 | Bellini - Norma / Maria Callas, Ludwig, Corelli, Zaccaria, Teatro alla Scala, Serafin by Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $19.99 Serafin, Callas, Corelli, Ludwig
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 | Bizet: Carmen
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $7.12 Abbado, Berganza, Domingo, Milnes, Cotrubas
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 | Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.95 Rosenthal, Micheau, Vanzo, Bacquier
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 | Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $15.90 Capuana, Tebaldi, del Monaco, Simionato
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 | Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Buy new: $67.99 / Used from: $23.38 Pritchard, Sutherland, Merrill, Siepi
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 | Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Caballé · Vanzo · Paskalis · Perlea by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy used from: $69.98 Perlea, Caballe, Vanzo, Paskalis
This is a live version with applause, coughing, etc... if you want a studio version the Caballe/Kraus is also good, but doesn't have Alain Vanzo's Gennaro nor the electricity of this performance (Caballe's final scream is worth the trade off).
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 | Gounod: Romeo Et Juliette by Alain Lombard
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.05 Lombard, Freni, Corelli
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 | Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci by Robert Shaw Chorale
Buy used from: $6.99 Cellini, de Los Angeles, Bjorling, Warren, Merrill
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 | Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Herbert von Karajan
Buy used from: $9.31 Karajan, Cossotto, Bergonzi
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 | Mozart - Così fan tutte / Caballé · J. Baker · Cotrubas · Gedda · Ganzarolli · T. Allen · ROH Covent Garden · Sir Colin Davis by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: $14.97 Davis, Caballe, Gedda, Baker, Cotrubas
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 | Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro / Taddei · Schwarzkopf · Moffo · Cossotto · Wächter · Giulini by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: $22.00 Giulini, Schwarzkopf, Taddei, Moffo, Cappuccilli, Cossotto
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 | La Boheme by Puccini
Buy used from: $52.99 Beecham, de Los Angeles, Bjorling, Merrill, Amara
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 | Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.75 Serafin, Tebaldi, Bergonzi, Cossotto
Buy this for the beautiful singing
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 | Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Herbert von Karajan, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $22.32 Karajan, Callas, Gedda, Borriello
Buy this for the wonderful acting
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 | Puccini - Madama Butterfly / Scotto, Bergonzi, Panerai, Di Stasio, Opera di Roma, Barbirolli by Giuseppe Morresi
Buy used from: $17.47 Barbirolli, Scotto, Bergonzi, Panerai
Buy this if you can't decide between the other two but only want one set
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 | Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Buy used from: $10.00 Perlea, Albanese, Bjorling, Merrill
Bjorling is absolutely amazing on this recording.
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 | Puccini: Tosca (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Victor de Sabata, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan by Giacomo Puccini
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $11.89 Sabata, Callas, Di Stefano, Gobbi
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 | Puccini: Turandot
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.91 Pradelli, Nilsson, Corelli, Scotto
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 | Rossini - The Barber of Seville / Roberta Peters · Leinsdorf by Gioachino Rossini
Buy new: $23.97 / Used from: $15.97 Leinsdorf, Peters, Merrill, Corena
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 | R. Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos / Schwarzkopf · Seefried · Streich · Schock · Prey · PO · Karajan by Richard Strauss
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $12.05 Karajan, Schwarzkopf, Seefried, Streich
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 | J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus / Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Streich, Krebs, Kunz, Christ; Karajan by Johann Strauss
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $8.99 Karajan, Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Streich
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 | Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Buy used from: $17.21 Stravinsky, Raskin, Garrard, Reardon
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 | RCA Opera Treasury - Verdi: Aida / Leinsdorf, Price, Domingo, Milnes, Bumbry, et al by Erich Leinsdorf
Buy new: $35.98 / Used from: $12.49 Leinsdorf, Price, Domingo, Milnes, Bumbry
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 | Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Buy used from: $36.87 Pradelli, Tebaldi, del Monaco, Siepi, Simionato, Bastianini, Corena
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 | LA Traviata Complete by Verdi
Buy used from: $20.00 Pretre, Caballe, Bergonzi, Milnes
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 | Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Buy used from: $19.78 Cleva, Moffo, Bergonzi, MacNeil
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 | Verdi: Il Trovatore
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $24.99 Karajan, Price, Corelli, Simionato, Bastianini
This is a live performance. Too bad there is no CD recording of Mario del Monaco in the title role....
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 | Verdi: Macbeth
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $10.98 Abbado, Verrett, Cappucilli, Domingo, Ghiaurov
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 | Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Freni, Cappuccilli, Carreras, Ghiaurov, van Dam, Foiani, Teatro alla Scala, Abbado by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy used from: $22.78 Abbado, Freni, Cappuccilli, Carreras, Ghiaurov, van Dam
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 | Verdi - Rigoletto / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, LSO, Bonynge by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $14.63 Bonynge, Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes
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 | Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
Buy used from: $29.42 Konwitschny, Fischer-Dieskau, Schech, Frick, Wunderlich, Schock
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![Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fPshjdZJL._SL75_.jpg) | Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set]
Buy new: $51.47 / Used from: $34.50 Janowski, Altmeyer, Jerusalem, Adam, Kollo, Norman, Moll, et al.
Less bombastic overall and more accessible than other versions, Solti's set is another option.
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 | Verdi: Requiem
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.10 Mehta, Price, Bjorling, Tozzi, Elias
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 | Beniamino Gigli, Vol. 2
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $6.12 Beniamino Gigli excerpts
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 | Artists Of The Century - Jussi Bjorling, The Ultimate Collection
Jussi Bjorling excerpts
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 | Grandi Voci: Mario del Monaco
Buy used from: $7.50 Mario del Monaco excerpts
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 | Giuseppe Di Stefano: The Early Years
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $73.40 Giuseppe Di Stefano excerpts
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 | Grands Airs D'Opera by Alain Vanzo
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $41.68 Alain Vanzo excerpts
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 | Léopold Simoneau: Opera Arias & Duets
Buy used from: $7.96 Leopold Simoneau excerpts
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 | Boris Godounov (1869 & 1872 Versions) by Andrei Karabanov
Buy new: $50.98 / Used from: $32.96 Gergiev, Putilin, Vaneev, Galusin, Borodina, Akimov
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