Sony Classical Opera
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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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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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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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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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Wagner: Siegfried
René Kollo (Siegfried), Peter Schreier (Mime), Theo Adam (Wanderer), Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde), Siegmund Nimsgern (Alberich), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Norma Sharp (Waldvogel)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Marek Janowski
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Gomes: Il Guarany
Placido Domingo, Veronica Villarroel, Carlos Alvarez
Chor und Extrachor der Stadt Bonn, Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn, John Neschling
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Jeannine Altmeyer (Leonore), Siegfried Jerusalem (Florestan), Peter Meven (Rocco), Siegmund Nimsgern (Don Pizarro), Carola Nossek (Marzelline), Rudiger Wohlers (Jaquino), Theo Adam (Don Fernando), Klaus Konig (Erster Gefangener), Frank-Peter Spathe (Zweiter Gefangener)
Rundfunkchor und Gewandhausorchester...
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Donizetti: Gemma Di Vergy
Montserrat Caballé (Gemma), Natalya Chudy (Ida), Luis Lima (Tamas), Louis Quilico (Conte di Vergy), Paul Plishka (Guido)
Schola Cantorum, New York Opera Orchestra, Eve Queler
An uneven opera with wonderful passages, and perhaps Montserrat Caballé’s finest recording, with stunning singing from the underrated Argentine tenor Luis Lima, and excellent supporting cast. — More…
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