Bidu Sayao

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

DEBUSSY Le Martyr de San Sébastien (excerpts)
DEBUSSY Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune
DEBUSSY Nocturnes
DEBUSSY Images: 2. Ibèria
DEBUSSY La Damoiselle Elue
DEBUSSY La Mer

Recorded Sunday 19th April 1936
Total Duration: 1hr 50:43

Bidú Sayão, soprano
Rose Bampton, contralto
Women's Chorus of the Schola Cantorum
Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York
conducted by Arturo Toscanini

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

Broadcast performance, 1942
Total duration: 2hr 00:23