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If you're only going to hear one recording of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito, it simply MUST be this 1979 recording by Karl Böhm leading the Staatskapelle Dresden. Böhm's unique combination of the dramatic with the lyric and the human with the sublime made him the leading Austrian MOZART conductor of the postwar period and his recordings of the great operas have become the standard by which all subsequent recordings are measured. An All-Star German cast with the heroic Peter Schreier in the title role, along with steely toned Julia Varady, the sweet-toned Edith Mathis, the stentorian-toned Theo Adam, and the sensuously toned Teresa Berganza, Böhm has a Superlative cast and with the marvelously musical Staatskapelle Dresden, he has a sumptuous orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon's sound remains unrivaled for clarity, lucidity, and immediacy. While La Clemenza di Tito may not be Mozart's greatest Italian opera, it Certainly SHOULD be heard by you with the great Karl Bohm "The Old Man" directing this masterful recording. It stands far above ALL other recordings of this opera! Enjoy! (btw, it is soon to go out of print, so you need to move fast to get a copy before it is banished to the vaults for probably many years! operabruinRead full review