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Hearing Karajan’s work before the early-to-mid-’80s, when his navel-gazing self-indulgence, odd casting, and control-freakery decimated and distorted every opera he directed/conducted/engineered, is invariably a treat,
This is self-recommending, if for no other reason than it’s the only recording of this work available. Katerina Ismailova is the revised version of the
This live performance from RAI Rome in 1958 is a fine if literal (there are no embellishments to arias) reading of this lovely work. It
Premiered at La Scala in December, 1834 (and immediately following Maria Stuarda), Gemma di Vergy was a hit, running 26 performances before moving all over
This is another of Berlioz’s problem children. First composed with spoken dialogue, it was rejected by the Opéra-Comique; Berlioz revised it and the Paris Opera
This is an interesting case. Caballé and Pavarotti recorded this work in the studio the year before under Peter Maag (for my review type Q6485
This is an exciting live performance of this opera, recorded in Salzburg in 1969 when all of the principals were in their primes. Karl Böhm
Taped live at the Salzburg festival in 1972, this Cosi must have been great fun to watch. Karl Böhm leads with his usual assurance and,
This is a fabulous surprise. Who knew it existed? It presents, in good stereo (broadcast?) sound about two-hours-and-40-minutes of this opera (about 40 minutes less
There is nothing wrong with this performance of Turandot, recorded live in Milan in l964, except that the pitch slips up part way through Act
