Opera

Ondine is pleased to announce the new release of legendary Strauss-singer Soile Isokoski. A multiple award-winner, her recording of Strauss Four Last Song won a Gramophone Award in 2002. The rarely recorded Three Hymns are coupled with opera arias from...

Once again Bernius lives up to his name as the rediscoverer of unknown masterpieces from the Romantic era. Just in time for the Franz Ignaz Danzi's 250th anniversary, he has snatched Danzi's Der Berggeist from an undeserved oblivion. This opera, based on...

On stage they're usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic T?zier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: "Insieme", meaning "together" in...

On March 14, 2022, the Met presented a benefit performance to support Ukrainian citizens under attack with Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducting the Met Orchestra and Chorus and star soloists in a performance that was broadcast live globally. This CD contains...

Oedipus Rex, based on Sophocles' tragedy, is an established twentieth-century classic. Employing a speaker, male chorus and orchestra, it represents Stravinsky' 1920s neo-classicism at it's peak.1. Prologue 2. Introducing Creon 3. Introducing Tiresias 4...

November 22, 2013 marks the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten, and Warner Classics pays tribute to this key figure of 20th century music with this brand new recording of his War Requiem, featuring a superstar line up of soloists - Anna Netrebko, Ian...

Notwithstanding the fact that the opera was virtually still-born, a series of contemporary manuscript scores can be found today in the music libraries of Europe and America, while the autograph draft of Rossini seems to be lost. The surviving sources...

Not only do people all around the world continue to discover the beauty and power of Maria Callas's voice, but it's because of that voice that many first discover the beauty and power of opera. The myths and misconceptions about the opera icon are probed...

No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian composer who rose to fame in Italy. His opera Saffo, first...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his comic opera May Night in 1878-9, at a time when he was fascinated in the stories for the supernatural and the fantastic. It was also at this time that he had been appointed to a teaching role at the St...

Musica ad Rhenum has earned a special place in the early music world, with critics describing the ensemble's performances as "cutting edge" and "exhilarating." the group are joined by a fantastic set of vocal soloists, with Johanette Zomer assuming the...

Mozart: Don Giovanni - Highlights / Barenboim, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Salminen, Meier, Berlin Po, Et Al. Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performer: Ferruccio Furlanetto, John Tomlinson, Matti Salminen, Waltraud Meier, Conductor: Daniel Barenboim,...