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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

VERDI Rigoletto

Live performance, 1945
Total duration 1hr 58:51

Rigoletto - Leonard Warren
Gilda - Bidú Sayão
Duke of Mantua - Jussi Björling
Maddalena - Martha Lipton
Sparafucile - Norman Cordon
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Cesare Sodero

VERDI Un Ballo in Maschera

Recorded in 1940
Total duration: 2hr 10:18

Amelia - Zinka Milanov
Riccardo - Jussi Björling
Renato - Alexander Sved
Ulrica - Bruna Castagna
Oscar - Stella Andreva

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Ettore Panizza

VERDI Aïda

Studio recording, 1955
Producer and XR Remastering: Andrew Rose
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Jussi Björling
Total duration: 2hr 26:44

Zinka Milanov soprano
Fedora Barbieri mezzo-soprano
Jussi Björling tenor
Leonard Warren baritone
Boris Christoff bass
Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Jonel Perlea

VERDI Il Trovatore

Live recording, 1941
Total duration: 2hr 16:13

Manrico - Jussi Björling
Leonora - Norina Greco
Count Di Luna - Frank Valentino
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
Conductor Ferruccio Calusio

PUCCINI La Bohème

Studio recording, 1956
Total duration: 1hr 47:14

Rodolfo - Jussi Björling
Mimi - Victoria de los Angeles
Marcello - Robert Merrill
Columbus Boys Choir
RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham

PUCCINI Tosca

Stereo studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 1hr 53:29

Tosca - Zinka Milanov
Cavaradossi - Jussi Björling
Scarpia - Leonard Warren
Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

PUCCINI Turandot

Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 1hr 54:30

La principessa Turandot - Birgit Nilsson
Calaf - Jussi Björling
Liù - Renata Tebaldi
Ping - Mario Sereni
Pang - Piero De Palma
Pong - Tommaso Frascati

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell'opera di Roma
conducted by Erich Leinsdorf

GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette

Live performance, 1947
Total duration: 2hr 23:20

Roméo - Jussi Björling
Juliette - Bidú Sayão
Frère Laurence - Nicola Moscona

Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
conducted by Emil Cooper

BEETHOVEN Overtures
BEETHOVEN Funeral March from Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 'Great'

Studio recordings, 1919-1932
Total duration: 2hr 27:17

Berlin State Opera Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leo Blech

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings
TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien

Recorded 1928-1930
Total duration: 57:25

Berlin State Opera Orchestra
conducted by Leo Blech

Blind Blake - Vocals, guitar

With Unknown, rattlebones (track 4)
Gus Cannon, banjo (track 8)
Jimmy Bertrand, xylophone, vocal (track 10)
poss. George 'Bullet' Williams, harmonica (track 12)
Alex Robinson, piano (track 13)
poss. Aletha Dickerson, piano (track 18)

Recorded 1926-1932
Total duration: 79:52