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I guess there’s no way around this. Given Donizetti’s 70 operas, we must expect an occasional recording of an unimportant one. Running 90 minutes (with
Donizetti’s Rosmonda was first performed in Florence in 1834; it comes between Lucrezia Borgia and Maria Stuarda and lacks the distinction of either. The melodies
This is a respectable performance of Donizetti’s melodramatic adaptation of Schiller’s equally melodramatic novel in which Queen Elizabeth I, after being insulted by her Catholic
This is an entertaining performance of L’elisir d’amore, but it is far from crucial. There are dozens on the market–Pavarotti and Sutherland, Pavarotti and Battle,
La favorite is one of Donizetti’s last operas, and one of the few he composed for Paris. It debuted in December of 1840 and was
Maria Stuarda is one third of the so-called “three queen” trilogy that defined much of the career of Beverly Sills (along with Lucia, the three
This impressive concert features Alessandra Marc in a wide range of opera arias, which are divided into three groups. The first is devoted to Bellini
Luciano Pavarotti and Fiorenza Cossotto recorded this opera commercially four years after this 1974 La Scala taping, but on the whole, this performance rings truer
This was a radio broadcast from RAI in Turin in l967, when both soprano and tenor were at their freshest. Of course, recordings of them
Parisina d’Este will never be one of Donizetti’s most-performed works. Despite the fact that it comes from 1833, when the composer was at his peak,
