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1.The Most Famous Opera Duets from: EMI Classics April 12, 1994
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Maybe these don't represent absolutely the greatest duets in all opera. But they represent some awfully good ones! The CD begins with a duet from "Les Pecheurs des Perles" (Puccini) and ends with the gloomy Miserere (from "Il Trovatore," by Verdi). In between are many more operas, from Donizetti and Mozart to Strauss and Wagner. Some of the finer singers of the past half century appear in various of these duets. A bit more detail on a handful of these to illustrate. "Sull'aria" from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro." Heather Harper and Judith Blegen sing the parts here. This is a sweet duet from the opera. The singer's voices meld well together and this represents a poignantly sung piece. "Ah! Verrana a tell sull'aure," from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." ... Read More

2.Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra by: Georges Bizet, Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Prêtre, Orchestre de Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Choeurs René Duclos, Robert Massard, Jane Berbié, Andrea Guiot, Claude Cales August 19, 1997
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I was looking for this play quite long ago, and finally I found it right at Amazon.

3.The Most Famous Opera Arias from: EMI Classics July 19, 1994
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The conductor and the singers can make a beautiful song the opera that everyone jeers and hates. To have a Russian singer doing o mio babbino caro is just plain silly...give the woman a break and play something from Russian opera...give a beautiful melodic aria to a lyrical singer like Caballe...boo hiss. Try Opera's Greatest Moments where they give Hvorostvsky an aria from Pique Dame and leave the bel canto to bel canto singers.

4.Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von Karajan, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan from: EMI Classics August 19, 1997
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While working on the PARALLEL PERSPECTIVES Archives page, I started thinking about Maria Callas & her rather bizarre, non-singing role in the equally bizarre 1970's Pier Passolini film MEDEA--and noticed this CD of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY. I must admit that I was kind of turned-off to see that the CD was remastered from the original non-sterophonic LP (there's just so much even digital technology can do in salvaging pre-stereo operatic recordings) and I really only purchased it because I was curious hear Callas in one of her less notable roles (unbelievably there were only 3 performances). I was pleasantly surprised to find myself really enjoying the entire production. Of course director Herbert Von Karajan is a famous talent in his own right and tenor Nicolai Gedda ... Read More

5.The Best of Italian Opera from: EMI Classics January 21, 1997
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This is an excellent CD of singers from the past century, origonally recorded in analog and very well remastered.

6.Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust from: EMI Classics April 24, 2007
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I was ready to give this EMI budget two-fre of Berlioz's Damnation de Fuast three stars, strictly on my memory of Georges Pretre's bald-faced, sometimes brash conducting. But once I begn listening again, a lot caught my ear. It's always a god sign when Faust's treacherous opening solo is well sung, and Nicolai Gedda is first-rate, singing with apparent ease and lovely style. Then there's the very French orchestra and chorus. They add a particular flavor that even the greatest orchestras outside France can't match--Berlioz sounds at home in Paris, as Johann Stauss does in Vienna. Even though the mezzo doesn't have a large part, I originally bought this recording for Janet Baker, who is intense and superb in every way--as she is in the filler, her classic recording of La Mort de Cleopatra (which ... Read More

7.Mendelssohn: Elijah from: EMI Classics February 15, 2005
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I was so pleased to come across the CD release of this old recording. I have a CD of a cassette tape of a reel-to-reel tape from the 60s and it's my standard. This recording finds all of these magnificent singers at their best, and Mme. Jones is here sans wobble which accompanies her later in her career. My only regret is M. Fischer-Dieskau. His singing is lovely as ever, if a bit too lovely for the music, but one misses a real bass (or bass/baritone) in this role. The chorus and conducting are fine. What I love about this recording is the straight-forward playing and singing which this chestnut needs. A more recent Elijah with Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming is unfortunately marred by someone's idea of "drama" (I guess the conductor, Paul Daniel). On this terrible version, the chorus yells and "emotes" ... Read More

8.Beethoven: Les 9 Symphonies from: EMI Classics France September 07, 2006
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It is enjoyably performed and first rate sounding set! I much prefer it over Karajan any time. The music is respectfully treated and gratefully performed. EMI's quality shines as always. You also may like this Beethoven Symphonies 1,2,3,4,5,6 and Art Galleries of the Time, 2DVDs+3CDs Ultimate MosaicDVD Collection I also have Toscanini's classical rendition of the same symphonies which are superb but unfortunately the CDs that I received have audible hiss.

9.The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever! from: Angel Records July 27, 1999
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I'm not opera literate, so I was looking for some kind of introduction that had some familiar arias and that would connect me to others that I had not heard. I liked that the notes with the cd indicated where a new listener may have heard some of the music (in a commercial, during an important scene in a movie, etc). This was the source of a lot of 'Ah ha!' moments. It even inspired me to rent a dvd of a live version of Turandot and to put others on my Netflix queue. I owe my newly aroused curiosity about opera, believe it or not, to Il Divo. I had to know what these guys sing when they're not reinterpreting pop songs. I'm glad I started this journey and this cd was a good start.

10.Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust / Veasey, Gedda, Bastin, van Allan, LSO, C. Davis by: Hector Berlioz, Sir Colin Davis, Josephine Veasey, Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Gillian Knight, Richard van Allan, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus September 11, 2001
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Berlioz and the story of Faust together is interesting to observe...Berlioz was an admirer of Goethe, and sent the poet this work in manuscript. Goethe loved the letter attached, but was warned and cautioned by his friend Friederich Zelter, whom many of us know was Mendelssohn's teacher. This work originally started out as "Eight Scenes from Faust" (available on Decca with Dutoit conducting)...and as Berlioz's vision expanded, he turned into into this, his famous "Legende dramatique". It isn't quite an opera though it has been staged, with much difficulty. Many people call it an extended cantata. This fits well enough, but really we have to accept it as the hybrid that it is: unique to Berlioz. The form of the work invites comparison with another of Hector Berlioz's great masterworks: Romeo et Juliete, which ... Read More

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