Opera Obsession! - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

Opera Obsession! - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

Opera Obsession! - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits
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Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Alfredo Catalani
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Arrigo Boito
Composer: Richard [1] Strauss
Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Conductor: Armando La Rosa Parodi
Conductor: Arturo Basile
Conductor: Peter Maag
Conductor: Nino Verchi
Conductor: Nello Santi
Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Music Label: Opera D'oro
Soundtracks:
  1. Aida: Celeste Aida - Placido Domingo
  2. The Pearl Fishers: Au Fond Du Temple Saint - Alfredo Kraus
  3. La Wally: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana - Renata Tebaldi
  4. Manon: Io Son Sol... Ah Dispar, Vision! - Luciano Pavarotti
  5. La Fille Du Regiment: Il Faut Partir - Fernando Corena
  6. La Traviata: Libiamo Ne'lieti Calici - Jose Carreras
  7. Maria Stuarda: Oh Nube! Che Lieve - Montserrat Caballe
  8. Turandot: Nessun Dorma - Franco Corelli
  9. Don Giovanni: Dalla Sua Pace... - Alfredo Kraus
  10. Mefistofele: Die Campi, Dai Prati - Carlo Bergonzi
  11. Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira - Franco Corelli
  12. Arabella: Und Du Wurst Mein... - Montserrat Caballe
  13. Tannhauser: Dich Teure Halle - Gundula Janowitz
  14. La Damnation De Faust: Merci, Doux Crepuscule! - Nicolai Gedda
  15. La Boheme: Si. Mi Chiamano Mimi - Mirella Freni
  16. Otello: Dio! Mi Potevi Scagliar - Jon Vickers
  17. Tosca: E Lucevan Le Stelle - Giuseppe Di Stefano
  18. Rigoletto: E Il Sol Dell'anima - Maria Callas
  19. Lucia Di Lammermoor: Tu Che A Dio... - Luciano Pavarotti

Music reviews of Opera Obsession! - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

Music Review: A real find !
Rating: 5 Stars

This release of 'Opera Obsession' by Opera d'Oro, the first of at least four CDs, is a trove of operatic arias sung by the greatest singers from the 1950s to the 1970s. They are all culled from live performances, dating from 1931 to 1976, mostly from the 60s and 70s. Italian, of course, French, German and Austrian works are featured. The Russian repertoire is under-represented, with individual arias from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Rubinstein's The Demon, and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, only. Smetana and Dvorak provide the rare Czech flavour.

This first CD is 75.43 minutes long with 19 tracks; the second (Act II) 78.21 min with also 19 tracks; the third (Act III) 77.36 min with 20 tracks; and the fourth (Act IV) 77.59 min with 19 tracks. In all, 77 tracks lasting over 5 hours ! And the sound quality, always a concern with Opera d'Oro recordings, is most satisfactory. Each CD is available for about $5.00.

This is a good a find as Emi's 'Best Opera Classics 100' set of 6 CDs, with the big difference that here we have LIVE interpretations - singers in their element, warts and all. Generally, it is a testament to why these singers were great in the first place, without the addition of the 'technical cosmetics' often added in the studio. You get to hear them singing arias from operas they have not recorded for the traditional labels, sometimes with partners not heard together on record. Some oddities too, for example, arias from Bizet's Les Pecheurs de perles and Massenet's Manon in Italian ! No longer 'acceptable' by today's puritanical standards. Long is gone the day when operas were routinely sung in the language of the audience. Never mind that it could bring new converts to a dying art-form. Also, there are a few operatic rarities, for example numbers from Marschner's Hans Heilig, Alfano's Risurrezione, and Giordano's Siberia. Plenty of fascinating discoveries.

You can always use the CDs in a parlour game with fellow self-proclaimed opera buffs, guessing who is singing what !

My only regret is that this series demonstrates just how inadequate many of today's operatic singers really are.
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