MAZZARIA/SUMMERS/SENN/MALAGN
LA BOHEME
NUO-Nuova Era
Allegro Price: $22.37

Featured Artists
Lucia Mazzaria/Jonathan Summers/Martha Senn/Mario Malagnini/Bruno Praticò/ Silvano Pagliuca/Pietro Spagnoli/Romano Emili/Orchestra e Coro del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia/Jan Latham Koenig: conductor

The lesser-known version of La bohème, which was unfairly eclipsed by Puccini’s hugely successful version. The score features interweaving scenes of charming, light music and more aggressive ariosi.

LEONCAVALLO: La bohème (complete opera)

Featured Artists
Eva Kirchner/Dongkyu Choy/Thomas Müller de Vries/René Clemencic: conductor

One of the very few versions of this opera, conducted by the legendary René Clemencic.


ROUSSEAU: Le Devin du Village (complete opera)

Featured Artists
Beniamino Gigli: tenor
Erna Berger: soprano

A collector’s edition! This two-DVD set includes both the German and italian versions of Ave Maria. each has english subtitles and two PCM audio tracks. One track is the original, the other is restored. Booklet includes a biography of Erna Berger as well as a feast of rare photos of Beniamino Gigli. Region 0 (playable in all regions). Approx run time: 154 min.

Selections from La boheme, La traviata • Various songs by ernesto De Curtis and Alois Melichar

Featured Artists
Plácido Domingo, Magda Olivero: vocal soloists
Orchestra & Chorus of Arena di Verona
Nello Santi: conductor

Perhaps the greatest May-December match-up in opera recording, this thrilling live performance of Manon Lescaut stars tenor Plácido Domingo near the beginning of his career, in the youthful prime of his voice, and legendary soprano Magda Olivero (“The Queen of Verismo”) in her 60th year as the young Manon. Live performance, 1970.

“The kind of fanatic enthusiasm Olivero came to inspire can be heard on this recording, as can the justification for it. One of the luckiest things that ever happened to post-war Italian opera was the coaxing out of self-imposed retirement of the forty year old Magda Olivero in January of 1951. The legacy of recorded roles and concerts she has left is a treasure, and this Manon Lescaut one of its most brilliant jewels.” — Ira Siff

PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut (complete opera)