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Throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s Marilyn Horne was the greatest bel canto mezzo-soprano in the world, a position that, despite the rise of great
I’m not certain why it took almost 15 years from its date of performance (November, 1992) for this to be released (it was taped in
This Requiem has long been overshadowed by Serafin’s 1939 recording with Gigli and Pinza; hearing this 1959 set after many years, it stands up beautifully
This film of Wozzeck was made in 1970 under the aegis of Rolf Liebermann, who was then the innovative General Director of the Hamburg State
London’s Royal Opera House’s new record label mines the gold in its archives, among which there can be few treasures that for musical excellence and
Just as the Nikolaus Lehnhoff/Kent Nagano Parsifal is now the finest available on DVD, so has the same team scored brilliantly with this Lohengrin. Taped
Maria Malibran (1808-1836) arguably was the early 19th-century’s most famous diva (Giuditta Pasta ran her a close second and her much younger sister, Pauline Viardot,
This is one of those earnest, professional performances that flounders on account of its lack of character. José Carreras, past his prime and sounding strained
This performance is oddly dead-in-the-water. You would think that the lovely Natalie Dessay, so expressive, so delicate, would be right for the fragile, loving, innocent
Ercole su’l Termodonte was Vivaldi’s 16th opera, appearing in 1723 in Rome. There was a Papal ban on women appearing on stage at the time
