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This performance of Le nozze di Figaro, broadcast on January 28, 1961, is a good if ordinary version, made special by a few elements and
About the time I started collecting LPs, everyone was agog over Toscanini’s Verdi Requiem and Te Deum. The transfers were so bad you couldn’t prove
This live performance, from February, 1962, has been circulating on “private” labels for years; the mono sound was always murky but has been cleaned up
Recorded in May, 1951, this recording features the best Mefistofeles on disc, and that’s saying a lot. With competition from Christoff, Ghiaurov, Journet, and van
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
Cesare Siepi had it all–movie star looks, stage presence, acting ability, and above all a basso cantante voice that made him an international star and
Marino Faliero was Donizetti’s 46th opera, the one that directly preceded Lucia. It premiered in Paris in 1835 with the same cast that had taken
This Bohème, studio recorded in 1952, is an interesting oddity. It is thoroughly idiomatic–the entire cast and conductor are Italian (less rare in the ’50s
The only reason for owning this previously unreleased, 1954 RAI recording of Verdi’s four-act version of Don Carlo is the King Philip of Cesare Siepi,
This is the third–and best–of Furtwängler’s recordings of Don Giovanni. The other two–a 1950 performance with Tito Gobbi as the Don, and one from 1954
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