Great Opera Recordings
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Massenet: Manon
RecommendedGermaine Féraldy, Louis Guénot, Joseph Rogatchewsky, Georges Villier
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique Paris, Elie Cohen
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Building a Library, March 2018, Also recommended
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Puccini: La Bohème
Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Merrill, Lucine Amara & Giorgio Tozzi
RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra (Thomas Martin) & The Columbus Boychoir (Herbert Huffman), Sir Thomas Beecham
One of the great classics of recording, expertly restored. Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Björling are an incomparable pair, and Beecham's conducting is, as ever, inimitable. — More…
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Massenet: Werther
RecommendedGeorges Thill, Ninon Vallin, Germaine Feraldy
Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera, Elie Cohen
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Historic vocal
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedLicia Albanese (Manon Lescaut), Jussi Björling (Des Grieux), Robert Merrill (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte/Un sergente degli arcieri), Mario Carlin (Edmondo/Il maestro di ballo/Lampionaio), Anna Maria Rota (Una voce sola), Plinio Clabassi (L'oste/Un comandante di Marina)
Rome Opera House...
With Bjoerling as Des Grieux giving one of this very finest performances on disc and with Robert Merrill in glorious voice as Lescaut, the Romanian conductor Jonel Perlea conducts one of the... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Gounod: Faust
RecommendedRoger Bourdin, Georges Nore, Roger Rico
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Beecham
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Building a Library, April 2005, Historic Choice
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
RecommendedKirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eilidh McNab, Arda Mandikian, Sheila Rex, Anna Pollak, Thomas Hemsley & David Lloyd
The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones
[On the original release in January 1953] At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Vina Bovy, Renee Doria, Raoul Jobin, Fanely Revoil
Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra and Chorus, Andre Cluytens
In the 1930s in Paris, Raoul Jobin and José Luccioni were the two great opera matinée-idols.
Jobin, a French Canadian, made his début in 1930 and was soon singing at both the Opéra, as Faust,... — More…2 CDs
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Robert Merrill, Margaret Roggero, Carol Smith
The Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Orchestra, Renato Cellini
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Yelena Dimitrievna Kruglikova (Tatyana), Panteleimon Nortsov (Eugene Onegin), Elizaveta Antonova (Olga), Ivan Kozlovsky (Lensky), Lyudmila G. Rudintskaya (Larina), Vera Makarova-Sevcenko (Filipyevna), Maxim Mikhailov (Zaretzky), Anatoli Mineev (Captain)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Chorus,...
the first complete recording ever made, and it is remarkable not just for the idiomatic warmth of the conducting...but for the fine singing of the principals, with not a Slavic wobbler among... — More…
2 CDs
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