Title: Younger Scotto Better
Product review: If you want Scotto as Butterfly, then purchase her earlier EMI set with Barbarolli. Her voice was fresher, her Pinkerton (Bergonzi) more luminous, her Sharpless (Panerai) the finest on any set, and her conductor (Barbarolli) more lyrical and sensitive. In this set Scotto's voice has lost much of her velvet and she compensates by adding annoyingly artificial "touches" to her interpretation. Domingo sounds fine, but delivers a rather faceless interpretation (he could be singing Don Jose for all I can tell). Wixell is intelligent, but gritty. Maazel is simply dull. Besides, the EMI is less expensive and more lovingly recorded. Why settle for second best? Purchase the Barbarolli.
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