Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights)

Philip Maero (Performer), Robert Merrill (Performer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Erich Leinsdorf (Conductor), Rome Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), Anna Moffo (Performer), Marie Costa (Performer), Richard Tucker (Performer), Adelio Zagonara (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Philip Maero, Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo, Marie Costa, Richard Tucker, et al.
• Orchestra: Rome Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Audio CD (June 26, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003EVX
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #551,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Deceptively advertised, December 5, 2003

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Charles R. Bender "easytimes" (Jacksonville, N.C. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini: La Boheme (Highlights) (Audio CD)

I don't look for give-aways, but this seemed like a very good deal, like others I have gotten from Amazon. I have purchased several items from Amazon for half price, and it looked as if this was another of those opportunities.

The CD label looks the same, without the ability to enlarge it from the web page. I thought I was buying the full opera... and I will take the hit on it, but I this is not the complete La Boheme with Leinsdorf, Tucker, Moffo, and the rest.

The label is almost exactly the same as the complete opera in the same "RCA Goldseal" series, except for the small text box that says "highlights". I may have missed something on the web page, but I sat on the phone with my sister, for thirty minutes, looking between Amazon and another music site and couldn't pick out that this was the highlight CD and the other was the full opera, except the price. She thought it was the full opera, as well.

I guess the lesson is, don't buy it if you can't tell for sure exactly what it is. This one isn't clearly advertised and it shakes my faith in Amazon a little to say that. I have bought a lot from them and been very happy... but this one, got over on me, and I will eat the cost, because I have already opened it, but I won't trust them so easily, from here on. Just a minor reclassification of an online retailer.