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In its first performance at the Met in nearly 40 years, Luisa Miller comes to life with a dream cast under the sure and steady direction of conductor Thomas Schippers The incomparable Montserrat Caballé is the title heroine, a simple peasant girl in love with Richard Tucker’s Rodolfo, the son of a powerful nobleman Also starring the great Verdi baritone Sherrill Milnes as Miller, Ezio Flagello as Wurm and Giorgio Tozzi as Count Walter 2 CDs taken from the February 17, 1968 live performance “Compared with the later recordings...Caballe sings with a more natural rather than a manufactured vocal lightness particularly evident in the more pastoral and gentle episodes with her trill and famous pianissimos evident. I cannot but agree with Caballé’s biographers that Luisa was one of the soprano’s greatest roles and is well caught I this live performance.” MusicWeb International, June 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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“The great merit of this new version of Tosca...is that the stage picture is so clear, with the words sharply audible from beginning to end...Pavarotti makes an unusually positive and bright-eyed Cavaradossi, by no means the cipher this character can be...Milnes gives a fresh, alternative view - a Scarpia still thoroughly evil but with a hint of nobility, with the virility of an active lover.” Gramophone Magazine, May 1980 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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“Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Montserrat Caballé (Mimi), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Blegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vincenzo Sardinero (Schaunard), Noel Mangin (Benoit), Nico Castel (Alcindoro), Alan Byers (Parpignol) London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Sir Georg Solti | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Each release includes a booklet with a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast list and detailed track list. “[Caballé's] voice sounds youthful, gleaming, opulent at the top...[the nasty stops] come later, in league with Lewis's desperate but notewise spot-on Herod. Leinsdorf's conducting has both transparency and pace. A top recommendation.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Montserrat Caballé (Mimi), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Marcello), Judith Blegen (Musetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Colline), Vincenzo Sardinero (Schaunard), Noel Mangin (Benoit), Nico Castel (Alcindoro), Alan Byers (Parpignol) John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti Each release includes a booklet with a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast list and detailed track list. Recorded in 1973 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Opera for Children is a wonderful range which is being made available internationally. 15 world-famous operas accompanied by a booklet telling the story. Includes beautifully illustrated story book of the opera for parents to read to children. | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | |
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A period of sixteen years separates Aida and Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello— Verdi’s second opera based on Shakespeare. Otello was greeted with great enthusiasm when it was first given at La Scala in 1887 and today ranks, along with Wagner’s Tristan, as one of the greatest challenges to any tenor who needs both supreme vocal and acting abilities to do justice to the role. Plácido Domingo is without doubt one of the greatest interpreters of this hugely challenging role. Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list. Recorded in 1978 “The revelation is Scotto as Desdemona: imbuing every phrase with colour and meaning, stunning in the Act III ensemble and shattering in her final cry of farewell to maid Emilia.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 **** “The earliest of Placido Domingo's studio recordings of Otello, made in London in 1978 just two years after he sang the role for the first time, is a must-have at this price...full of ardent, intensely lyrical singing” The Guardian, 28th August 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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