Puccini - La fanciulla del West | Pentatone PTC5186243

Puccini - La fanciulla del West

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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5186243

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 23rd June 2017

Contents

Artists

Carol Neblett
Sherrill Milnes
Placido Domingo
Francis Egerton
Robert Lloyd
Jonathan Summers
John Dobson
Malcolm Rivers
Tom McDonnell
Paul Crook
Robin Leggate
William Elvin
Malcolm King
Paul Hudson
Anne Wilkens
Gwynne Howell
Eric Garrett
Handel Owen
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Works

Puccini, Giacomo

La fanciulla del West

Artists

Carol Neblett
Sherrill Milnes
Placido Domingo
Francis Egerton
Robert Lloyd
Jonathan Summers
John Dobson
Malcolm Rivers
Tom McDonnell
Paul Crook
Robin Leggate
William Elvin
Malcolm King
Paul Hudson
Anne Wilkens
Gwynne Howell
Eric Garrett
Handel Owen
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

About

This classic recording dating from 1977 is Gramophone magazine’s top choice for the opera and can now be enjoyed for the first time in full SACD hybrid multichannel sound. Puccini’s late opera La fanciulla del West bristles with drama and intrigue in this newly remastered classic recording with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House and starring Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes and Carol Neblett.

“Carol Neblett is a strong Minnie, vocally distinctive and well characterised, while Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes make a good pair of suitors …. Zubin Mehta conducts with real sympathy for the idiom” (Gramophone). And the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs (2003/4) enthused “Domingo sings heroically … but the crowning glory of a masterly set is the singing of Carol Neblett … Full atmospheric recording to match.”

Although recorded in multi-channel sound, these memorable performances have previously been available only in the conventional two-channel stereo format. Using state of the art technology which avoids the need for re-mixing, our engineers have remastered the original studio tapes to bring the performances to life as originally intended: in compelling and pristine multi-channel sound.

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