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add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIACOMO PUCCINI Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Great Opera Recordings) Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) Licia Albanese (Soprano ) / Rome Opera Chorus, Rome Opera Orchestra, Jonel Perlea (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "no one can afford to be without this version, for the overall excellence but especially for Jussi Björling's unsurpassable des Grieux, now that it is available at Naxos price" (MusicWeb March 2006)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GOUNOD / MASSENET / VERDI / BIZET / PUCCINI / PONCHIELLI / etc Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol 4: Opera Arias and Duets (1945-1951) Jussi Bjorling (tenor) with Emil Markow (bass) & Robert Merrill (baritone) / RCA Victor Chorus [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] "This is Bjorling in his prime, caught between 1945 and 1951, and for the first time on one CD there are both EMI and RCA recordings. Here is some of the finest singing ever captured on disc…the best thing you can do with a fiver this summer." --...
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2008 ] Before Maria Callas made this August 1956 recording of Il Trovatore, at La Scala, Milan, she had been singing it often since 1950 and with notable success. Her 1953 Covent Garden performances earned golden opinions. The Times critic considered the...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIACOMO PUCCINI Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Enrico Campi / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Von Karajan (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] When EMI [Columbia/Angel] recorded Callas as Madama Butterfly in August 1955, she had not yet sung it in the theatre, nor would she ever do so at La Scala, Milan, where it was made and her career based.
add to cart $54.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Richard Tucker, Carlo Tagliabue / Chorus and Orchestra of La Scarla, Milan / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 15/Feb/2008 ] "I have compared these extensively with a variety of EMI CD releases-and with original LP releases as well. ...There is a fullness, richness, to the sound here that EMI has missed in virtually all of its attempts." Fanfare
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded 1953) Maria Callas (soprano) / Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) / Tito Gobbi (baritone) / Fiorentino Maggio Musicale / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor was the first complete recording for EMI that Callas took part in, in February 1953
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Aida (complete opera) Maria Callas (soprano) / Fedora Barbieri (mezzo) / Richard Tucker (tenor) / Tito Gobbi (baritone) / La Scala Chorus and Orchestra / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] Callas' dramatic power and her ability to shade the beautiful vocal line here find the best imaginable medium". In, for example, the opening phrases of the Act III love duet with Radamès, 'Là, tra foreste vergini', her voice has a limpidity which...
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas (soprano) / Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) / Tito Gobbi (baritone) / La Scala Chorus and Orchestra / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] "..the performance, it is that of Tito Gobbi as Rigoletto that defines it as one of recorded operas must haves. The role of Rigoletto is one of the most profoundly human of Verdi's creations. His character is defined in the music of the great duets...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas / Tito Gobbi / Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Jul/2006 ] This recording of Pagliacci was made by EMI at La Scala, Milan in June 1954, some eight months after Cavalleria rusticana, and first published in April 1955.
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Silvio Maionica, Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Antonio Votto [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 15/Feb/2008 ] "Callas on top form never misses an opportunity to wring the last drop of intensity out of her two arias and the act 2 scene by the gallows is a masterpiece of visual singing. Her colouring of the phrases is so expressive that we instinctively know...