The world-famous soprano, Sylvia Sass made her debut on the stage of the Hungarian State Opera House in 1971. During her stage career, which spanned 24 years, she sang nearly 50 leading roles. Hungaroton have compiled the programme of her jubilee CD from her favourite Lieder and opera roles: alongside Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder, which huge emotional depths, and Wagner’s Wesedonck-Lieder, the best known arias from operas by Boito (Mefistofele), Catalani (La Wally), Cilea (Adriana Lecouvreur), Gounod (Faust), Mascagni (Cavalleria Rusticana), Verdi (Un ballo in maschera, Otello, La forza del destino) and Wagner (Tannhäuser) can be heard. Three of Mozart’s concert arias also feature in the two-CD selection.

• Boito: L'altra notte in fondo al mare (from Mefistofele)
• Boito: Mefistofele
• Catalani: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (from La Wally)
• Catalani: La Wally
• Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
• Cilea: Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
• Cilea: Poveri fiori (from Adriana Lecouvreur)
• Gounod: Faust
• Gounod: Il était un roi de Thule... Ah! je ris (from Faust)
• Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
• Mascagni: Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana)
• Mozart: Ah, lo previdi... Ah, t'invola agl'occhi miei, K272
• Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?... Non temer, amato bene, K505
• Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
• Mozart: Oh smania! oh furie!...D'Oreste, d'Aiace (from Idomeneo)
• Strauss, R: Vier letzte Lieder
• Verdi: Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera)
• Verdi: La forza del destino
• Verdi: Otello
• Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
• Wagner: Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser)
• Wagner: Tannhäuser
• Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder