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Puccini - Il Trittico / Alagna, Gheorghiu, Guelfi, Guleghina, Gallardo-Domás, Manca di Nissa, Palmer, Shicoff, van Dam, LSO, PO, Pappano
: essential recording:Aficionados are familiar with Puccini's Il Trittico or 'Triptych,' his three one-act operas that premiered at New York's Metropolitan in 1918; everyday opera lovers should know them as well. Here is Puccini at his most imaginative: Il Tabarro, a shocker about the jealousy of an older man towards his deceitful younger wife on a houseboat on the Seine is dark and foreboding, and is, incidentally, probably his greatest, tightest opera. It is given a superb performance ...
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Mozart - Don Giovanni / Terfel · Fleming · Murray · Pertusi · Lippert · Groop · Scaltriti · Luperi · LPO · Solti
: essential recording:Aficionados are familiar with Puccini's Il Trittico or 'Triptych,' his three one-act operas that premiered at New York's Metropolitan in 1918; everyday opera lovers should know them as well. Here is Puccini at his most imaginative: Il Tabarro, a shocker about the jealousy of an older man towards his deceitful younger wife on a houseboat on the Seine is dark and foreboding, and is, incidentally, probably his greatest, tightest opera. It is given a superb performance ...
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Haydn - L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice / Bartoli · Heilmann · D'Arcangelo · AAM · Hogwood
from: Decca
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Donizetti - Betly ~ Le convinienze teatrali / Bruno Rigacci
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Verdi - Il trovatore / Pavarotti, Banaudi, Verrett, Nucci, Maggio musicale Fiorentino, Mehta
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore / Alagna, Gheorghiu, Pido, Opéra de Lyon
from: Decca
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera / Leech, Crider, Chernov, Zaremba, Bayo; Rizzi
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Verdi - Rigoletto / Pavarotti, Nucci, Anderson, Verrett, Ghiaurov, Antonacci, de Carolis, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Chailly
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Moments from Rigoletto
from: Polygram Records
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
: essential recording:A surprising fact from the musicological realm is that Haydn wrote about the same number of operas as Mozart--though it's true that some of them were written for the marionette theater at Esterhaza, rather than the opera house. In other words, old 'Gius[eppe] Haydn'--as the title page of this opera refers to him--was a master. Better known to some by its alternate title, L'anima del filosofo, Haydn's Orfeo ed Euridice was written in 1791 for the ...
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