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Strauss, R: Elektra
Jean Madeira, Inge Borkh, Lisa Casa, Max Lorenz, Kurt Böhme, Alois Pernerstorfer, Anny Felbermayer, Karol Loraine, Erich Majkut, Georg Littasy, Audrey Gerber
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Dimitri Mitropoulos
This is an enthralling performance. Mitropoulos made a speciality of the score, his most important contribution to opera interpretation.
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Rossini: Mosè
(four-act French version, sung in Italian)
Ruggero Raimondi (Mosè), Eduardo Villa (Elisero), Bodo Brinkmann (Faraone), Francisco Araiza (Aménofi), Friedrich Lenz (Aufide), Cornelia Wuhlkopf (Maria), Carol Vaness (Anaìde), Doris Soffel (Sinaìde), Kurt Moll (Una voce misteriosa)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper,...
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
Robert Gambill (Idomeneo), Camilla Nylund (Ismene), Britta Stallmeister (Ilia), Iris Vermillion (Idamantes), Christoph Pohl (Arbaces), Jacques-Greg Belobo (High Priest) & Rainer Büsching (oracle)
Choir of the Dresden Opera & Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi
Strauss's lushed-up Mozart exerts its grotesque if absorbing power… A clear-cut choice, then, for anyone wanting this strange, perversely absorbing slice of operatic history. — More…
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Mercadante: Il Giuramento
Mara Zampieri (Elaisa), Agnes Baltsa (Bianca), Placido Domingo (Viscardo), Robert Kerns (Manfredo), Michele Fiotta (Brunoro), Silvia Herman (Isaura)
Choir & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Gerd Albrecht
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Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Annelies Kupper, Karl Schmitt-Walter (Frau & Herr Fluth), Max Proebstl (Falstaff), Lilian Benningsen, Kieth Engen (Frau & Herr Reich), Liselotte Fölser (Anna Reich), Richard Holm (Fenton), Paul Kuën (Junker Spärlich) & Rudolf Wünzer (Dr. Cajus)
Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera...
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
Josef Krips, Horst Stein, Giuseppe Sinopoli & Miguel Gomez Martinez
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Seiji Ozawa
We hear him first, fresh-voiced and magnificent in even-toned sonority as Fiesco in his prologue to Simon Boccanegra. Then comes the complete triumph in one of his great roles, the King in... — More…
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Mirella Freni: Opera Arias 1963 - 1995
Digitally remastered from Austrian Radio 1963–1995
Mirella Freni (soprano), Gianni Raimondi (Rodolfo), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Alberto Rinaldi (Marcello), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Orazio Mori (Schaunard), Margarita Guglielmi (Musetta), Wolfgang Brendel (Marcello), Peter Dvorsky (Des Grieux), Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Plácido Domingo (Otello),...
the spontaneity of the theatre brings a special vividness to all of these interpretations...Freni portrays every character very touchingly indeed, especially Elisabetta...[She] blazes through... — More…
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Gundula Janowitz
Gundula Janowitz (soprano) with Lucia Popp, Waldemar Kmentt & Franco Corelli
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Bernstein, Böhm, Dohnányi, Karajan, Krips, Krombholc, Schønwandt & Stein
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