Rating : - Simply a great artist!
No doubt the most versatile tenor between Caruso and Domingo. 359 Met performances, in five different languages, with perfect diction in each.
This versatility clearly represented on this recording, not only in languages, but also in musicality. The pensive "Una furtiva lagrima," the heroic "Dimitri! Tsaryevich! Dimitri!" the wonderful softness of "Magische Tone."
Thank you, EMI, for bringing together such a representative compilation of this marvelous tenor's works!
And, thank you, Amazon, for making it available at such a reasonable cost--$16.98 for more than two and a half hours beautiful singing.
(I may stand corrected on the five languages at the Met. I am not certain when "Eugene Onegin" was first sung in Russian.)