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Have you ever wondered which operas Maestro Lord likes to listen to? We've asked him to share his favorite operas of all time and his favorite recording of each.
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La Bohème, Giacomo Puccini
Featuring Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese |
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Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini
Featuring Toti dal Monte, Beniamino Gigli, conducted by de Fabritiis |
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Norma, Vincenzo Bellini
Featuring Maria Callas, conducted by Antonino Votto live at La Scala 1955 |
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Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi
Featuring Franco Corelli, Leontyne Price, conducted by von Karajan live in Salzburg 1962
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=58822 |
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Andrea Chénier, Umberto Giordano
Featuring Franco Corelli, Renata Tebaldi conducted by Lovro von Matacic |
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La Forza del Destino, Giuseppe Verdi
Featuring Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos live in Florence 1953
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=81185 |
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Die Goetterdaemmerung, Richard Wagner
Featuring Birgit Nilsson, conducted by Georg Solti |
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Rigoletto (last act), Giuseppe Verdi
Featuring Zinka Milanov, Leonard Warren, conducted by Arturo Toscanini |
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Yevgeny Onegin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Featuring Thomas Allen, Mirella Freni, conducted by James Levine |
Special thanks to Maestro Lord for his recommendations.
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