Opera

Established as one of Virgin Classics bestselling artists, Philippe Jaroussky, who has been described as the Apollo of countertenors by Germany s Die Zeit, stands out among his many talented contemporaries as much for the sopranolike beauty of his tone...

End of the opera. 12 November 1918 (on the day of the declaration of the German-Austrian Republic and the union with the German Reich!). This sentence was written by Schreker at the close of the manuscript full score. The call for the dissolution of the...

EMI France and Michel Plasson have created many recordings of major works of French composers, some never recorded before. Many have since received the highest distinctions worldwide. In May 1984, Michel Plasson conducted 16 performances of Aida at the...

EMI Classics introduces 10 timeless operas into the series including Wagner s complete Ring Cycle: Das Rhiengold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, as well as Verdi s La Traviata, and Bellinis Norma. Operas greatest conductors, including Antonio...

Ekaterina Siurina celebrates the song-writing talents of four great composers better known for their operas in a recital of flirtatious, passionate and grief-stricken lovers plighting their troths in Naples, Florence, Venice and elsewhere. Presenting the...

Deluxe 70 CD box set including each individual release (complete opera or recital CD) presented in it's original artwork, 136 pages hardback book containing essays, a biography and chronology, rarely-seen photos and also reproductions of revealing...

Debussy's music combines late 19th century Romanticism with a soundscape that has been called an audible version of an Impressionist painting. This 2-CD set includes his most frequently performed and recorded works, including Prelude to the Afternoon of...

Davis... magnificently crowns his whole career as a Berlioz interpreter, generally outshining even his pioneer version of 30 years earlier... Petra Lang is superb, firm, rich and intense, investing every phrase with emotional power, instantly...

Das Fuerstenkind (The Prince's Child) has always been an "insider's tip" in Leh+?r's oeuvre, and the composer himself regarded this robbers' tale from Greece premiered in 1909 as one of his best works. It was also his problem child because it never...

Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon' first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin, the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.1. Act 1. Prologue. So Much So, That Even Now I Flinch 2...

Dame Joan Sutherland vividly brings to life the title role of Lucrezia Borgia in Donizetti's powerful and lyrical opera set in dark, decadent Renaissance Italy. Conductor Richard Bonynge draws dramatic and stylish playing from the Elizabethan Sydney...

Conductor Vladimir Jurowski elicits here an effervescent, enthralling and elegant performance of one of Rossini's great operas, La Cenerentola. In this recording Glyndebourne's Music Director Vladimir Jurowski leads an extremely well integrated cast of...