Opera

Includes tracks from Kate Royal, Placido Domingo, Natalie Dessay, Philippe Jaroussky, Maria Callas, Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazon and more.

In October 1880, at the age of sixty-one, having poured out his high-spirited talent into over a hundred works for the stage, Offenbach lay exhausted on his deathbed. A strange figure wearing dark glasses and a floppy white cravat knocked at the door. It...

In 1983 the Bavarian State Opera performed Wagner's three early operas under Wolfgang Sawallisch. This new CD box from Orfeo, in which these operas - hitherto released individually - are now available as a limited special edition. This is more than just...

in 1952 Kathleen Ferrier made her last and perhaps greatest record... four arias each of Bach and Handel. The (engineers) ensured the utmost fidelity (Penguin Guide Rosette) "This is a recording that honours all concerned and in which Ferrier shows the...

Il Burbero di buon cuore is based on one of the most popular and amusing French comedies by Carlo Goldoni, Le bourru bienfaisant. A brilliant libretto, music that can be both graceful and captivating, and a first rate cast make of this opera a welcome...

Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783) was an extremely prolific composer of symphonies, operas, chamber music and concertos. His opera G?nther von Schwarzburg is rooted in the history of Germany, and it tells the tale of the eponymously named 14th century king...

I thought of myself, of the drama of growing up, of the folly of this life with it's uncertain issue, of all the tragedies that harshly befall US and now and again-often only fleetingly-involve US in their confusion of scene. And I wrote Der ferne Klang...

Historical 1962 London, England performance conducted by Otto Klemperer. Cantus Classics.

Historic 1962 performance. Conducted by Heinrich Bender. Cantus Classics.

Historic 1958 performance. Conducted by Otto Klemperer. Cantus Classics.

Haydn: Stabat Mater Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn / Bonney / Von Magnus / Performer: Herbert Lippert / Miles / Arnold Schoenberg Chor / Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt / Date of Recording: 07/1994, Venue: Pfarrkirche, Stainz1. Stabat Mater for Soloists,...

Having sung more than 40 roles, Ramon Vargas is recognized as one of the leading lyrical tenors of the present. His interpretations of Mozart, Bellini and Donizetti are celebrated throughout the world, and he's been praised as having the technical...