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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (highlights from the opera) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Il Trovatore (highlights from the opera)
Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, Giuletta Simionato, Ugo Savarese, Giorgio Tozzi / Grand Theatre de Geneve Orchestra, Alberto Erede
[ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2000 ]
One of the great troubadors of his time, Mario del Monaco has power, masculinity and virility to burn in his portrayal of Manrico on this recording of Trovatore. Tebaldi is a sweet and moving Leonora, excelling in such moments as 'Tacea la notte'
Opera Without Singing (orchestral music by Puccini, Delibes, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Verdi, etc) cover
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OPERA WITHOUT SINGING
Opera Without Singing (orchestral music by Puccini, Delibes, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Verdi, etc)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
[ Australian SBS Philips Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ]
Opera has entrenched itself in popular consciousness thanks to the much publicised concerts of The Three Tenors, outdoor stagings of such operatic blockbusters as Aida and Turandot, opera concerts in the park, not to mention their ready incorporation...
La Nilsson (arias and songs by Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, Gounod, etc) cover
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BIRGIT NILSSON
La Nilsson (arias and songs by Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, Gounod, etc)
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Edward Downes (with Ake Leven, organ)
[ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ]
One of the greatest soprano legends of all time, Nilsson's 1963 Decca recital with Sir Edward Downes of popular opera arias by Wagner, Weber, Beethoven, et.al. has never been fully issued. Here it is on CD - issued complete for the first time and in...
Boito: Mefistofele (Great scenes from the complete opera) cover
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ARRIGO BOITO
Boito: Mefistofele (Great scenes from the complete opera)
Cesare Siepi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Lucia Danieli / Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Tullio Serafin
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ]
"It is a pleasure to hear again that eager tone [of Di Stefano], ardently filling such passages as […] the Garden scene and the aria in the Epilogue. All the work's plums are here" Opera, May 1973
Facade / Siesta / Scapino Overture / Portsmouth Point Overture (with music by Bax & Bliss) cover
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WILLIAM WALTON
Facade / Siesta / Scapino Overture / Portsmouth Point Overture (with music by Bax & Bliss)
Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Peter Pears (narrators), English Opera Group Ensemble, Anthony Collins / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Nov/2010 ]
"As for the performance, it stands above all others since … must remain a classic to the end of time" Gramophone Magazine
Fernando Corena: Arias for Bass cover
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W. A. MOZART
Fernando Corena: Arias for Bass
Fernando Corena (bass) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ]
"'Corena sings with a fine, resonant, clean tone. His production is easy and completely natural, and his diction, phrasing and general musicianship are most praiseworthy" (Gramophone)
Gounod: Faust (highlights from the complete opera) cover
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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (highlights from the complete opera)
Franco Corelli, Nicolai Ghiraurov, Joan Sutherland / Ambrosian Opera Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ]
Recorded in 1966 in superb 'Decca Sound', these highlights from Gounod's most widely-performed opera extracts music from the second act onwards. The Soldier's Chorus has rarely been done with such swagger, Ghiaurov is a terrifying Mephistopheles and...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Highlights from the complete opera) cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Highlights from the complete opera)
Gabriel Bacquier, Joan Sutherland, Pilar Lorengar, Marilyn Horne / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 15/Feb/2014 ]
This is one of the most successful and stylish of Don Giovanni recordings. Having sung Donna Anna in her early (Giulini) recording, Sutherland here is, if anything, even more spine-tingling in this role. Bonynge and the English Chamber Orchestra,...
Gluck: Opera Arias cover
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GLUCK
Gluck: Opera Arias
Janet Baker (mezzo) / English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard.
[ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ]
"this is in general a thrillingly sung recital of music which, apart from the two arias on which I have concentrated, is not particularly well-known." (MusicWeb Feb 2006)
Darwin: Song for a City [Recorded Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, UK, January 1975] cover
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JACQUES OFFENBACH / GIUSEPPE VERDI / VINCENZO BELLINI
Darwin: Song for a City [Recorded Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, UK, January 1975]
Joan Sutherland, Heather Begg Tom McDonnell, Clifford Grant, Louis Quilico, Margreta Elkins / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ]
Christmas Eve 1974 was a nightmare for the inhabitants of Darwin when it was destroyed by a violent cyclone. A Darwin Appeal Fund was launched and a month later, on 25 January 1975, Richard Bonynge conducted a fund-raising concert at the Royal Opera.
Dido and Aeneas (complete opera) cover
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights from the opera recorded in 1990)
Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, Dawn Upshaw / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, james Levine
[ Deutache Grammophon Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Jun/2018 ]
"Levine conducts a lively performance, Battle makes a sympathetic Adina, Dara is a thoroughly professional purveyor of the elixir … spirited virtuosity in the orchestral playing" Gramophone
Griselda (highlights from the opera) cover
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GIOVANNI BONONCINI
Griselda (highlights from the opera)
Lauris Elms, Joan Sutherland, Monica Sinclair, Margreta Elkins / The Ambrosian Singers & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ]
"Monica Sinclair rattles through three octaves with enough masculinity for the whole cast. In the title role Lauris Elms sings with charm, and makes much of her opportunities." (Gramophone)
French Opera Overtures (Including Zampa, Orpheus in the Underworld & La Belle Helene) cover
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HEROLD / BOIELDIEU / ADAM / OFFENBACH
French Opera Overtures (Including Zampa, Orpheus in the Underworld & La Belle Helene)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 27/Jan/2006 ]
'Jean Martinon ... whips the orchestra into shape with the sheer energy of his conducting. All of these performances will set your pulse racing and toes tapping, from the élan of Hérold's Zampa to an absolutely wild account of the "can-can" finale to...
Ballet Music and Entr'actes from French Opera cover
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MASSENET / BIZET / DELIBES / GOUNOD / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Ballet Music and Entr'actes from French Opera
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ]
"the record enjoyably enough fills some gaps in the catalogue, and performance and recording are first class." (Gramophone)
Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Complete Opera) cover
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JOHN GAY
Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Complete Opera)
Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Alfred Marks / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2015 ]
Recording Location: Kingsway Hall, London, UK, March 1981 In 1981 Richard Bonynge, together with an illustrious cast of singers (Joan Sutherland, Kiri Te Kanawa, et. al.) and actors (Angela Lansbury, Warren Mitchell, Michael Hordern, et. al.) went...
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (complete opera) cover
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Ballet at the Opera (from Eugene Onegin, Oprichnik, The Maid of Orleans, etc) cover
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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Ballet at the Opera (from Eugene Onegin, Oprichnik, The Maid of Orleans, etc)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
[ SBS Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2009 ]
"An unhackneyed sample of the operatic-balletic Tchaikovsky culled from the well known and the neglected operas - brilliant performed and recorded." (MusicWeb Aug 2007)
Les Deux Pigeons (Complete ballet) cover
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MESSAGER
Les Deux Pigeons (Complete ballet)
Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 1/May/2005 ]
A real rarity of the ballet world, this marvellous score, 'rediscovered' by Sir Frederick Ashton, was one of Decca's most glorious recordings of ballet music by that pioneer of this genre, Richard Bonynge. Not included on the 10CD Penguin...