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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Donna Anna), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Donna Elvira), Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Giuseppe Taddei (Leporello), Gottlob Frick (Il Commendatore), Luigi Alva (Don Ottavio), Piero Cappuccilli (Masetto), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Heinrich Schmidt (harpsichord)
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On CD the classic Giulini EMI set, lovingly remastered, sets the standard by which all other recordings have come to be judged. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, as Elvira, emerges as a dominant figure... — More…
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ...... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Giuseppe Taddei (Figaro), Anna Moffo (Susanna), Eberhard Wächter (Count), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Countess), Fiorenza Cossotto (Cherubino)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
coming back to it now after more than 50 years it has a lot to offer. First and foremost Giulini’s no-nonsense conducting, fresh as paint...He has at his disposal a dream-cast...[Taddei] is... — More…
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Puccini: Tosca
Leontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano), Carlo Cava (Angelotti), Piero De Palma (Spoletta), Leonardo Monreale (Sciarrone), Herbert Weiss (Un pastore), Alfredo Mariotti (Un carceriere)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 RecommendedEberhard Wächter, Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gabriella Sciutti, Luigi Alva, Gottlob Frick
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Although this set is over 40 years old, none of its successors is as skilled in capturing the piece's drama so unerringly. It has always been most recommendable and Giulini captures all the... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
With Luciano Pavarotti a powerful Des Grieux, James Levine conducts a comparably big-boned performance of Manon Lescaut, bringing out the red-blooded drama of Puccini's first big success, while... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Levine conveys the tensions and atmosphere of a stage performance in a way that plainly owes much to his experience at the Metropolitan...it avoids the feeling of a studio performance....[Pavarotti],... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Giuseppe Taddei (Guglielmo), Alfredo Kraus (Ferrando), Hanny Steffek (Despina), Walter Berry (Don Alfonso)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Karl Böhm
Ludwig’s in fuller voice (and more alive to Dorabella’s humour and sensuality) here in 1962 than on her earlier recording for Böhm; 'Smanie implacabili' packs a real dramatic mezzo punch (she... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Alfredo Kraus (Ferrando), Giuseppe Taddei (Guglielmo), Hanny Steffek (Despina), Walter Berry (Don Alfonso), Heinrich Schmidt (harpsichord continuo)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Karl Böhm
Its glorious solo singing is headed by the incomparable Fiordiligi of Schwarzkopf and the Dorabella of Christa Ludwig; it remains a superb memento of Walter Legge's recording genius and remains... — More…
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