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This lively Falstaff has a genuinely playful disposition. If you compare Geraint Evans’ and Ilva Ligabue’s performances as Falstaff and Alice Ford to the recording
This will be a must for Sutherland fans. In 1960 she was in first blush of her stupendous career, and she’s in glorious, huge-but-girlish voice.
There is something wonderfully blood-and-thunder about this performance, recorded on Oct 12, 1951. Vittorio Gui leads the type of performance you’d be thrilled with in
The draw here clearly is the Manrico of Jussi Björling, taped live at Covent Garden in 1939, 13 years before he recorded the opera commercially
This was Maria Callas’ first undertaking of Cherubini’s Medea, and in 1953 she had the voice and strength to make this impossible role sound practically
This is an odd souvenir, in pretty good sound, of a performance of Gluck’s Alceste from Rome in 1967. It seems to be the same
Aside from the two studio recordings, there are about seven Callas Normas available on disc, and this is close to the best. It marked (I
This 1955 Figaro has been in and out of the catalog for years. It remains a faithful, stylish rendering but one that can’t really hold
