Title: Top rate cast but one of the worst opera recordings ever
Review: Cast is great with Gedda sailing all over the place with high D's. Recording is horrible with what sounds live severe reverb and done far away from the stage. Recording sounds like the Act 1 duet in Boheme where the soprano and tenor turn their backs during the recording to get the effect of being very distant. By third cd I threw the whole set out the car window. Buy the Opera d'oro set or the Pavarotti. The best set is the old Cetra set which has been rereleased on a reissue label with Filippeschi or the other one with Gianni Raimondi. The Filippeschi is about 1952 but is even far superior to the Pavarotti version where Pavarotti is out of his element. It is too bad as this label usually has top rate casts and recording. This is a clunker of the first order. This is one of those operas which require a first rate cast due to the technical demands. Dr Thomas O'Shaughnessy
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