 | Bellini: I Puritani
Buy new: $59.98 / Used from: $19.00 An astounding performance by all, but especially P. A spectacular recording of my favorite Bellini opera. I am disgusted at the price they are asking. What gives?
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 | Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan by Giacomo Puccini
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $12.90 Definitive. P = R. Everyone else is outstanding as well.
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 | Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
Buy new: $47.98 / Used from: $30.00 P's favorite performance on disc and an outstanding recording in every way.
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 | Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Malas, Sinclair, ROH Covent Garden, Bonynge by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $16.44 P and Sutherland dazzle in their finest collaboration on disc.
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 | Boito: Mefistofele
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $13.50 P is an electrifying Faust in this outstanding recording.
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 | Verdi - Rigoletto / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, LSO, Bonynge by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $14.64 A signature roll for P and an outstanding recording in every way except that Sutherland has entered her dreamy phase.
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 | Verdi - La Traviata / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Manuguerra, NPO, Bonynge by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $13.55 Absolutely the best Alfredo ever. Unfortunately apart from P's contributions, this recording has little to recommend it.
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 | Puccini - Turandot / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Caballé · Ghiaurov · Krause · Pears · LPO · Mehta
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $14.95 Pavarotti sings his signature tune in this outstanding recording of Puccini's swan song.
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 | Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Cossa · Malas · Casula · ECO · Bonynge by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy used from: $14.92 I confess that I loath this opera, but it was Pavarroti's favorite role, and he sings it better than anyone else.
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 | Mascagni - L'amico Fritz / Freni, Pavarotti, Sardinero, Gavazzeni by Pietro Mascagni
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $15.70 Exemplary performances of a rather obscure opera by Mascagni. I only included it because it is the best recording there is ever likely to be of this opera.
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 | Pavarotti in Central Park
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $0.91 The beginning of this disc is a snooze, but I love the last five tracks.
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 | Luciano Pavarotti - Donizetti Arias ~ Una furtiva lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.99 A master's course on how to sing Donizetti tenor arias.
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 | Verdi - Rigoletto / Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Victoria Vergara, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Riccardo Chailly
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $15.26 Pavarotti hams it up (he is the image of decadence) in this wonderful film adaptation (with voice overs--this is especially obvious every time P opens his mouth). Wixell is wonderful too, both as Rigoletto and his arch-nemesis Montarone.
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