Customer Rating:  
Summary: This sucks...
Comment: I should only blame myself for not checking out more reviews... this is a CD filled with short, little snippets of great operas songs... and I mean SHORT, LITTLE snippets of 30 seconds or so, each. Don't buy this CD... it is a complete rip off... and that is saying ALOT since it is only $4.00... Again, my fault for not reading the reviews but I trusted that something called a "Music CD" would actually have complete songs... What else does this company offer? A "Music CD" that only has the intros or applause tracks to great songs...?
Move on to something else... Amazon has a great selection... just not this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What in the he%@...
Comment: ...what were they thinking when they made this. Horrible. Little 20-25 second snippets of opera and then POW! on to the next one and POW! on the the next and POW! and POW! then POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW!!!
That's how annoying this piece of garbage is. Hey Amazon...you need a zero ranking on this one. The only reason I give it a one is the fact there is no zero.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm don't know whether to laugh or to call RCA and complain
Comment: Luckily I didn't spend money on this--it was a Christmas present. Presumably RCA was trying to lure in a new group of opera lovers with this. Unfortunately, they manage to insult both the new listener and anyone who has ever liked any aria ever written. The woman on the cover (and inside, and on the CDROM thing) is absolutely hideous--she alone would cause most people not to buy the CD. As for the music, the clips are poorly chosen (usually the most impressive coloratura sections or the part that most people will recognize, but never the part of the aria that is the most important to the plot or the most musically significant), and no one who actually wants to learn about opera is going to learn anything from listening to 30 seconds of a grainy old recording. I feel bad that newbies out there aren't getting the chance to experience this wonderful art form because all they see on the shelves is crap like this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: mildly disappointed
Comment: No wonder 100+ songs fit into one cd, and no wonder it was so cheap. I thought it was going to have the whole song. I wanted to hear the whole song, but instead got tiny samples of stuff we'll hear on tv, commercials, movies, etc. And these samples are so short it's not even worth it. Plus it's an enhanced cd. I never even bother with the special features.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a let down...
Comment: I have several of "The Only [ ] CD You'll Ever Need, and this one really sucks! The longest track is a minute, and it is just samples of opera, you can't even get into an opera before another sample is thrown your way. I did what any self respecting opera critic would have done, and threw it out.
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