LoginStar Crossed Lovers / Domingo, Fleming, Barenboim, Chicago SO
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Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers; Shakespeare coined the phrase in his tragedy about their young love and tragic death. But the expression can be applied to doomed couples of all kinds: Faust and Marguerite, Othello and Desdemona, and of course Tony and Maria in West Side Story, which updates Romeo and Juliet to modern New York. This recording, taped at a gala concert in Chicago in 1998 and videotaped for a telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, presents music about doomed love composed by Leonard Bernstein, Charles Gounod, Franz Lehar, Duke Ellington, and others, including several Spanish songs tha
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Manufacturer: Decca
Release date: 2 February 1999
EAN: 0028946079324 UPC: 028946079324
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Release date: 2 February 1999
EAN: 0028946079324 UPC: 028946079324
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