Paul Franke

VERDI Otello

Live broadcast performance, 1958
Total duration: 2 hr 13:32 (including radio announcements)

Otello - Mario Del Monaco
Desdemona - Victoria de los Angeles
Iago - Leonard Warren

Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
conducted by Fausto Cleva

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

BUSONI Doktor Faust

Live US concert première, 1964
Total duration: 2hr 6:12

Doktor Faust - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Wagner - Malcolm Smith
Mephistopheles - George Shirley
Duke of Parma - Paul Franke
Duchess of Parma - Ingrid Bjoner

American Opera Society Chorus and Orchestra
Chorus Director: Margaret Hillis
Conducted by Jascha Horenstein

MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana
LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci

Studio recordings, 1953
Total duration: 2hr 20:44

Turiddu - Jussi Björling
Santuzza - Zinka Milanov
Alfio - Robert Merrill
Mamma Lucia - Margaret Roggero
Lola - Carol Smith

Canio - Jussi Björling
Nedda - Victoria de los Angeles
Tonio - Leonard Warren
Silvio - Robert Merrill
Beppe - Paul Franke

The Columbus Boychoir
The Robert Shaw Chorale
RCA Victor Orchestra
conducted by Renato Cellini