
Had you been in Naples in 1957, and had this been playing at the opera (this is a studio recording, not a live one), you
This remarkably mediocre performance will hold little appeal for anyone. Recorded in 1953 when there were only a couple of other recorded Lucias available (one
Fifty-six of the best minutes from Bohème are presented here, conducted with general impassiveness by Antonino Votto and sung so hideously by a strained, nasty-sounding
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