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This 68 minutes of excerpts from Puccini’s first great success is an excellent introduction to the opera. We get most of the music for Manon
Joan Sutherland recorded this role commercially for Decca two years before this 1968 Roman RAI broadcast; nonetheless, she is more convincing and in slightly spryer
It’s been a while since a recording of this opera has appeared and this one seems to have been made in conjunction with a Turkish-British
Luciano Pavarotti very rarely sang the role of Arturo in I puritani. Next to Elvino in Sonnambula and Arnold in William Tell, it probably is
Poulenc’s 50-minute monodrama is sometimes referred to as a “single-voiced dialogue;” indeed, its structure–a woman is on the phone with her lover and he is
This opera/musical was premiered in the middle of 1941 during Britten’s stay in America. A collaboration with Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden, it was the
After a nicely paced overture led by Richard Tauber recorded in 1944, this 1929 set of excerpts from Johann Strauss Jr.’s greatest operetta settles into
Luciano Pavarotti and Fiorenza Cossotto recorded this opera commercially four years after this 1974 La Scala taping, but on the whole, this performance rings truer
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
This 1970 live Don Giovanni is an odd performance, not altogether satisfying (and certainly not up to the level of Giulini’s magnificent EMI recording with
