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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Kurt Moll, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp & Wolfgang Brendel
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
This charming production features Lucia Popp's still glorious Pamina and Moll's resonant Sarastro heading a first-rate cast. Brendel's Papageno lightens the recommendation. — More…
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Frederica von Stade (Cenerentola), Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro), Paolo Montarsolo (Don Magnifico), Claudio Desderi (Dandini), Laura Zannini (Tisbe), Margherita Guglielmi (Clorinda), Paul Plishka (Alidoro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado
Ponnelle's film of his La Scala staging is so imaginative and musically refined that it triumphs over the dubbing. Von Stade is an achingly beautiful Cinderella, Araiza a romantic Prince. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Margaret Marshall (Fiordiligi), Ann Murray (Dorabella), Francisco Araiza (Ferrando), James Morris (Guglielmo), Sesto Bruscantini (Don Alfonso) & Kathleen Battle (Despina)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Riccardo Muti (conductor) & Michael Hampe (director)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Francisco Araiza (Don Ottavio), Claudio Desderi (Leporello), Susanne Mentzer (Zerlina), Natale de Carolis (Masetto), Sergej Koptchak (Il Commendatore)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Riccardo Muti
A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and Claudio... — More…
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Kathleen Battle (Pamina), Francisco Araiza (Tamino), Manfred Hemm (Papageno), Luciana Serra (Queen of the Night), Heinz Zednik (Monostatos), Kurt Moll (Sarastro), Andreas Schmidt (Speaker), Barbara Kilduff (Papagena)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine, David Hockney (designs)
its many virtues include a formidable Queen of the Night in Luciana Serra, an adorable Pamina in Kathleen Battle, and vivid, primary-colour designs by David Hockney. James Levine paces everything... — More…
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Offer,
George London: A Tribute George London (baritone), Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Popp, Tatiana Troyanos, Edita Gruberova, Catherine Malfitano, Simon Estes, Margaretha Hintermeier, Francisco Araiza, Sona Ghazarian, Thomas Moser, Leonie Rysanek, James King
Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Lothar Zagrosek,...
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Philippe Huttenlocher (Orfeo), Rachel Yakar (Euridice), Dietlinde Turban, Trudeliese Schmidt (La Musica/La Speranza), Francisco Araiza (Pastore/Spirito), Christian Bösch (Pastore)
Das Monteverdi-Ensemble des Opernhauses Zürich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Haydn: The Creation
Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza, Samuel Ramey, Olaf Bär & Iris Vermillion
Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Riccardo Muti
There is plenty of glamour, and Muti is excitingly dramatic. — More…
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The La Scala Collection Box Set
11 Operas - Over Thirty Hours of Superb Entertainment
Thomas Allen, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Daniela Dessì, Alessandro Corbelli, Giorgio Zancanaro, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer and Sara Mingardo
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Lorin Maazel and Stefano Ranzani
