Bizet: Carmen (1978) more music like this

performed by Alicia Nafé (vocals), Geoffrey Pogson (vocals), George Main (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Ileana Cotrubas (vocals), Jean Lainé (vocals), Leslie Fyson (vocals), Plácido Domingo (vocals), Richard Amner (vocals), Robert Lloyd (vocals)
composed by Georges Bizet

Claudio Abbado's 1978 Carmen is an elegant, dramatically convincing reading of the Opéra-Comique version of Bizet's score, with spoken dialogue. There's no such thing as a perfect Carmen -- too many versions of the score, too many types of voices to sing the title role and opinions on which is best, and so on. But it would be hard to go wrong with ...

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Arthur Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore (1988) more music like this

performed by Christopher Gillett (vocals), Elizabeth Ritchie (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Janine Roebuck (vocals), Linda Ormiston (vocals), Nickolas Grace (vocals), Paul Parfitt (vocals), Paul Thomson (vocals), Thomas Lawlor (vocals)
composed by Arthur Sullivan

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The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan (1995) more music like this

performed by Bonaventura Bottone (vocals), David Fieldsend (vocals), Eric Idle (vocals), Felicity Palmer (vocals), Fenton Gray (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Jean Rigby (vocals), Lesley Echo Ross (vocals), Lesley Garrett (vocals), Linda Orniston (vocals)
composed by Arthur Sullivan

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Ruddigore (1993) more music like this

performed by David Hillman (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Joan Davies (vocals), John Ayldon (vocals), Linda Ormiston (vocals), Marilyn Hill Smith (vocals), Thomas Lawlor (vocals), Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra
composed by Arthur Sullivan

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Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore (1999) more music like this

performed by Christopher Gillett (vocals), Elizabeth Ritchie (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Janine Roebuck (vocals), Linda Ormiston (vocals), Nickolas Grace (vocals), Paul Parfitt (vocals), Paul Thomson (vocals), Thomas Lawlor (vocals)
composed by Arthur Sullivan

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Opera for Pleasure: Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier [Highlights] (1998) more music like this

performed by Anne Howells (vocals), Claire Livingstone (vocals), Derek Blackwell (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Helga Dernesch (vocals), Michael Langdon (vocals), Teresa Cahill (vocals), Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)
composed by Richard Strauss

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HMS Pinafore [That's Entertainment] (1995) more music like this

performed by Christopher Gillett (vocals), Elizabeth Ritchie (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Janine Roebuck (vocals), Linda Ormiston (vocals), Nickolas Grace (vocals), Paul Parfitt (vocals), Paul Thomson (vocals), Thomas Lawlor (vocals)
composed by Arthur Sullivan

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Marches and Dances more music like this

performed by Alicia Nafé (vocals), Geoffrey Pogson (vocals), Gordon Sandison (vocals), Gretchen Eder (vocals), Marianne Sattmann (vocals), Nicolai Ghiaurov (vocals), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Renate Hasler (vocals), Teresa Berganza (vocals), Ulrike Erfurt (vocals)
composed by Franz Schubert, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, Johann Strauss I, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Hindemith, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Sergey Prokofiev, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The sad thing about this 2008 Deutsche Grammophon disc is not the music, which is unfailingly bright and cheerful, nor the program, which is consistently surprising and delightful, nor the performances, which are unendingly smiling and life-affirming. The sad thing about this disc compiled and conducted by Claudio Abbado called Marce & Danze ...

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