NAXOS OPERA CLASSICS

Hungarian composer Paul Abrahm enjoyed huge success across Europe with his 'jazz operettas', not least in Weimar Berlin where his works scored for an orchestra augmented by a jazz band caused a...

Medieval England exerted a strong influence on Johann Simon Mayr, especially during his final proto-Romantic period. Alfredo il Grande was to be one of his last operas, with a narrative that takes us...

Auber earned international adulation in the late 1820s for his revolutionary grand opera 'La Muette de Portici' and by the time he composed 'La Sirene,' the success of which inspired potpourris of...

Born in Lisbon of Italian parentage, Pedro Ant?nio Avondano was employed at the court of Joseph I, becoming Portugal's leading composer of instrumental music and dances for the royal ballet. Il mondo...

Bellini / Campo / Fogliano Bianca E Gernando CD

A native of St. Petersburg, Ingeborn von Bronsart studied with Liszt in Weimar, her striking appearance earning her the nickname 'Ingeborg die Schone'. Goethe's libretto for Jery und Bately is a...

Alfred Cellier was a contemporary of Arthur Sullivan as a Chapel Royal chorister, and would later conduct several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. With it's rural tale of disguise and romantic...

David / Newman / Adelsberger / Opera Lafayette Lalla Roukh CD1. Ouverture 2. C'est Ici Le Pays Des Roses 3. Sous Le Feuillage Sombre 4. De Pres Ou de Loin 5. Voici Le Repas Du Soir 6. La Nuit Tombe 7...

Among Stephen Dodgson's portfolio of more than 250 works are chamber operas, of which Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart is a most striking example. It is based on the true story of a woman who was...

First performed in 1865, Amleto ('Hamlet') represented a radical new development in Italian opera, the nuovo melodrama. Composer Franco Faccio and his librettist Arrigo Boito sought a greater degree...

Ferrari,Ermanno Wolf / Ushakova,Natalia Wolf-Ferrari: I Gioielli Della Madonna CD1. 'O Quadro D'a Madonna 2. Festa Grande, Gran Baldoria! 3. Per Chi, Primavera Odorosa 4. Festa Grande, Gran Baldoria!...

Most of C?sar Franck's works received scant attention at the time of their composition and Hulda was never performed in his lifetime. The narrative is set in 14th-century Norway at the time of the...