I like Loves Magic for our zone, but, I have seen comments on HMF that it may not grow well in your zone.

Liebeszauber, Lavaglut, Opening Night, Crimson Bouquet and Ingrid Bergman are all basically "staples" in gardens in our climate. Each and everyone of these comes highly recommended for our zone and all grow exceptionally well here. So, Jim may be right. Also, Liebeszauber is a very large grower here, so I can imagine what a giant of a plant it would be in your zone. Europeana spreads badly and is usually planted in rows here so that they support one another. Hopefully, you'll get some input from your area.

I can throw in my 2 cents worth. When I lived in PNW I had Legend and Liebeszauber. Liebeszauber was a solidly performing, medium red. Legend was more of a dark red that didn't bloom all that much, but it sure had long stems. I thought that Ace of Hearts was better.

Here, I have Grande Amore and Love's Promise. Grande Amore is a bright scarlet with well-formed flowers that are on the small side. It is a skyscraper of a bush on the order of the likes of Eiffel Tower. It will get 8 to 10 ft tall here. Love's Promise has a good dark red color that will burn in our heat and a nice fragrance. Flower form is not good most of the time. It probably does better somewhere else.

I have Europeana in a pot and I am SP it. It doesnt do well

I'm with Bustopher on LEGEND. I've had mine for around 12yrs or so, and it doesn't bloom all that often. Maybe two good flushes per season. It spends a lot of time growing tall. Peaks out around 6-7ft.

I got GRAND AMORE a couple yrs ago, and I really like it. Mine's in a big pot and it blooms several times, with big fat pure-red blooms. Form is nice, and they last fairly long.

LOVE'S PROMISE is the best of the bunch as far a blooming goes. Almost always in bloom. And loaded with them! Makes a nice robust 5ftx4ft bush.

MILESTONE is certainly not a solid red. It has a bright fluorescent coral-red-pink center, that is hard to get a truly good photo of because of the intensity. At least with my camera anyway! I love it, but it's not a real great repeater. But the blooms last forever.

Thank you so much everyone! I appreciate your comments... funny thing about Europeana is that I agree about the nasty growing habit and have no idea what I'm going to do with it when it "grows up", but every time I see its ugly self blooming away (mostly at gas stations in my area), I fall in love with it all over again.
If you have any more opinions and comments, please go right ahead, as I think I will place my order tonight and will check back later. For now I am leaning toward Grande Amore, but Milestone sounds very interesting...