NAXOS OPERA CLASSICS

The great hit at Venice's San Moise theatre in the autumn season of 1810 was Pietro Generali's Adelina. This 'melodramma sentimentale' was the latest work by an important contemporary of Rossini, who...

The international success of Faust after it's premiere in 1859 completely overshadowed all of Gounod's subsequent operas. He had known Goethe's masterpiece for two decades and brought to the text his...

Granados / Veronese / Kostyuk Granados: Maria Del Carmen CD1. Madre Del Amor, Dulce Majestad, Luz Del Labrador, Prez de la Ciudad! 2. A la Paz de Dios, Caballeros 3. Adi?s, Hombres 4. Mardita Sea la...

Gretry / Junker / Brown Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry: L'Epreuve Villageoise CD1. Ouverture 2. Couplet I: J' N'avions Pas Encore Quatorze Ans - Couplet II: Vous N'savez Pas Qu'il Est Jaloux 3. Bonjour...

Andre Ernest-Modeste Gretry was the greatest French composer of opera-comique in the eighteenth century. His librettist for Le Magnifique Jean-Michel Sedaine took a tale by La Fontaine and fashioned...

Friedheim Award-winning composer, with a catalog of internationally performed work spanning four decades. His opera film Orson Rehearsed is the psychological, emotional, and spiritual journey taken...

Over four decades the American composer Louis Karchin has produced a much-admired portfolio of compositions. His one-act opera Romulus won numerous accolades. Jane Eyre is his largest project to...

Laitman / Armstrong / Pelto Scarlet Letter CD

Robert Schumann considered Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner the most promising operatic composer in the country, yet despite his 21 operas he has been almost forgotten. Like most leading German...

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...

Don C?sar de Bazan is an op?ra-comique with a narrative of dashing Spanish chivalry and romance. It's plot revolves around deception and comedies of reversed identity, with a struggle between true...

No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian...