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This latest in Guild’s “Immortal Performances” series is hardly “immortal”, but it’s certainly worth a listen, and for historical recording fans, a purchase. It documents
In celebration of James Levine’s 60th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon has assembled a handsome collection of the conductor’s recordings featuring the four orchestras with which he
In 1963, the opera world finally was becoming accustomed to Joan Sutherland, who had become an overnight star four years previously at Covent Garden. Here
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
This recording, from a 1943 NBC Broadcast from the Met (although, as we learn in the accompanying booklet, “five minutes in Act 1, some six
Jussi Bjoerling recorded the role of Des Grieux in the 1950s for RCA with Licia Albanese as Manon, and that set always has had many
As Guild’s excellent program notes accurately explain, the Good Friday April 15, 1938 Metropolitan Opera broadcast performance of Wagner’s Parsifal has been known to vocal
Wagner mavens with a nose for vintage opera broadcasts may have encountered this splendid Siegfried, aired January 30, 1937 live from the Metropolitan Opera, via
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
Dipping into this two-CD set (comprising two-and-a-half hours of music) is like going into your family’s attic (or wherever they kept old stuff) and discovering
