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by La Cieca | 1:24 pm | Sep 30, 2008

Those of you cher public who ordered and enjoyed Decca’s bargain Wagner box may now be interested in a bargain Puccini edition offered by EMI.

The set, Puccini: The Operas, retails for $59.98 (less than four bucks a disc) and includes complete performances of:Â

Manon Lescaut (Montserrat Caballe, Placido Domingo, New Philharmonia, Bruno Bartoletti)
La boheme (Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Rome Opera Orchestra, Thomas Schippers)
Tosca (Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Georges Pretre)
Madama Butterfly (Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Bjorling, Rome Opera Orchestra, Gabriele Santini)
La fanciulla del West (Birgit Nilsson, Joao Gibin, La Scala Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic)
La rondine (Robert Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano)
Il tabarro (Neil Shicoff, Maria Guleghina, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano)
Suor Angelica (Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano)
Gianni Schicchi (Tito Gobbi, Victoria de los Angeles, Rome Opera Orchestra, Gabriele Santini)
Turandot (Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Rome Opera Orchestra, Francesco Molinari Pradelli)

La Cieca says:
armerjacquino: In reference to the “low G” in the Salieri, La Cieca has received an email from someone very familiar with that recording, who retorts:
“LOW G???? pffffffft!!! Twas a LOW D!!!!”
on October 10, 2008 at 10:05 AM

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