Presto CD
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus) & Paul Elliot (Corydon)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
RecommendedElena Souliotis (Santuzza), Mario del Monaco (Turiddu), Tito Gobbi (Alfio), Stefania Malagù (Lola), Anna Di Stasio (Lucia)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Silvio Varviso
Awards:
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Building a Library, April 2001, First Choice
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Teresa Berganza (Cenerentola), Luigi Alva (Ramiro), Renato Capecchi (Dandini), Paolo Montarsolo (Don Magnifico)
London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera Chorus, Claudio Abbado
Rossini's Cinderella is a fairy-tale without a fairy, but no less bewitching for that. In fact the replacement of the winged godmother with the philanthropic Alidoro, a close friend and adviser... — More…
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (highlights)
Plácido Domingo (Figaro), Frank Lopardo (Il Conte Almaviva), Kathleen Battle (Rosina), Lucio Gallo (Dr. Bartolo), Ruggero Raimondi (Don Basilio), Gabriele Sima (Berta), Carlos Chausson (Fiorello), Goran Simic (Un Ufficiale)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado
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Bernstein: On The Town
RecommendedThomas Hampson (Gabey), David Garrison (Ozzie), Samuel Ramey (Pitkin), Kurt Ollmann (Chip), Frederica von Stade (Claire), Tyne Daly (Hildy), Marie McLaughlin (Ivy), Evelyn Lear (Madame Dilly), Cleo Laine (Nightclub Singer)
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1994, Winner - Music Theatre
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Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino
Kathleen Battle (Sofia), Samuel Ramey (Gaudenzio), Claudio Desderi (Bruschino padre), Octavio Arévalo (Bruschino figlio), Michele Pertusi (Filiberto), Jennifer Larmore (Marianna), Frank Lopardo (Florville)
English Chamber Orchestra, Ion Marin
You could hardly desire a starrier cast for this 'comic farce in one act' than that assembled by DG — More…
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 (highlights)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Don Fernando), Hans Sotin (Don Pizarro), Rene Kollo (Florestan), Gundula Janowitz (Leonore), Manfred Jungwirth (Rocco), Lucia Popp (Marzelline), Adolf Dallapozza (Jaquino)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Leonard Bernstein
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Puccini: Turandot (highlights)
Katia Ricciarelli (Turandot), Plácido Domingo (Calaf), Barbara Hendricks (Liù), Ruggero Raimondi (Timur)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Sängerknaben & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Carlo Bergonzi (Manrico), Antonietta Stella (Leonora), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Ettore Bastianini (Conte di Luna), Ivo Vinco (Ferrando), Franco Ricciardi (Ruiz), Armanda Bonato (Ines)
Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin
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