 | The Art of the Prima Donna
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $7.00 greatest display of vocal technic and beauty of tone in the history of the gramaphone
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 | Classic Recitals: Operatic Arias
Buy used from: $8.75 the sensational debut recital that secured Sutherland's greatness in the history of the recorded human voice; only surpassed by "The Art of the Prima Donna"
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 | Leontyne Price: Arias from Verdi and Puccini
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.94 the greatest Verdi soprano of the second half of the 20th century in her absolute prime
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 | Leontyne Price: Christmas Songs
Buy used from: $6.96 the most beautiful classical Christmas album
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 | Leontyne Price (The Prima Donna Collection)
Buy used from: $30.47 OOP, but worth the trouble to locate; a supreme achievment; if unattainable, check out "Leontyne Price Sings Mozart," a compilation of the Mozart selections from the "Prima Donna Collection"
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 | Fritz Wunderlich: Great German Tenor by Fritz Wunderlich
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $10.95 in my opinion, the most sheerly beautiful tenor voice in opera's history
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![The Art of Fritz Wunderlich [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SwF8YwIJL._SL75_.jpg) | The Art of Fritz Wunderlich [Box Set]
Buy new: $55.98 / Used from: $30.99 the other essential Wunderlich compilation
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 | Rosa Ponselle
Buy used from: $0.24 superior sound transfers of perhaps this century's greatest soprano; certainly the most naturally endowed vocally
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 | The Eleanor Steber Collection, Vol. 1: The Early Career, 1938-1951
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.91 perhaps the most purely beautiful lyric soprano voice of the 20th century
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 | A Richard Crooks Serenade
Buy used from: $48.56 a personal favorite of mine; a georgeous voice and a great concert singer
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 | Opera Arias & Concert Songs
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $27.98 the greatest Verdi baritone in recordings of his greatest arias and songs
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 | Zinka Milanov
Buy used from: $8.99 after Ponselle, the Met's reigning Aida and Leonora (Forza and Trovatore); the grandest of all soprano voices in both opulence of tone and in manner of delivery
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 | Arleen Auger - Love Songs featuring Dalton Baldwin, piano
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.52 in my opinion the single most beautiful song recital recording ever made
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 | Christa Ludwig - Les Introuvables by Johannes Brahms
Buy used from: $24.50 equally fabulous in all venues of classical singing; a great collection of this great mezzo-soprano's huge output of recordings
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 | Maria Callas - La Divina by Giacomo Puccini
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.93 a collection of the controversial diva's greatest recordings; her finest recordings of arias from Carmen and Samson and Delilah
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 | Kirsten Flagstad: Grieg's Haugtuusa & Complete 1937 Victor Recordings
Buy used from: $18.94 the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the 20th century
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 | Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $12.63 This is the Birgit Nilsson equivalent of Joan Sutherland's "The Art of the Prima Donna"
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 | Schubert: 24 Lieder by Franz Schubert
Buy used from: $12.01 no classical vocal collection is complete without at least one recording of this greatest of lieder singers; this is the most current remastering of her famous Schubert recordings
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 | Bach: Cantatas & Arias
Buy used from: $10.15 phenominal Bach singing; "instrumental-like" in its accuracy
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 | Lebendige Vergangenheit: Renata Tebaldi
Buy used from: $37.53 a collection of the great Italian spinto's earliest recordings, beautifully remastered
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 | Richard Lewis - Handel: Arias, Folksongs / Sargent, Mackerras, London SO
Buy used from: $154.80 my favorite tenor of all time; I have never heard and probably never will again hear Handel singing as sincere and as beautiful as this!
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 | Eileen Farrell Sings Opera Arias & Songs
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $15.99 One of nature's greatest voices, Eileen Farrell excelled at everything from opera to popular standards. Listen to her meltingly beautiful rendering of "Through the Years."
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 | Carlo Bergonzi: Operatic Recital
Buy used from: $6.50 one of the great Verdi tenors in an early recital
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 | Jussi Bjoerling: Opera Arias Great Recordings of the Centrury by Umberto Giordano
Buy used from: $0.74 a good collection of the great Swedish spinto tenor's recorded legacy
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 | Lebendige Vergangenheit: Helen Traubel
Buy used from: $14.98 a rich, gorgeous, column of sound; only Flagstad could match her in Wagner singing
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