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Recorded in tubby sound at the 1960 Glyndebourne Festival, this release is notable for the Donna Anna of Joan Sutherland. To be sure there are
This perky, impressive Figaro from the Australian Opera has much to recommend it. It has an interesting, skewed period look: Designer Dale Ferguson’s heavy draperies,
Taken from a pair of semi-staged concert performances in Lucerne in the summer of 2010, this is a most scrupulously rehearsed and performed Fidelio. Conductor
Taken from two concert performances in London last year, this note-complete performance of Donizetti’s late, semi-seria Linda di Chamounix, while very good in many ways,
This is a rather good if not ground-breaking, note-complete Figaro, recorded live at the Sydney Opera House on July 29, 2010. Patrick Summers’ excellent leadership
This matinee, January 15, 1972, was the first Meistersinger I ever attended. I had known the opera only through recordings and had found it long-winded
Richard Hickox’s celebrated 1991 recording of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem remains one of the best in the catalog and it now makes its re-appearance in
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
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
Prior to this release most lovers of operatic esoterica only knew the name Lauro Rossi (1812-1885) because he composed the Agnus Dei of the Mass
