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With a cast this good, how can you go wrong? Well, I’ll tell you. Gianandrea Gavazzeni, a La Scala stalwart with great credentials in the
Butterfly was one of Renata Scotto’s great roles; she recorded it commercially twice and performed it often on stage. It could be argued that her
Well, they’re just not making Il trovatores like this anymore. I have been fond of this performance for years (there’s a dingy, lip-synched film version
This is a second-rate performance of a Donizetti opera that for the most part requires first-rate treatment. The main lure of this set will be
Here, in very tubby sound, with solo voices occasionally swamped, is a heretofore unknown reading of Verdi’s Requiem led by Zubin Mehta and recorded live
Contractual problems prevented Rafael Kubelik’s 1967 Bavarian Radio recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger from being released until its appearance on the Calig label several years
According to Myto’s booklet notes, this live 1951 Berlin State Opera Die Walküre was taped by German Radio for broadcast purposes but never transmitted in
This is a recording of opening night at La Scala in 1962, a performance whose virtues have been enhanced by the passage of time. It’s
Despite the “wrong” language (a French opera sung in Russian), an acidulous Sophie (a failing shared with too many other recorded Werthers), and dated sound,
Here’s another routine night at the opera, enshrined for posterity. Well, not quite routine since Myto puts the Overture between Acts 1 and 2. Did
