Paul Plishka

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Paul Plishka (born August 28, 1941) is a Ukrainian-American opera singer.

Mr Plishka comes from Old Forge, Pennsylvania; his parents were American-born children of Ukrainian immigrants. He is one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading basses, and has appeared in many other theatres, including the Teatro alla Scala.

[edit] Abridged discography

  • Puccini: Tosca (L.Price, Domingo, Milnes; Mehta, 1972)
  • Donizetti: Anna Bolena (Sills, Verrett, Burrows; Rudel, 1972)
  • Bellini: I puritani (Sills, Gedda, L.Quilico; Rudel, 1973)
  • Bellini: Norma (Sills, Verrett, di Giuseppe; Levine, 1973)
  • Gounod: Faust (Caballé, Aragall; Lombard, 1976)
  • Massenet: Le Cid (Bumbry, Domingo; Queler, 1976) [live]
  • Puccini: Turandot (Caballé, Freni, Carreras; Lombard, 1977)
  • Verdi: Otello (Scotto, Domingo, Milnes; Levine, 1978)
  • Bellini: Norma (Scotto, Troyanos, Giacomini; Levine, 1979)
  • Puccini: La bohème (Scotto, Neblett, Kraus, Milnes; Levine, 1979)
  • Verdi: La forza del destino (Freni, Domingo, Zancanaro; Muti, 1986)
  • Mussourgsky: Boris Godounov (Vishnevskaya, Raimondi; Rostropovich, 1987)
  • Puccini: La bohème (Réaux, Hadley, Hampson; Bernstein, 1988)
  • Verdi: Luisa Miller (Millo, Quivar, Domingo; Levine, 1991)
  • Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Te Kanawa, Upshaw; Levine, 1992)
  • "Christmas with Paul Plishka" (Erikson, 1995)
  • Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (McNair, Bostridge; Ozawa, c1996)

[edit] Abridged videography

  • Puccini: La bohème (Scotto, Niska, Pavarotti, Wixell; Levine, Melano, 1977) [live]
  • Rossini: La cenerentola (von Stade, Araiza; Abbado, Ponnelle, 1981)
  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Sutherland, Kraus, Elvíra; Bonynge, Donnell, 1982) [live]
  • Berlioz: Les troyens (Norman, Troyanos, Domingo; Levine, Melano, 1983) [live]
  • Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Tomowa-Sintow, Milnes; Levine, Capobianco, 1984) [live]
  • Puccini: Turandot (Marton, Domingo; Levine, Zeffirelli, 1987) [live]
  • Verdi: Luisa Miller (J.Anderson; Arena, Lassalle, 1988) [live]
  • Verdi: Falstaff (Freni, Horne; Levine, Zeffirelli/Mills, 1992) [live]
  • Verdi: Stiffelio (Sweet, Domingo; Levine, del Monaco, 1993) [live]

[edit] External links

  • [1] YouTube: Paul Plishka in an excerpt from Don Carlos, 1980.
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