Mirella Freni
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
RecommendedPiero Cappuccilli (Boccanegra), Mirella Freni (Amelia/Maria), José van Dam (Paolo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Jacopo Fiesco), José Carreras (Gabriele)
La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
This famous recording has become a classic, a studio performance following a series of performances at La Scala in the Strehler staging. The close, slightly claustrophobic recording exactly... —
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Building a Library, April 2000, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedMirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Pavarotti's Rodolfo is perhaps the best thing he has ever done: not only the finest recorded account of the role since Björling's on the Beecham set, but adding the honeyed Italianate warmth... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Puccini: La Bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Pavarotti is a young and ardent Rodolfo, suddenly overwhelmed by love in 'Che gelida manina'. The tone is gorgeous, the legato pilled just enough to put a lamp in your throat… Mirella Freni's... —
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
RecommendedMirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Robert Gambill
Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Building a Library, April 2006, Modern Choice
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Mirella Freni (Madama Butterfly), Luciano Pavarotti (B.F. Pinkerton), Christa Ludwig (Suzuki), Robert Kerns (Sharpless), Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan
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Verdi: Falstaff
RecommendedGeraint Evans (Sir John Falstaff), Giulietta Simionato (Mistress Quickly), Ilva Ligabue (Alice Ford), Robert Merrill (Ford), Mirella Freni (Nannetta), Alfredo Kraus (Fenton), Rosalind Elias (Meg Page), John Lanigan (Dr Cajus), Piero de Palma (Bardolfo), Giovanni Foiani (Pistola)
RCA Italiana...
Geraint Evans has deservedly earned great praise for his splendid characterisation and singing of Falstaff ... in all this is a very good-humoured and well-rounded portrait of the part ... this... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Puccini: La Bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol), Hans-Dieter Appelt (Sergente dei doganieri), Hans-Dietrich Pohl (Un doganiere)
Berlin...
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedThomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Opera Arias by Bizet, Donizetti, Halévy, Meyerbeer, Puccini & Verdi
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Philharmonia Orchestra & Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado & Herbert von Karajan
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New. Verdi: Aida
José van Dam (bass, bass-baritone), Ruggero Raimondi (bass), José Carreras (tenor), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Thomas Moser (tenor), Katia Ricciarelli (soprano), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan
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