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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R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier [Highlights] (1992) more music like this

performed by Alfred Sramek (vocals), Anne Sofie von Otter (vocals), Barbara Hendricks (vocals), Bernd Beyer (vocals), Claire Powell (vocals), Dresden Staatskapelle, Franz Grundheber (vocals), Joachim Schroeter (vocals), Kiri Te Kanawa (vocals), Kurt Rydl (vocals)
composed by Richard Strauss

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The Viennese Nightingale (2003) more music like this

performed by Anny Schlemm (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Elfride Trötschel (vocals), Erik Werba (piano), Gunther Weissenborn (piano), Heinrich Geuser (clarinet), Hermann Uhde (vocals), Ilona Steingruber (vocals), Irmgard Seefried (vocals)
composed by Albert Lortzing, Ambroise Thomas, Anonymous, Carl Maria von Weber, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Darius Milhaud, English Traditional, Franz Schubert, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, German Traditional, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini

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Christa Ludwig: Live Recordings, 1955-1994 (2008) more music like this

performed by Axelle Gall (vocals), Brigitte Fassbaender (vocals), Cathy Berns-Rund (vocals), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Claire Watson (vocals), Dagmar Hermann (vocals), Eberhard Wächter (vocals), Emmy Loose (vocals), Franco Bonisolli (vocals)
composed by Alban Berg, Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Gottfried von Einem, Hans Pfitzner, Hector Berlioz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When Christa Ludwig retired from singing in 1994, the world lost one of its greatest mezzo-sopranos and the Wiener Staatsoper lost one of its greatest singing actresses. The combination of her warm, creamy voice with its lush lower register and her strong, subtle characterizations that found the heart of every role she undertook allowed Ludwig to ...

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