Montserrat Caballé

Spain’s famous opera stars Carreras and Caballé, who are professional colleagues and friends in real life, are an irresistible pairing at the head of a wonderful cast in this La Scala production, recorded live in Milan in 1975. Renato Bruso

Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) wrote three operas based on the lives of English Queens: Anna Bolena (1830), Maria Stuarda (1834), and Roberto Devereux (1837). None of them stick very close to history; each is treated in such a way as to heig

1967 live recording from Italy of this early Bellini opera, starring the immortal Montserrat Caballé in the heyday of her magnificent voice. The baritone and tenor are also major artists of that era.

The Lady of the Lake, based on the narrative poem by Sir Walter Scott, has been one of the most successful of Rossini’s “serious” operas to be revived in recent years. Overflowing with thrilling melodies and exciting ensembles, it gets a st

“Bruno Prevedi … sings ardently, is stylistically right, has all the notes, and makes a good bandito. Peter Glossop [is] … a superb Carlo, dignified and noble … Boris Christoff is his usual cavernous self as the villainous Silva, and to say

Little known today, mainly because almost no sopranos other than Mme. Caballé can sing it, Gemma di Vergy was for some years in the 19th century the most popular opera by Donizetti, produced more often than Lucia, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'a