Opera

Grammy½ Award winner Joyce DiDonato joins conductor Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco for Drama Queens, an electrifying program of royal arias the 17th and 18th centuries, composed by figures as famous as Handel and Vivaldi and as little known as...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore, a staple of the operatic repertoire and long a popular success with operagoers and lovers of Italian opera, received the casting it rightfully deserves in this 1961 live performance from Berlin, 1961. The all-Italian,...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, the master of Parisian grand op?ra, was hugely successful in his time and a major influence on Verdi and Wagner. His music has fascinated Diana Damrau since her student days. With her brilliant coloratura, lyricism and dramatic power,...

George Macfarren was considered by many of his contemporaries as the greatest British dramatic opera composer since Purcell. Described by Edward J Dent as 'very full of good fun and on the way to Sullivan', Robin Hood is Macfarren' masterpiece.1...

Georg Friedrich H?ndel's work, Messiah Famous Choures are performed by the Scholars Baroque Ensemble.1. Sinfony 2. Chorus. And the Glory of the Lord 3. Chorus. And He Shall Purify 4. Aria. O Thou That Tellest 5. Chorus. for Unto Us a Child Is Born 6...

From Adam to Zandonai, from 1954 to 1996, 20 CDs made up of no less than 28 Decca opera recordings, most of them recorded as highlights albums, many long unavailable, newly remastered and all featuring the greatest singers of their age. In bygone years,...

Frid's best known work is his chamber opera the Diary of Anne Frank for solo soprano and an instrumental group of nine. In stark, sinister and elegiac colors he expresses the fear, hope, anger and resignation which make Anne Frank's diary a universal...

Four of the finest German tenor voices united on a single CD. Fritz Wunderlich, whose radiant voice and intense artistry remain unforgotten; Rudolf Schock the charming star of opera TV, Peter Schreiera Bach evangelist and popular opera singer are joined...

For the world premiere recording (2016) of Antonio Salieri's (1750-1825) comic opera La Scuola de' Gelosi, Werner Ehrhardt and his ensemble l'arte del mondo received fantastic reviews: "With a lot of wit and imagination, Antonio Salieri let's the comic...

For the 150th Puccini anniversary: this CD covers the most romantic Puccini arias. 14 beautiful songs from classic operas including Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly and La Boheme.1. Nessun Dorma from Turandot (Act III) - Vocal 2. Act I : Dammi I Colori....

For his first CD release on Ondine, star baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has chosen art song repertoire of great intensity and emotion from his Russian home country: 26 featured romances by Sergei Rachmaninov include such popular songs as Spring waters, Op...

Following their acclaimed recordings of Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts and Mendelssohn's Elijah, Paul McCreesh has once again assembled the mass forces of Gabrieli Consort & Players and Wroclaw Phiharmonic Choir to record one of the iconic masterpieces...