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Lauris Elms

Lauris Margaret Elms (born 20 October 1931) is an Australian retired contralto, renowned for her roles in opera and lieder and as a recording artist.
Image for Graun: Montezuma – Excerpts (Opera Gala – Volume 6)
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Montezuma / Act 1: Sinfonia. Allegro - Andante - Allegro
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Montezuma / Act 1: Somiglia il buon monarca
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Montezuma / Act 1: Non saprei curare il vanto
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Montezuma / Act 1: Godi l'amabile
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Montezuma / Act 1: “Se il dovere in quest'addio”
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Montezuma / Act 1: Non han calma le mie pene
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Montezuma / Act 2: Venite intrepidi
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Montezuma / Act 2: Passaggero che tenta la sorte
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Montezuma / Act 2: Erra quel nobil core
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Montezuma / Act 2: Barbaro, barbaro
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Montezuma / Act 2: The Battle (Allegro)
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Montezuma / Act 3: Qual orribil destino
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Montezuma / Act 3: Ah, d'inflessibil sorte
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Montezuma / Act 3: Ah, sol per te, ben mio
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Montezuma / Act 3: Sì, per la rea congiura
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Montezuma / Act 3: Oh cielo! ahi, giorno orribile (Chorus of Mexicans)
Image for Bononcini: Griselda – Excerpts (Opera Gala – Volume 5)
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Griselda: Overture
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Griselda: Al mio nativo prato
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Griselda: Parto, parto, amabile ben mio
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Griselda: Affetto, gioia e riso
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Griselda: Timor e speme
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Griselda: Volgendo a me lo sguardo
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Griselda: Non deggio, no, sperare
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Griselda: Dal mio petto
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Griselda: Per la gloria d'adorarvi
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Griselda: Le fere a risvegliar
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Griselda: Che giova fuggire
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Griselda: Dolce sogno
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Griselda: Se, vaga pastorella
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Griselda: Caro addio dal labbro amato
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Griselda: Dell'offesa vendicarti
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Griselda: Troppo è il dolore
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Griselda: Quel timoroso cervo
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Griselda: Eterni dei
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Griselda: Per te, mio sole bene
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Griselda: Viva, viva! s'innalzi e splenda
Image for Britten Conducts Peter Grimes
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Peter Grimes, Prologue: I. Peter Grimes!
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Peter Grimes, Prologue: II. You Salied Your Boat Around The Coast
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Peter Grimes, Prologue: III. Peter Grimes, I Here Advise You
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Peter Grimes, Prologue: IV. The Truth... The Pity...
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Peter Grimes, Prologue: V. Interlude I: On the Beach
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Peter Grimes, Act One: I. Oh, Hang At Open Doors
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Peter Grimes, Act One: II. Hi! Give Us a Hand
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Peter Grimes, Act One: III. I Have to Go from Pub to Pub
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Peter Grimes, Act One: IV. Let Her Among You Without Fault, Cast the First Stone
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Peter Grimes, Act One: V. Look, The Storm Cone!
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Peter Grimes, Act One: VI. And Do You Prefer the Storm
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Peter Grimes, Act One: VII. What Harbor Shelters Peace
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Peter Grimes, Act One: VIII. Interlude II: The Storm
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Peter Grimes, Act One: IX: Past Time to Close!
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Peter Grimes, Act One: X. We Live and Let Live
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Peter Grimes, Act One: XI. Have You Heard?
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Peter Grimes, Act One: XII. Now the Great Bear and Pleiades
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Peter Grimes, Act One: XIII. Old Joe Has Gone Fishing
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Peter Grimes, Act One: XIV. The Bridge Is Down, We Half Swam Over
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: I. Interlude III: Sunday Morning by the Beach
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: II. Glitter of Waves
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: III. Let This Be a Holiday
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: IV. This Unrelenting Work
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: V. Fool to Let It Come to This
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: VI. What Is It?
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: VII. People!... I Willl Speak!
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: VIII. We Planned That Their Lives
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: IX; Swallow! Shall We Go?
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: X. Now Is Gossip Put on Trial
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: XI. From the Gutter
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: XII. Interlude IV: Passacaglia
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: XIII. Go There!
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: XIV. Now!... Now!
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Peter Grimes, Act Two: XV. Peter Grimes! Nobody Here?
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: I. Interlude V: Evening
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: II. Assign Your Prettiness to Me
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: III. Pah! Mr. Keene, Mr. Keene
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: IV. Come Along Doctor!
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: V. Embroidery in Childhood
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: VI. Mr. Swallow! I Want the Lawyer Swallow!
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: VII. Who Holds Himself Apart
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: VIII. Interlude VI: Fog
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: IX. Grimes! Grimes!
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: X. Peter. We've Come to Take You Home
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Peter Grimes, Act Three: XI. To Those Who Pass the Borough.
Image for Goossens: The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77 (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: Prelude (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: The Vision of the Glory of God - The Vision of the Book of Destiny (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: The Opening of the Seals of the Book of Destiny (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: The Four Horsemen (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: The Martyrs - The Earthquake (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 1: The Sounding of the Trumpets - The Cataclysms - The Bottomless Pit - The Four and Twenty Elders (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: Interlude. The Vision of the Ark of the Covenant (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: The Worship of the Beast (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: The Song of the Elect - The Scarlet Women (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: The Fall of Babylon (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: The Song of the Victors (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: The Binding of Satan (Live)
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: A New Heaven, and a New Earth (The New Order) [Live]
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The Apocalypse, Op. 64, G. 77, Pt. 2: Alleluia (Live)
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Faust, CG 4 / Act 3: No. 14b Air des bijoux: "Ah! Je ris de me voir"
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Nymphes et Sylvains
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La Bohème / Act 3: Addio dolce svegliare alla mattina (Quartet) - Live
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Manon / Act 3: "Obéissons quand leur voix appelle"
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New Year Song
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Il Trovatore / Act 4: "Miserere d'un'alma"
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Manon Lescaut / Act 2: "In quelle trine morbide"
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Rigoletto / Act 1: "Caro nome"
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Absent
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Manon Lescaut: "C'est l'histoire amoureuse"
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Lucia di Lammermoor / Act 1: "Regnava nel silenzio"
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Killarney: Killarney
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La traviata / Act 1: "Follie! Delirio vano è questo!" - "Sempre libera"
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Madama Butterfly / Act 2: "Un bel dì vedremo"
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Lullaby
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Darby And Joan
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Myrthen, op.25: "Du bist wie eine Blume"
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I Passed By Your Window
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Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 / Act 2: "Samson, recherchant ma présence ... Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse"
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Bless This house
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Waiata Poi
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Ben Bolt (Trilby’s Song)
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Pagliacci / Act 2: "No, Pagliaccio non son"
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Macushla
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Madama Butterfly / Act 1: "Amore O Grillo"
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The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38 / Part 2: "Jesu! By That Shuddering Dread"
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The Sorcerer / Act 1: 5. "Time Was, When Love And I Were Well Acquainted"
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Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2: "Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe"
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Six Australian Bush Songs: 1. The Land Of "Who Knows Where!"
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Six Australian Bush Songs: 2. Bush Silence
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Six Australian Bush Songs: 4. Comrades Of Mine
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Six Australian Bush Songs: 5. Bush Night Song
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Six Australian Bush Songs: 6. The Stock-Rider's Song
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The Floral Dance
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 / Act 2: "O Ruddier Than The Cherry"
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Hiawatha / Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: "Onaway! Awake, beloved!"
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Old John Bax
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Don Giovanni, K.527 / Act 2: "Deh! vieni alla finestra"
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The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty / Act 2: 31. “When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment”
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Lohengrin, WWV 75 / Act 1: "The King's Prayer"
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Tannhäuser, WWV 70 / Act 2: "Elisabeth’s Greeting"
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Die Walküre, WWV 86B / Zweiter Akt: "Hojotoho! Hojotoho!"
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act 2: "Welches Unholds List liegt hier verhohlen?"
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Macbeth / Act 2: "La luce langue"
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Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D / Act 3: "Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort"
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Spring Waters (Vesenniye vodi), Op. 14, No. 11
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Albert Herring, Op. 39 / Act 1: "Is This All You Can Bring?"
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Comin' Thro' The Rye
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The Boys’ Brigade
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The Comedy of Errors - Incidental Music to Shakespeare's play: Lo! Here The Gentle Lark