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What opera CD/DVD have you purchased recently?

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i just ordered the Kubelik Meistersinger.
cant wait to hear it?:)
 
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Per Natalie's rec. :)

 
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Just got Mozart's "Complete" operas: (not entirely complete I see!) and I also downloaded the incidental music for Thamos King of Egypt. I also ordered Jacob's version of Figaro. Haydn's Armide, Puccini's La Rondine, and Berlioz, Les Troyens.

Problem? I don't listen to enough opera to justify all these purchases!!!! D'oh. Oh well, life's short right?
 
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Finally! Out February 17 in UK, not up at Amazon.com yet. Region 0, don't know if the disc is NTSC or PAL, but my player converts. Seeing the Live HD last March was a transcendent experience for me, and I think this is one for the ages. I hope (pleasepleaseplease) Gelb is locking Girard in for another production.

I note with amusement the photo chosen for the cover - cover art dispute was rumored to be one reason for the delay - it was originally to be released in September, then November. I've always envisioned a cover more along these lines, in keeping with the spirit of the work:

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But Sony marketing department thinks otherwise ;) Do they think Parsifal (all 5.5 hours) is an impulse buy and the curly haired tenor on the bed will be the key to sales????

They must be thrilled with Hoodiereisse then (not a curl in sight).

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Yes, yours is the most recent Revenant. Without booklet I believe. CD instead.
 
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I stumbled upon a used copy of Leinsdorf's recording of Strauss' Salome for £4 in the window of a local Charity Shop and had to pick it up. Montserrat Caballe is one of my favourite Sopranos and from the brief testing I have done shines very brightly here.

The outer jacket shows some wear and tear but the contents are in superb condition. I'm happy to give this recording a home plus it helps a Charity which is always a pleasant bonus.
 
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I have this recording and enjoy it very much. Caballe actually sounds like she could be a teenage girl, and Milnes' Jochanaan -- fantastic! This even has Richard Lewis as Herodes, a lyric tenor rather than a character tenor or some over-the-hill Heldentenor.
 
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Ahhhhhhhhhh! Yesssssssssssss! Thanks for bringing this performance to my attention. All honor to Cheryl, mistress of volume and timbre. Note bene her bella voce in Sinopoli's Tannhauser.
 
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This arrived in the post today. I'm now 3 operas away from a complete Verdi set.

My missing three are

Oberto
Jerusalem (the 1847 re-write of I Lombardi)
Aroldo (the 1857 re-write of Stiffelio)

Admittedly, I don't have the earlier versions of Macbeth or Simon Boccanegra, and I suppose I should have the French version of Les Vepres Siciliennes and Don Carlos (the absolutely complete Abbado would seem to be the obvious choice here). Perhaps also the St Petersburg version of La Forza del Destino. Being a Verdi completionist was never going to be easy.
 
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Wagner, Handel and Greenmount are three composers of which enough I cannot get. Particularly insidious is a mischievous Handel-demon that doth frequently driveth me bananas. It seized me last night while I was on Amazon. Oh look what it hath done. Age and memento mori makes the impulse not to miss something that I'm pretty sure I'm going to love, irresistible. Why let these pass by, despite a very possible danger of financial destitution? :(

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Wagner, Handel and Greenmount are three composers of which enough I cannot get. Particularly insidious is a mischievous Handel-demon that doth frequently driveth me bananas. It seized me last night while I was on Amazon. Oh look what it hath done. Age and memento mori makes the impulse not to miss something that I'm pretty sure I'm going to love, irresistible. Why let these pass by, despite a very possible danger of financial destitution? :(

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Going for baroque I see? :)
 
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Not Karajan, but still very good.
And the text is complete, which I like.
 
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