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Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera live 1955) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Maria Giulini, Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini, Silvio Maionica, Luisa Mandelli, Arturo La Porta
EMI Classics
EMI Classics
This live recording of the 1955 Visconti production at La Scala is the best of the available Maria Callas Traviata s. Aside from a minor pitch problem or two, she's in great voice, coloring phrases to reveal character and investing the coloratura...
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Massenet - Thaïs / Fleming, Hampson, Sabbatini, Shkosa, Vidal, Devellereau, Cals, Yves Abel
Jules Massenet, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Yves Abel, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Elisabeth Vidal, Marie Devellereau, Enkelejda Shkosa, Stefano Palatchi
Decca
Decca
Given the renaissance in recent years of an interest in Jules Massenet--consider, for example, the 1999 release of two Werther s back to back--the time definitely has become ripe for a new account of his late opera, Thaïs . This is the first...
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Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Freni, Cappuccilli, Carreras, Ghiaurov, van Dam, Foiani, Teatro alla Scala, Abbado
Giuseppe Verdi, Claudio Abbado, Mirella Freni, José Carreras, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, José van Dam, Giovanni Foiani, Maria Fausta Gallamini
Deutsche Grammophon
Deutsche Grammophon
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The Anna Russell Album
Sony
Sony
This set of Anna Russell's inspired satirical monologues should be labeled with a warning notice. Why? Because after listening to her whirlwind explication of Wagner's Ring Cycle, even the most confirmed Wagnerite will be unable to listen to the...
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Verdi - Rigoletto / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, LSO, Bonynge
Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Bonynge, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, London Symphony Orchestra, Sherrill Milnes, Joseph Clement, John Gibbs, Clifford Grant, Kiri Te Kanawa, Gillian Knight, Ricardo Cassinelli, Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Decca
Decca
This Rigoletto has been around for so long it might be easy to take it for granted or skip it for a newer set. Don't! It features all three principals in superb voice, as well as pacing from Maestro Bonynge that is much heavier on drama than...
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Puccini: Tosca (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Victor de Sabata, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Giacomo Puccini, Victor De Sabata, Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
EMI Classics
EMI Classics
Little can be added to what's been written about this landmark recording, except that Walter Legge's 1953 mono production yields nothing to modern Tosca recordings for vivacity and theatrical impact--especially Maria Callas's. The miraculous...
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Puccini - Il Trittico / Alagna, Gheorghiu, Guelfi, Guleghina, Gallardo-Domás, Manca di Nissa, Palmer, Shicoff, van Dam, LSO, PO, Pappano
Giacomo Puccini, Antonio Pappano, Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Felicity Palmer, José van Dam, Carlo Guelfi, Maria Guleghina, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Neil Shicoff, Francesca Pedaci, Patrizia Ciofi, Roberto Scaltriti, Dorothea Röschmann, Sara Fulgoni, Philharmonia Orchestra
EMI Classics
EMI Classics
Aficionados are familiar with Puccini's Il Trittico or "Triptych," his three one-act operas that premiered at New York's Metropolitan in 1918; everyday opera lovers should know them as well. Here is Puccini at his most imaginative: Il Tabarro , a...
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