L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2. Come sen va contneto!
L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2. Una furtiva lagrima
L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2. Prendi; per me sei libero
L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2. Alto! Fronte!
L'elisir d'amore, opera: Act 2. Ei corregge ogni difetto
Track Listings (17) - Disc #7
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Prelude
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Dell'invito trascorsa è già l'ora?
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Libiamo ne'lieti calici
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Che è ciò?
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Oh, qual pallor!
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Un dì, felice, eterea
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Ebben? Che diavol fate?
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Si ridesta in ciel l'aurora
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. È strano!... Ah, fors'è lui
La Traviata, opera: Act 1. Follie! Follie!... Sempre libera
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Lunge da lei... De' miei bollenti spiriti
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Anima, donde vieni?
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Alfredo?... Per Parigi or or partiva
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Madamigella Valery?
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Pura siccome un angelo
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Ah, dite alla giovine
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Imponete... Morro! La mia memoria
Track Listings (19) - Disc #8
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Dammi tu forza, o cielo!
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Che fai?
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Ah, vive sol quel core
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Di Provenza il mar, il suol
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Né rispondi d'un padre all'affetto?
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Avrem lieta di maschere la notte
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Di Madride no siam mattadori
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Alfredo! Voi!
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Invitato a qui seguirmi
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Ogni suo aver tal femmina
La Traviata, opera: Act 2. Di sprezzo degno
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Prelude
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Annina?... Comandate?
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. 'Teneste la promessa...' Addio del passato
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Largo al quadrupede
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Parigi, o cara
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Ah, no più!... Gran Dio! Morir sì giovine
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Ah Violetta!... Voi, signor!
La Traviata, opera: Act 3. Prendi, quest'è l'immagine
Track Listings (16) - Disc #9
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Prelude
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Holà! Hé! Monsieur l'Hôtelier?
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. C'est bien ici
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Eh! j'imagine que cette belle enfant
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Je suis encor tout étourdie
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Partez! On sonne!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Regardez-mois bien... Ne bronchez pas
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Restons ici... Combien ces femmes sont jollies!...
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. J'ai marqueé l'heure du départ
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 1. Ah! parlez-moi!... Nous vivrons à Paris
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Manon!... On l'appelle Manon
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Enfin, les amoureux
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. C'est parfait!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Allons! Il le faut!... Adieu, notre petite table
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Enfin, Manon... Instant charmant... En fermant les yeux
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 2. Oh! Ciel! déjà!
Track Listings (15) - Disc #10
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Quelle éloquence!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. C'est lui!... Bravo, mon cher...
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Je suis seul!... Ah! fuyez, douce image
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Monsieur, je veux parler à l'Abbé...
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. Toi! Vous!... Oui, c'est moi!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 3. N'est-ce plus ma main
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Faites vos jeux, Messieurs!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. De ton coeur, Des Grieux
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Un mot, s'il vous plait, chevalier!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Obeisons quand leur voix appelle
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Permettez-moi de jour sur parôle
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Oui, je viens l'arracher à la honte
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Manon! Pauvre Manon!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Ah! Des Grieux!
Manon, opera in 5 acts: Act 4. Oui, je puis encore être heureuse
Track Listings (12) - Disc #11
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Questo Mar Rosso
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Legna! Sigari! Bordò!
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Si può?
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Non sono in vena
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Che gelida manina!
La bohème, opera: Act 1. Sì, mi chiamano Mimì
La bohème, opera: Act 1. O soave fanciulla
La bohème, opera: Act 2. Aranci, datteri!
La bohème, opera: Act 2. Ecco i giocattoli di Parpignol!
La bohème, opera: Act 2. Ch'io beva del tossico
La bohème, opera: Act 2. Quando m'en vo'
La bohème, opera: Act 2. Caro! Fuori il danato!
Track Listings (13) - Disc #12
La bohème, opera: Act 3. Ohè, là, le guardie!
La bohème, opera: Act 3. Sa dirmi, scusi, qual è l'osteria
La bohème, opera: Act 3. O buon Marcello, aiuto!
La bohème, opera: Act 3. Marcello. Finalmente!
La bohème, opera: Act 3. Mimì è tanto malata!
La bohème, opera: Act 3. D'onde lieta uscì
La bohème, opera: Act 3. Dunque è proprio finita?
La bohème, opera: Act 4. In un coupé?
La bohème, opera: Act 4. Che ora sia?
La bohème, opera: Act 4. Musetta!
La bohème, opera: Act 4. Vecchia zimarra
La bohème, opera: Act 4. Sono andati? Fingevo di dormire
La bohème, opera: Act 4. Dorme? Riposa
Track Listings (14) - Disc #13
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Questo azzurro sofà
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Il giorno intorno già s'insera lentamente
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Per stasera pazienza!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Passiamo la sera allegramente!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Signor Chenier?
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Colpito qui m'avete... Un dì all'azzurro spazio
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 1. Perdonatemi!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Per l'ex inferno!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Roucher!... Credo a una possanza aracana
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Calligrafia invero femminil!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Eccole! Strani tempi!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Ecco l'altare
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Eravate possente... Ora soave, sublime ora
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 2. Maddalena di Coigny!... Gérard!
Track Listings (13) - Disc #14
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Dumouriez, traditore
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Lacrime e sangue dà la Francia!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Son la vecchia Madelon
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. L'uccello è nella rete!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Nemico della patria?
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Or io rinnego il santo grido!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. La mamma morta
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Corpo di moribonda è il corpo mio!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Andrea Chenier!... Si, fui soldato
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 3. Udiamo i testimoi!
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 4. Cittadino... Come un bel dì di maggio
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 4. Viene a costei concesso
Andrea Chénier, opera: Act 4. Benedico il destino... Vicino a te s'aqueta
Seven complete operas from the romantic repertoire - great live opera recordings at budget price in one space-saving set!Exciting live recordings taped 1967-1973 of the greatest love stories ever celebrated in song.Donizet... more »ti's L'elisir d'amore is a funny, tender, and utterly lovable love story.
La bohème, a tale of desperate young love, is the favorite of all Puccini's opera.
Gluck's elegant Orfeo ed Euridice is the oldest opera love story, and is still popular today.
Manon is the most famous and popular of the many operas by Jules Massenet, who in the late 19th century was the most successful of the French opera composers.
Based on one of the greatest love novels - Camille by Alexander Dumas, Jr. - Verdi's La traviata is his most beloved opera out opf twenty-eight!
Andrea Chenier, a love story of the French Revolution, is the best-known opera of Umberto Giordano.
Beethoven's Fidelio is perhaps the most famous opera about marital fidelity.« less
Seven complete operas from the romantic repertoire - great live opera recordings at budget price in one space-saving set!Exciting live recordings taped 1967-1973 of the greatest love stories ever celebrated in song.Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore is a funny, tender, and utterly lovable love story.
La bohème, a tale of desperate young love, is the favorite of all Puccini's opera.
Gluck's elegant Orfeo ed Euridice is the oldest opera love story, and is still popular today.
Manon is the most famous and popular of the many operas by Jules Massenet, who in the late 19th century was the most successful of the French opera composers.
Based on one of the greatest love novels - Camille by Alexander Dumas, Jr. - Verdi's La traviata is his most beloved opera out opf twenty-eight!
Andrea Chenier, a love story of the French Revolution, is the best-known opera of Umberto Giordano.
Beethoven's Fidelio is perhaps the most famous opera about marital fidelity.
CD Reviews
Not quite as attractive as it looks - but there are still ge
Ralph Moore | Bishop's Stortford, UK | 05/11/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"It would be churlish to complain about a box set of 14 discs which offers seven complete operas so cheaply and there are indeed some lovely performances to be heard here, but I would offer a few warnings. First, this being Allegro, aka Opera d'Oro, masquerading as "Bravissimo", documentation is fairly minimal - but you do get a brief "60 second overview" synopsis for each opera and an introductory essay by the knowledgeable and long-suffering Bill Parker to introduce and contextualise both the composers and the operas in question, plus some nice photos and track listings - so it could be worse. The recordings themselves are drawn from live performances from the 60's and 70's, in mostly bearable sound. The exception is, rather off-puttingly, the first opera, "Orfeo ed Euridice", which is in dim, indeed execrable, sound. You might as well throw it in the trash and buy the cheap, classic studio set conducted by Fasano to hear Shirley Verrett in finest form. Otherwise, your response to the remaining six will mostly depend on your reaction to the starry voices featured here. I do not care for Renata Scotto's acidic, screechy tone and for me she spoils both "L'Elisir d'amore" and "La Traviata", although many will disagree with me and Carreras is in finest youthful voice in the latter; one of his finest performances. Nor is Bergonzi, for all that I usually admire him, particularly apt as Nemorino; amazingly, for an artist whose trademark was always elegance, he overacts and disturbs the cantilena line too often with too many emotive gulps and emphases - and Taddei is in simply awful voice for the preening Belcore: rocky, dry and laboured, and non-existent low notes. My favourite performances here are the famous, barnstorming Vienna production of "Andrea Chenier" with the stunning trio of Corelli, Tebaldi and Bastianini, and the lovely 1969 "La Boheme" with a youthful Freni and Pavarotti, plus a wise Marcello from the veteran Bruscantini. It has to be said, however, that some of the comprimario roles in the "Chenier" are sung by wobbly, worn Vienna regulars and if you already own the Karajan studio recording of "La Boheme" you might not feel that you need the live version here. Freni and Pavarotti also star, with Panerai, in an Italian version of "Manon", a set excoriated by the purists who cannot abide Massenet in anything other than French, but admired by those of us who want to hear two beautiful voices give an Italian flavour to an essentially Gallic opera. Finally, the "Fidelio" is worth hearing for Franz Crass as Rocco and James King as Florestan, but the latter is not as fine as Vickers and Christa Ludwig can be heard to greater advantage in the classic Klemperer set. Most of these operas are reviewed separately in more detail elsewhere under their Opera d'Oro edition titles but many reviewers are rather more enthusiastic about these live performances than I can be. Having said that, at this price some might feel that it is worth acquiring this box set just to hear Corelli and Tebaldi rock the rafters in the "Chenier" and catch the legendary duo of Freni and Pavarotti at their peak."