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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Margaret Harshaw (Santuzza), Richard Tucker (Turiddu), Frank Guarrera (Alfio), Mildred Miller (Lola), Thelma Votipka (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Canio), Lucine Amara (Nedda), Giuseppe Valdengo (Tonio), Thomas Hayward (Beppe), Clifford Harvuot (Silvio)
Metropolitan Opera Association, Fausto Cleva
In this warhorse double bill from New York, Richard Tucker is a stylish Turiddu but his Santuzza fails to blaze. Best is Giuseppe Valdengo’s edgy Tonio. — More…
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Bellini: Norma
Montserrat Caballé (Norma), Fiorenza Cossotto (Adalgisa), Plácido Domingo (Pollione), Ruggero Raimondi (Oroveso), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Clotilde), Kenneth Collins (Flavio)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Carlo Felice Cillario
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Schreker: Irrelohe
Michael Pabst (Graf Heinrich), Goran Simic (Der Forster/Anselmus)), Luana De Vol (Eva), Eva Randova (Lola), Monte Pederson (Peter), Heinz Zednik (Christobald), Neven Belamaric (Der Pfarrer/Stahlbusch), Sebastian Holecek (Der Muller/Ratzekahl), Helmut Wildhaber (Funckchen/Ein Lakai)
Wiener Singverein,...
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Puccini: La Bohème
Richard Tucker (Rodolfo), George Cehanovsky (Schaunard), Francesco Valentino (Marcello), Nicola Moscona (Colline), Bidù Sayão (Mimi), Mimi Benzell (Musetta), Salvatore Baccaloni (Benoit), Salvatore Baccaloni (Alcindoro), Lodovico Oliviero (Parpignol)
Metropolitan Opera, Giuseppe Antonicelli
Boxy sound in this studio recording made at the Met in 1947, sampling a representative local cast of the period, with Brazilian soprano Bidù Sayão a flavoursome Mimì opposite Richard Tucker’s... — More…
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Massenet: La Navarraise
Lucia Popp (Anita), Alain Vanzo (Araquil), Vincenzo Sardinero (Garrido), Gérard Souzay (Remigio), Claude Meloni (Bustamente), Michel Sénéchal (Ramon)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida
Popp gives a high voltage performance in the title role and Alain Vanzo as her soldier lover is properly French vocally. The LSO under Antonio de Almeida play their espadrilles off! — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Réédition
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Orff: Catulli Carmina
RecommendedJanice Harsanyi (soprano), Richard Kness (tenor)
Temple University Choirs, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Razor-sharp rhythmically and charged with energy, it remains a reference version. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 10th Awards (1967), Best Choral Performance
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Fiordiligi), Tatiana Troyanos (Dorabella), Judith Raskin (Despina), Sherrill Milnes (Guglielmo), George Shirley (Ferrando), Ezio Flagello (Don Alfonso)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Grammy Awards, 11th Awards (1968), Best Opera Recording
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Sharon Sweet (Agathe), Ruth Ziesak (Ännchen), Peter Seiffert (Max), Andreas Schmidt (Ottokar), Kurt Rydl (Kaspar), Roman Trekel (Kilian), Anton Scharinger (Kuno), Matthias Hölle (Hermit), Peter Matic (Zamiel)
Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
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Monteverdi: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Il ballo delle ingrate
Andras Laczo, Isabelle Poulenard, Dominique Visse, Colette Alliot-Lugaz & Gregory Reinhardt
La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Lucia Valentini-Terrani (Cenerentola), Emilia Ravaglia (Clorinda), Marilyn Schmiege (Tisbe), Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro), Domenico Trimarchi (Dandini), Enzo Dara (Don Magnifico), Alessandro Corbelli (Alidoro)
Westdeutsche Rundfunk Köln, Cappella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro
With an almost contralto quality to her mezzo, Lucia Valentini Terrani brings dignity as well as accomplishment to Rossini’s’ Cinderella, supported by a choice cast and conductor plus period0instrument... — More…
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