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Release Date: 1990-10-25, Audio CD, Decca more

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  Puccini Weekend

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  • Posted:Jul-25-2004

  • my favorite classical CD
  • I love this fine selection of Puccini's best loved arias. The peroformances are all great especially Felicia Weathers as Madam Butterfly. I play this CD a lot and have never tired of it.
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Magic was created one starlit night in July 1990, when Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jos? Carreras met... more

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  Carreras ? Domingo ? Pavarotti: The Three Tenors in Concert / Mehta

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  • Posted:Oct-13-2008

  • Better than the best.....
  • I sit here at my computer and try to think of superlatives adequate to accurately describe this album....and there just aren't any. It is worthy to be the best selling classical album of all...
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  • Posted:Jan-25-2004

  • Opera for Dummies
  • I like each of the three tenors individually, particularly the underrated Carrerras. What I don't like are these cutesy song fests for the laymen - "Opera for Dummies". And though several...
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Release Date: 1990-04-10, Audio CD, EMI Classics more

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  Bizet - Les P?cheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) / Hendricks, Aler, Quilico, Capitole de...

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  • Posted:Oct-18-2008

  • Bizet's greatest opera?
  • OK, maybe not. Having produced Carmen, one of the major theatrical works of the 19th century, The Pearl Fishers will probably never be considered Bizet's greatest work. Yet for sheer sensual...
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  • Posted:Aug-31-2007

  • Pearl Fishers
  • The singing over-powered the music so much, made it difficult to enjoy the flow of the opera.
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  The #1 Opera Album

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  • Posted:Sep-15-2008

  • My favorite CD - really the best!
  • I heard this CD on a PBS pledge drive (it was a premium) and found myself loving every cut on it! I was in my car and just wanted to keep on driving and listening. This is by far my most-played...
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  • Posted:Jun-07-2007

  • The Opera #1 Opera Album
  • The music is wonderful. The production is terrible!! The sound fades in and out and is very scratchy in some places.
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Back in the days when the forces that controlled television actually cared about art, it was perfectly normal to see... more

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  Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors

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  • Posted:Jan-19-2009

  • The Night Visitors
  • This is one of the best short operas I ever heard. Is fitting for the
    Christmas season.
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  • Posted:Oct-13-2002

  • Old mono sound no longer pleases
  • This used to be the only choice of recording for this enchanting children's masterpiece and I enjoyed listening to it for years. However, this old mono recording has been surpassed by a much...
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Regarded by G & S fans as the best of the all the operettas, The Mikado is given a sizzling performance by Sir... more

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  Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / WNO ? Mackerras

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  • Posted:Aug-23-2007

  • Mikado Rules All
  • I had a high-school teacher who suggested that the reason W.S. Gilbert never received a knighthood (unlike his collaborator) was that the establishment was less than thrilled with his satirical...
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  • Posted:Feb-10-2007

  • disappointing
  • While I agree with most of the other reviewers on the quality of musicianship on display here, the spirit of the piece seems to be missing. I cannot truly enjoy a Mikado where the central...
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Release Date: 2003-08-12, Audio CD, Umvd Labels more

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  Rossini: Complete Overtures

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  • Posted:Dec-02-2008

  • Lovin' This!
  • Whether you are a lover of classical music or a devotee of Looney Tunes, you'll find magnificence, energy, and a bounce in your step by listening to this wonderful collection!
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It's not opera; it's not a pop concert; it's not Broadway. It's all of these and none of them. Once you accept the... more

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  The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994

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  • Posted:Sep-07-2008

  • Good listening
  • I enjoyed this CD because I like the tenors on it very much, and it included a number of selections where the three men are singing together, or cooperatively and that was the best part.
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  • Posted:Jan-25-2004

  • Give em a 3.5
  • The Three Tenors has/have become a cottage industry, churning out one CD after another for every imaginable event and in every combination. This does not mean that the results are necessarily...
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Release Date: 2004-09-21, Audio CD, Denon Records more

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  Tuscany

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  • Posted:Jan-12-2009

  • Music and travel
  • It can only be described as fantastic, you get not only Andre at his finest, but also a travel guide of Tuscany, (two for the price of one)
    
    You feel as though you are actually in the...
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  • Posted:Jun-16-2008

  • DID NOT CLICK
  • Andre Rieu in Tuscany did not move me like his amazing Wonderland production. Although the music and interpretation are always great, I feel that a CD would have sufficed.
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  • Posted:Mar-06-2006

  • Songs were omitted
  • I agree this CD is awesome BUT, and big but here, a LOT of songs on the DVd were omitted here. Especially L'Italiano which is one of my favorites. I have both the DVD and CD. The DVD is much better.
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Release Date: 2002-09-17, Audio CD, EMI Classics more

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  Mozart: Don Giovanni

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  • Posted:Aug-17-2008

  • The most overrated recording in history
  • With the multitude of Don Giovannis out there, one might be tempted to buy this one, seeing as to the fact that it has consistently been praised. While it is perhaps the best 'classic' recording...
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  • Posted:Jul-11-2007

  • Classically overrated
  • The licentious rascal Don Giovanni is one the most recognizable and numerously portrayed villains in the realm of the opera. The great Feodor Chaliapin and Ezio Pinza epitomized the role in the...
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  • Posted:Oct-13-2004

  • The Most Overrated Recording Ever Made
  • (With the possible exception of Klemperer's Fidelio.)
    
    I am deeply comforted to see from other reviews that others are finally getting the message. As Mr Clinton's campaign team would...
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Given the renaissance in recent years of an interest in Jules Massenet--consider, for example, the 1999 release of... more

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  Massenet - Tha?s / Fleming, Hampson, Sabbatini, Shkosa, Vidal, Devellereau, Cals, Yves Abel

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  • Posted:Jan-12-2009

  • CHEMISTRY!
  • As an opera fan who has flown to NYC 1 or 2x a year to go to the Met, I've been taking in the livestream/HD series, and when I saw the recent Live HD NY Met broadcast of this opera with Renee...
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  • Posted:Jul-29-2003

  • Is this supposed to be Mozart?
  • Did I miss the memo ordering all recordings of French opera to be cold and lifeless? Fleming and Hampson sound like they're singing a Cosi Fan Tutte. If they know what they're singing about they...
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  • Posted:Jun-14-2001

  • Why bother?
  • This is an excellent performance of a work that is not worth the trouble. The music is bombastic, the plot silly even by operatic standards. I hope Ms. Fleming, who is justly acclaimed as they...
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Strauss's last opera is one of the wonders of lyric art: an intelligent conversation piece about aesthetic... more

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  Richard Strauss - Capriccio / Schwarzkopf, W?chter, Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Hotter, Ludwig,...

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  • Posted:Jan-20-2009

  • this WAS the definitive Capriccio recording...
  • until the Renee Fleming DVD came out. part of it could be that it was recorded in 1957 and the fidelity is not as clear as the 2005 version, but i find that Schwartzkopf's voice is a little too...
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Release Date: 2003-06-24, Audio CD, Telarc more

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  Falla: La Vida Breve (The Short Life) [Lopez-Cobos, Cincinnati Symphony]

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  • Posted:Aug-15-2002

  • GREAT BUT NEGLECTED SPANISH OPERA
  • One of the most attractive aspects of Spanish national culture is its mass of internal contradictions. Spaniards want to hang on to their traditions and be modern at the same time. They are...
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Release Date: 1995-04-11, Audio CD, RCA more

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  Lanza: Greatest Hits

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  • Posted:Aug-16-2008

  • Vintage Lanza
  • Excellent product. CD just as described and fast delivery. Love Mario Lanza and his voice.
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  • Posted:Mar-17-2008

  • Lanza greates hits I HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS ITEM YET AS I HAVE REPORT IT BUT HAVE BEEN CHARGE
  • I have not received this poroduct I am stillwaiting I have wrote the seller and with no results. Ana Kirk
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Release Date: 1990-10-25, Audio CD, Telarc more

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  William Tell & Other Favorite Overtures

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  • Posted:Dec-06-2008

  • A Showcase Recording.
  • In the early 80s, I put together a stereo system that I was quite proud of. A compact disc player was part of the system. The technology was new at the time and quite impressive. The biggest...
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Release Date: 1991-09-06, Audio CD, RCA more

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  Fiedler Greatest Hits

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  • Posted:Feb-08-2008

  • Scintillating music making
  • This 7 disc set covers a wide range of musical styles from overtures, waltzes, marches and dances to film and popular items. The playing is wonderful and alert throughout, and also the quieter...
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Release Date: 2003-10-28, Audio CD, Sony more

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  Glass: Akhnaten

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  • Posted:Oct-11-2008

  • Some of the best of Minimalist Music!
  • The Bipolar Bear's Rating System used in His Database!
    
    In my database of all CDs I rate for both Performance & Sound, going from a 1-11, with 1 being unlistenable to 9 (very,...
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  • Posted:Aug-05-2007

  • Watch out for defects
  • I love the opera I heard, Acts I & II. I've heard another song from Glass's Triology album. Unfortunately I received TWO CD's each contaning two versions of Acts I & II, the second part of the...
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Performed in 1930 by the cast and orchestra of the 1928 Berlin premiere (except for Willi Trenk-Trebitsch, the Mackie... more

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  Die Dreigroschenoper: Berlin 1930

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  • Posted:Mar-12-2008

  • The original cast--the real thing.
  • You can buy lots of different versions, old and new, German and English, of The Three Penny Opera. This is the original "Dreigroschenoper," done with the cast and orchestra of Brecht and Weill....
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Release Date: 2003-05-13, Audio CD, Decca more

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  Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance

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  • Posted:Aug-30-2008

  • Thank heaven for CDs!
  • I agree with the other 5 star reviewers. This is a fine production of this wonderful comic/parody operetta. Staid? Well, that's part of the fun. It's ridiculousness combined with its cleverness...
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  • Posted:May-30-2005

  • Quality but Staid
  • For newbies: *Pirates* is indeed one of the most pleasurable of the G&S shows. While not the most satirical, not the most ambitious, it is perhaps the most perfectly realized. Particular treat:...
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This will be the Magic Flute chosen by most people who want to live with just one. It finds Georg Solti in a... more

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  Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute)

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  • Posted:Jan-24-2009

  • The Perfect Zauberflöte
  • About two or three years ago, Deutsche Grammophon released a fantastic Flute from Modena conducted by Abbado and sung by greats like Röschmann, Strehl, and Pape. Many listeners considered that a...
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  • Posted:Nov-07-2003

  • Suma correccion....
  • ...Pero nada mas. Muy bien cantada, con un reparto donde destacan los seguros agudos de la Reina de la Noche de SUMI JO. UWE HEILMANN hace un Tamino notable, aunque no nos hara olvidar a Fritz...
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