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As I felt when I encountered and reviewed Reznicek’s Ritter Blaubart (type Q6627 in Search Reviews), this all-but-hidden composer has a great deal to offer.
This film was made by Czech TV in 1975, with a cast of good-looking, convincing actors lip-synching Supraphon’s superb 1961 recording of the opera–except for
Taped opening night at La Scala in 1969, this will be of interest mainly to fans of the young Placido Domingo and Raina Kabaivanska, a
This is the video version of the CDs I previously reviewed (type Q8682 in Search Reviews). The production is quite handsome. Pier Luigi Pizzi has
I have a soft spot for this passionate, red-blooded, visceral performance of Tosca. Galina Vishnevskaya’s Slavic timbre isn’t to all tastes (it is to mine),
Elvida was first given in Naples in 1826 for the birthday of the queen. This one-hour one-acter was just a portion of a gala evening
Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s re-interpretation of Wagner’s religious festival play is controversial. In notes accompanying this 3-DVD set, he says that “Parsifal is an endgame in
Fans of André Cluytens will welcome this worthwhile release. While the Turin Radio Orchestra hardly was a great orchestra in 1962, Cluytens has it playing
Haydn composed about 400 arrangements of Scottish folksongs between 1791 and 1805. Despite the fact that at the end of this period he was assisted
This over-the-top chunk of verismo may require many things, but subtlety is not one of them. And it’s a good thing, too, since this live,
