

Poliuto is Donizetti’s 57th opera and it contains some of his greatest music, including a procession and series of choruses to which Verdi paid homage

Marino Faliero was premiered in l835 in Paris; it was the opera Donizetti composed directly before Lucia di Lammermoor. It takes place in Venice in

This lovely studio recording of Donizetti’s best-known comic opera was made in l953 and has a lot to recommend it. Margherita Carosio was a charming

For what seems like centuries I have been told that unless I heard Lily Pons as Marie in La Fille du Régiment, I couldn’t appreciate

Bidú Sayao’s commercial recital discs realy did not do her justice – they present a sweet, clear voice and fine musicianship, and if one listens
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