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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore Ileana Cotrubas (Adina), Plácido Domingo (Nemorino), Sir Geraint Evans (Doctor Dulcamara), Ingvar Wixell (Belcore) & Lillian Watson (Gianetta)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Pritchard
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Puccini: Tosca Leontyne Price (Floria Tosca), Plácido Domingo (Mario Cavaradossi), Sherrill Milnes (Baron Scarpia) & Paul Plishka (A Sacristan)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir & Wandsworth School Boy’s Choir, Zubin Mehta
Still one of the best versions with Mehta's dramatic conducting, Price's passionate Tosca, Domingo ideally lyrical and heroic and Milnes, if less nuanced than Gobbi, compellingly sadistic. — More…
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Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel Ileana Cotrubas, Soprano (Gretel), Frederica Von Stade, Mezzo-Soprano (Hänsel), Christa Ludwig, Mezzo-Soprano (Gertrud, Their Mother), Siegmund Nimsgern, Baritone (Peter, Their Father), Kiri Te Kanawa, Soprano (Sandman), Ruth Welting, Soprano (Dew Fairy) & Elisabeth Söderstrom, Soprano (Witch)
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A set with merits, chiefly von Stade's Hansel and Te Kanawa's Sandman. The rest of the cast is disappointing and Pritchard's conducting is heavy handed. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 Leontyne Price, soprano (Fiordiligi), Tatiana Troyanos, mezzo-soprano (Dorabella), Judith Raskin, soprano (Despina), George Shirley, tenor (Ferrando), Sherrill Milnes, baritone (Guglielmo) & Ezio Flagello, bass (Don Alfonso)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Ruggero Raimondi, bass-baritone (Don Giovanni), John Macurdy, bass (Commendatore), Edda Moser, soprano (Donna Anna), Kenneth Riegel, tenor (Don Ottavio), Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano (Donna Elvira), José Van Dam, bass-baritone (Leporello), Malcolm King, baritone (Masetto) & Teresa Berganza, mezzo-soprano...
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Karita Mattila (Countess Almaviva), Marie McLaughlin (Susanna), Michele Pertusi (Count Almaviva), Monica Bacelli (Cherubino), Nicoletta Curiel (Marcellina), Angelo Nosotti (Bartolo), Ugo Benelli (Basilio), Gennaro Sica (Don Curzio), Giorgio Tadeo (Antonio) & Laura Cherici...
there's a lot going for it. Monica Bacelli's passionate "Voi che sapete" has a suggestion of heartbreak and Karita Mattila is gloriously full-throated in the Allegro of "Dove sono" — More…
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