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It’s interesting that Adrian Boult did not show much initial […]
Hands down, Nicolai Gedda was the classiest lyric tenor of the 1950s and ’60s (and very early ’70s). For the most part he wisely kept
Samuel Barber’s Vanessa was premiered at the Met in January, 1958; a co-production with the Salzburg Festival, it reached there in August of the same
This 1955 performance is a terrible disappointment. Who would not have wanted to hear Nicolai Gedda sing the rarely-performed tenor version of this opera in
Volume 2 of EMI’s comprehensive Herbert von Karajan centenary edition gathers virtually all of the conductor’s operatic and vocal output for the label in one
This strange work, set in 13th-century India, centers on the Princely ruler Ratan-Sen and his beautiful wife, Padmavati. When the cruel Mogul ruler of Delhi,
This belongs in the pantheon of great opera recordings. In 1970 when the performance was taped, Beverly Sills had only sung the role that eventually
Recorded in the studio in conjunction with live performances at Aix en Provence in September, 1956, there’s something alluring about this lickety-split performance. Hans Rosbaud’s
This splendid monaural, colorful-if-a-bit-grainy film of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte was made at the Hamburg State Opera in 1971 and I believe this is the first
There are three available recordings of this opera: A complete performance on Decca with Sutherland and a weak tenor; a cut Italian version live from
