Mozart, Le Nozzi Di Figaro, Solti: Honoring RBG, One of Her Favorites

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- Sir Georg Solti - Overture - Le Nozze Di Figaro, 1980.
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- 'My Favorite Records: Ruth Bader Ginsberg,' The New Yorker, 2012
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-favorite-records-ruth-bader-ginsburg

Verdi, “Aida”; Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Leonard Warren, Fedora Barbieri, Boris Christoff, Jonel Perlea conducting the Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus (RCA).

Verdi, “Otello”; Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Sherrill Milnes, James Levine conducting the National Philharmonic and Ambrosian Opera Chorus (RCA).

Dvořák, “Rusalka”; Renée Fleming, Ben Heppner, Dolora Zajick, Franz Hawlata, Charles Mackerras conducting the Czech Philharmonic and Kühn Mixed Choir (Decca).

Handel, “Julius Caesar”; Norman Treigle, Beverly Sills, Maureen Forrester, Beverly Wolff, Julius Rudel conducting the New York City Opera Orchestra and Chorus (RCA).

Justice Ginsburg comments: “Listened to LP recording many times. Production was Julius Rudel’s triumph, opened in the State Theatre the year the Met moved to Lincoln Center. Met opened with the not at all triumphant production of Barber’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra.’ Next, my two best-loved operas.”

Mozart, “Don Giovanni”; Cesare Siepi, Fernando Corena, Suzanne Danco, Lisa Della Casa, Anton Dermota, Hilde Gueden, Walter Berry, Kurt Böhme, Josef Krips conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus (Decca).

Mozart, “The Marriage of Figaro”; Samuel Ramey, Lucia Popp, Thomas Allen, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Kurt Moll, Robert Tear, Georg Solti conducting the London Philharmonic and London Opera Chorus (Decca)...

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1. I love Don Giovanni too.

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2. Same, Mozart is incredible.

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3. The film Amadeus got me hooked.

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4. Ditto, wonderful film too. I've re-watched those

music scenes on YouTube recently, what a delight.

I know about the truer story of Salieri and M., read about M.'s travels as a young prodigy thru Europe with his family, all over, during a winter plague, for a year and a half or more, etc. Amazing.