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Margherita Grandi (né Margaret Gard) was an Australian spinto soprano who certainly lived up to her adopted name, with a big, powerful voice and temperament
On some level, this Trovatore didn’t really need to be a video. The opera is set in an eternal night, with moonlight moodily illuminating what
Il Corsaro is one of Verdi’s weakest operas, with uni-dimensional characters and scene following scene in a lackluster fashion–but oddly, if you listen to it
If only there weren’t at least a half-dozen superb performances of this opera available it would be easier to get excited about this one, taped
Having practically waxed poetic recently about the Traviata from Madrid starring Norah Amsellem, I’m feeling a bit fickle: the one under consideration here, the hit
This set is the soundtrack to the film of the opera by Franco Zeffirelli. While there were cuts in the film–including the Willow Song!–the recording
There are about two-and-a-half reasons to own this recording of the four-act version of Don Carlo, taped live in December, 1992 in Milan–not nearly enough,
In 1998 the Martina Franca Festival presented the 1847 version of Verdi’s Macbeth, and it was recorded by and released on the Dynamic label. Although
Taped live in Modena in January, 2006, the underwhelming applause into which the audience occasionally ambles should have given the company releasing these CDs a
This Traviata, recorded in 1962, was the first presented uncut, with both verses of the famous arias, intermediary passages, and the inclusion of both Alfredo’s
