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Special offer. Delibes: Lakmé
RecommendedMady Mesplé (Lakmé), Danielle Millet (Mallika), Charles Burles (Gérald), Roger Soyer (Nilakantha) & Jean-Christophe Benoit (Frédéric), Bernadette Antoine (Ellen), Monique Linval (Rose), Agnès Disney (Mrs Bentson) & Joseph Peyron (Hadji)
Chœurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique,...
Alain Lombard conducts a properly Gallic Lakmé with Mady Mesplé as a winningly lyric heroine and for once the Bell Song is more than a showstopper. Then there’s Charles Burles’s Gerald – truly... —
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Building a Library, December 2019, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedRoberto Alagna (Rodolfo), Leontina Vaduva (Mimi), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Simon Keenlyside (Schaunard), Samuel Ramey (Colline), Ruth Ann Swenson (Musetta), Enrico Fissore (Benoit/Alcindoro)
London Voices, Boys from The London Oratory School & Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
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Building A Library, February 2025, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Lalo: Le roi d'Ys
Janine Micheau (Rozenn), Rita Gorr (Margared), Henri Legay (Mylio), Jean Borthayre (Karnac), Pierre Savignol (Le Roi), Jacques Mars (Saint Corentin) & Serge Rallier (Jahel)
Chœurs et Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion française, André Cluytens
Lalo could only have dreamed of this cast. The sound may be boxy and the chorus muffled but Janine Micheau is sweet toned as the nice girl and Rita Gorr supreme as the wicked Margared. —
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Collectionneur
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Placido Domingo (Don Alvaro), Sesto Bruscantini (Fra Melitone), Francesca Garbi (Curra), Ernesto Gavazzi (Mastro Trabuco), Giorgio Zancanaro (Don Carlo di Vargas), Dolora Zajick (Preziosilla), Giorgio Surian (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Paul Plishka (Padre Guardiano), Mirella Freni (Donna Leonora),...
Sergei Larin’s Grigory and Marjana Lipovšek’s Marina are exciting. —
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Ruggero Raimondi (Boris Godunov), Paul Plishka (Pimen), Kenneth Riegel (Shuisky), Nicolai Gedda (Simpleton), Galina Vishneyevskaya (Marina), Catherine Dubosc (Xenia), Matthew Adam Fish (Feodor), Mira Zakai (Nurse), Vyacheslav Poloznov (Grigory), Misha Raitzin (Missail), Lajos Miller (Shchelkalov)
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Scotto (Cio Cio San), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Anna di Stasio (Suzuki), Rolando Panerai (Sharpless) & Silvana Padoan (Kate Pinkerton), Piero De Palma (Goro)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, John Barbirolli
One of the great recordings of Butterfly, this Rome version stars – the only word that will do – Renata Scotto, magnificently supported by John Barbirolli at his most Italianate. —
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Verdi: La Traviata
Beverly Sills (Violetta Valéry), Nicolai Gedda (Alfredo Germont), Rolando Panerai (Giorgio Germont), Delia Wallis (Flora Bervoix), Keith Erwen (Gastone De Letorières), Terence Sharpe (Baron Douphol), Richard Van Allan (Marquis D’obigny) & Robert Lloyd (Doctor Grenvil)
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Beverly Sills (Gilda), Alfredo Kraus (Il Duca di Mantova), Sherrill Milnes (Rigoletto), Samuel Ramey (Sparafucile/Il Conte di Monterone), Mignon Dunn (Maddalena), Dennis O’neill (Borsa), John Rawnsley (Marullo), Malcolm King (Il Conte di Ceprano), Ann Murray (Giovanna) & Sally Burgess (La Contessa...
Sherrill Milnes is a solid interpreter of the title-role, partnered by Beverly Sills’s bright-toned Gilda and alfredo Kraus’s elegant Duke, with conductor Julius Rudel demonstrating good dramatic... —
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Roberto Alagna (Manrico), Angela Gheorghiu (Leonora), Thomas Hampson (Il Conte di Luna), Larissa Diadkova (Azucena), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Ferrando)
London Voices & London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Angela Denoke (Leonore), Jon Villars (Florestan), Laszlo Polgar (Rocco), Alan Held (Don Pizarro), Thomas Quasthoff (Don Fernando), Juliane Banse (Marzelline) & Rainer Trost (Jaquino)
Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
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