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 enlarge | Creators: Gaetano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Alberto Carusi, Augusto Veronese, Bruno Sebastian, Giovanni Antonini, Giuseppe Taddei, Leyla Gencer, Mirna Pecile, Nicola Zaccaria [singer], Rina Pallini, Umberto Grilli
Label: Opera D'oro
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 82076
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 723723846624
EAN: 0723723846624
ASIN: B00004TVBX
Release Date: July 18, 2000
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 Terribly Disappointing September 7, 2000
John Cragg (Delta(greater Vancouver), B.C Canada)
8 out of 16 found this review helpful
The quality of the sound recording in this CD is so bad that it is not worth having. Distortion -- often rendering the music horrible - is the feature of most of the opera. Only occasionally are the singers properly on mike, and most of the orchestra sounds awful. Indeed, the only aspect that is recorded with any fidelity is the audience noise, and quite often this interrupts and even drowns out the music.pCompounding these problems is a booklet that is a disgrace. It contains a not very informative essay and poor synopsis by Bill Parker, the latter not related in any way to the recording. It also contains a track list that only gives the first few words of what is sung -- no indication of who is singing it. There is no libretto and even knowing Italian would be of little help since the distortion is so bad that most of the words cannot be deciphered.pThis is a pity, since the work has a first class conductor and some first class singers -- who on the few occasions when the sound is fairly clear do do some lovely work. But the overall production is so bad that it is better simply to avoid this recording. (I have not heard the alternative version from La Fenice which a search on Amazon.com turned up -- maybe it is OK. That recording seems to have the same cast, but a different conductor is listed-- and there are no excerpts on the basis of which one might judge it.
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