Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res
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Naxos - 50% off Hi-Res, Verdi (composer)
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedGiuseppe di Stefano (Riccardo), Tito Gobbi (Renato), Maria Callas (Amelia), Fedora Barbieri (Ulrica), Eugenia Ratti (Oscar), Silvio Maionica (Samuele), Nicola Zaccaria (Tom), Ezio Giordano (Silvano)
Orhcestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto
Gobbi's chocolate-smooth tones almost steal the show, but Callas gives a touching Amelia, and di Stefano is dashing and irresponsible. There is a strong cast and theatrical conducting from... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2013, Recommendation available on single CD
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Special offer. Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from the Operas
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier
Each piece's vitality and colour are well captured in these performances, which combine sweep with finesse. — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: La forza del destino
Maria Caniglia, Tancredi Pasero, Carlo Tagliabue
RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Turin, Gino Marinuzzi
This is a fascinating, unmissable set both in historic and musical terms. Marinuzzi, a Toscanini coeval at La Scala, was chosen as conductor, and it's his only complete recording of an opera.... — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Maria Caniglia (Aida), Benianimino Gigli (Radamès), Ebe Stignani (Amneris), Gino Bechi (Amonasro), Italo Tajo (Il Re di Egitto), Tancredi Pasero (Ramfis), Maria Huder (Una Sacerdotessa), Adelio Zagonora (Un Messaggero)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin
It is an electrifying performance, with Serafin at his most magnetic leading an outstanding cast of principals, all with voices firm and true. Heralded by trumpets that vividly leap out of the... — More…
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Special offer. The Very Best of Verdi
Miriam Gauci (soprano), Giacomo Aragall (tenor), Eduard Tumagian (baritone), Marina Mescheriakova (soprano), Marian Vach (choirmaster), Marcello Giordani (tenor), Yordy Ramiro (tenor), Alida Ferrarini (soprano), Roberto Servile (baritone), Maurizio Frusoni (tenor), Daniela Longhi (soprano), Thomas...
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Special offer. Verdi: Requiem & Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Elina Filipova (soprano), Gloria Scalchi (soprano), Cesar Hernandez (tenor), Carlo Colombara (bass)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Piergiorgio Morandi
Morandi brings to his interpretation a youthful, Italian energy and generosity of expression.
Given a judicious choice of young soloists, all up to their exigent tasks, an excellent chorus (a... — More…2 CDs
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Special offer. Verdi: La Traviata
Eleanor Steber (Violetta), Giuseppe di Stefano (Alfredo), Robert Merrill (Giorgio Germont), Thelma Votipka (Flora), Thelma Altman (Annina)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Antonicelli
Few singers on disc can match Eleanor Steber as Violetta...The beauty and precision as well as the power of Steber's singing are phenomenal...the emotional thrust of the drama comes over at... — More…
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Anna Bonitatibus, Maurizio Comencini, Allesandro Cosentino, Enrico Facini, Julia Faulkner, Franco de Grandis, Anna Maria di Micco, Robetrto Servile, Domenico Trimarchi
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Will Humburg
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Maria Callas (Gilda), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Il Duca), Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone)
La Scala Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin
[Callas's] command in her big aria, Caro nome, is complete, yet the set is even more remarkable for the magnificent assumption of the title-role by Tito Gobbi, dark, intense and deeply moving...[di... — More…
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