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Rigoletto & Lucia di Lammermoor

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In Reply to: RE: Best way into Maria Callas box set? posted by graciouslee on June 28, 2009 at 08:41:44

Tosca is her most famous recording, but two other superb operas in that set are Verdi's Rigoletto and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Both include two stupendous singers whom Callas often recorded with: baritone Tito Gobbi and tenor Giuseppi di Stefano.

I particularly recommend Rigoletto as an introduction to Verdi, the greatest of all Italian opera composers. If you develop a taste for Verdi, I suggest you explore Leontyne Price's recordings on RCA.

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Rigoletto - jazz1 01:44:55 06/29/09 (0)
As a start I would strongly recomend Rigoletto, so many beautiful arias
and the icing on the cake is De Steffano and Gobbi.
De nSteffano is still my favorite tenor.

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