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The sound is quite bad (but better than in some transfers of this performance I’ve encountered), conductor Umberto Mugnai leads routinely and slashes the score
This performance of Verdi’s first great success comes from the Netherlands in 1960 and has a great deal to recommend it. Fans of the huge-voiced,
This is a perfectly terrible CD of highlights from a performance taped live in New Orleans in April, 1950. About 50 minutes of Ballo is
The Victor De Sabata Falstaff has long been available elsewhere; apparently its date–May 26, 1952–has been previously misreported as May 26, 1951 (alert the authorities).
Igor Markevitch was one of the greats, as can be heard in the overdue reissue of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony that opens this set. (Markevitch’s Manfred
Verdi’s Joan of Arc is a product of his galley years. A flop at its La Scala premiere in 1845, it hasn’t fared well since
Those who are crazy about either opera in English or Jane Eaglen will have to own this set; for most opera lovers, it simply does
No one would have guessed that the world needed another recording of Il trovatore, since there are more than two dozen available, of which a
This is an enormous undertaking, even for “the hardest working man in opera”. Yet, here it is, all the Verdi tenor arias in one four-CD
This, despite some uneven vocal performances, is an important document and a very fine show. Claudio Abbado, for opening night of the 1977 season, chose
