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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Lukas Jakobski (Angelotti), Jeremy White (Sacristan)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Jonathan Kent (director)
Pappano's mastery of Puccinian pace and phrasing intensifies this turbulent score's onward surge, but he's also noticeable attentive to his singers...[Kaufmann's] cries of 'Vittoria!' are thrilling...and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, DVD Award (Performance)
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Lukas Jakobski (Angelotti), Jeremy White (Sacristan)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Jonathan Kent (director)
Pappano's mastery of Puccinian pace and phrasing intensifies this turbulent score's onward surge, but he's also noticeable attentive to his singers...[Kaufmann's] cries of 'Vittoria!' are thrilling...and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, DVD Award (Performance)
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Oren Gradus (Colline), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro), Meredith Derr (Parpignol), Robert Maher (Sergente dei doganieri), Richard Pearson (Un doganiere)
The Metropolitan...
…the spectacular Zeffirelli staging, now rather showing its age. It still makes a good frame… for Ramón Vargas's engaging Rodolfo, sung with ardour, and Gheorghiu's fine-toned but rather grand... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Angela Gheorghiu - Puccini
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Anton Coppola
Angela Gheorghiu delivers some of her finest singing on a disk full of Puccinian gems — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: La Rondine
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Magda), Roberto Alagna (Ruggero), Lisette Oropesa (Lisette), Samuel Ramey (Ramblado), Marius Brenciu (Prunier)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Marco Armiliato
Armiliato's conducting...captures the right warmth, and the former Dream Team still look superb...The lyrical young Ruggero still suits Alagna...Ramey's now leathery tone embodies Ramblado's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th September 2010
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Carlo), Montserrat Caballé (Elisabetta), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo II), Shirley Verrett (Eboli), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Giovanni Foiani (Il Grande Inquisitore), Simon Estes (Un Frate), Delia Wallis (Tebaldo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Maria Giulini
From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording of the opera by him looked a must. In fact, it was to be 12 years before EMI... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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Karine Babajanyan – Puccini Arias
Karine Babajanyan (soprano) with Giuseppe Giacomini (tenor)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Pier Giorgio Morandi
Her technique sounds rock solid and her musical instincts are unerring. The surprise of the disc is the excellent condition of the 68-year-old Giuseppe Giacomini in the Butterfly and Manon Lescaut... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Renata Scotto (Violetta), Sarah Walker (Flora), Cynthia Buchan (Annina), Alfredo Kraus (Alfredo), Renato Bruson (Germont), Suso Mariategui (Gastone), Henry Newman (Barone Douphol), Richard Van Allan (Marchese d’Obigny)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Riccardo Muti
2 CDs
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The Very Best of Montserrat Caballé
Arias and songs by Bellini, Puccini, Montsalvatge, Verdi, et al
Montserrat Caballé (soprano)
2 CDs
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Eva Marton (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), John Tomlinson (Hagen), Thomas Hampson (Gunther), Eva-Maria Bundschuh (Gutrune), Mirjana Lipovšek (Waltraute), Theo Adam (Alberich)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
4 CDs
$23.00
