Puccini - Con onor muore (from Madama Butterfly)
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Anima Rara
RecommendedErmonela Jaho (soprano), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Andrea Battistoni
She has a slender tone, definitely more lyric than spinto, and is often so deeply invested in her role that it’s not always a very ‘pretty’ sound. Yet it’s exactly these qualities that are her... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th September 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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The Best of Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi plus Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil baritone, Mario del Monaco, Tullio Serafin, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Franco Capuana, Alberto Erede & Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia
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This outstanding collection demonstrates, as few singers can, the combination of voice and personality needed to take on Puccini's heroines. —
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Maria Callas - Puccini Heroines and Lyric Arias
Maria Callas (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
The Callas wobble appears in these 1954 recitals; in Butterfly her voice is clearly ill-suited to the role, and her Liù and Mimi are inclined to sound stagey and shrill. —
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Great Hungarian Voices: Erzsébet Házy
Works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Weill
Erzsébet Házy (soprano), Róbert Ilosfalvy (tenor), László Szigeti (tenor), Oszká Maleczky (baritone), György Melis (baritone), Zsolt Bende (baritone), Ferenc Begányi (bass)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Miklós Erdélyi
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Special offer. Gitta-Maria Sjoberg Sings Verdi & Puccini Arias
Odense Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Aeschbacher
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Nizza's voice is strong and surprisingly effective when it comes to Turandot's "In questa reggia". There is a decided vibrato that is sometimes intrusive, but in general this is an impressive... —
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Puccini Rediscovered
Plácido Domingo (tenor), Violeta Urmana (soprano), Stefano Secco (tenor), Anna Maria dell'Oste (soprano), Alfredo Nigro (tenor)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Alberto Veronesi
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