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Placido Domingo has recorded the role of Otello commercially three times (maybe four–who’s counting?), and each has something to offer. This performance, opening night at
Making its reappearance in Decca’s Compact Opera Collection, this 1999 Carmen is one of the strangest, most unidiomatic ever. Jessye Norman brings her considerable vocal
Recorded live in 1959 in Palermo and sung in Italian in a remarkably verismo-like style, this Carmen thrills over and over again–but it may not
This 1978 recording of the four-act version of Verdi’s Don Carlo has always been controversial. Many have found it too symphonic and indeed, Herbert von
Luciano Pavarotti very rarely sang the role of Arturo in I puritani. Next to Elvino in Sonnambula and Arnold in William Tell, it probably is
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
This is particularly breathtaking for those who have always wanted a recording of Pavarotti and Freni in their greatest roles, in their primes, but without
