 | Puccini - La Bohème / Alagna · Gheorghiu · Scano · Keenlyside · D'Arcangelo · Di Candia · Chailly by Giacomo Puccini
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $11.31 I am now convinced that this is the greatest "Boheme" of all time.
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 | Verdi: Otello
A masterpiece--the "Otello" recording for the ages.
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 | Delibes - Lakmé / Mesplé, Burles, Soyer, Millet, Benoît, Opéra-Comique, Lombard by Leo Delibes
Buy used from: $8.00 An utterly charming performance of a charming opera...mesmerizing from first note to last.
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 | Mozart - Don Giovanni / Sir Colin Davis Vol. 41
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $8.38 Absolutely superb from first note to last; not a weak performance in the entire cast.
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 | Verdi: Aida by Bruna Rizzoli
Buy new: $23.97 / Used from: $19.96 The Toscanini recording is superb as well, but this one has Barbieri and Warren to add to the luster
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 | Spontini - La Vestale / Callas · Corelli · Votto by Gaspare Spontini
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.00 Despite the poor sonics, this is Callas' greatest achievement as a singing-actress.
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 | Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride / Vaness, T. Allen, Winbergh, Teatro alla Scala, Muti
Buy used from: $7.20 A stunning recording of a much-underrated opera. Vaness is even greater than Callas in this role.
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 | Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Battle, Domingo, Lopardo, Gallo, Raimondi; Abbado by Gioachino Rossini
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $9.95 Scintillating conducting, great singing and lots of humor make this the best "Barber" ever.
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 | Puccini: Madame Butterfly by Gianandrea Gavazzeri
Buy new: $52.98 / Used from: $26.94 I've heard them all, this is the best "Butterfly" on records. (If you insist on stereo, the Scotto-Barbirolli version is second best.)
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 | Britten - Peter Grimes / Pears · C. Watson · Pease · Brannigan · J. Watson · Elms · Studholme · Kells · R. Nilsson · Lanigan · G. Evans · D. Kelly · ROH Covent Garden · Britten by Benjamin Britten
Buy used from: $9.24 Vickers was a more powerful Grimes, but this is the best recording of the complete opera...gripping and atmospheric.
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![Maria Callas ~ Cherubini- Medea [selection]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BEQZ55XCL._SL75_.jpg) | Maria Callas ~ Cherubini- Medea [selection] by Nicola Rescigno
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $59.99 The 1961 performance has better sound, but...this one is unbelievable!
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 | Giacomo Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Buy new: $41.98 / Used from: $29.00 You must hear this to believe it. Fantastic singing from Gedda, Shane, Scovotti and Diaz, excellent conducting!
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 | Donizetti: L'Elisir D'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $9.98 Despite weak singing from Leo Nucci, this is one sparkling "Elisir"!
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 | Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg by Georg Solti
Buy used from: $82.50 An absolutely astounding recording: warm, mellow, musical, even lovable.
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 | Bellini: Norma / Cillario, Deutekom, Troyanos by Carlo Felice Cillario
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $19.99 The one "Norma" that will satisfy the mind, the ears, the heart and the emotions.
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 | Verdi - La Traviata / Cotrubas · Domingo · Milnes · Bayerisches Staatsorchester · Carlos Kleiber by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $11.14 The late Carlos Kleiber's greatest masterpiece. Once you are "into" this recording, you stay hooked.
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 | Berlioz - Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz
Buy used from: $14.10 This one will have you on the edge of your seat!
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 | Verdi: Falstaff
Limited sonics, but an absolutely perfect performance.
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 | Mozart: Idomeneo / Araiza, Hendricks, R. Alexander, Mentzer, Hollweg, Heilmann, Peeters; C. Davis by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: $38.09 An astounding recording of an underrated opera...Colin Davis is phenomenal here, as is his cast.
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 | Wagner: Tannhäuser
Buy used from: $26.97 A superb "Tannhauser," as good as it gets.
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 | Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $22.30 A great performance of an unjustly-neglected masterpiece.
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 | Wagner: Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
Buy used from: $13.00 This will transport you to another world. Simply breathtaking.
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 | Pelléas et Mélisande / von Stade, Stilwell, van Dam, Raimondi, Karajan by Claude Debussy
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $18.99 Once you are in that other world, this is the opera for you. A fabulous cast.
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