Your "performance" was fine. The fidelity on this opera is horrible, you enclosed no libretto and liner notes. Likely won't order anything from you. I couldn't even listen past a few minutes.

Opera Depot did great! They corrected my order promptly, superb job! The sound from this old live performance is horrible. I would replace this version with a more current recording that sounds clear. It's a great French opera. Jules Massenet was an awesome composer. Just my opinion.

Sound is OK and the performance very good. Sutherland is in great voice.

Some Oriental *parfums* aside, Le Roi de Lahore is lower-drawer Massent and one can only conclude that Dame Joan Sutherland learned it as a favor to hubby and mentor Richard Bonynge. Musically, the opera offers a few set pieces, separately by great amounts of musically lifeless arioso. Dimly and distantly recorded, this performance fails to make Massenet's case. Sutherland is in one of her droopy moods, offering little but *larmes de la void.* Perhaps her damp mood can be blamed on tenor Ron Stevens' tight and adenoidal tenoriizng in the title role. Huguette Tourangeau excels in her pants part, which gets one nice solo and Cornelis Opthof fights bravely against the energy crisis as the villain of the peace. As the god Indra, Spiro Malas deploys a buffo voice where some imposing sound is needed -- say that of James Morris, who makes a capital impression as the high priest Timour. This set is for Morris fans, Sutherland completists and diehard Massenet fans. More-casual aficionados of French opera can give it a miss. Move along, nothing to see here.

Another amazing performance by Dame Joan....better than her studiorecording of the work