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Samuel Barber’s Vanessa was premiered at the Met in January, 1958; a co-production with the Salzburg Festival, it reached there in August of the same
Recorded the afternoon of February 13, 1960, this is a hectic but very exciting Fidelio. Karl Böhm knows what he wants and almost invariably gets
I really wanted to like this: I vaguely recall David Lean’s 1945 tearjerker about a couple who meet at a train station waiting room and
This was Vivaldi’s first opera; it appeared in 1713. (He wrote 93 others.) There are now four available recordings: this one; one on Brilliant Classics
This recording, from the BBC vaults, documents Renata Tebaldi’s Covent Garden debut (or, more specifically, the second night of her debut season), in later June,
These highlights from Wagner’s operas were recorded in 1957, just as Birgit Nilsson was becoming the world’s leading Wagnerian soprano and Hans Hotter was still
This remarkably “alive” performance of Lohengrin was made after a couple of concert performances (we are told in the accompanying booklet) and it features the
The run of Walküres at the Met in late 1967 and early 1968 were to be directed and conducted by Herbert von Karajan–and indeed, the
Verdi referred to Traviata as a “subject of our time”, and he got in trouble for presenting contemporary characters on stage, especially those with shaky
In the third act of Tosca our heroine advises Mario how to behave when the “fake” execution takes place. “Com’e la Tosca in teatro,” she
