Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Perhaps the greatest May-December match-up in opera recording, this thrilling live performance of Manon Lescaut stars tenor Plácido Domingo near the beginning of his career, in the youthful prime of his voice, and legendary soprano Magda Olivero (“The Queen of Verismo”) in her 60th year as the young Manon. Live performance, 1970. “The kind of fanatic enthusiasm Olivero came to inspire ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Live performance, Milan, April 4, 1956. Puccini made a big hit with the American public when his new opera, The Girl of the Golden West, had its fi rst performance, not in Italy but at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with Emmy Destinn and Enrico Caruso in the leading roles, and Toscanini conducting. The enthralled audience called out the ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

The Lady of the Lake, based on the narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, has been one of the most successful of Rossini’s “serious” operas to be revived in recent years. Overflowing with thrilling melodies and exciting ensembles, it gets a stellar performance here with Caballé in her prime in 1970. “Needless to say, Montserrat Caballé is ideal in the title ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Among Rossini’s numerous comic operas, La Cenerentola (1817) has long held a place second only to The Barber of Seville. In fact, for many years it was often more popular than The Barber, until its extreme vocal difficulties became too much for a generation of singers not trained in the Rossini style, and its fantastic atmosphere fell afoul of a ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa