Opera

Following the release of the DVD box in the spring, OehmsClassics now issues the complete Ring from Frankfurt in the well-known design on 14 CDs. This complete version comprises the individual issues of the four operas with the Frankfurt Opera, produced...

Following the enormous success of the album OPERA 2011, Virgin Classics releases OPERA 2012. With 40 tracks, and over 2? hours of operatic arias and duets, this double album features the best and most popular names in opera from the catalogs of both...

Following requests from many customers for this beautifully new recording of contralto Nathalie Stutzman singing Vivaldi, it is being released in Australia for the first time. Here she is singing Vivaldi arias with bravura and passion. In fact for all...

Florence Foster Jenkins was a New York socialite who, despite being a hopelessly incompetent 'singer', believed herself to be an operatic soprano of note, and performed for invited audiences at recitals for thirty years or more until her death in 1944,...

First staged in Naples in 1819, Rossini' opera La donna del lago is based on Walter Scott' romantic poem the Lady of the Lake, setting a precedent for later composers, who also drew on Scott for their plots.1. Sinfonia - Introduction Del Di la...

First release of these recordings of the amazing works of Salmanov, one of the great 20th Century Russian composers.1. The Twelve: Wind 2. The Twelve:The Twelve 3. The Twelve: The Old World 4. The Twelve: Blizzard 5. The Twelve: Katka's Death 6. The...

First release of the original recording. What makes this Teatro del Maggio Musicale CD with Riccardo Muti particularly precious, is it's "documentary" value: it is in itself a document in the history of interpretation. Exceptional as far as it's...

First performed at Versailles in 1745, the opera ballet Zelindor is a delightful rococo pastorale which found favour with Louis XV' mistress, Madame de Pompadour, no doubt because it's story about a king who loves a commoner reflected her own situation...

First performance arranged at the prestigious Bolshoi, where it shared a double bill with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta (at his insistence). The composition was highly esteemed by the examiners' board which included Taneyev and Arensky. Rachmaninov got the...

Financial Times' Disc of the Year; New York Times' CDs of the Year/ "Performance: * Recording: * 'Beuron, probably today's finest lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his narration... [Tenebrae are] dramatically alert and...

Featuring a front-line cast (Rysanek, Frick, Suthaus, Hotter, Nilsson, etc...) that sends Wagner aficionados into states of reverie at the prospect of listening once again to the authoritative, superlative singing casts one could assemble in the 1950's,...

Favourite German Opera Choruses Carl Maria von WEBER (1786-1826) Der Freisch?tz: Was gleicht wohl auf Erden (Huntsmen's Chorus) Act III; Otto NICOLAI (1810-1849) Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor): O s?sser Mond (Moon Chorus)...