Laurel Hurley
Laurel Hurley (February 14, 1927 – December 6, 2013) was an American soprano performer. She performed a diverse repertoire from musical theatre, operetta and opera, encompassing roles in the lyric soprano and coloratura soprano repertoire. While most often heard in works from the standard opera canon by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and other composers, she also performed in the premieres of Thomas Arne's Comus, Christoph Willibald Gluck's Paride ed Elena, and Darius Milhaud's Médée. Her performances and recordings in operas such as Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula and I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola, and The Barber of Seville in the United States. contributed to the Bel canto revival movement of the 1950s. Hurley was a principal artist at the Metropolitan Opera from 1955 through 1967, and performed with other American opera companies like the New York City Opera, Opera Company of Boston, New Orleans Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. Her voice is preserved on complete opera recordings made with the Met, including the roles of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute (1957) and Mussetta in Puccini's La bohème (1958). She also made several recordings of complete operas with the American Opera Society (AOS) on disc and the NBC Opera Theatre for television.
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- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 15: "Ferma, perfido, ferma!..." (Elvira, Masetto, Zerlina, Ottavio)
- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 13: "Dunque, quello sei tu" (Zerlina, Elvira, Ottavio, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 12: "Mille torbidi pensieri" (Ottavio, Anna, Elvira, Leporello, Zerlina, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 11: "Sola, sola, in bulo loco" (Ottavio, Anna, Elvira, Leporello, Zerlina, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 9: "Vedrai, carino" (Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act II, Scene 8: "Lascia ch'io senta:" (Giovanni, Masetto, Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 34: "Ecco il birbo che t'ha offesa:" (Tutti)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 33: "Riposate, vezzose ragazze." (Tutti)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 30: "Tra quest'arbori celata" (Zerlina, Giovanni, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 29: "Presto presto pria ch'ei venga" (Masetto, Zerlina, Giovanni, Coro)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 28: "Guarda un po' come seppe" (Masetto, Giovanni, Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 27: "Batti, batti, o bel Masetto," (Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 26: "Masetto, senti un po'!" (Zerlina, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 15: "Férmati scellerato:" (Elvira, Zerlina, Giovanni)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 14: "Là ci darem la mano," (Giovanni, Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 13: "Alfin siamo liberati," (Giovanni, Zerlina)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 11: "Manco male è partita." (Giovanni, Leporello, Zerlina, Masetto)
- Don Giovanni, Act I, Scene 10: "Giovinette che fate all'amore," (Zerlina, Coro, Masetto)
- Boris Godunov, Act II The Tsar's Chambers in the Kremlin: Scene (Boris, Xenia, Feodor) [Live]
- Boris Godunov, Act II The Tsar's Chambers in the Kremlin: Scene (Nurse, Xenia, Feodor) [Live]
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