Since you are interested in Palestrina (Complete Opera - 1973 recording), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
DONIZETTI
Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 1972) Beverly Sills / Eileen Farrell / Stuart Burrows / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Aldo Ceccato [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Beverly Sills, as Mary Stuart, is in a class of her own. It is her technical prowess as a singer which stays in the mind rather than her characterisation of the unhappy queen.' Gramophone |
BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera) Gisela Litz, Rita Streich, Res Fischer / Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Munchner Philharmoniker, Fritz Lehmann [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "The casting of a mezzo-soprano, as Humperdinck intended, rather than a soprano in the part of Hansel, means that there is more differentiation of voice here than in the Columbia (Karajan) disc…Rita Streich is very well cast as Gretel….That admirable... |
W.A. MOZART
Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] (complete opera recorded in 2004) Suzie LeBlanc, Christoph Genz, Stephan Genz, Cornelius Hauptmann, Isolde Siebert / La Petite Bande / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Sep/2011 ] The cast is highly recognisable from many other fine productions of Baroque and early music, including Suzie LeBlanc (Pamina); Cornelius Hauptmann (Tamino); Stephan Genz (Papageno) and Isolde Siebert (Queen of Night). |