Opera D’Oro reissues are cut from the same questionable in origin, horrendous sounding cloth as those issued in the past by companies like Melodram, Grand Tier and the various imprints belonging to the Italian company Enterprise. Because they are sold at a super deflated price they have become popular with opera addicts who do not have more discriminating tastes. Sometimes Oblinski’s art does go over the top; his cover to Halévy’s La Juive is both vulgar and patently offensive; he might just have well re-painted an image from the film “Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS.” While Oblinski’s visual work is distinctive - and no one has an objection to any situation that keeps a surrealist painter employed as one - it is a shame that it is used to promote sub-standard products that are a blight on the opera market.