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With its odd, brilliant mixture of interpersonal and political relationships, Don Carlos is a very hard opera to put across, and this 1970 Vienna performance
It’s good to have Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto together in their primes. Both were singers of intelligence and sensitivity, and except in Scotto’s case,
Taped live at the Metropolitan Opera House on December 29th, 1945, this Rigoletto has a lot going for it. Leonard Warren is towering in the
There are dozens of Trovatores on the market, many rather good (Milanov/Björling, Price/Domingo, Price/Corelli, and more) and a few mediocre ones as well. Into the
This performance of Don Carlos, recorded live in Berlin in 1948 and sung in German, will be of interest only to fans of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
The main reason for owning this set is the remarkable Violetta of Victoria de los Angeles. Always a voice of almost unbearable beauty and expressiveness,
This 1927 set was the second complete (well, with the traditional cuts) Rigoletto ever recorded and it’s definitely worth hearing, particularly in this techincally very
This recording of Verdi’s Macbeth had the misfortune to come out on the heels of Claudio Abbado’s superb set with Shirley Verrett and Piero Cappuccilli
Il Corsaro is Verdi’s 12th opera (13th if you count Jerusalem, the revision of I Lombardi), and it is tied with Alzira as his least
Warwick Thompson’s moronic notes to this release suggest that producer John Culshaw and conductor Herbert von Karajan’s “soundstage” recording concept realizes this opera more faithfully
