A new studio opera recording from EMI

[jhar26]

I used to have the second Freni recording (DG, Sinopoli) and despite an overparted Carreras, it remains the most enthralling, sheerly emotional recreation of the score I have heard.

I'm glad you mention that one because nobody else ever does and it's a big fave of mine. I also have the Tebaldi/Bergonzi and the Callas/Karajan recordings and love both. I would love it if there was a good DVD. I don't mean a movie but a live performance. There's one with Anna Moffo from 1956, but it's pretty expensive and in all likelihood technically limited (black & white, mono, etc...). Does anyone know if Scotto's Butterfly was ever filmed?

[Superhorn]

   I recently took a look at the EMI website, and there is also a new"LElisir D'Amore" studio recording coming out with Gheorghiu and I beleive Alagna soon.

[Tsaraslondon]

   I recently took a look at the EMI website, and there is also a new"LElisir D'Amore" studio recording coming out with Gheorghiu and I beleive Alagna soon.

Isn't there already a Decca recording with Gheorghiu and Alagaga? On DVD too if memory serves me rightly.

[Wendell_E]

Isn't there already a Decca recording with Gheorghiu and Alagaga? On DVD too if memory serves me rightly.

Yes, I've got it on DVD. 

I looked around the EMI website, and did find a new recording of Elisir, but it's a Virgin recording, with Rolando Villazón and Maria Bayo in the leads.  It may be a live recording, since the same performers did it at the Liceu in 2005.  Since the stage director, Mario Gas, is listed, I'm thinking it's probably a DVD:

http://www.emiclassics.com/releasedetails.php?rid=48396