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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-act version
Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Mirella Freni (Elisabetta), Grace Bumbry (Eboli), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Louis Quilico (Rodrigo) & Ferruccio Furlanetto (Il Grand Inquisitor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Jill Grove (Magdalena), Matthew Polenzani (David), René Pape (Pogner), John Relyea (Nachtwächter)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, James Levine
Thank goodness for no quirky ideas...The singers are all outstanding, led by James Morris's warmly genial Sachs...and by Ben Heppner, who is an equally convincing Walther...Mattila not only looks... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Renée Fleming (Desdemona), James Morris (Iago), Richard Croft (Cassio), Charles Anthony (Rodrigo), Alexander Anisimov (Lodovico), Jane Bunnell (Emilia), Christopher Schaldenbrand (Un Araldo), Ted Lambrinos (Monatano)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James...
It is good to have so telling a reminder on DVD of Placido Domingo's masterly assumption of the role of Otello...[Fleming was] then at her freshest and purest, yet also with power, looking and... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bizet: Carmen
Agnes Baltsa (Carmen), José Carreras (Don José), Samuel Ramey (Escamillo), Leona Mitchell (Micaëla), Myra Merritt (Frasquita), Diane Kesling (Mercédès), Bruce Hubbard (Le Dancaïre), Anthony Laciura (Le Remendado), Vernon Hartman (Moralès)
Metropolitan Opera, James Levine
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Puccini: La Bohème
Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Maralin Niska, Ingvar Wixel, Allan Monk, Paul Plishka, Italo Tajo, Andrea Velis
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
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Verdi: Aida
Aprile Millo (Aida), Plácido Domingo (Radamès), Dolora Zajick (Amneris), Sherrill Milnes (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (Ramphis), Dimitri Kavrakos (Il Re di Egitto), Margaret Jane Wray (Una Sacerdotessa), Mark Baker (Un Messaggero)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Levine's powerful and starrily cast DVD of Aida brings a grandly traditional staging...Zajick is a vibrant, powerful Amneris,and Sherrill Milnes, only just past his peak, is a magnificent Amonasro...Levine... — More…
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Renata Scotto (Manon Lescaut), Placido Domingo (des Grieux), Pablo Elvira (Lescaut), Renato Capecchi (Geronte), Philip Creech (Edmondo)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Aprile Millo, Florence Quivar, Harolyn Blackwell
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus & Ballet, James Levine
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Verdi: Nabucco
Maria Guleghina, Juan Pons, Samuel Ramey, Wendy White & Gwyn Hughes Jones
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Kathleen Battle (Adina), Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Juan Pons (Belcore), Enzo Dara (Dulcamara)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
