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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Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (1991) more music like this

performed by Adriana Lazzarini (vocals), Angelo Mercuriali (tenor), Corinna Vozza (mezzo-soprano), Franco Corelli (tenor), Franco Piva (vocals), Lucine Amara (soprano), Mario Sereni (vocals), Mario Spina (vocals), Mario Zanasi (baritone), Tito Gobbi (baritone)
composed by Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo

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The Very Best of Jussi Björling (2003) more music like this

performed by Anna-Lisa Björling (soprano), Harry Ebert (piano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Leonard Warren (baritone), Paul Franke (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), Robert Shaw Chorale (choir, chorus)
composed by Adolphe Adam, Amilcare Ponchielli, Carl Millöcker, Charles Gounod, Eduardo di Capua, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Guy d' Hardelot [AKA Helen Guy], Henry Geehl

Jussi Björling was one of the finest tenors of the twentieth century. He was not the most consistent artist, but his galvanizing voice is still among the most remarkable on record 40 years after his death. Those wanting an introduction to Björling's singing, or fans wanting a good collection, should be very happy with EMI's The Very Best of Jussi ...

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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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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 9 (1998) more music like this

performed by Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), L'Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Heitor Villa-Lobos (conductor)
composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos

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The Very Best of Victoria de Los Angeles (2003) more music like this

performed by Alicia de Larrocha (piano), Carlo del Monte (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano), Gonzalo Soriano (piano), Jussi Björling (tenor), Victoria de Los Angeles (guitar), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Henri Duparc, Jerónimo Giménez, Joaquín "Quinito" Valverde Sanjuán, Joaquin Nin

The Very Best of Victoria de Los Angeles is a superior representation of the soprano's career. The two-disc set begins with a well-rounded selection of arias, from Mozart to Gounod to Wagner to Puccini, followed by examples of her concert and recital repertoire. The recording dates also cover her full career, from the Wagner and Mozart arias ...

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Victoria de los Angeles performs Ravel, Debussy & Duparc (2006) more music like this

performed by Gonzalo Soriano (piano), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre (conductor)
composed by Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Maurice Ravel

To a degree unusual even for opera singers, Victoria de los Angeles was loved by her fans. Not loved with the fierce passion of Maria Callas' fans or loved with the idealized worship of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's fans, but loved as one loves a beloved spouse, with deep affection, constant amazement, and a compassionate sense of protection. There was ...

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Wagner: Tannhäuser more music like this

performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Else-Margrete Gardelli (soprano), Franz Crass (bass), Georg Paskuda (vocals), Gerhard Stolze (tenor), Grace Bumbry (vocals), Josef Greindl (bass), Theo Adam (vocals), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Richard Wagner

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Sacred Classics (2003) more music like this

performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (vocals), Elizabeth Harwood (vocals), Helen Donath (vocals), Janet Baker (vocals), José van Dam (vocals), Julia Hamari (vocals), Lisa Otto (vocals), Lucia Valentini Terrani (vocals)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, César Franck, Charles Gounod, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Gregorio Allegri, Hector Berlioz, Johann Sebastian Bach

Sacred Classics is a two-disc compilation of favorite religious arias and choruses selected from EMI's extensive catalog of fine performances. Covering a wide range of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic works, this collection provides representative excerpts from major oratorios, cantatas, and masses, though the arrangement of pieces is somewhat ...

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Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne, Series 1 (1999) more music like this

performed by Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), Lamoureux Concert Association Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat (conductor)
composed by Joseph Marie Canteloube

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The Very Best of Tito Gobbi (2003) more music like this

performed by Carlo Forti (bass), Gino Sarri (tenor), Loretta Di Lelio (mezzo-soprano), Luigi Alva (tenor), Luisa Mandelli (soprano), Margherita Carosio (soprano), Mario Filippeschi (tenor), Nicola Monti (tenor), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Raffaele Arie (bass)
composed by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Maiden and the Nightingale: Songs of Spain (2004) more music like this

performed by Lluís Claret (violoncello), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Eduardo Toldrá, Enrique Granados, Federico Mompou, Joaquín Rodrigo, Oscar Esplá, Xavier Montsalvatge

Many of the recordings on this EMI compilation have been well loved since the 1960s, and rightly so. They are some of the best recordings of Spanish songs ever made, by the genre's most distinctive voice, Victoria de los Angeles. De los Angeles could sing almost anything, from Cio-Cio-San to Brahms lieder, beautifully; but there was always a bit ...

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A Tribute to Gerald Moore (2003) more music like this

performed by Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Gerald Moore (speech/speaker/speaking part), Gerald Moore (piano), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Jacqueline du Pré (violoncello), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Carl Maria von Weber, Claude Debussy, Cristobal Halffter, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Gabriel Fauré, Gerald Moore, Gioachino Rossini, Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf, Joaquin Nin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms

This album is two re-releases in one: the live recording of Gerald Moore's retirement "party" in 1967 (a live recital in London's Festival Hall) and the tribute LP EMI released in 1969. Both are worthy celebrations of the finest collaborative pianist of the twentieth century, made even better by being combined into one package. That this album ...

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Les Contes D'Hoffmann (1994) more music like this

performed by Andre Mallabrera (vocals), Christiane Gayraud (vocals), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Ernest Blanc (vocals), George London (baritone), Gianna D'Angelo (vocals), Jacques Pruvost (vocals), Jean-Christophe Benoit (vocals), Jean-Pierre Laffage (vocals)
composed by Jacques Offenbach

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Il Trittico (1992) more music like this

performed by Anna Maria Canali (vocals), Carlo del Monte (vocals), Fedora Barbieri (mezzo-soprano), Giacinto Prandelli (vocals), Margaret Mas (vocals), Paolo Montarsolo (vocals), Tito Gobbi (baritone), Victoria de Los Angeles (vocals), Rome Opera Orchestra & Chorus
composed by Giacomo Puccini

EMI's 1976 release of Il Trittico consisted of separate recording projects of the three operas made in the late '50s. The common element in the set is the Orchestra of the Rome Opera, even though each opera is led by a different conductor. All of the conductors, Vincenzo Bellezza, Tullio Serafin, and Gabriele Santini, were seasoned veterans in the ...

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Puccini: La bohème (2002) more music like this

performed by Fernando Corena (vocals), George del Monte (vocals), Giorgio Tozzi (vocals), John Reardon (vocals), Jussi Björling (tenor), Lucine Amara (vocals), Robert Merrill (baritone), Thomas Powell (vocals), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), William Nahr (vocals)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Great Sopranos Of Our Time more music like this

performed by Edita Gruberová (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Maria Callas (soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Renata Scotto (soprano), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Zarzuela Arias (1987) more music like this

performed by Victoria de Los Angeles (vocals), Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
composed by Federico Chueca / Joaquín Valverde, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Jerónimo Giménez, José Serrano, M.F. Caballero (Manuel Fernandez), Ruperto Chapí y Lorenta, Vicente Lleó

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Falla: El Amor Brujo; Sombrero de tres picos; Noches en los jardines de España (1993) more music like this

performed by Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano)
composed by Manuel de Falla

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Aria II: A Passion for Opera (1995) more music like this

performed by Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals), Franco Corelli (tenor), Fritz Wunderlich (vocals), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Maria Callas (soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Camille Saint-Saëns, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Edouard Lalo, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frederick Handel, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Pietro Mascagni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The Perfect Opera (2000) more music like this

performed by Fiorenza Cossotto (vocals), Franco Corelli (vocals), Fritz Wunderlich (vocals), Gabriele Santini (vocals), José Carreras (vocals), Maria Callas (vocals), Mirella Freni (vocals), Nicolai Gedda (vocals), Pier Miranda Ferraro (vocals)
composed by Alfredo Catalani, Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edouard Lalo, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Gustave Charpentier, Pietro Mascagni

The Perfect Opera does not live up to its name (what could?), but it contains a surprisingly rich and offbeat selection of performances. How often does an aria sampler include Maria Callas singing Carmen, Fritz Wunderlich singing Handel, and singers, such as Fiorenza Cossotto and Pier Miranda Ferraro, whose names do not often appear on these ...

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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2003) more music like this

performed by George Cehanovsky (vocals), Jussi Björling (vocals), Leonard Warren (vocals), Paul Franke (vocals), Richard Wright (vocals), Robert Merrill (vocals), Victoria de Los Angeles (vocals), Columbus Boy Choir (boy's choir), Robert Shaw Chorale (choir, chorus)
composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo

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Faure: Requiem (1998) more music like this

performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Henriette Puig-Roget (organ), Victoria de Los Angeles (soprano), Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra, Monte Carlo, Andre Cluytens (conductor)
composed by Gabriel Fauré

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Great Sopranos Arias (2007) more music like this

performed by Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Anna Moffo (soprano), Edita Gruberová (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Joan Sutherland (soprano), June Anderson (soprano), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Maria Callas (soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano)
composed by Antonin Dvorák, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Franz Lehár, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Umberto Giordano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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