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This recording, captured live at the London Coliseum in 1977, finds Dame Janet Baker at her absolute best–which is saying a great deal about a
This is the Tristan that won’t go away. I’ve never met anyone who owns it who actually listens to it, but most people praise it
Ferruccio Busoni’s posthumous opera Doktor Faust was premiered in Dresden on May 21, 1925. Pianist, composer, teacher, theorist, and writer, Busoni (1866-1924) had died the
It’s good to have this justly famous set back in the catalog, and well remastered at that. Even in 1961 Anthony Lewis was offering historically
José Cura has made a reputation as opera’s Triple Threat: singer, conductor, and composer, and he performs the first two feats simultaneously on this new
This is a real rarity, and despite the fact that the score is presented with no recitatives and there are a couple of other minor
Otello is the role most closely identified with Mario del Monaco, and indeed there is no dearth of recordings of the opera with him. He
Here’s a surprise entry into the Figaro sweepstakes: A live reading under the energetic, witty-but-firm leadership of Zubin Mehta, a too-infrequent visitor to the opera
Here we have an unnecessary recording of Rossini’s almost indestructible bauble taped live at La Scala in l964, in decent sound. Gabriele Santini leads a
This 1954 live-from-Bayreuth recording is a fine souvenir of the great Birgit Nilsson’s early career, and it was, I believe, her Bayreuth debut. Her Elsa
