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This 1972 concert performance of Verdi’s French-language, original Don Carlos is more than complete; it contains music that was cut before the first performance and
This 3-CD set gives us one complete performance of Forza made up of the first two acts presented on March 14, 1953 along with the
Imagine! An all-Italian cast in an Italian opera! What we have here is the four-act Don Carlo with a cast that was considered luxurious for
This 1956 Ballo is very exciting and has a wonderful performance by Giuseppe di Stefano at its center. His ardency, beautiful tone, pointed delivery, and
This production, from Madrid’s Teatro Real, apparently was born in controversy: When new in 2003, it was to star Angela Gheorghiu. She arrived two weeks
This was Joan Sutherland’s first recorded Traviata. The performance is note-complete, with cabalettas for both Germonts, the second verses of Violetta’s first and last act
This complete performance of Rigoletto from 1964 includes not only the Duke’s second-act cabaletta, but more gloriously, the cadenza that Verdi composed (and not an
Yawn. Okay, this is a useful collection to have if you want a complete set of overtures and ballet music and Karajan’s isn’t complete enough,
This set, dating from the mid-1950s and originally (and for many years) on RCA, looks better on paper than it actually is, and this transfer
This stunning new Traviata, fresh from the stage of the Salzburg Festival last summer (2005), is a performance to live with. There’s a big hole
