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Tacky album cover. Cover it up.
Agree with Patricia. Tiresome male gaze. Get over it.
Böhm is supreme. His cast too.
“Cosi” is a rarity, an ensemble opera, with the six principal singers combining and re-combining into duets, trios, quartets, and sextets, with a stellar aria or two. I don’t remembr a quintet in it.
It’s the only un-Balkan opera with two Albanians, even if they are pretenders. Karajan’s earlier recording with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and others is elegant, Boem’s also. Eleanor Steber made a second career with the big aria and some help from Bruno Walter.