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Title: Questionable casting... PERIOD!!!
Review: Wow, it's not every day that you get to hear some of the worst casting ever in Puccini's most melodramatic opera. This is my favorite opera in the entire Puccini repertoire, and this recording is a flat-out embarrassment to the Maestro.I can't stand the Sacristan's incessant dips in everything he sings... IT'S ANNOYING! And Alagna, whom is my favorite Rodolfo in his recording of La Boheme (which he also did with Gheorghiu), is using way too much shaky vibrato in "Recondita armonia." It seriously makes me dizzy, like I'm in a boat caught in a torrent on the high seas of the Atlantic!!! He's just plain silly about it! I think he just likes hearing himself.Not much can be said for this most unremarkable of recordings... this is a huge black eye on the part of EMI, and I'm more than happy to bring it to everyone's attention before they make the mistake of buying it.
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