Duets and More

Great Voices of the Past

Victor Gang - Opera Stars of 1925

Click on the button next to the artists’ names for a picture, information and a sound clip.


Selection button Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963)
Giuseppe De Luca (1876-1950)

“Piangi, piangi” from Rigoletto


Selection button John Brownlee (1901-1969)
Audrey Mildmay (1900-1953)

“La ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni


Selection button Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969)
Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960)

“Si pel ciel” from Otello


Selection button Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Titta Ruffo (1877-1953)

“Si pel ciel” from Otello


Selection button Frances Alda (1879-1952)
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Marcel Journet (1867-1933)

Act 3 trio from I Lombardi


Selection button Johanna Gadski (1872-1932)
Enrico Caruso

“O terra addio” from Aïda


Selection button Maria Barrientos (1874-1946)
Charles Hackett (1889-1942)

Duet from Rigoletto


Selection button Maria Barrientos (1884-1946)
Riccardo Stracciari (1875-1955)

“Dunque io son” (Act II duet) from Il barbiere di Siviglia


Selection button Jussi Björling (1911-1960)
Zinka Milanov (1906-1989)
Leonard Warren (1911-1960)

Act I Trio from Il trovatore


Selection button Jussi Björling (1911-1960)
Zinka Milanov (1906-1989)

Act II Duet from Un ballo in maschera


Selection button Josef von Manowarda (1890-1942)
with Maria Müller, Margarete Klose, Franz Völker, Jaro Prohaska

“Mein Herr und Gott” from Tannhäuser


Selection button Maria Müller (1898-1958)
Franz Völker (1899-1965)

“Das süße Lied verhalt” from Lohengrin


Selection button Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Mario Ancona (1860-1931)

Duet from Les pêcheurs des perles


Selection button Elizabeth Rethberg (1894-1976)
Beniamino Gigli (1890-1957)
Ezio Pinza (1892-1957)

Act III Trio from I Lombardi alla prima crociata


Selection button Charles Hackett (1889-1942)
Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981)

Final Duet from Aïda


Selection button Maria Callas (1924-1977)
Giuseppe Di Stefano (b. 1921)
Tito Gobbi (b. 1915)

Act II Trio from Un ballo in maschera
Scene from Act II of Tosca


Selection button Georges Thill (1897-1984)
Germaine Cernay (1900-1943)

“Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” from Samson et Dalila


Selection button Licia Albanese (b. 1913)
Jan Peerce (1904-1984)

“Libiamo” from La Traviata


Selection button Lina Pagliughi (1907-1980)
Tino Folgar and Luigi Piazza

Duets from Rigoletto


Selection button The Seven-Dollar Sextet
“Chi me frena in tal momento” from Lucia di Lammermoor
Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935)
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)
Antonio Scotti (1866-1936)
Marcel Journet (1870-1933)
Barbara Severina
Francesco Daddi (1864-1945)