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With only a single Italian on board, we have a right to expect something less than an idiomatic performance. But Olivero de Fabritiis, hardly anyone’s
The draw here clearly is the Manrico of Jussi Björling, taped live at Covent Garden in 1939, 13 years before he recorded the opera commercially
There are moments in this opera that (unlike most operas of the period) clearly show how the bel canto is not simply pretty singing. Donizetti
Berlioz’s music for tenor is not only varied from light-lyric to heroic, it’s also ungraciously written: high notes pop up out of nowhere; tessitura remains
This was recorded in 1979 when José Carreras was still the owner of the most beautiful tenor voice in the world, and indeed, he’s just
All recordings of Tosca must yield pride of place to the benchmark Callas/de Sabata recording on EMI, but of the many, many versions that have
I was considerably less than enthusiastic about the last Maggie Teyte reissue to come my way–the Teyte volume in Decca’s The Singers series (type Q4790
Aside from the two studio recordings, there are about seven Callas Normas available on disc, and this is close to the best. It marked (I
Aside from looking like Rita Hayworth in the CD cover photo (almost worth the buy), this does nothing for Angela Gheorghiu’s reputation. And I consider
What a collection! As a natural adjunct to his exploration of the nether-regions of 19th century Romantic opera with his wife, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge
