Bel Canto

Here is a list of songs sung by wonderful singers--mostly of the past--

Caruso and Ruffo, Sip el ciel, Otello, Verdi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMySAq_tiVs

Giuseppe DiStefano, Salut demeure, Faust, Gounod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9uRMplmuqA&feature=related

Jussi Bjoerllng, Robt Merrill, duet from Pearl Fishers, Bizet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdb94HbyRko

Maria Jeritza, Vissi d’arte, Tosca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvZOYDYxw8&feature=related

Miliza Korjus, Bell Song, Lakme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oQHMlBet40&feature=related

Victoria de los angeles, Ah fors’e lui, Traviata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y--PXLX84HY&feature=related

Renee Fleming, Hymn to the Moon, Dvorak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEWcYhwovEQ&feature=related

Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EUOmdxo2jE

Cesare Siepi, Don Giovanni
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F7-QBL1yX5Y

John McCormack, Il mio tesoro, Don Giovanni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFy1BsDusXM

Richard Crooks, I’m falling in love with someone, Herbert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndD_kLZX7LY&feature=related

Rose Ponselle, Vissi d’arte, Tosca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNZWnVznO0&feature=related

Titta Ruffo, Di Provenza, Traviata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7cm_IhImRM

Mary Garden, At Dawning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN027ZpuBug

Mary Garden, Depuis le jour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8eqM_Gz5Qs&feature=related

Chaliapin sings Don Quixote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDoy3en8K-8&feature=related

Chaliapin as Don Quixote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUDyOj5e_cc

Pol Plancon, aria from Le Caid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOHgcKsB6M

Horne-Sutherland, Flower duet, Lakme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JmJZHd-_Cc&feature=related

Horne-Sutherland, Norma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9o4bSSPqY

Melba-Caruso, O Soava Fanciulla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hueILWyyE&feature=related

Melba, Sempera Libera, Traviata
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhlcM05g0sM

Sembrich-Scotti, Don Pasquale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhlcM05g0sM

Schuman-Heink, Erkonig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rio9pX7SNY

Lotte Schoene, Magic Flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rio9pX7SNY

Paul Robeson, Summertime, Gershwin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAlrAuTykDo

Comparson of baritones--Rigoletto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xt06ZnV-u8&feature=related

Comparison of baritones, Barber of Seville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B73qtWvZQ7Q

Lawrence Tibbett as Scarpia in Tosca
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPfxs8UP0o&feature=related

lotte lehman sings
http://lottelehmann.org/llf/lehmann/sings/index.html

David DeVries, La dame blanche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6vtOqy9n8A

Aureliano Pertile, Di quella pira, Il Trovatore, Verdi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuoR80DKU4I

Lauri-Volpi, Di quella pira (he gets booed!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0_DVK6XsTs&NR=1

Selma Kurz, Una voce poco fa, Barber of Seville, Rossini
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NwWPna0aI&feature=related