
Imagine! An all-Italian cast in an Italian opera! What we have here is the four-act Don Carlo with a cast that was considered luxurious for
This is a juicy performance of Verdi’s fifth opera, a work brimming with great melodies and exciting arias, duos, trios, and ensembles. It has great
La Gioconda was one of the few roles Anita Cerquetti recorded commercially during her peculiarly short career, and it is a very tame, essentially by-the-numbers
This performance of Verdi’s first great success comes from the Netherlands in 1960 and has a great deal to recommend it. Fans of the huge-voiced,
This recording of Guglielmo Tell (a somewhat cut, Italian translation of Guillaume Tell, Rossini’s last opera, composed for Paris) has been around in many forms