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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballé (Liù), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Tom Krause (Ping), Pier Francesco Poli (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Peter Pears (L'imperatore Altoum), Sabin Markov (Un mandarino)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, Zubin...
Sutherland gives an intensely appealing interpretation, while Pavarotti gives a performance equally imaginative. Mehta directs a gloriously rich and dramatic performance. Still the best-sounding... — More…
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Building a Library, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
RecommendedRenata Tebaldi (Minnie), Mario del Monaco (Dick Johnson), Cornell MacNeil (Jack Rance)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Franco Capuana
both Tebaldi and del Monaco were at their finest, and Tozzi as Jake Wallace proved another outstanding asset. The Decca producers, James Walker and Christopher Raeburn, again demonstrated Decca's... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2016, Also Recommended
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Bellini: Norma RecommendedMaria Callas (Norma), Christa Ludwig (Adalgisa), Franco Corelli (Pollione), Nicola Zaccaria (Oroveso), Edda Vincenzi (Clotilde), Piero De Palma (Flavio)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Bellini's tragic Druid priestess was surely one of Maria Callas's greatest roles, and she's caught at her histrionic peak on this 1960 studio recording under Tullio Serafin, with Franco Corelli's... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Turandot), Luciano Pavarotti (Calaf), Montserrat Caballé (Liù), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Timur), Tom Krause (Ping), Pier Francesco Poli (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Peter Pears (L'imperatore Altoum), Sabin Markov (Un mandarino)
John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin...
Turandot is a psychologically complex work fusing appalling sadism with self-sacrificing devotion.
The icy Princess of China has agreed to marry any man of royal blood who can solve three riddles... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2012, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ...... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: Turandot Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Mario Borriello (Ping), Renato Ercolani (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Giuseppe Nessi (L'imperatore Altoum), Giulio Mauri (Un mandarino)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
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Donizetti: Anna Bolena Nicolai Ghiaurov (Enrico VIII), Elena Souliotis (Anna Bolena), Marilyn Horne (Giovanna Seymour), John Alexander (Lord Riccardo Percy), Janet Coster (Smeton), Stafford Dean (Rochefort), Piero de Palma (Harvey)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Opernorchester, Silvio Varviso
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly)
Recommended[Recorded 1962]
Leontyne Price (Cio Cio San), Richard Tucker (Pinkerton), Filippo Maero (Sharpless), Rosalind Elias (Suzuki), Anna Di Stasio (Kate Pinkerton), Piero De Palma (Goro), Robert Kerns (Il principe Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (Lo zio Bonzo), Arturo La Porta (Il commissario imperiale), Leo Pudis (Yakusidè),...
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Opera Recording
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia RecommendedMaria Callas, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Nicolai Gedda & Mariano Stabile
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Callas and Rossi-Lemeni head a superb ensemble in this classic recorded premiere, noticeably cut but well remastered for its age. — More…
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Richard Tucker (tenor), Piero de Palma (tenor), Philip Maero (baritone), RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Leontyne Price (soprano), Leo Pudis (bass vocal), Gianna Lollini (soprano), Silvia Bertona (soprano), Fernanda Cadoni...
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Opera Recording
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