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| | Amazon.com: Jenufa: Complete Opera: Music: Karita Mattila,Jerry Hadley,Jorma Silvasti,Anja Silja,Bernard Haitink,Chorus ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Jorma Silvasti is a fine Laca, filled with both remorse and love, singing with a beautiful lyric tenor. |
 | | The highlights of this new set are many, not least Anja Silja's return to the role of the Kostelnicka, Karita Mattila's first appearance in the title-role in Britain, and the outstanding Laca of Jorma Silvasti. |
 | | His drunkenness in Act One is perhaps a little too vulgar and his voice does show strain in his forgiveness scene with Mattila (Disc 1, Track 7, 5:20) giving little indication of his previous achievements, both on disc (particular in Weill's Street Scene and The Rake's Progress) and in the theatre. |
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