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Puccini: La Bohème
Gianni Poggi (Rodolfo), Renata Scotto (Mimi), Jolanda Meneguzzer (Musetta), Tito Gobbi (Marcello), Giorgio Giorgetti (Schaunard), Giuseppe Modesti (Colline), Virgilio Carbonari (Benoit/Alcindoro), Enzo Guagni (Parpignol), Mario Frosini (Sergente dei doganieri), Augusto Frati (Un doganiere)
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Antonino Votto conducts an irresistible performance, with the young Renata Scotto as Mimì, Gianni Poggi as Rodolfo and Jolanda Meneguzzer as Musetta. Despite its 45 years, this more than holds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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Joplin: Treemonisha
Carmen Balthrop, Betty Allen & Curtis Rayam
Original Cast Orchestra & Chorus, Gunther Schuller
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Strauss, R: Arabella
Lisa Della Casa (Arabella), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Mandryka), Anneliese Rothenberger (Zdenka), Ira Malaniuk (Adelaide), Karl Christian Kohn (Waldner), Eva Maria Rogner (Fiakermilli), Georg Paskuda (Matteo), Fritz Uhl (Elemer), Carl Hoppe (Dominik)
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor & Bayerisches...
A live recording from Munich's Staatsoper in its 1960s heyday. Della Casa's creamy toned Arabella is near perfect and Fischer-Dieskau a deeply sympathetic Mandryka. Keilberth's spacious tempos... —
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Massenet: Werther
Plácido Domingo (Werther), Elena Obraztsova (Charlotte), Franz Grundheber (Albert), Kurt Moll (Le Bailli), Arleen Auger (Sophie)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Riccardo Chailly
Domingo in the name part sings with sweetness and purity as well as strength —
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Auber: Fra Diavolo & Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento
Giuseppe Campora (Fra Diavolo), Cecilia Fusco (Zerlina), Marco Stecci (Lord Cockburn), Margaret Simoncini (Lady Pamela), Romano Grigolo (Lorenzo), Vito Susca (Matteo), Alfredo Mariotti (Giacomo), Paola Mazzotta (Beppo), Anna Maccianti (Marie), Ugo Benelli (Tonio), Alfredo Mariotti (Sulpice), Flora...
What matters is the high spirits of singers and players. —
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Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino
Kathleen Battle (Sofia), Samuel Ramey (Gaudenzio), Claudio Desderi (Bruschino padre), Octavio Arévalo (Bruschino figlio), Michele Pertusi (Filiberto), Jennifer Larmore (Marianna), Frank Lopardo (Florville)
English Chamber Orchestra, Ion Marin
You could hardly desire a starrier cast for this 'comic farce in one act' than that assembled by DG —
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Irmgard Seefried (Agathe), Rita Streich (Ännchen), Richard Holm (Max), Kurt Böhme (Kaspar), Eberhard Waechter (Ottokar), Paul Kuen (Kilian), Ernst Ginsberg (Zamiel), Walter Kreppel (Hermit), Albrecht Peter (Kuno)
Chor und Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eugen Jochum
A classic 1959 recording, impeccably conducted by Eugen Jochum and with several excellently characterised performances by leading German artists of the day. The sound registers as very good... —
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Weber: Oberon
Donald Grobe (Oberon), Plácido Domingo (Huon), Birgit Nilsson (Reiza), Julia Hamari (Fatima), Hermann Prey (Sherasmin), Marga Schiml (Puck), Arleen Auger (Mermaids)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik
At bargain price, this first recording of Weber's English opera, albeit in German, still offers strong competition for Gardiner's new recording. Nilsson and a young Domingo thrill in the leading... —
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale, etc.
Emma Bruno de Sanctis (Serafina), Alberto Rinaldi (Enrico), Alfredo Mariotti (Don Annibalo), Flora Rafanelli (Madame Rosa), Mario Guggia (Spiridione), Alfredo Mariotti (Don Pasquale), Anna Maccianti (Norina), Mario Basiola jnr. (Malatesta), Ugo Benelli (Ernesto), Augusto Frati (Un notaio)
Maggio...
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Verdi: La Traviata
Renata Scotto (Violetta), Gianni Raimondi (Alfredo), Ettore Bastianini (Giorgio Germont)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto
The first of Scotto's two studio recordings of Traviata finds her in fresher voice than her later attempt under Muti, though her colleagues here are less distinguished. —
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