceste - Kirsten Flagstad
Admète - Brian Sullivan
High Priest - Frank Valentino
Oracle - Alois Pernerstorfer
Évandre - Emery Darcy
Herald - Norman Scott

Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Alberto Erede