A Night at the Opera.

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Leontyne Price, Falla*, Berlioz*, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra* ‎– El Amor Brujo / Les Nuits D'Été
Label:
RCA ‎– AGL1-3792
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country:
US
Released:
1981
Genre:
Classical

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Shows they are still cutting vinyl for Opera, and this has some great opportunities to enjoy the glorious voice of Anna Netrebko. It is really a great album for a very reasonable price. I hope everyone would order this LP and others like this to encourage the great voices to consider offering their albums on vinyl again.



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Anna Netrebko, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano ‎– Verismo
Label:
Deutsche Grammophon ‎– 479 5016 GH2
Format:
2 × Vinyl, LP
Country:
Europe
Released:
2016
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Opera

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Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
(Richard Wagner, 1845)

This performance:

Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus und Orchestra

Otto Gerdes, conductor
Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, principals

(Deutsche Grammophon, 1968)
 
Götterdämmerung
(Richard Wagner, 1876)

This performance/recording: EMI, 1953 {MONO}

Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica und Coro
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwangler
Principals: Suthaus, Modl, Greindl, Poell, Jurinac, Pernerstorfer, und Klose
 
Tosca
(Puccini, 1900)

This recording:

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera Chorus

Direction: Herbert von Karajan
Principals: Leontyne Price, Giuseppe de Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei

(Decca, 1962)
 
Lohengrin
(Wagner, 1850)

This recording:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera Chorus

Director: Rudolf Kempe
Principals: Thomas, Grummer, Ludwig, Fischer-Dieskau, Frick, Weiner

(EMI, 1963)
 
I'm not a real opera fan, but I worked on and did lighting design for close to 100 operas in my working years; so I have had many nights at the opera. I traveled with the Orlando Opera Company to Toulon, France to do performances of the light opera The Mikado. I still have a soft spot in my heart for that show and lots of memories to go with it. My other favorite is Mozart's The Magic Flute. I just heard it on an ad on television and it dredged up some long past memories. Maybe I should find those two and get the discs for them.
 
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