Osie Hawkins
Osie Hawkins was a singer represented in the Pristine catalogue through Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and studio opera recordings from the 1950s.
His appearances include Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, Wagner’s Parsifal, Gluck’s Alceste and Strauss’s Salome and Elektra.
Because wider public biographical detail is limited, this note is kept focused on the recording evidence and his repeated c...
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
