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This live performance, from February, 1962, has been circulating on “private” labels for years; the mono sound was always murky but has been cleaned up
Were it not for the fact that Victoria de Los Angeles recorded this opera twice in the 1950s–once in ’52 with di Stefano and once
Dance fanciers will be pleased to see these two gems freed from Decca’s big box of ballet recordings. John Lanchbery’s arrangement of La Fille mal
This, Donizetti’s last completed opera, is a rather gloomy affair despite its pomp. Premiered at the Paris Opera in 1843, it is the most gigantic
This is a disappointing release. After Nina Stemme’s fine performance as Isolde on the recent Domingo/Pappano set, in which she exhibited a handsome, flexible sound,
Once again, Domingo surprises us. As Pavarotti pleads to fade into the memory bank, the Spanish tenor keeps working–learning, attempting to get into new idioms,
Rumored to be EMI’s last opera recording made in a studio, this much awaited set’s raison d’être is the Tristan of Placido Domingo. Now in
This DVD presents the 1966 film of Kenneth McMillan’s brilliant Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet. It is an actual stage presentation,
What is there to say? Well, quite a bit, actually, but not about the performance itself. It’s still an outstanding rendition of perhaps the great
It’s a little-known fact that Joan Sutherland created the role of Jennifer in Michael Tippett’s masterpiece The Midsummer Marriage at its Covent Garden premiere in
