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Title: Invaluable bonus tracks
Review: Maybe not the best Cellini but it works better in live performance -- there arecuts so there is about an hour left on the last CD -- and this is worth many timesthe price of the set. Did you ever want to hear Les Nuits d'Ete sung by a tenor-- it is after all a man's cycle -- Gedda is terrific and compares well with the morefamous ladies (steber, baker, crespin) whose cycles are considered definitive.Sixten Ehrling supplies excellent support. Then there are some other French arias that have never been sung as well -- one from Castor et Pollux, another fromRichard Coeur de Lion, and the sleep aria from La Muette de Portici -- Gedda is inmuch better voice than when he recorded the complete opera, maybe ten years later.So a must for lovers of French opera and song -- no texts but you hardly need them--gedda's pronunciation is near perfect.
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