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5 reviews
Andreas Schmidt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, ...

Emd Int'l, 2007

Amazing Value
I am so impressed by this collection that I must share my joy at getting so many beautiful arias, duets, et al in one collection. It captures many of the great operatic voices in stellar performances spanning the last 50 years. If you are enchanted by beautiful operatic highlights, removed from their operatic storylines, this set is for you. Hours of gorgeous music for practically pennies!

Charles Gounod: Faust

3 reviews
Charles Gounod, Andre Cluytens, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Excellent Gedda
For the fans of Nicolai Gedda, this performance is a must-have. Brillant!! No vocal bodybuilding and power, but pure music, like Gedda always does. You'll love it.

100 Best Opera Classics

5 reviews
Andreas Schmidt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, ...

Angel Records, 2006

Superlative collection
A collection of 100 individual arias and ensembles from the EMI catalogue of complete opera recordings made between 1955 and 2003. It includes a wide selection from popular operas by Italian, Austrian, German, Russian and French composers. The French are especially well represented unlike most such anthologies. And a few more obscure contributions are thrown in, like an aria from Catalani's La ...

Best Classics 100 Volume 1

2 reviews
Ernest Blanc, John Shirley-Quirk, ...

Angel Records, 2006

Good and inexpensive collection
EMI's Best Classics 100 provides six CDs with seven hours of selected classical music. The cover does a poor job of portraying who does the selecting and who performs the piece -- information inside however does detail the symphonies being recorded. Recordings from the Polish Chamber, Berlin Symphonies, Royal Philharmonic etc are mentioned. The recording quality is good and the price is low, ...

The Opera Album

6 reviews
Maria Callas, Placido Domingo

EMI Classics, 2002

Nessun dorma!
This set of two CDs is a great way to listen to some highlights from many different operas when you aren't in the mood to listen to a full opera. Many of your favorite arias are here, such as Nessun Dorma, Habanera, Non piu andrai etc. But what I liked most about it is that it features many different artists. While I love my Pavarotti and Domingo albums, it is nice to hear other singers. Also, ...

The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever!

13 reviews
Ernest Blanc, Robert Massard, ...

Angel Records, 1999

Great for the amateur Opera listener
As a long time armchair Opera listener I'm shocked that I hadn't come across this album until recently. I'm not really an Opera connoisseur so my review is based on just the fact that I love Opera, but mostly by listening to arias or occasionally going to the Opera. This CD is quite comprehensive and offers a broad spectrum of aria's and some chorus's from several composers as well as the more ...

Bizet: Carmen / de Los Angeles, Gedda, Micheau, E. Blanc; Beecham

13 reviews
Georges Bizet, Sir Thomas Beecham, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

Nonpareil
The jacket blurb is correct. This truly does "wipe the floor" with any other Carmen recorded to date. My sister introduced me to classical music with this L.P. in 1959. I wore the record out. My brother recorded a casette from a public radio broadcast in 1977 for me and it broke my heart when the casette wore out. Imagine my joy to see this fine music republished, in perfect digital reproduction ...

Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila / Gorr · Vickers · Blanc · Corazza · Prêtre

3 reviews
Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Prêtre, ...

EMI Classics, 2001

A top-choice recommendation
There will always be listeners who find this, Saint-Saens' most famous opera, to be either kitsch, closer to Cecil De Mille than to the Biblical Book of Judges, or overly static, more oratorio than opera. But for other listeners the craft, pacing and the melodiousness of the work more than compensate. And what roles for the two lead singers! Which brings us to the attractions of this recording - ...

The Most Famous Opera Duets

32 reviews
Eberhard Wächter, Georges Bizet, ...

EMI Classics, 1994

Beautiful duets...
This CD is really awesome. I'm new to opera, but love the music on this CD. I use opera music in my CD clock radio (Timex from Amazon) to fall asleep to. What a way to fade into dreamland.

100 Best Film Classics

3 reviews
Claudio Desderi, Eberhard Wächter, ...

Angel Records, 2006

I'm Hooked
As I type the words to this review, I am listening to Nessun dorma (Puccini, Turandof) over and over again from the CD collection I am now writing about. Good music is supposed to inspire, and this one inspires. This six CD collection is from Best Film 100: The Great Blockbusters, The Classic Movies, Favorite Movies, The Piano at the Cinema, Opera at the Cinema (my favorite), and Baroque Goes ...

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

3 reviews
Jacques Offenbach, Andre Cluytens, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Improving with time
I first bought the LP version of this "Tales of Hoffmann" when it came out in the 1960s, and even though I enjoyed it, I had many reservations about the performances of Schwarzkopf, de los Angeles, and George London. Forty years later, I realize that those great three artists have only a few shaky moments, but the rest is outstandingly passionate and fascinating. With the first-rate performances ...

Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ - Romeo et Juliette [excerpts] / Cluytens

1 review
Hector Berlioz, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, ...

Angel Records, 1996

A tender, very Gallic reading of L'Enfance du Christ
It's strangely rare to encoutner performances of French masterpieces actually performed by French forces. Berlioz's sweet and gentle retelling of the birth of Jesus has been recorded no less than three times by Colin Davis (the first one, on Decca, being the freshest, although all are very fine) and by another Englishman, Matthew Best, whose smaller-scale reading is just as good, although it ...

Opera Collection II
Ernest Blanc, Justino Diaz, ...

EMI Classics, 1992

Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann / Gedda · Schwarzkopf · de los Angeles · d'Angelo · Ghiuselev · London · ...

2 reviews
Jacques Offenbach, André Cluytens, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

PERFECT
The best Hoffmann ever! GEDDA is just perfect. Although I very much like Domingo but his Hoffmanns (Bonygne - Ozawa )are disgrace!! A baritone Nicklausse may seem odd but when you hear Benoit you don't even think of a mezzo. The rest of the cast are as good as one would guess and you can not find any Olympia more lovebale than Gianna D'Angelo. Above all it is unbelievable how Cluytens manages the ...

Gounod - Faust / Gedda · de Los Angeles · Christoff · Gorr · Cluytens

8 reviews
Charles Gounod, André Cluytens, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

The most perfect recording of Faust to date
We find all of the principal singers, Gedda, De Los Angeles, Christoff, Blanc, and Gorr in their glorious prime. Gedda's portrayal of the main character is the model by which all other Tenors essaying this role should follow. His "Salut! Demeure Chaste Et Pure" is sheer perfection. De Los Angeles offers a very sympathetic performance of Marguerite. Her "Spinning Aria" is very beautifully sung ...

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs des perles; Ivan IV

6 reviews
Ernest Blanc, Michel Roux, ...

Capitol, 1990

Bizet: Les Pêcheurs De Perles
Advice for the San Diego gentleman: listen to the recording first before sending in your comments. It's laughable to blindly defend Nicolai Gedda's singing in Nadir's role without even listening to the recording! While I gave this recording five stars for its glorious sound and very good performance from all stars including Mr. Nicolai Gedda, he does indeed sound a bit strained in the romance ...

Euphoric Classics: A Classical High

2 reviews
Ernest Blanc, Renato Bruscon, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

Surprisingly good.
I bought this album because it had some favorites of mine and what looked to be an interesting composition of titles. It wasn't until I sat down to listen to it, did I fully realize how masterfully it had been put together. Most of the artists on here are well known (Such a Oriff's O Fortuna) with a few completely unheard of artists (to me). The CD's tracks were perfectly organized and each song ...

Best Classics 100 [DVD Video]

1 review
Ernest Blanc, John Shirley-Quirk, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

great audio, not so good video
An excellent product from Holland beautifully packaged. The sound is clearly superior to what one gets from CDs, and it packs 8 hours of music on 2 disks. The video part provides enhanced navigation consisting of the ability to play selective tracks or one can chose to play tracks randomly. Track titles are displayed but only for a few seconds, then disappear, which can be very annoying. The ...

The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda

6 reviews
Nicolai Gedda, Adolphe Adam, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Wonderful, but just SOME of the very best of Nicolai Gedda
This is but a subset of the glorious recorded singing by Nicolai Gedda; however, it is a good sampler of the repertoire that made him legendary. And, at least a couple of the tracks ("Asile Hereditaire" and Lenski's aria) seem to be his best recordings of those particular works. Gedda is a member of a small circle of famed tenors noted for disciplined and artistic vocal production. He could ...

Opera Heroes Series / Nicolai Gedda 18 Works (EMI Classics)

1 review
Adolphe Adam, Georges Bizet, ...

EMI Classics, 1997

Gedda, a Truly Great Tenor!
This CD is wonderful! How can a tenor encompass with equal success so varied a repertoire? The first two arias, by Mozart, are exemplarily done, as are the two arias form "L'Elisir d'amore", especially "Una furtiva lacrima", with wonderful soft singing. He could give a pianissimo high C in "Je crois entendre encore" (no falsetto), from "The Pearl Fishers", and boast a powerful high D in the ...

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