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Metropolitan Opera stars Patrice Munsel and Robert Merrill bring their sumptuous voices to the roles of Julie Jordan and Billy Bigelow plus a cast that includes the future “Mrs. Brady,” Florence Henderson, Tony-winner George S. Irving, Gloria Lane and Herbert Banke. Legendary Broadway maestro Lehman Engel conducts this recording, of which Richard Rodgers wrote, “It is my hope that you will enjoy the splendid artists who have made this album as much as I enjoy them.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46015546917098,"sku":"886979128927","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3895339.jpg?v=1778279653"},{"product_id":"bizet-carmen-wd-31","title":"Bizet: Carmen, WD 31","description":"Classical Music","brand":"Urania Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46025618030826,"sku":"8051776571746","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/2420659.jpg?v=1778305268"},{"product_id":"music-for-opera-lovers","title":"Music for Opera Lovers","description":"Music for Opera Lovers","brand":"Gift of Music","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46026344628458,"sku":"658592124422","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/3633444-3187539.jpg?v=1778252757"},{"product_id":"mascagni-cavalleria-rusticana-cellini-milanov-bjoerling-259651","title":"Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana \/ Cellini, Milanov, Bjoerling","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is verismo singing on the grandest, most authentic scale.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Milanov may sound a trifle mature for Santuzza, but who today, or in any day, fills Mascagni's grateful phrases with quite such full, lustrous tone and with such a wealth of feeling for the text? This is verismo singing on the grandest, most authentic scale and very welcome back to the catalogue as such. Björling may be a trifle too gentlemanly for Turiddu, as is Bergonzi on the Karajan version (DG), but better that than too much overt passion perhaps and—like his soprano—his singing is an exemplar of the spinto style at its best, with much fine shading of the tone and an inward feeling for the part. As Alfio, Merrill turns in one of his most considerable performances on disc. Indeed these three non-Italians prove the exception to the rule that Italians are essential in Italian repertory, but then all three were brought up in a stricter school than that pertaining today.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Cellini's conducting is no more than adequate. The recording is very restricted in range and unatmospheric in sound. For a fuller, more sonorous account of the score, in stereo, the Karajan is hard to equal, but his spacious version is twinned with Pag. 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