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Met Stars Sing Puccini. (Historical).(Review)
Met Stars Sing Puccini
[] Arias and scenes. Texts and translations. Met 242
Pity the poor souls who put together the Met Stars Sing Puccini compilation. Limited to selections from the BMG and EMI catalogues, they were unable to include performances by Luciano Pavarotti, excerpts from Renata Tebaldi's finest recordings, Carlo Bergonzi's peerless "Che gelida manina" (from Tullio Serafin's 1958 Boheme) or highlights from Zubin Mehta's incandescent Turandot -- just for starters. And let's be honest: even without this disadvantage, their choices would have been picked apart mercilessly by hard-core fans, for whom Armageddon is of less consequence than settling on the best version of "Nessun dorma."
In any event, this generous (nearly four-hour) program has something to please all but the most persnickety Puccini-lovers. It includes a number of the "usual suspects": Leontyne Price's legendary "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta," testing the limits of beauty that can be borne by the human ear, and her lustrous "Vissi d'arte," both from the 1961 "blue album"; Claudia Muzio's heart-rending "Donde lieta usci" (can any other Mimi sing so magnificently while managing to sound chilled to the bone?); and the classic, agonistic encounter between Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli in Turandot's riddle scene.
Some of the less obvious ...
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