Michel Sénéchal
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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... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Ravel: L'enfant et les Sortileges & L'heure Espagnole
RecommendedBerlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la RTF, Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
The singing is delightful: neoclassical crispness of articulation goes with refined textures that convey the ripe humour of the one piece, the tender poetry of the other.The inclusion of [the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Remastered CD
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Mirella Freni (Butterfly), Luciano Pavarotti (Pinkterton), Christa Ludwig (Suzuki), Robert Kerns (Sharpless)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Herbert von Karajan
In every way except one the transfer of Karajan's radiant Vienna recording for Decca could hardly provide a firmer recommendation. The reservation is one of price – this Karajan is on three... — More…
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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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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
RecommendedJose Van Dam (Le Marquis de la Force), Catherine Dubosc (Blanche de la Force), Jean-Luc Viala (Le Chevalier de la Force), Rita Gorr (La Prieure du Carmel), Rachel Yakar (La Nouvelle Prieure), Martine Dupuy (Mere Marie), Brigitte Fournier (Constance), Michel Senechal (L'Aumonier), Francois Le Roux...
It's… good to welcome back EMI's reissue of the 1992 Virgin Classic's Dialogues… superbly cast. Catherine Dubosc is Blanche par excellence, Rita Gorr graduates from Mere Marie in 1958 to the... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2006, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Opera
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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Dame Felicity Lott (Hélène), Yann Beuron (Paris), Michel Sénéchal (Ménélas), Laurent Naouri (Agamemnon), François Le Roux (Calchas), Eric Huchet (Achille), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Oreste)
Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The wit sparkles, the one-liners are beautifully timed and delivered, and there's none of the 'big opera star does laboured comic turn' heaviness you sometimes hear in this kind of production...Beuron... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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The World of Puccini
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Gianni Maffeo (baritone), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Berliner Philharmoniker, The National Philharmonic Orchestra,...
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Roberto Alagna (Hoffmann), José Van Dam (Lindorf / Coppélius / Dapertutto / Dr Miracle), Natalie Dessay (Olympia), Sumi Jo (Giulietta), Leontina Vaduva (Antonia), Juanita Lascarro (Stella), Catherine Dubosc (Nicklausse / La Muse)
Choeur et Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Kent Nagano
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Bizet: Carmen
Tatiana Troyanos (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Kiri Te Kanawa (Micaëla), José van Dam (Escamillo), Norma Burrowes (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Thomas Allen (Moralès)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Sir Georg Solti
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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. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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