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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620 (highlights)
Siegfried Jerusalem, Lucia Popp, Brigitte Lindner, Edita Gruberova, Wolfgang Brendel, Roland Bracht, Norman Bailey & Heinz Zednik
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bernard Haitink
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (highlights)
Beverly Sills (Rosina), Nicolai Gedda (Conte Almaviva) & Sherrill Milnes (Figaro)
London Symphony Orchestra & John Alldis Choir, James Levine
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (highlights)
Placido Domingo (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Mihoko Fujimura (Brangäne), Olaf Bär (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), René Pape (König Marke), Ian Bostridge (Hirt), Rolando Villazon (Junger Seeman) & Matthew Rose (Steuermann)
The Royal Opera Chorus, Covent Garden & Orchestra of the...
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (highlights)
Montserrat Caballé (Santuzza), José Carreras (Turiddu), Matteo Manuguerra (Alfio), Julia Hamari (Lola) & Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), José Carreras (Canio), Renata Scotto (Nedda), Kari Nurmela (Tonio), Ugo Benelli (Beppe) & Thomas Allen (Silvio)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Philharmonia...
Caballé and Scotto have some lovely moments and both are strong in dramatic commitment … Carreras gives generously of voice and emotion in both of his roles – they are among his best achievements... — More…
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Bellini: I Puritani (highlights)
Stefan Elenkov (Lord Gualtiero Walton), Montserrat Caballé (Elvira), Agostino Ferrin (Sir Giorgio Walton), Alfredo Kraus (Lord Arturo Talbot), Matteo Manuguerra (Sir Riccardo Forth), Dennis O’neill (Sir Bruno Robertson) & Julia Hamari (Enrichetta)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Philharmonia...
Elvira might have been written with Caballé’s limpid tones and predominantly gentle art in mind, Arturo with Alfredo Kraus’s sense of line and plangency of tone. — More…
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles (highlights)
Ileana Cotrubas (Léïla), Alain Vanzo (Nadir), Guillermo Sarabia (Zurga) & Roger Soyer (Nourabad)
Chœur et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre
An enjoyable, recommendable performance of Bizet’s fascinating opera … Prêtre draws superb playing and singing from his forces. — More…
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Verdi: Aida (highlights)
Montserrat Caballé (Aida), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris), Piero Cappuccilli (Amonasro), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Nicola Martinucci (Messaggero), Luigi Roni (Re) & Esther Casas (Sacerdotessa)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti
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Verdi: Il Trovatore (highlights)
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Gabriella Tucci (Leonora), Luciana Moneta (Inez), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena), Robert Merrill (Count di Luna), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Ferrando), Angelo Mercuriali (Ruiz) & Mario Rinaudo (An Old Gypsy)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Thomas Schippers
Tucci really seems to feel the music’s shape and her singing is always a good instrument for Verdi’s ideas. — More…
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Wagner: Lohengrin (highlights)
Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Elisabeth Grümmer (Elsa of Brabant), Christa Ludwig (Ortrud), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Friedrich of Telramund), Gottlob Frick (King Heinrich the Fowler) & Otto Wiener (Herald)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, Rudolf Kempe
Thomas combines ardour and anguish as well as any. Fischer-Dieskau is a formidable (but never over-emphatic) antagonist, and Gottlob Frick a majestic King Henry — More…
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Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (highlights)
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette), José Van Dam (Frère Laurent), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Stéphano), Simon Keenlyside (Mercutio), Alain Fondary (Capulet), Claire Larcher (Gertrude), Guy Fletcher (Benvolio) & Alain Vernhes (The Duke)
Chœur du Capitole de Toulouse & Orchestre...
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