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The great Beverly Sills is heard in one of her most thrilling roles, theDaughter of the Regiment (one of Donizettis finest comic operas), in this live performance of the original French version. Maries second-act cabaletta,Salut a la France,...

The Italian Girl in Algiers, premiered in 1813, was the first of Rossini s comedies to exhibit his fully mature style, and one of the first to establish his unquestioned dominance in the opera world of his day. It literally overflows with...

This performance was recorded live at La Scala on January 20, 1964. Gabriele Santini who would pass away toward the end of that year brings the authority of a life saturated in this repertoire to his pacing. Sesto Bruscantini hams up Figaro s sense...

Idomeneo, Re di Creta ( Idomeneus, King of Crete ), written when Mozart was 24, was already his seventh opera. Although not nearly so well known today as several later works, it contains some fine music and has one of the richest orchestral scores...

Live performance, Rome, May 12, 1970. Features original artwork by Rafal Olbinski, re-mastered sound, and 76-page booklet with historic photos. Complete Italian-English libretto newly translated for this release, with an extensive essay on the...

Heinrich Marschner (1795 1861) was a popular Early Romantic opera composer in Germany whose works disappeared for a few decades but have been successfully revived in recent times. Two of his operas, the proto-Wagnerian Hans Heiling, and the spooky...

Croatian soprano Zinka Milanov was a great favorite in England and America in the 1950s, and sang often at the Met. She was especially famous for herfloating pianissimo. Franco Corelli was one of the most exciting tenors of recent decades, and his...

Live performance, 1972, with a world-class cast, comparable to the best available anywhere. As with the other releases in the new Grand Tier series, this opera recording includes a full libretto in the original language and in English. Karl Böhm was...

Live performance,Tokyo, September 18, 1973. La traviata is among the most popular operas ever written. Today it is probably the most frequently performed of all 28 operas by Verdi. Based on one of the greatest love stories La Dame aux Camélias,...