Opera

The Ten Tenors have taken Australia by storm through 2005, with a fantastically-successful national tour and a Best of release (Tenology) that is approaching Platinum sales. Just in time for Christmas, Tenology is now to be made available for a LIMITED...

The superb heldentenor Bernd Aldenhoff (1908-59) is the focus of this release of the premiere performance in 1956 in Munich of the opera Don Juan de Manara by Henri Tomasi (1901-71), the only currently active and available complete recording of this work...

The Sixteen's acclaimed baroque orchestra, makes it's first appearance on a CORO disc. The Fairy Queen, one of Purcell's grandest creations, is a fantastic blend of magic, mystery, passion and tomfoolery - both profoundly moving and entertaining in turn...

The purpose of this CD, with it's wonderful historic recordings, is to keep alive the memory of the golden voice of Belgian contralto Ria Bollen (b. 1942). The CD gathers a large selection of live recordings, made both at home and abroad, that takes into...

The plot of La cambiale di matrimonio, which Rossini composed when he was just eighteen years old, revolves around the farcical attempts of Tobia Mill, a rich English merchant.1. Sinfonia 2. Scene 1: Introduzione: Non C'e Il Vecchio Sussurrone (Clarina,...

The Mozart recordings by Wolfgang Sawallisch from the Bavarian State Opera are legendary. After the M?nich Don Giovanni (C846153) now Orfeo D'Or releases Sawallisch Cosi fan Tutte recorded in1978, featuring Margaret Price, Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter...

The lieder of France, the French melodie enjoyed it's golden age in the last three decades of the 19th century. Influenced by the German lied, the texts of noted French poets illuminated the scores that foretell the passing of the era of Romanticism. The...

The keyboard sonatas of C.P.E. Bach (1714-1788) bear hallmarks of a composer who lived through a significant moment in musical history: he composed his works during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period. These works are musical...

The Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra is one of the most important orchestras in the Germans-peaking world. In 2001 it was selected Orchestra of the Year for the third time in succession in the critics' survey of the specialist journal Opernwelt...

The first stereo recording of Ponchielli's most famous opera, with a towering performance of the title role captured in classic Decca sound. There is more to La Gioconda than the 'Dance of the Hours', more even than the hit 'Suicidio' aria of the...

The first full-length D'Oyly Carte company recording of a late Savoy opera (Princess Ida), newly remastered and generously coupled with a Phase 4 album featuring hit songs and numbers from the unequalled partnership of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur...

The first commercial recording of Rameau's first opera. Thanks to several Eloquence releases, the pioneering work of Anthony Lewis in the field of Baroque opera is now readily available: The Fairy Queen (482 7449) of Purcell, Handel's Semele (482 5055)...