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TURANDOT
By Giacomo Puccini
VIDEO: $29.99; LCV [Legato] 011: Birgit
Nilsson, Cecchele, Georges Pretre conducting, 1969; B & W; Seeing
Birgit Nilsson in action in possibly her finest role is a treat;
unfortunately, Nilsson's colleagues here are strictly average.
[G.R.]
AUDIO: A) EMI: Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli,
Renata Scotto; Molinari-Pradelli conducting (1965); Stereo
B) ARKADIA & FONIT CETRA & PHONOGRAPHE: Gina Cigna,
Francesco Merli, Magda Olivero, Ghione conducting (1937); fair
Mono
C-1) DECCA/LONDON: Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Renata
Tebldi, Erede conducting (1955); Stereo
C-2) EMI: Maria Callas, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, Serafin conducting (1957); Mono
C-3) RCA: Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Bjoerling, Renata Tebaldi,
Leinsdorf conducting (1959); Stereo
C-4) DECCA/LONDON: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti,
Montserrat Caballe, Mehta conducting (1972); Stereo
D) LR (highlights only and not available on CD): Eva
Turner, Giovanni Martinelli, Licia Albanese, Barbirolli conducting
("live," Covent Garden, 1937); Mono
For Further Reading:
A most interesting discussion of the aria Nessun
Dorma and, by extension, the whole of TURANDOT
can be found at Mark
D. Lew's Nessun Dorma Page, based on several postings about
the aria on the rec.music.opera
newsgroup.
Puccini's
Turandot : The End of the Great Tradition (Princeton Studies in
Opera), by William Ashbrook, Harold Powers
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