
With more than a dozen separate performances of Norma starring […]
This strange release commemorates Mario Del Monaco’s debut in Moscow (June 29, 1959); the opera is Pagliacci, and while the tenor sings in Italian, the
This is a remarkable collection, covering studio recordings made between 1949 and 1969, which is to say from roughly the beginning to the end of
Here are the caveats: The picture is really murky; there are subtitles in Japanese that you can’t turn off (you can add English, German, Spanish,
This over-the-top chunk of verismo may require many things, but subtlety is not one of them. And it’s a good thing, too, since this live,
These recordings, made in 1947 and 1948, have been available before but never as a compilation and never in such decent sound. What we have