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This performance is peculiar, even by conductor Herbert von Karajan’s standards. The good news is that it stars three singers who probably were the world’s

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This 1971 Tristan was recorded live at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Its principal value lies with the protangonists. The occasion marked Jon Vickers’

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In 1864 Richard Strauss was born and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s narrative poem “Enoch Arden” was published. The poem was a huge success throughout Europe, and

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