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Largo al factotum della città - El barbero de Sevilla - Peter Mattei - Rossini - Metropolitan Opera House - 2006

Giorgio Zancanaro in I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini (Bregenz 1985)

"Or dove fuggo io mai...Ah! per sempre io ti perdei "

Giorgio Zancanaro sings the aria "Dagli immortali vertici" and the aria "E gettata la mia sorte", from Verdi's opera Attila

Count Danilo (Sir Thomas Allen) attempts to identify the owner of the mysterious fan then performs the English version of 'Ja, das Studium der Weib...

Sir Thomas Allen sings the English version of 'O Vaterland, du machst bei Tag!' from Franz Lehar's 'The Merry Widow'.

Thomas Allen - Count Danilo ...

Claudio Monteverdi "Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria" (freely adapted by Hans Werner Henze)

Salzburg Festival, 1985 (or 1987)

Ulisse - Thomas Allen ...

Live recordind of Arnoldo's terrific aria.

- Arnoldo: Giacomo Lauri-Volpi

- Conductor: Ernesto Panizza

- Orchestra: Teatro Alla Scala

- Year: 1930...

Conducted by Riccardo Chailly. Pavarotti sings the scena from act 4 of Rossini's 'Guglielmo Tell'.

'Maldito Candelabro' Un blog para hablar de la o...

Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and chorus sing 'Sur la place, chacun passe' from Bizet's 'Carmen'.

Probably the earliest recording of Alle...

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Date: 7 July 1988

Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent ...

Iphigénie en Tauride, Paris Opera 1984.

The "visions" of Oreste who has killed his mother.

Paris 1984

In December 2002 I had the opportunity to begin study with the great Franco Corelli. Whilst Maestro was retired from teaching I felt greatly honour...

The World's Greatest Tenor FRANCO CORELLI sings Gaetano Donizetti's

- Poliuto -

(Serata di gala per l'apertura della stagione): Milano, Teatro alla...

(Verdi: Aida) Metropolitan Opera Spring Tour, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1967.

Yes, he did do it live.

1960

Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816)

Composer: Gioachino Rossini

Date: 24 October 1975

Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor: Alberto Zedda...

The Count's aria "Hai già vinta la causa / Vedrò mentre io sospiro" from Act III of Gardiner's production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Featu...

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1926)

C'est l'extase (Paul Verlaine)

Thomas Allen, baritone

Roger Vignoles

Poem by Paul Verlaine (1844-96)

Picture: Kiss, Théo...

Le baryton autrichien dans le célèbre "Tannhäuser" du 1962 à Bayreuth avec Brumbry, Silja et Windgassen. Une interpretation vraiment exquise.

Part 1/2 of George Butterworth's "Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad" (settings of Housman's poems)

Thomas Allen, baritone

Geoffrey Parsons, piano

Par...

Johannes Schaaf's production of NOZZE DI FIGARO premiered at Covent Garden in 1987

Count - Thomas Allen

conductor - Bernard Haitink

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Don Giovanni", KV 527

Dramma giocoso in two acts with Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

Scena X d

No. 21b Recitativo a...

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Date: 7 July 1988

Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent ...

Le merveilleux Valentin de Blanc dans l'enregistrement de Cluytens. Quel chanteur mon Dieu! On ne peux chanter mieux...Je ne comprends pas pourquoi...

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor: Georg Solti

Countess: Kiri Te Kanawa

Count: Thomas Allen

Figaro: Samuel Ramey

Susanna: Lucia Popp

Cheru...

Sir Thomas Allen sings Ford's aria 'È sogno o realtà' from Falstaff (1893) by Giuseppe Verdi.

Thomas Allen - Ford

Conducted by Ralf Weikert

22n...

Gino Bechi and Dora Gatta sing "Dunque io son" from

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini

VICTOR DE SABATA, conductor

Orchestra del Teatro a...

Gino Bechi and Cesare Valetti sing "All`idea di quel metallo" from

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini

VICTOR DE SABATA, conductor

Orchest...

The great Gino Bechi sings "Largo al factotum" from

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini

VICTOR DE SABATA, conductor

Orchestra del Teatro a...

"Deh vieni alla finestra" from Don Giovanni (Aix en Provence).

Don Giovanni: Peter Mattei

In my personal opinion, this is the best rendition of ...

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Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent ...

Act IV scene 4 (end) of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande"

Pelleas - Thomas Allen

Melisande - Ann Howells

conductor - Colin Davis

Royal Opera House,...

A video montage to celebrate forty years of one of Britain's greatest baritones, Sir Thomas Allen. On 18 October 1969, the then 25-year-old bariton...

Hamlet (1868)

Ambroise Thomas

Buxton Festival, 1980

Hamlet: Thomas Allen

Horatio: Philip Gelling

Marcellus: John Harris

Buxton Festival Chorus

M...

Sir Thomas Allen sings Valentin's aria: 'Avant de quitter ces lieux' from Gounod's 'Faust'.

Thomas Allen - Valentin

Georges Prêtre

Orchestre de ...

A rare performance of rarely performed songs by Gustav Holst (usually associated with big orchestral pieces):

from "Hymns from the Rig Veda", Gusta...

Sir Thomas Allen sings the aria 'Donne mie, la fate a tanti' from Mozart's 'Cosi fan tutte'.

Thomas Allen - Guglielmo

Anson Austin - Ferrando

Lon...

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Fiordiligi Carol Vaness

Dorabella Susanne Mentzer

Despina Cecilia Bartoli

Ferrando Jerry Hadley

Guglielm...

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