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2.0 out of 5 stars
Amateur Hour, August 28, 2007
This review is from: The Ultimate Highlights from the Opera (Audio CD)
"The Ultimate Highlights of the Opera," sounds more like Amateur Hour. They're Balkan singers, primarily, from the Ljubljana, Slovenia area, and they're almost all second rate. These are brand new productions, stereo and modern; the wave of the future, since classical albums can no longer be produced economically "in the west," except for certain superstars - of which these are definitely not. Among the included bombs, they slipped one old monophonic recording of Aureliano Pertile singing "Una furtive lagrima." What a pleasure to hear a real opera singer among all these "others." Except for the Pertile piece, I won't add any of these to my library. I will simply place the disk on a shelf somewhere and play it from time to time, to remind me of what record buyers are in for from now on.
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