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Puccini - Manon Lescaut
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedMirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Robert Gambill
Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Building a Library, April 2006, Modern Choice
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Special offer. 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... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedMaria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giulio Fioraventi, Dino Formachini
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
This performance is unique, with Act 4 for once a culmination in Callas's supreme account of the death scene. She may present a rather formidable portrait of a young girl in Act 1, but here... —
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Building a Library, April 2006, First Choice
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Levine conveys the tensions and atmosphere of a stage performance in a way that plainly owes much to his experience at the Metropolitan...it avoids the feeling of a studio performance....[Pavarotti],... —
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Jonas Kaufmann (Des Grieux), Kristine Opolais (Manon Lescaut), Christopher Maltman (Lescaut), Maurizio Muraro (Gerontes) & Benjamin Hulett (Edmondo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Royal Opera House Chorus, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Jonathan Kent (director)
Kaufmann is a gloriously ardent Des Grieux, recklessly embarking upon an emotional journey almost as distressing as that of the heroine herself. Kristine Opolais matches him in a performance... —
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Jose Carreras (Des Grieux), Giuseppe Taddei, Paolo Coni (Lescaut), William Matteuzzi (Edmondo), Italo Tajo (Geronte), Margarita Zimmermann (Madrigal Singer)
Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Dame Kiri gives an affecting characterization of Manon, at times rather heavily underlined but passionately convincing...Carreras is in good form, but sounds a little strained at times. The... —
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Special offer. Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Renata Tebaldi (Manon Lescaut), Richard Tucker (Des Grieux), Frank Guarrera (Lescaut), Fernando Corena (Geronte de Ravoir), Charles Anthony (Edmondo)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Fausto Cleva
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Special offer. Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulio Fioravanti, Franco Calabrese, Dino Formichini & Dino Formichini
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Tullio Serafin
Callas thinks herself well into what becomes, to begin with, a more serious, calculating Manon - and a very accurate Manon, too. Then, dying in the wilderness in Act 4, she produces a performance... —
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Jonas Kaufmann: The Puccini Edition
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (Des Grieux), Kristine Opolais (Manon Lescaut), Christopher Maltman (Lescaut), Maurizio Muraro (Gerontes) & Benjamin Hulett (Edmondo), Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Nina Stemme (Minnie), Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance), Kristine Opolais (soprano)
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Erzsebet Hazy (Manon Lescaut), Gyorgy Melis (Lescaut), Robert Ilosfalvy (Des Grieux), Oszkar Maleczky (Geronte), Sandor Palcso (Edmondo), Miklos Petri (L'oste), Arpad Kishegyi (Il maestro di ballo), Erzsebet Komlossy (Una voce sola), Bela Turpinszky (Un sergente degli arcieri), Tibor Kelen (Lampionaio),...
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