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No one would have guessed that the world needed another recording of Il trovatore, since there are more than two dozen available, of which a
This, despite some uneven vocal performances, is an important document and a very fine show. Claudio Abbado, for opening night of the 1977 season, chose
Here’s a near-novelty: the three-separate-act version of Dutchman, recorded on stage at La Scala in 1966. There is no information provided in the two-page leaflet
Attila, just an hour and 40 minutes long, goes by like wildfire. Its construction is pretty much formulaic for Verdi at that point in his
There are a few recordings of Ponchielli’s wildly entertaining (if senseless) singular success on the market, but there’s room for this one as well. There
This is a thoroughly idiomatic, exciting performance of Trovatore, one influenced rather ferociously by the verismo movement. As usual Lorenzo Molajoli and the Scala forces
Volume 7 of Robert Craft’s ongoing Schoenberg cycle makes an excellent introduction to the composer’s almost schizophrenically wide-ranging body of work. For example, there’s his
Cilea wrote very few operas, and no one has ever claimed that any of them was a work of unmitigated genius. L’Arlesiana has its fans
For Stravinsky completists this is a release full of pleasant surprises, a sweep of the master’s studio floor for rarities. The homework was done and
This opera has all the makings of great post-Wagnerian archetypal drama without falling into the trap of overstated pathos or wretchedly excessive musical filigree. Though
