The Best of Italian Opera (1997) more music like this

performed by Anna Moffo (vocals), Carlo del Monte (vocals), Floriana Cavalli (vocals), Franco Corelli (tenor), Giuseppe Campora (vocals), Mario Sereni (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Adrian Denss, Amilcare Ponchielli, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Most Famous Opera Duets (1994) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (vocals), Carlo del Monte (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Danielle Millet (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (baritone), Edita Gruberová (vocals), English Chamber Orchestra (chamber ensemble), Ernest Blanc (vocals)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

EMI's The Most Famous Opera Duets is a decent collection of excerpts that delivers on enough of its promise to be forgiven its superlative title. A few notable blockbusters are missing, like "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème and the evening prayer from Hansel and Gretel, but overall the collection covers its territory well -- from the famous ...

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Mendelssohn: Elijah more music like this

performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Janet Baker (contralto), Janet Baker (alto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Simon Woolf (soprano), New Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Felix Mendelssohn

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Bizet: Carmen (1997) more music like this

performed by Andrea Guiot (soprano), Claude Cales (baritone), Jacques Mars (bass), Jacques Pruvost (vocals), Jane Berbie (vocals), Jean-Paul Vauquelin (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Maurice Maievski (vocals), Nadine Sautereau (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
composed by Georges Bizet

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (2003) more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (vocals), Fedora Barbieri (vocals), John Constable (continuo), Joseph Galiano (vocals), Michael Rippon (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Renato Capecchi (vocals), Ruggero Raimondi (vocals), Sherrill Milnes (vocals)
composed by Gioachino Rossini

On paper, this looks like a dream version of The Barber of Seville -- Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, Renato Capecchi, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. It's never less than fully professional, but only occasionally catches fire and lifts off with the lightness that characterizes truly transcendent performances of ...

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1997) more music like this

performed by Enrico Campi (vocals), Lucia Danieli (vocals), Luisa Villa (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Mario Borriello (vocals), Mario Carlin (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Plinio Clabassi (vocals), Renato Ercolani (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

EMI's 1955 recording of Madama Butterfly features three of the brightest stars of the era, Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, and Herbert von Karajan. Callas hadn't yet sung Cio-Cio-San on-stage when she made this recording, but she fully inhabits the role and brings penetrating insight to it. She's completely convincing as an adolescent, a remarkable ...

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Aria: A Passion for Opera (1994) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Danielle Millet (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Franco Corelli (tenor), Giuseppe di Stefano (vocals), Mady Mesplé (vocals), Maria Callas (soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Gustave Charpentier, Léo Delibes, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Vincenzo Bellini

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The Most Famous Opera Arias (1994) more music like this

performed by Agnes Baltsa (vocals), Alfredo Kraus (vocals), Anna Moffo (vocals), Edita Gruberová (vocals), Ghena Dimitrova (vocals), Lucia Popp (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Plácido Domingo (vocals), Yelena Obraztsova (vocals)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Verdi: La Traviata (1988) more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano), Keith Erwen (tenor), Mario Carlin (tenor), Mirella Fiorentini (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Richard van Allan (bass), Robert Lloyd (vocals), Rolando Panerai (vocals), Terence Sharpe (baritone)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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The Art of Beverly Sills more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Michel Trempont (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Patricia Kern (vocals), Robert Lloyd (vocals), Stuart Burrows (vocals), Ambrosian Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), John Alldis Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Ambroise Thomas, Douglas S. Moore, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Lehár, Gaetano Donizetti, Gustave Charpentier, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet, Richard Heuberger, Richard Strauss, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

With the fine job that Beverly Sills has done navigating the treacherous waters of Fine Arts administration and as a gracious host on American public television, it is easy to forget that Sills was once the most popular operatic soprano in the United States. This is partly complicated in that, to date, "Bubbles" (as she is affectionately nicknamed ...

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Strauss: Die Fledermaus (1999) more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Erich Kunz (vocals), Helmut Krebs (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Rita Streich (vocals), Rudolf Christ (vocals), Philharmonia Chorus (choir, chorus), Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
composed by Johann Strauss II

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Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (vocals), Janet Baker (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Raimund Herincx (vocals), Robert Lloyd (vocals), John Alldis Choir (choir, chorus), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Patane (conductor)
composed by Vincenzo Bellini

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Bach: Mass in B minor (2005) more music like this

performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Heinz Rehfuss (bass), Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Women) (choir, chorus), Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (2007) more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano), John Constable (harpsichord), Joseph Galiano (baritone), Michael Rippon (bass), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Renato Capecchi (baritone), Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
composed by Gioachino Rossini

On paper, this looks like a dream version of The Barber of Seville -- Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, Renato Capecchi, and Ruggero Raimondi, conducted by James Levine. It's never less than fully professional, but only occasionally catches fire and lifts off with the lightness that characterizes truly transcendent performances of ...

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Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Three Dance Episodes from On The Town; Candide (Selections) (2003) more music like this

performed by Adolph Green (vocals), Christa Ludwig (vocals), Della Jones (vocals), Jerry Hadley (vocals), June Anderson (vocals), Kurt Ollmann (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
composed by Leonard Bernstein

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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (2007) more music like this

performed by Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Maria Peronne (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Pierre Thau (bass), Paris National Opera Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Hector Berlioz

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The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda (2003) more music like this

performed by Andre Mallabrera (tenor), Ernest Blanc (baritone), Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Moore (piano), Jan Eyron (piano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Ambrosian Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), Choeurs Russes de Paris (choir, chorus)
composed by Adolphe Adam, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Franz Lehár, Friedrich von Flotow, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss II, Jules Massenet, Karl Goldmark

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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (2006) more music like this

performed by Anny Felbermayer (vocals), Children's Chorus from Loughton High School for Girls and, Christa Ludwig (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Erich Majkut (vocals), Franz Bierbach (vocals), Gerhard Unger (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

Though there are good reasons for hearing other recordings of Der Rosenkavalier -- the endlessly attractive 1954 Decca recording with Reining, Jurinac, Gueden, and Weber with Erich Kleiber leading the Vienna Philharmonic or the luminously appealing 1994 DG recording with Lott, von Otter, Bonney, and Moll with Carlos Kleiber, Erich's son, leading ...

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Charles Gounod: Faust (2003) more music like this

performed by Boris Christoff (vocals), Ernest Blanc (vocals), Henriette Puig-Roget (organ), Liliane Berton (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Rita Gorr (vocals), Victor Autran (vocals), Victoria de Los Angeles (vocals)
composed by Charles Gounod

This performance of Gounod's Faust truly captures the spirit of France's quintessential lyric opera. Based on Part I of Goethe's Faust, the sad love story of Gretchen and Faust, Gounod's work perfectly exemplifies the elegant lyricism of the genre. The Faust theme is a Romantic subject par excellence, but the storms of Romantic ecstasy appear ...

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Massenet: Manon more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Gérard Souzay (baritone), Helia T'hezan (vocals), Michel Trempont (baritone), Michele Raynaud (vocals), Nico Castel (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Patricia Kern (vocals)
composed by Jules Massenet

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Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge (2004) more music like this

performed by Christina Deutekom (soprano), Hans Sotin (bass), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Bonn Philharmonic Chorus (choir, chorus), Bonn Theatre Chorus (choir, chorus), Orchester der Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Volker Wagenheim (conductor)
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Highlights) (2000) more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Joseph Galiano (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Renato Capecchi (bass), Ruggero Raimondi (bass), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), John Alldis Choir (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)
composed by Gioachino Rossini

On paper, this recording of excerpts (including about half of the music from the opera) looks like a dream version of The Barber of Seville: Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, Renato Capecchi, and Ruggero Raimondi all conducted by James Levine. It's never less than fully professional, but only occasionally catches fire and lifts off ...

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Tenors in the Grand Tradition (1994) more music like this

performed by Beniamino Gigli (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Ferruccio Tagliavini (tenor), Franco Corelli (tenor), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Giorgio Tadeo (bass), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Jussi Björling (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Luigi Alva (vocals)
composed by Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Edouard Lalo, Francesco Cilea, Franz Lehár, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach, Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Great Recordings (2004) more music like this

performed by Beverly Sills (soprano), Beverly Wolff (vocals), Heather Begg (vocals), Kenneth MacDonald (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Norman Treigle (vocals), Patricia Kern (vocals), Paul Plishka (vocals), Peter Glossop (vocals), Richard van Allan (vocals)
composed by Douglas S. Moore, Franz Lehár, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet, Richard Strauss, Rudolf Sieczynski, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Exactly as the title implies, Beverly Sills: The Great Recordings is a well-produced document of one of America's most famous sopranos, and most vibrant musical personalities. It is beautifully mastered and nicely packaged, and it captures Sills at the top of her game, as she was in the late '60s and '70s. Anchored by excerpts from her two best ...

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Schumann: Mass, Op. 147; Requiem, Op. 148 (2004) more music like this

performed by Doris Soffel (contralto), Helen Donath (soprano), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass), Mitsuko Shirai (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Peter Seiffert (tenor), Chor des Städtischen Musikvereins zu Düsseldorf (choir, chorus)
composed by Robert Schumann

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