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Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra
: essential recording:This recording was made near the end of Maria Callas's career. It is a role she never sang onstage, but it suited her almost perfectly, and she gives a deep, compelling performance on this recording. The mezzo-soprano tessitura was comfortable for her voice, and the role did not call for a pretty sound. Nor did the recording studio require the kind of huge vocal power expected in an opera house. And furthermore, the character of a strong-willed, capricious, sexually compelling woman who thinks exclusively of herself was close to ...
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Delibes: Lakmé / Bonynge, Opéra de Monte-Carlo
: :Delibes's opera Lakmé is full of gorgeous melodies, even if you don't count the coloratura sensation, the famous 'Bell Song.' That aria virtually demands a soprano of Sutherland's agility and ease, and it gets it here. Even the few singers who can match her in the upper altitudes can't do it with a voice so rich and full. Sutherland's is a Lakmé beyond comparison with twittering, thin-voiced, coloratura specialists. She did make this recording at a time when her diction was mushy and her vocal lines sometimes drooped, so she's not ...
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Gounod: Romeo Et Juliette
: :Delibes's opera Lakmé is full of gorgeous melodies, even if you don't count the coloratura sensation, the famous 'Bell Song.' That aria virtually demands a soprano of Sutherland's agility and ease, and it gets it here. Even the few singers who can match her in the upper altitudes can't do it with a voice so rich and full. Sutherland's is a Lakmé beyond comparison with twittering, thin-voiced, coloratura specialists. She did make this recording at a time when her diction was mushy and her vocal lines sometimes drooped, so she's not ...
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Bizet: Carmen
from: Angel Records
: :Delibes's opera Lakmé is full of gorgeous melodies, even if you don't count the coloratura sensation, the famous 'Bell Song.' That aria virtually demands a soprano of Sutherland's agility and ease, and it gets it here. Even the few singers who can match her in the upper altitudes can't do it with a voice so rich and full. Sutherland's is a Lakmé beyond comparison with twittering, thin-voiced, coloratura specialists. She did make this recording at a time when her diction was mushy and her vocal lines sometimes drooped, so she's not ...
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Bizet: Carmen (Highlights)
from: Angel Records
: :Delibes's opera Lakmé is full of gorgeous melodies, even if you don't count the coloratura sensation, the famous 'Bell Song.' That aria virtually demands a soprano of Sutherland's agility and ease, and it gets it here. Even the few singers who can match her in the upper altitudes can't do it with a voice so rich and full. Sutherland's is a Lakmé beyond comparison with twittering, thin-voiced, coloratura specialists. She did make this recording at a time when her diction was mushy and her vocal lines sometimes drooped, so she's not ...
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Bizet: Carmen / Maria Callas / Georges Pretre
from: EMI
: :Disc one is Actes I & IIa. Disc two is Actes III & IV.
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
from: Capitol
: :Disc one is Actes I & IIa. Disc two is Actes III & IV.
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Bizet: Carmen
from: Decca
: :Disc one is Actes I & IIa. Disc two is Actes III & IV.
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Ganne: Les Saltimbanques [Extraits]
from: EMI
: :24 tracks.
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Guitar Genius
from: Eklipse Records
: :24 tracks.
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