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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Duets & Arias cover
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera) cover
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera)
Bernd Weik, Teresa Kubiak, Stuart Burrows / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Georg Solti
[ Decca Music Group Limited DVD / DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ]
Director Petr Weigl is celebrated for his sumptuous opera films, using magnificent natural settings and casting photogenic actors in the principal roles.
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...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1966) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera with libretto recorded in 1966)
Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Tebaldi, Nicolai Ghiaurav, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House / Sir Georg Solti
[ Decca / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/1988 ]
"A five-Act version of Verdi's opera, in the standard Italian translation, conducted with energy and boasting superior soloists. Carlo Bergonzi is especially fine in the title role." BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 ****
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe (Complete Operetta recorded in 1972) cover
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe (Complete Operetta recorded in 1972)
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, John Ayldon, Lyndsie Holland / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2018 ]
"Judy Merri displays an admirably firm mezzo in the title role […] there is an extra spaciousness that enables orchestral detail to come through in all its brilliance […] D'Oyly Carte enthusiasts should be well satisfied with the new...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Highlights from the complete 1972 recording)) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (Highlights from the complete 1972 recording))
Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 24/Oct/1992 ]
"Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate." Penguin
Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna cover
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ARNE / HANDEL / BELLINI / ROSSINI / MEYERBEER / MOZART / VERDI / etc
Joan Sutherland - The Art of the Prima Donna
Joan Sutherland (Soprano) / Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ]
Sutherland's sensational debut recital album, long unavailable on its own, reissued with photographs and rarely seen costume designs for the soprano's signature roles.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri Te Kanawa: Diva cover
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Kiri te Kanawa - French Opera Arias cover
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Salome (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House / Nadja Michael, Michael Volle, Michaela Schuster, Thomas Moser / Philippe Jordan
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ]
"Nadia Michael… is an attractive Salome, moving like a dancer, as physically unafraid as she is vocally… Michael Volle is an imposing, rich-toned Narraboth" (Gramophone)
Herold: La Fille Mal Gardee / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot (Complete Ballets) cover
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FERDINAND HEROLD / CHARLES LECOCQ
Herold: La Fille Mal Gardee / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot (Complete Ballets)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Lanchbery / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/May/2007 ]
"Here, with sound of spectacular Decca digital fidelity, Lanchbery conducts a highly seductive account of the complete ballet with an orchestra long familiar with playing it in the theatre." (Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide)
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (compete opera recorded in 1984) cover
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
Strauss, (J.): Die Fledermaus (compete opera recorded in 1984)
The Royal Opera at Covent Garden / Dame Kiri Te Kanawa / Hermann Prey / Hildegard Heichele / Benjamin Luxon / Placido Domingo
[ Warner Music Vision / NVC Arts DVD / DVD - released 13/Oct/2003 ]
"An Austrian composer of Viennese waltzes; Johann Strauss is known as "the Waltz King." His almost 500 dance pieces are his crowning achievement, while his "Die Fledermaus" is the epitome of operetta." -ALLMUSIC
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) [complete opera recorded in 2007] cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) [complete opera recorded in 2007]
Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Donald Maxwell, Dawn French, Orchestra & Choir of the Royal Opera House, Brun
[ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 29/Sep/2008 ]
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - DVD - "The Royal Opera's new staging of La Fille du régiment will probably go down in history as one of the company's great achievements ... Laurent Pelly's production casts Natalie Dessay and Juan...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (Complete opera recorded in 1994) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (Complete opera recorded in 1994)
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Frank Lopardo, Angela Gheorghiu, Leo Nucci / Sir Georg Solti (cond)
[ Decca Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2017 ]
"The singing is glorious, and this is one of the DVDs that should be the cornerstone in any collection. A superb stage spectacle." Penguin Guide Rosette Winner
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Véronique Gens , Antonio Poli / Nicola Luisotti (cond
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2014 ]
Mozart's sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wanted to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni's sex life into a darker place, showing...
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2011) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2011)
Royal Opera House / Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Raymond Aceto / Antonio Pappano (cond)
[ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ]
"Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight" (BBC Music)
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2010) cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 2010)
The Royal Opera / Pavol Breslik, Stephane Degout, Thomas Allen, Rebecca Evans / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Sep/2021 ]
"It's a wry take on the opera, Miller emphasising that the plot is not so much about testing the fiancées' faithfulness, but an adventure in self-discovery" Gramophone
Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 2002) cover
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VERDI
Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 2002)
The Royal Opera / Jose Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yvone Naef, Verónica Villarroel / Carlo Rizzi (cond)
[ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ]
"Elijah Moshinsky's production is surely as lively and moving as Verdi's intricate masterpiece deserves. Jose Cura sizzles." (San Francisco Chronicle) Elijah Moshinsky's new production of Verdi's opera under the baton of Carlo Rizzi.
MARBECK COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1994) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECK COLLECTABLE: Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1994)
Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci / Royal Opera / Sir Georg Solti
[ Decca Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2012 ]
"... the Decca engineers here offer one of the most vivid and involving versions ever of La Traviata ... Gheorghiu brings heartfelt revelations, using her rich and vibrant, finely shaded soprano with consistent subtlety." Rosette Penguin Guide
Teresa Berganza - Eighteenth-Century Portraits cover
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MOZART / GLUCK / CHERUBINI / HAYDN / PERGOLESI
Teresa Berganza - Eighteenth-Century Portraits
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Félix Lavilla (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammerorchester, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent
[ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ]
'This has always been one of Teresa Berganza's most attractive records.' Opera, September 1968 (Mozart arias)
Gounod: Faust (Complete opera recorded in 2004) cover
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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (Complete opera recorded in 2004)
Royal Opera House / Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside / Antonio Pappano (cond)
[ EMI Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/Oct/2010 ]
"This is opera at its grandest and best" The Wall Street Journal
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera filmed in 2006) BLU-RAY cover
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera filmed in 2006) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Antonio Pappano (conductor)
[ Decca Music Group Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Jan/2017 ]
BLU-RAY - 'Kaufmann and Antonacci are that rare breed: superb singers who can also act with subtlety and passion' The Guardian
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2001) BLU-RAY cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2001) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House / Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi / Antonio Pappano (cond)
[ BBC / Opus Arte Blu-ray 4K Ultra HD / Blu-ray UHD - released 10/Oct/2017 ]
"brings this opera vividly to life ... this is a classic of the future" The Guardian
Birgit Nilsson Sings Wagner cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Birgit Nilsson Sings Wagner
Birgit Nilsson (soprano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Leif Segerstam / London Symphony, Sir Colin Davis
[ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ]
"Even allowing for the fact that these were demonstration records when they first appeared, the sound on this CD is astonishing in its lifelike presence and its warmth." Gramophone
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo cover
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Grand Duke (Complete) / Henry VIII-Incidental Music / Overture di Ballo
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with John Reed, Meston Reid, Kenneth Sandford / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
[ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/1993 ]
"This represents, perhaps the ideal way to sample Sullivan's least known major score. The recorded performance has both polish and vigour. The recording is characteristically brilliant." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide.
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Sorcerer (Complete) coupled with Sullivan's The Zoo cover
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set] cover
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MENDELSSOHN / VERDI / CHOPIN / SATIE / SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Romantic Ballet Music - The Lady and the Fool / A Midsummer Night's Dream / etc [2 CD set]
Garrick Ohlsson (piano) / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / London Philharmonic Orchestra
[ EMI Ballet Edition / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ]
Sir Frederick Ashton appropriates Mendelssohn's exquisite incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Satie's haunting Gymnopédies; John Cranko, ably abetted by Sir Charles Mackerras, cherry-picks from the early operas of Verdi.
Solti at the Ballet [Incls 'La Boutique fantasque' & 'Gaîté Parisienne'] cover
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DUKAS / OFFENBACH / ROSSINI / TCHAIKOVSKY
Solti at the Ballet [Incls 'La Boutique fantasque' & 'Gaîté Parisienne']
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ]
"an absolutely splendid recording …This Solti performance [of La Boutique fantasque] is sheer delight, played as it is with a combination of style and gusto it needs; a most exhilarating performance …this is an excellent debut on Decca" Gramophone
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress (Complete Opera) cover
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress (Complete Opera)
Gerald Finley, Rebecca Evans / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Hickox
[ Chandos Classics / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2001 ]
Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide) - "The Chandos recording is superb, spacious and atmospheric, with the many onstage effects beautifully balanced, yet with words always clear…(an) overpowering recording."
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY
Glyndebourne Opera / Tara Erraught, Kate Royal, Lars Woldt, Michael Kraus / Robin Ticciati (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2016 ]
Strauss's musically ravishing comic masterpiece is given a visual updating in director Richard Jones's stylish and 'gently subversive' Glyndebourne staging, one which offers 'a dreamlike distortion not just of Vienna's 18th-century past, but also of...
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1984) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1984)
Edita Gruberova, Alfredo Kraus, Renato Bruson, Robert Lloyd / Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 4/May/2017 ]
"[Gruberova's] purity of tone, like her range and technical accomplishment, is outstanding." Gramophone
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete Opera with libretto) cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Complete Opera with libretto)
Helen Donath, Heather Harper, Robert Tear, Ava June / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis
[ Philips Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/1995 ]
"The Philips recording boasts luscious stereo sound and a good cast, including a youthful sounding Helen Donath as an appropriately idealistic Governess" (EnjoyTheMusic.com)
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Don Giovanni (highlights from the opera recorded in 1991) cover
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (Highlights from the opera) cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (Highlights from the opera)
Jennifer Larmore, Raul Gimenez, Gino Quilico, Alessandro Corbelli / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Carlo Rizzi
[ Teldec / CD - released 14/Jun/2004 ]
"What really makes a reading of Cenerentola stand out is the handling of the ensembles. In this respect Carlo Rizzi is outstanding." (MusicWeb July 2004)
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten: Spring Symphony / Cantata Academica / Hymn to St Cecilia cover
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Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1971) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1971)
Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca 2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio & Libretto / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
Remastered in ultra-high quality 96kHz/24-bit audio at Abbey Road Studios in 2014 under the supervision of long-term Decca balance engineer Philip Siney.
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 1971) [2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio] cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 1971) [2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio]
Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
[ Decca 2 CDs plus Blu-ray audio / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Sep/2019 ]
"The "L'elisir" set was one of the loveliest things Sutherland ever did on record . . . As Donizetti's Adina she is charming -- touching, exuberant, virtuoso (her coloratura is astounding), and always very human." (Gramophone)
The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 1977) cover
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GILBERT & SULLIVAN
The Gondoliers (complete operetta recorded in 1977)
John Reed, Geoffrey Shovelton, Kenneth Sanford, Barbara Lilley / D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royal Philharmonic, Royston Nash
[ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2015 ]
"the appealing gondoliers of Meston Reid and Michael Rayner, John Reed's typically reliable Duke and Kenneth Sandford's pillar of strength Don Alhambra" (Gramophone)
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera filmed in 2006) cover
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera filmed in 2006)
Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Antonio Pappano (conductor)
[ Decca Classics DVD / DVD - released 25/Jan/2017 ]
"Kaufmann and Antonacci are that rare breed: superb singers who can also act with subtlety and passion" The Guardian
Jussi Bjorling: Opera Arias cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jussi Bjorling: Opera Arias
Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) / Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra, Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, Nils Grevillius
[ NAXOS HISTORICAL GREAT SINGERS / CD ]
Recorded in the small auditorium of the Stockholm Concert Hall