The conductor Carlo Maria Giulini's recording of "Don Carlos," originally released in 1971, is a landmark of opera discography, and Mr. Domingo's performance of the title role is incomparable.
His recording of Britten's Peter Grimes, with Vickers incomparable in the title role (Philips again), has been in its own way equally mould-breaking.
Here, the finest film was Gillies MacKinnon's "Regeneration", from the Pat Barker novel about the first world war, while the finest performance was by Stephen Fry, incomparable in the title role of Brian Gilbert's "Wilde".
The company's first-ever "All Wheeldon" program features a Christopher Wheeldon world premiere, "Les Carillons"; the company premiere of his "DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse"; and his 2001 "Polyphonia," with the incomparable Wendy Whelan in a role for which she is renowned.
In particular, the company today has too few important ballerinas to fill its incomparable store of great roles; too few of the lead male roles are danced with especial distinction; and crucial aspects of style needed for the work of its founder and central choreographer, George Balanchine, fall too often out of focus.
Here is the incomparable Maria Callas singing the lead role of Angelina/La Cenerentola: Your thoughts?
Even the incomparable Hallie Foote, who played the role at Hartford Stage in 2009, couldn't make it work.
Even the reluctant should make the effort to go, because there is one performance of incomparable power: Sarah Connolly in the title role.
Still, at least it looks like the incomparable Murphy might be getting a proper lead part for once, after taking countless supporting roles for the British-American maestro of widescreen cinema.
Or Plácido Domingo from 1978, in his first and best recording of a signature role, with Renata Scotto as Desdemona, Sherrill Milnes incomparable as Iago and James Levine conducting (RCA).
