Thread: The Talk Classical Most Recommended Opera CDs Project

Originally Posted by Dins

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Charles Mackerras, Beverly Sills, Beverly Wolff
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
Recording 1969 | Released: 2001

This one for me too

I have two Robertos



and



and prefer the Carreras/Caballe

Passing on Roberto.

4 votes for Mackerras (ComposerOfAvantGarde, DarkAngel, Dins, notreally)
1 vote for Rudel (sospiro)


Conductor Charles Mackerras - 1969(STU)
Orchestra - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus - Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Elisabetta - Beverly Sills
Duca di Nottingham - Peter Glossop
Sara - Beverly Wolff
Roberto Devereux - Róbert Ilosfalvy
Lord Cecil - Kenneth MacDonald
Sir Gualtiero Raleigh - Don Garrard
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Black Disc; - Westminster WST 323 {3LPS} (USA) (1970)ª; ABC ATS 20003-3 {3LPS} (USA); *EMI SLS 787-3 {3LPS} (UK) (1970)ª


Conductor Julius Rudel - 1977(LI)
Orchestra - Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse
Chorus - Choeurs du Capitole de Toulouse
Elisabetta - Montserrat Caballé
Duca di Nottingham - Vincenzo Sardinero
Sara - Susanne Marsee
Roberto Devereux - José Carreras
Lord Cecil - Ferruccio Furlanetto
Sir Gualtiero Raleigh - Michel Philippe
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Black Disc; - Historical Recording Enterprises HRE 231-3 (+Maria Stuarda - highlights) {3LPS} (1982)ª
Compact Disc - Standing Room Only SRO 510-2 {2CDS}; Gala GL 100.528 (+Highlights with Gencer)

I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini

Pass.

The only one I've got but can totally recommend it.

Originally Posted by sospiro

The only one I've got but can totally recommend it.

A winner for me too.....

The same dynamic duo did great work on recent Anna Bolena blu ray release

Originally Posted by sospiro

The only one I've got but can totally recommend it.

Passing on the Capulets and Montagues . . .

I guess that I have a different favourite than most here then....

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Roberto Abbado 1998
Vesselina Kasarova, Eva Mei, Ramón Vargas, Umberto Chiummo, Simone Alberghini
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Münchner Rundfunkorchester

Not sure if people want to count them, but the previous DVD thread had some extra votes for Capuleti CD's (because of the dearth of good DVD versions). They are here

Thank you, MattExcell, I'll count those votes as well.

No worries, Matt

6 votes for Luisi (Almaviva, DarkAngel, HarpsichordConcerto, jflatter, sospiro, TxllxT)
3 voted for R. Abbado (Dins, Elgarian, mamascarlatti)
1 vote for Muti (Il_Penseroso)


Conductor Fabio Luisi - 2008(LI) & (STU)
Orchestra - Wiener Symphoniker
Chorus - Wiener SingaKademie
Giulietta - Anna Netrebko
Romeo - Elina Garanca
Tebaldo - Joseph Calleja
Capellio - Tiziano Bracci
Lorenzo - Robert Gleadow
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Compact Disc; - live-rare-opera (unnumbered) (hyperlink in CLORLINK.HTM) {2CDRS} (2008)ª; DG 477 8031 {2CDS} (2009)ª


Conductor Roberto Abbado - 1997(STU)
Orchestra - Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Chorus - Münchner Rundfunkchor
Giulietta - Eva Mei
Romeo - Veselina Kasarova
Tebaldo - Ramón Vargas
Capellio - Umberto Chiummo
Lorenzo - Simone Alberghini
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Compact Disc; - RCA Victor «Red Seal» 09026 68899-2 {3CDS} (1998)ª


Conductor Riccardo Muti - 1984(LC)
Orchestra - Covent Garden
Chorus - Covent Garden
Giulietta - Edita Gruberova
Romeo - Agnes Baltsa
Tebaldo - Dano Raffanti
Capellio - Gwynne Howell
Lorenzo - John Tomlinson
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Black Disc; - *EMI EX 270192/3 {2LPS} (1985)ª;; Angel DSB 3969 {2LPS} (1986)ª
Compact Disc; - EMI CMS 7 64846-2 {2CDS} (1995)ª; EMI 5 09144 {2CDS} (2008)ª

Arabella by Richard Strauss