Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
The 1950s may have been vaguely Golden-Age but this is a bronze-ish performance of Trovatore, and there are at least a half-dozen available sets that
This crude performance features two of the greatest singers of the 1950s at their most unimaginative. It could be argued that Mario del Monaco in
This 3-CD set gives us one complete performance of Forza made up of the first two acts presented on March 14, 1953 along with the
Once we get the obvious out of the way–that from 1950 to 1964 (and arguably both before and since) Maria Callas was the greatest Norma
This is a thrilling performance of Puccini’s most interesting opera. Premiered in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera, for which its American theme was chosen, Toscanini
This is a juicy performance of Verdi’s fifth opera, a work brimming with great melodies and exciting arias, duos, trios, and ensembles. It has great
This recently discovered broadcast from 1946 is of great interest to admirers of Mario del Monaco, who did not record the role of Riccardo commercially.
This performance, from Mexico City in July, 1951–in terrible sound, even for its time–shows Maria Callas a finer Aida than in her commercial recording, and
Although this performance has been available on “private” labels for years, this is the first time it has been “generally” available; EMI has cleaned up
Mario del Monaco was a leading tenore di forza in the 1950s, before the breed became extinct. Some dismissed him as a stentorian blaster unable
