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This 70 minutes of a 1987 recording of The Marriage of Figaro offers both of the Countess’ arias, the Count’s, two of Figaro’s, both of
This performance is peculiar, even by conductor Herbert von Karajan’s standards. The good news is that it stars three singers who probably were the world’s
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,
Here is a 74-minute sampler from Chandos’ excellent Opera in English series. Tenor Dennis O’Neill features prominently in many excerpts and he’s a known quantity:
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
Even the most assiduous historic Wagner collectors, I suspect, haven’t heard these Ring Cycle excerpts, recorded by Pathé in 1930. Issued on twenty 78 RPM
Previously issued on Preiser, Music & Arts issues this 1942 Götterdämmerung in comparable sound, but at less cost to the consumer (four discs for the
Taped at and in conjunction with live performances at the Paris Opera, this “fantastic” Handel opera–one of his finest, by the way–proves to be a
This was a radio broadcast from RAI in Turin in l967, when both soprano and tenor were at their freshest. Of course, recordings of them
This set is a classic, and the only reason to steer clear of it is the uniformly poor sound. Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein rarely
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