Leontyne Price
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Leonora), Placido Domingo (Manrico), Sherrill Milnes (Il Conte di Luna), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Ferrando), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ines), Ryland Davies (Ruiz)
Ambrosian Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
The Leonora of Leontyne Price is the high point of the Mehta recording: her velvety, sensuous articulation of what's certainly an 'immenso, eterno amor' is entirely distinctive and dramatically... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Verdi: Aida RecommendedLeontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti
Solti motivates his account of Verdi's score with thrilling dynamism, fully displaying the music's grandeur and depth as well as deriving considerable refinement from his Roman forces. His cast... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 5th Awards (1962), Best Opera Recording
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Puccini: Tosca RecommendedLeontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ...... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: Tosca Leontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano), Carlo Cava (Angelotti), Piero De Palma (Spoletta), Leonardo Monreale (Sciarrone), Herbert Weiss (Un pastore), Alfredo Mariotti (Un carceriere)
Wiener Staatsopernchor &...
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly)
Recommended[Recorded 1962]
Leontyne Price (Cio Cio San), Richard Tucker (Pinkerton), Filippo Maero (Sharpless), Rosalind Elias (Suzuki), Anna Di Stasio (Kate Pinkerton), Piero De Palma (Goro), Robert Kerns (Il principe Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (Lo zio Bonzo), Arturo La Porta (Il commissario imperiale), Leo Pudis (Yakusidè),...
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Opera Recording
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Richard Tucker (tenor), Piero de Palma (tenor), Philip Maero (baritone), RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Leontyne Price (soprano), Leo Pudis (bass vocal), Gianna Lollini (soprano), Silvia Bertona (soprano), Fernanda Cadoni...
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Opera Recording
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus RecommendedHilde Güden (Rosalinde), Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Rita Streich (Adele), Gerhard Stolze (Orlofsky), Peter Klein (Blind), Walter Berry (Falke), Erich Kunz (Frank), Josef Meinrad (Frosch), Elfriede Ott (Ida)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker,...
The most luxuriantly Viennese of all Fledermice, with Karajan and the Philharmonic at their most effervescent and a delectable Staatsoper cast, plus a gala of 1950s Decca stars including Björling,... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2022, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedErich Leinsdorf, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Ferruccio Mazzoli (bass vocal), Reri Grist (soprano), RCA Italiana Opera Chorus, Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Ezio Flagello (bass vocal), Robert Merrill (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano), Mario Basiola, Jr. (baritone), Fernando...
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Amelia), Carlo Bergonzi (Riccardo), Robert Merrill (Renato), Shirley Verrett (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), Mario Basiola Jnr (Silvano), Ezio Flagello (Samuele), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Tom)
RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
With Leontyne Price's regal Amelia, Carlo Bergonzi's fervent Riccardo, Robert Merrill's imposing Renato, and Reri Grist's button-cute Oscar, Erich Leinsdorf's 1966 Ballo with the RCA Italiana... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedVeriano Luchetti (tenor), José Van Dam (bass), Janet Baker (mezzo), Leontyne Price (soprano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus (chorus), Margaret Hillis (choral director)
Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 20th Awards (1977), Best Choral Performance
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