Browse: Highlights (series)
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Verdi: Aida (highlights)
Montserrat Caballé (Aida), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Nicola Martinucci (Messaggero), Luigi Roni (Re) & Esther Casas (Sacerdotessa)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 (highlights)
Siegfried Jerusalem, Lucia Popp, Brigitte Lindner, Edita Gruberova, Wolfgang Brendel, Roland Bracht, Norman Bailey & Heinz Zednik
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bernard Haitink
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Bellini: Norma (highlights)
Maria Callas (Norma), Franco Corelli (Pollione), Christa Ludwig (Adalgisa) & Nicola Zaccaria (Oroveso)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano chorus master Norberto Mola, Tullio Serafin
That the phrasing, the pronunciation, the weight and shape and meaning of the music, are peerlessly conceived can go without saying. The conducting is spacious, unhurried, elevated and eloquent. — More…
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (highlights)
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette), José Van Dam (Frère Laurent), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Stéphano), Simon Keenlyside (Mercutio), Alain Fondary (Capulet), Claire Larcher (Gertrude), Guy Fletcher (Benvolio) & Alain Vernhes (The Duke)
Chœur du Capitole de Toulouse & Orchestre...
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (highlights)
Beverly Sills (Rosina), Nicolai Gedda (Conte Almaviva) & Sherrill Milnes (Figaro)
London Symphony Orchestra & John Alldis Choir, James Levine
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (highlights)
Montserrat Caballé (Santuzza), José Carreras (Turiddu), Matteo Manuguerra (Alfio), Julia Hamari (Lola) & Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), José Carreras (Canio), Renata Scotto (Nedda), Kari Nurmela (Tonio), Ugo Benelli (Beppe) & Thomas Allen (Silvio)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Philharmonia...
Caballé and Scotto have some lovely moments and both are strong in dramatic commitment … Carreras gives generously of voice and emotion in both of his roles – they are among his best achievements... — More…
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Bellini: I Puritani (highlights)
Stefan Elenkov (Lord Gualtiero Walton), Montserrat Caballé (Elvira), Agostino Ferrin (Sir Giorgio Walton), Alfredo Kraus (Lord Arturo Talbot), Matteo Manuguerra (Sir Riccardo Forth), Dennis O’neill (Sir Bruno Robertson) & Julia Hamari (Enrichetta)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Philharmonia...
Elvira might have been written with Caballé’s limpid tones and predominantly gentle art in mind, Arturo with Alfredo Kraus’s sense of line and plangency of tone. — More…
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Verdi: Il Trovatore (highlights)
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Gabriella Tucci (Leonora), Luciana Moneta (Inez), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena), Robert Merrill (Count di Luna), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Ferrando), Angelo Mercuriali (Ruiz) & Mario Rinaudo (An Old Gypsy)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Thomas Schippers
Tucci really seems to feel the music’s shape and her singing is always a good instrument for Verdi’s ideas. — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème (highlights)
Roberto Alagna (Rodolfo), Leontina Vaduva (Mimi), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Simon Keenlyside (Schaunard), Samuel Ramey (Colline), Ruth Ann Swenson (Musetta), Enrico Fissore (Benoit/Alcindoro)
London Voices & Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's CD recording of Boheme is conducted with ever-fresh imagination, bringing out not just subtle emotions alonside high passion, but also the fun of the piece in lightly sprung rhythms — More…
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (highlights)
Placido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangäne), Olaf Bär (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), René Pape (König Marke), Ian Bostridge (Hirt), Rolando Villazon (Junger Seeman) & Matthew Rose (Steuermann)
The Royal Opera Chorus, Covent Garden & Orchestra of the Royal...
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