Updates
Frequent visitors to my site may find it helpful to know which changes are included in an update, so that you don't have to browse through all the data pages of a given opera in order to find it out for yourselves. From July 2003 onwards, the updates will be described on this page. I cannot guarantee that every detail will be as meticulously recorded as you might expect (sometimes updates consist of simple corrections only, like the spelling of names); however, I will make a serious effort to indicate at least those changes which are more important.
| Update | Data | Audio Files |
| 2003/01/07 | A new Ballo recording (no. 62); a new Nabucco (no. 21); a major cast correction (Macbeth no. 28); some new private acquisitions (marked*); a few corrections with regard to casts, and a few additions of new labels to recordings already on the market. | |
| 2003/03/09 | A new date and label for Aida cond. Capuana, with Curtis Verna, Dominguez, Borsò, Bastianini (was 1954, now 1952); a new Aida (live from Parma 1988); a new Alzira (live from NY Carnegie Hall 2003); a new Attila (live from NY Carnegie Hall 2003); a new Due Foscari (live from Bruxelles 2003); two new Luisas (live from Amsterdam 1997, London 2003); two new Macbeths (live from Philadelphia 2003, Amsterdam 2003); a new Nabucco (live from New Orleans 1978); two new Otellos (live from Paris 2001, Orange 2003); a new Requiem (live from Friedrichshafen 1977); a new Rigoletto (live from Wien 1974); a new Trovatore (live from Munich 1992); quite a few new private acquisitions (marked*); a few corrections with regard to casts, and a few additions of new labels of recordings already in the discography. | |
| 2003/10/30 | A new recording of Aida from Wien (1964/06/14 no. 56 in the list); a new entry for Attila under the date of
1987/02/21 (live from Venezia); a new recording of Un Ballo in maschera, live from London (1971/02/17); three new recordings of Don Carlo, one from Sofia National Opera in Bulgarian (1960/11/16 live), the next from Salzburg (1976/07/26),
the third from Stockholm (1999/2000 live); a new entry for I Due Foscari, live from La Scala (1988/01/12); a new Lombardi
from San Diego (1979/06/22 live); a new Macbeth from Sofia, again in Bulgarian (1974/6/3 live), and a second live performance of
this opera from Barcelona (1997/03/05); a new Nabucco, live from Sofia (1968/5/28 in Bulgarian); a Rigoletto in Bulgarian
from Ruse Opera (1957/ live); a new entry for the French version of Verdi's Trovatore, Le Trouvère (live from Tulsa,
1990/11/03), and a new Trovatore (2001, live from Mannheim); information about a cut in the Ernani recording from London
(2000/05/13); important information about major cuts in a Jérusalem recording sold by House of Opera on the internet, without
indicating the abridgement (1998/03/08 from New York); important information about major cuts in a Nabucco recording sold by House of
Opera on the internet, without indicating the abridgement (1996/07/21 from Verona). And, as in previous updates, a few new private acquisitions (marked*), a few corrections with regard to casts, and a few additions of new labels of recordings already in the discography... |
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| 2025/09/30 | A major relaunch incorporating quite a number of improvements with regard to the handling of the site, the possibilities to search the database, or the presentation of the data (lists and individual recordings, and the possibilities to search on these pages). I greatly expanded the number of music extracts for each opera. In principle, you may now listen through all important parts of an opera, though always with different casts; for the major rôles, I have chosen an aria, a duet etc. and illustrated it by quite a number of recordings, so that you may thus compare singers, conductors and their interpretations. On the music pages, you may search the page for names, places, orchestras, dates etc., and via another search box on the same page you can enter file numbers to play music tracks in sequence. | |
| 2026/09/07 | I updated the music pages of Un Ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, Luisa Miller, Nabucco, and Simon Boccanegra by adding missing or new recordings. Un Gioro di regno (77), Macbeth (606), Rigoletto (902) and I Vespri siciliani (185) are now next to complete with regard to extracts. | |
| 2026/10/22 | I added the first 50 recordings of Aida (206 extracts). | |
| 2026/10/24 | I updated the La Traviata music page and added quite a number of recordings. However, the collection is not yet complete. |