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The Sony Opera House
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedWalter Berry (Wozzeck), Isabel Strauss (Marie), Fritz Uhl (Tambourmajor), Carl Doench (Doktor), Albert Weikenmeier (Hauptmann), Richard van Vrooman (Andres), Ingeborg Lasser (Margret), Gérard Dunan (Narr)
Orchestre & Choeur de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Classical Album of the Year
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Amelia), Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Robert Merrill (Renato), Shirley Verrett (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Mario Basiola Jnr (Silvano), Ezio Flagello (Samuele), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Tom)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedMontserrat Caballé (Mimi), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Blegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vincenzo Sardinero (Schaunard), Noel Mangin (Benoit), Nico Castel (Alcindoro), Alan Byers (Parpignol)
John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir &...
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Grammy Awards, 17th Awards (1974), Best Opera Recording
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
RecommendedIleana Cotrubas (Adina), Plácido Domingo (Nemorino), Geraint Evans (Dulcamara), Ingvar Wixell (Belcore), Lillian Watson (Giannetta)
Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royle Opera House‚ Covent Garden, Sir John Pritchard
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedDonnie Ray Albert (Porgy), Clamma Dale (Bess), Wilma Shakesnider (Serena), Carol Brice (Maria), Andrew Smith (Crown), Alexander B. Smalls (Jake), Betty Lane (Clara), Larry Marchsall (Sportin' Life)
Houston Grand Opera Orchcestra & Chorus, John Demain
a distinctive and colourful performance of a masterly and moving opera — More…
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Building a Library, April 2019, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl tabarro
Ingvar Wixell (Michele), Plácido Domingo (Luigi), Renata Scotto (Giorgetta), Gillian Knight (La Frugola), Michel Sénéchal (Il Tinca), Dennis Wicks (Il Talpa), John Treleaven (Venditore di canzonette), Yvonne Kenny, Peter Jeffes (Due Amanti)
Suor Angelica...
The highlight of this set...is an outstanding Suor Angelica, with Renata Scotto in the title role, supported by Marilyn Horne as her aunt, and Ileana Cotrubas (who also sings Lauretta in Schicchi)... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Rene Kollo (Siegfried), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Siegmund Nimsgern (Alberich), Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde), Hans Günter Nöcker (Gunther), Norma Sharp (Gutrune), Ortrun Wenkel (Waltraute), Lucia Popp (Woglinde), Uta Priew (Wellgunde), Hanna Schwarz (Flosshilde), Anne Gjevang (Erste Norn), Daphne...
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Puccini: Tosca
Maria Guleghina (Tosca), Salvatore Licitra (Cavaradossi), Leo Nucci (Scarpia), Alfredo Mariotti (Il Sagristano), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Angelotti), Ernesto Gavazzi (Spoletta), Silvestro Sammaritano (Sciarrone), Virginia Barchi (Un pastore), Ernesto Panariello (Un carceriere)
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Riccardo Muti takes his time with Tosca, but it's worth the wait for Maria Guleghina's 'Vissi d'arte'. — More…
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Massenet: Le Cid
Plácido Domingo (Rodrigue), Grace Bumbry (Chimène), Paul Plishka (Don Diègue), Jake Gardner (Le Roi), Eleanor Bergquist (L'Infante), Clinton Ingram (Don Arias), Theodore Hodges (Don Alonzo), Arnold Voketatis (Don Gormas), Peter Lightfoot (Moorish Envoy), John Adams (St James)
Opera Orchestra...
…essential listening for the indefatigable ardour and sorrow of Domingo in the insanely taxing title, and Grace Bumbry… makes hair-raising work of Chimene's vengeful determination. — More…
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