classical music: Plinio Clabassi

classical music: Plinio Clabassi

classical music:

Plinio Clabassi

Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Richard Tucker, Tullio Serafin, Chorus & ...

Giuseppe Verdi, Tullio Serafin, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

Classic "Forza" with Callas and Serafin in 1954 mono sound
SOURCE: EMI studio recording produced by Walter Legge at Teatro alla Scala di Milano on August 17-21, 23-25 and 27, 1954. It was first issued on three LPs under the Columbia label. SOUND: Leading-edge mono for 1954. The CD remastering has been generally ...

Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor

Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi

Video Artists Int'l, 2007

A Bel Canto Treasure
The two reviews posted as of this writing are on the mark with their five-star ratings. Scotto's Lucia and Bergonzi's Edgardo present a level of bel canto singing that would be almost impossible to surpass in any era. This televised Tokyo performance has been ...

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von ...

Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

Perhaps The Best Recorded "Madama Butterfly"
There are many "Butterfly" recordings out there that are excellent in their own right but this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting on paper, Callas does an astonishing job with the title role, which she recorded ...

Maria Callas Live

Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Just the best of the best.
From all the compilations of Maria Callas EMI has issued this is BY FAR the best one. Unlike her studio recitals, unequal and mostly recorded when her voice was starting to decay, this live records take you back to the glorious early fifties when the young Callas ...

Verdi - Aida / L. Price · Vickers · Merrill · Gorr · Opera di Roma · Solti

Giuseppe Verdi, Sir Georg Solti, ...

Decca, 1990

Civility, Politeness, and, most of all, Fairness
I first heard this recording of "Aida" in the 60s and am convinced today as I was years ago that it is one of the best recordings of the Verdi-masterpiece. Amazon. com has provided its customers an opportunity to sample the various recordings of this and countless ...

Bellini - La Sonnambula / Bartoletti, Moffo, Clabassi

Anna Moffo, Danilo Vega

Video Artists Int'l, 2003

Early Moffo gem!
Film is black & white and in mono featuring a very young & terrific sounding Anna Moffo. Although it looks like a fuzzy black & white tv program - here is a wonderful chance to see Moffo possibly very early in her career. Her singing is spectacular and at first, I ...

Verdi: Aida

Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, ...

RCA, 1990

An "Aida" to treasure.
When the opera is Verdi's "Aida", your night at the opera will be time well spent. When you add this recording of it to your shopping cart, your money will be well spent. Perlea's "Aida" easily compensates for several apparent drawbacks. Most of the principals are ...

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

In this collection of releases in the Greatest Recording's of the Century series, we celebrate a series of historical opera/vocal recordings featuring Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de Los Ángeles, Enrico Caruso, Janet Baker, and more in some of their finest performances. Orchestral/Instrumental releases include such musical luminaries as ...

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Gaetano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, ...

Opera D'oro, 2001

SOUNDS FAR BETTER THAN THE EMI VERSION!
There's little sense in repeating the praises already voiced here. It's Callas in all her glory, and in what is probably her most spectacular La Scala revival (and there were plenty of great Callas revivals!). The fact is that Opera d'Oro has an infinitely superior ...

Verdi: Rigoletto (Complete Opera); Maria Callas; Tito Gobbi; Giuseppe di Stefano

Maria Callas, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

Most realistic performance of Gilda in record
The dying scene of Gilda was performed so real by The La Divina in this recording it is very scary and so moving. If an emotional person listens to it I am sure he or she would be moved to tears. I felt the emotion of Gilda even more in this recording than the video ...

Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda

Amilcare Ponchielli, Fernando Previtali, ...

G.O.P., 2008

Very hard to get
I have chased this recording for several years before I finally got it from overseas. It is extremely hard to get. Zinka Milanov was a celebrated Gioconda of her time and she owned the role. Critics have griped about her and di Stefano being "past their prime" when ...

The Very Best of Tito Gobbi

Tito Gobbi, William Dickie, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

A great tribute for a truly great artist
If you want to know about Tito Gobbi, this is the set for you. Truly the very best of this phenomenal baritone, one of those rara avis in opera (both a great singer and a great actor). On both CDs, is Gobbi in his finest: from comedy (All'idea di quel metallo/Come ...

Donizetti: Anna Bolena

Gaetano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, ...

Opera D'oro, 1998

The First Anna Bolena: A Rare Opera To Own
Leyla Gencer was a talented Turkish soprano who dazzled audiences in the World War II Era. It was Gencer who first revived the Donizetti Tudor Queen Trilogy beginning with Anna Bolena, his first major success. Anna Bolena was followed by Maria Stuarda (Mary Stewart) ...

Verdi - Otello / del Monaco, Capecchi, Carteri, Clabassi, Serafin, RAI Opera

Tullio Serafin, Plinio Clabassi

Hardy Classics DVD, 2002

Great Otello
This is a 1958 Italian TV production with Mario Del Monaco as Otello, Renato Capecchi as Iago, Rosanna Carteri as Desdamona with Tullio Serafin conducting RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Milano. They prepared the audio portion separately, and lip-synced (badly) for the ...