Opis
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 boheme, a tale of desperate young love, is the favorite of all Puccini’s operas. 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 of twenty-eight. Andrea Chenier, a love story of the French Revolution, is the best-known opera of Umberto Giordano.