 | The #1 Opera Album [Read More ...]
Description: The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera... |
 | The Ultimate Puccini Collection [Read More ...]
Description: Ordinarily, it pays to be wary of collections such as these, which often promise a lot but deliver a mishmash of disconnected excerpts. This disc, however, is something of an exception: you really do get just about all of Puccini's best arias, which is possible, because he didn't... |
 | La Boheme [Read More ...]
Description: Every so often in the recording industry, there's a miracle, and this is one of them. This 1956 recording was organized quickly in New York, not on the heels of a stage performance and not even with a noted orchestra. All the right singers were in town at the same time--some pop... |
 | The "Pearl Fishers" Duet [Read More ...]
Description: This disc is essential for Jussi Bjoerling fans--doesn't that include almost everyone?--and for anyone who wants a distinctive sampling from recorded opera's most eloquent age. Best are Bjoerling's duets with baritone Robert Merrill--especially the classic "Au fond du temple s... |
 | Puccini: La Bohème [Read More ...]
Review: Bjoerling!:I bought this to get a fresh version of the first opera LP in my collection. A teacher recommended this version back then, and I now realize the peerless quality of the production, the singers, and especially Bjoerling. If he exists in finer voice AND audio quality on ... |
 | Jussi Björling Rediscovered [Read More ...]
Description: Before there were the Three Tenors there was Jussi Björling, the great Swedish tenor who died in 1960 at the age of 49. His bright, sunny tone had a slight, emotion-laden tear in it that conveyed feeling as well as, or more than, any number of sobs and effects that other tenors ... |
 | Icon (5 CDs) [Read More ...]
Description: Swedish opera star Jussi Björling (1911-1960) was essentially a lyric tenor with the added ability to sing dramatic roles, which enabled him to excel in almost the whole of the Italian and French operatic repertoire. Björling recorded exclusively for EMI from the beginning of h... |
 | Verdi: Aida [Read More ...]
Description: Here's a prime-1950s cast in good monophonic sound, and it delivers the vocal thrills to keep its place high among the preferred recordings of Aida. The first voice you hear is the rich, rumbling bass of Boris Christoff and that immediately lets you know this will be no ordina... |
 | Very Best of [Read More ...]
Recomendable.:Me encanta las Arias y las canciones ,exelente voz y disertacion ,perfecto para los amantes de una de las voces mas bellas de opera Jussi Bjorling. |
 | Puccini: Turandot [Hybrid SACD] [Read More ...]
Description: This reissue of a 1959 recording captures four glorious voices at their peak, triumphantly conquering one of the most brutally difficult operas in the literature. Puccini taxed his singers almost beyond human endurance with his prolonged stratospheric writing (he also loved the ... |
 | Puccini: La Bohème [Read More ...]
Description: Every so often in the recording industry, there's a miracle, and this is one of them. This 1956 recording was organized quickly in New York, not on the heels of a stage performance and not even with a noted orchestra. All the right singers were in town at the same time--some popp... |
 | Strauss: Die Fledermaus [Read More ...]
Strauss Forever:De nuevo una gran version de los clasicos de Straus un gran album y grandes interpretes |
 | Verdi: Requiem [Read More ...]
Review: Reiner's famous 1959 recording has plenty of glorious vocalising but is marred by engineering tricks:Fritz Reiner's 1959 recording of the Verdi Requiem can be summarized: slow tempos, great singing, and really bizarre sound engineering.
At 97 minutes, this is one of the slowest ... |
 | Dining and the Opera in Manhattan [Read More ...]
Description: Dining and the Opera in Manhattan Opera Arias Selected by the Metropolitan Opera Guild Performances by Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, and other stars of the Metropolitan Opera Beautiful opera arias performed by Metropolitan Opera stars to enjoy while cooking,... |
 | Verdi: Requiem [Read More ...]
Review: This is not the most recent remastered release.:Please note that this superb performance has recently been released by Universal as a budget-priced export from Germany fully remastered to reveal an open sound stage and full range without distortion.
This latest remastering (20... |
 | Jussi Björling: Opera Arias [Read More ...]
Description: Jussi Björling was one of the strongest and steeliest lyric tenors of the 20th century, as famous for his Rodolfo in La Boheme as he was for his Calaf in Turandot. This superbly engineered survey of his early career takes us from 1936 to 1948, and covers, for the most part, his ... |
 | Madama Butterfly [Read More ...]
Review: Second-best among de los Angeles Butterly's:The faults of this Madame Butterfly, the second that de los Angeles recorded after a classic mono version in 1954, haven't prevented it from being loved. Butterfly was a signature role for the soprano, who lent it an irresistible innoce... |
![]() | Puccini: Manon Lescaut [Read More ...]
Review: VERY, VERY GOOD, BUT NOT AS GOOD AS THE LIVE ONE FROM THE MET: I shouldn't begin by reviewing another performance, but it definitely has a bearing on this recording. Licia Albanese and Jussi Bjoerling performed this opera live at the Met on March 31, 1956 on a Saturday after... |
 | Puccini: Turandot [Read More ...]
N O Contest:After forty years of listening to this recording, I have yet to hear a performance that matches this one. |
 | Verdi: Il Trovatore [Read More ...]
Description: This is the most beautifully sung Il Trovatore on record, but is by no means the most dramatic and is far from the best-conducted. Those who insist on stereo sound (which has substantial advantages for opera recordings in terms of dramatic presence and impact) may opt for the ... |
