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Idomeneo: Comp (Ital)
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Premiered two days before Mozart's 25th birthday, this is the first opera of his maturity (i.e., the amazing last 10 years of his too-short life). It is written in a modified form of opera seria, a Baroque rather than a classical style ...More…
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Msa Glagolskaja & Sinfonietta
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Here's a word one wouldn't normally use to describe a performance of this music: transparent. Eliahu Inbal and Denon's engineers make every detail of Janácek's complex orchestration and rhythmic interplay audible. Such ...More…
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A Portrait: Favourite Mezzo Soprano Arias
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com The title "A Portrait" would suggest some sort of a cohesive look at this talented Bulgarian mezzo-soprano. But she is so astonishingly versatile, one wonders if there are at least two singers at work here. Her more athletic ...More…
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Victor Recordings
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Few singers received the adulation accorded Lucrezia Bori, whose glorious soprano finally gets its recorded due in these miraculous transfers by Ward Marston, which convey the body and warmth slighted in her previous incarnations on LP and ...More…
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German Opera Arias
Amazon CA — Artist Kiri Te Kanawa Artist Rudel Artist Philharmonia Orch EAN 0724355641724 Format Import Release Date 1997-10-14 SKU UB000002RYR UPC 724355641724 Tracks: Der Freischutz, Act 3: Und Ob Die Wolke Der Freischutz, Act 3: Wie Nahte Mir...Leise, Leise Die ...More…
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Debut Recital Recording
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Luckily, the current profusion of mezzo-sopranos doesn't leave one jaded to talented newcomers such as Angelika Kirchschalger. Besides looking like a fashion model, this young Austrian singer has a voice of such lustrous perfection ...More…
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Turandot Comp (Ital)
Amazon CA — Amazon.com essential recording Joan Sutherland is not usually considered a Puccini singer, and in fact she sang the role of Turandot only in the recording studio. But for that assignment she had exactly what was needed: a voice that seemed to have no ...More…
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Idomeneo Comp (Ital)
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com This is, like many opera seria works, about a conflict between love (in this case paternal love) and duty. Idomeneo, King of Crete, a hero of the Trojan War, has vowed to Neptune that he will sacrifice the first human he sees upon his safe ...More…
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Der Ring Des Nibelungen
Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Wilhelm Furtwangler's only live opera house recording of the complete Ring is indispensable for serious Wagnerians. (A 1953 broadcast concert series from Rome had an inferior orchestra and lesser singers.) This 1950 La Scala Ring with ...More…
