Browse: Robert Merrill (baritone)
This page lists all recordings performed by Robert Merrill.
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Verdi: Aida RecommendedLeontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti
Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces. His cast... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi
The Columbus Boychoir & RCA Victor Chorus & Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
A classic, with extra electricity derived from the hasty recording, with Beecham's living, vivid conducting and a superb cast, both stellar and supporting, even though the mono sound is less... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Amelia), Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Robert Merrill (Renato), Shirley Verrett (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Mario Basiola Jnr (Silvano), Ezio Flagello (Samuele), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Tom)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedGiovanni Foiani (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Leontyne Price (Leonora di Vargas), Robert Merrill (Don Carlo), Richard Tucker (Don Alvaro), Shirley Verrett (Preziosilla), Ezio Flagello (Fra Melitone), Corinna Vozza (Curra), Giorgio Tozzi (Padre Guardiano), Piero De Palma (Mastro Trabuco), Mario Rinaudo...
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Ferruccio Mazzoli (bass vocal), Reri Grist (soprano), RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Ezio Flagello (bass vocal), Robert Merrill (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano), Mario Basiola, Jr. (baritone), Fernando...
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Falstaff RecommendedGeraint Evans (Sir John Falstaff), Giulietta Simionato (Mistress Quickly), Ilva Ligabue (Alice Ford), Robert Merrill (Ford), Mirella Freni (Nannetta), Alfredo Kraus (Fenton), Rosalind Elias (Meg Page), John Lanigan (Dr Cajus), Piero de Palma (Bardolfo), Giovanni Foiani (Pistola)
RCA Italiana...
Geraint Evans has deservedly earned great praise for his splendid characterisation and singing of Falstaff ... in all this is a very good-humoured and well-rounded portrait of the part ... this... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gounod: Faust
Four-act version
Jussi Björling (Faust), Elisabeth Söderström (Marguerite), Cesare Siepi (Méphistophélès), Robert Merrill (Valentin), Mildred Miller (Siébel), Thelma Votipka (Marthe), Roald Reitan (Wagner)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Jean Morel
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Normanno), Ana Raquel Satra (Alisa)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir John Pritchard
Sutherland enthusiasts will be thrilled, as indeed I am, by the sheer beauty and power of the singing, by the soprano's total command of the technical requirements the role calls for, and by... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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