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For a discussion of this opera, its history and plot, please see my review of the relatively recent, excellent RCA recording (type Q6872 in Search
This recording is mostly a positive experience: Both singers are in excellent voice, and it’s actually not all that jarring to listen to two such
This live, 1957 performance is self-recommending to fans of either Milanov or Corelli, she 10 years from retirement, he only a few years into his
This 1977 performance boasts the finest Dulcamara on disc–Geraint Evans–in a performance both unique in its lack of buffo bluster and in its remarkable “face”;
This is a great performance of Massenet’s maudlin melodrama. In 1980, when it was recorded, José Carreras was only a few years past his prime,
There’s plenty of color and sparkle in Georg Solti’s Gaité Parisienne, leading as he does with his characteristic energy and consummate sense of style. The
Birgit Nilsson’s timbre, as the late John Ardoin writes in the booklet notes, “was sunlight reflected off a copper surface.” That bright, gleaming tone could
Natalie Dessay’s vocal crisis–she was operated on for nodes on her vocal cords three years ago–is clearly over. The voice has ripened somewhat, but don’t
To work backwards, taking the bonus material first, we are presented with the type of recital that tenors simply don’t give anymore (date and place
French soprano Régine Crespin’s voice was gigantic, and hard to capture on a recording. Indeed, there’s distortion here (and even a bit of pre-echo), but
