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This new Plácido Domingo pop/sacred crossover album opens with a rather Disney-fied Ave Maria–a vocal arrangement of Mascagni’s “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria rusticana in which the
Among the Bayreuth Festival Parsifal recordings (official and otherwise) under Hans Knappertsbusch’s direction, this 1954 go-round is closer to the conductor’s weighty 1951 commercially issued
…every singer is different–simply because he is alive! tenor Roberto Alagna tells us with great depth and insight in an essay accompanying this release. But
Thérèse Raquin, based on the famous novel by Emile Zola, is the subject of Tobias Picker’s third opera. The story, fashioned into a libretto by
This is an odd souvenir, in pretty good sound, of a performance of Gluck’s Alceste from Rome in 1967. It seems to be the same
This is a good performance of Verdi’s great comedy that nonetheless will not tempt you to toss your favorite. Particularly in the ensembles there is
Bandmaster and operetta composer Franz Lehár first set his ambitions in the direction of grand opera; Kukushka was presented in 1896 in Leipzig, some say
This live Béatrice et Bénédict is Colin Davis’ third go at recording Berlioz’s beautiful “ugly duckling”. Davis’ first, released almost 40 years ago, was an
For Guild’s reissue of Wagner’s Das Rheingold as performed by the Metropolitan Opera forces on tour in Boston on April 3, 1937, restoration engineer Richard
Recorded in 1923 and 1928 when the English-born, American-bred, European-trained, Austria-and-Germany-appreciated tenor was in his prime, this selection of arias introduces us to a sweet-sounding,
