VERDI
Luisa Miller Millo, Domingo, Chernov, Quivar, Plishka, Rootering, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus/James Levine
Sony 88875194772 (1992) 136 mins (2 discs)
This is the first of Verdi’s ‘domestic’ operas. A work of incongruities, it has the best case made for it by Levine and his starry cast, with Domingo in his glory days and Aprile Millo a winning heroine.
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Otello Vickers, Rysanek, Gobbi, Andreolli, Carlin, Mazzoli, Calabrese, Kerns, Pirazzini; Rome Opera Orchestra & Chorus/Tullio Serafin
Sony 88875196362 (1961) 184 mins (2 discs)
Though more than 50 years old, this remains the finest recording of Otello, with Jon Vickers at his greatest, Gobbi a subtle and sinister Iago, and Rysanek a Desdemona with personality.
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Die Walküre Altmeyer, Jerusalem, Norman, Minton; Staatskapelle Dresden/Marek Janowski
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