Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Beethoven’s only opera is heard here in a miraculous performance with probably the best cast and conductor ever captured on disc. Selected as one of the best performances from the vast Opera d’Oro catalog and reissued with new packaging, the fabulous cover art of Rafal Oblinski, and complete libretto newly translated by Bill Parker. "A compelling performance of Fidelio, with an ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) is often described as a composer who had only one "hit," but this is not strictly true. In addition to Andrea Chenier, he had triumphs with Fedora, Siberia, and Madame Sans-Gene, all of which are still heard occasionally in Italy. It is indeed the case, however, that only Andrea Chenier has entered the standard repertoire worldwide. It ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

This classic performance of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, recorded live on August 7, 1957, is a priceless record of one of the greatest overall casts ever assembled for this explosive drama. Today’s listener will be startled to see the famous name of soprano Marilyn Horne, long since become an operatic superstar, listed as the “fourth maid” in this production of fifty ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) was first heard at the Vienna State Opera on October 10, 1919. Though admired by many, it had a mixed reception. The libretto by Strauss’s favorite collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal is deliberately intended as a sort of late-Romantic Magic Flute, heavy in symbolism and whimsical magic, though it is far darker. ...

Wydawca: Allegro Corporation

Oprawa: Plastikowa

A gripping performance, one of the best recordings ever of this modern masterpiece, and certainly the best in its price range. Karl Böhm was one of the classic conductors of this opera from the beginning, and this is one of his most dramatic readings. Truly a legend in her own time, soprano Anja Silja recently celebrated her 70th birthday just ...