WISHLIST opera
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See also Opera Composers.
Beethoven: Fidelio (vinyl: Nilsson, McCracken, Maazel)
from Greenberg's How to Listen to and Understand Opera:
?Monteverdi: Orfeo
?Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila
?Strauss: Capricio (see Met on Demand comments)
See also Opera Composers.
Beethoven: Fidelio (vinyl: Nilsson, McCracken, Maazel)
from Greenberg's How to Listen to and Understand Opera:
?Monteverdi: Orfeo
?Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz
Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila
?Strauss: Capricio (see Met on Demand comments)
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