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Title: Not exactly....
Review: As much as I love all these artists but this recording is overblown and not idiomatic at all. I love Nilsson as Turandot, Isolde, Brünnhilde and in several Strauss-operas but I don't like her Tosca which is not idiomatic, too loud and too Brünnhilde-like. It's not bad, mind you, but it's far from ideal. Listen to the prayer where gentleness is demanded... There she sounds like Isolde too... And Fischer Dieskau is completely miscast as Scarpia. Wrong sound, wrong style and bad Italian... Go for his Lieder-Recordings to see why he was great. Corelli is on fire as Cavaradossi but I prefer to hear him with Tebaldi and Callas. (Both live from the Met) So, not a bad recording, but not essential. Go for the de Sabata recording with Callas or de Karajan recording with Price instead.
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