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This performance, recorded live in Bergamo in October, 2006, is an old-fashioned Lucia, the sort that is clearly pre-Callas, although most cuts are opened: the
This is the video version of the CDs I previously reviewed (type Q8682 in Search Reviews). The production is quite handsome. Pier Luigi Pizzi has
There is much to enjoy in this forgotten (save for an aria or two), late (1878) Gounod opera. Essentially the same story as Donizetti’s Poliuto,
Billed as the “unabridged edition of the original version” of this opera, the only places on this recording I can find any significant differences are
It’s very brave of any opera company to undertake a performance of this sprawling work, one that requires a bevy of virtuoso singers, a huge
This is a knockout, despite flaws in both the opera itself and the live performance. Premiered in 1801 with the great castrato Luigi Marchesi as
The plot? The knight Roland (baritone) adores Angelique (soprano), a princess who loves Medor (mezzo-soprano), a squire whose station is beneath her. Roland keeps vacillating
