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Paisiello: Barber

Robert Levine

Poor Paisiello! If only Rossini hadn’t come along and composed his incredibly inventive, witty, insightful, vocally acrobatic version of Il barbiere di Siviglia, we might

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Verdi’s Stiffelio

Robert Levine

This set, recorded live in Trieste in December, 2000, uses the new critical edition from the University of Chicago Press; I offer this information simply

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