Need a Female Opera Recommendation (1 Viewer)

[Andrew W]

I'm looking for something equivalent to Andrea Bocelli's Sentimento. It's a collection of songs, not an entire opera. SACD or very good quality CD preferred.

 

[Angelo.M]

This isn't what you want, but I'm recommending it anyway.

Puccini's Turandot, with Joan Sutherland in the title role, and with (a young) Luciano Pavarotti, conducted by Zubin Mehta (Polygram #414274). Recorded in the '70s and still the finest performance and recording of this opera I've heard. Sutherland is amazing.

 

[Seth--L]

Bocelli...

Try these:

Richard Strauss:
Four Last Songs/12 Orchestral Songs
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/George Szell



and

Mahler & Zemlinsky: Orchestral Songs
Anne-Sofie von Otter/John Eliot Gardiner/NDR-Sinfonieorchester