Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

"Including a 56-page booklet with historic photos; a complete French libretto with new, original English translation; and an essay on the performance by Robert Levine, this 1969 Rome recording is illuminated by the ravishing Swedish-Russian tenor Nicolai Gedda, superstar American mezzo Marilyn Horne, and French bass baritone Roger Soyer."

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Bellini’s opera version of the Romeo and Juliet story is one of his finest early works, the first to unequivocally display his mature style. It had a fully successful early run, although it has suffered much neglect in subsequent years, in modern times mostly because the part of Romeo is written for a mezzo-soprano. The opera is now customarily given ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Der Freischütz was the fi rst great German national opera, breaking the stranglehold of the Italians over the opera world. Its premiere in 1821 was a sensation, and Weber was proclaimed the founder of the German Romantic opera school. Richard Wagner was nine years old when he saw Weber conduct Der Freischütz. When asked what he wanted to be when ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Wagner’s early masterpiece is heard in an authoritative, truly classic performance from the composer’s own theater in Bayreuth, Germany, the shrine and Mecca of the true Wagnerite. Some of the greatest singers of the era lead the cast, including Canadian- American bass-baritone George London (1920 –1979), the first American ever to sing the Dutchman at Bayreuth; beloved Viennese soprano Leonie ...