Since you are interested in Great Singers Live: Mirella Freni (recorded 1971-83), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: VERDI: Requiem (coupled with Bruckner's te Deum) Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Carlo Cossutta, Nicolai Ghiaurov / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2000 ] "If you are an adherent of Karajan's Verdi, you will certainly enjoy this performance. It has all the characteristics of measured tempos and forceful attack that one expects from him...Ludwig is satisfying in every way." Gramophone |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (the complete opera staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle) Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig / The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 19/Apr/2005 ] "Magical in its evocation of Puccini's most atmospheric score...Freni [is] as tenderly appealing to see as to hear...[Domingo sings] with similar fervour, responding to the inspired stage direction of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle to make this cad of... |
FLOTOW / GOUNOD / MEYERBEER / BOITO / MASCAGNI / GIORDANO / BOITO / PONCHIELLI
Arias from operas Vol 2 Luciano Pavarotti, tenor, with Agnes Baltsa, Sherrill Milnes and Mirella Freni [ Decca Records / CD - released 26/Oct/2001 ] celebrationing the 40th year of Pavarotti's career |
PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera) Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Teresa Berganza, Philharmonia, Sinopoli [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD - released 11/Nov/2000 ] *** Three Star Recording. Penguin Stereo Guide |
PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Highlights) Mirella Freni / Luciano Pavarotti / Vienna Philharmonic / Pavarotti [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Highlights from this most loved Opera. *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera) Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson / Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / 2 CD - released 1/May/2007 ] "The sound is consistently spacious and free to bring out the strongly dramatic and characterful qualities of Sinopoli's reading" - Gramophone |
VERDI / JOHAN STRAUSS
Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991: 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center [2 DVDs] The Metropolitan Opera with Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Cheryl Studer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Daniels, and many others [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/May/2010 ] G - Thrill to "hours and hours of glorious opera...A triumphant celebration of virtuosity (Toronto Globe and Mail) as New York's legendary opera company celebrates its first quarter century at Lincoln Center with "one of the most exquisitely refined... |