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Strauss, R.: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012) cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, R.: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012)
Salzburg Festival / Emily Magee, Elena Mosuc, Jonas Kaufmann / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director)
[ Sony DVD / DVD - released 28/Jun/2014 ]
"Jonas Kaufmann was spectacular as Bacchus, growing improbably stronger as he progressed. Emily Magee was scarcely less impressive in the demanding role of Ariadne." - New York Times
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988) cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in 1988)
Metropolitan Opera / Jessye Norman / Kathleen Battle / Tatiana Troyanos / James Levine (cond)
[ Deutsche Grammophon / DVD - released 29/Aug/2002 ]
G : - "This performance represents an above-average night at the Metropolitan Opera in the late 1980s: three of its most popular stars, a generally distinguished cast, the house's musical director conducting its great orchestra in one of the works he...
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (complete opera recorded in 2019) cover
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2-4 weeks
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (complete opera recorded in 2019)
Berlin Deutsche / Elena Tsallagova. Emily Magee, Philipp Jekal, Flurina Stucki / Donald Runnicles (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ]
Based on Oscar Wilde's story The Birthday of the Infanta, Zemlinsky's single-act opera Der Zwerg is the tragic tale of a dwarf who is presented at court, falls in love with the beautiful Donna Clara, but is ultimately forced to see himself as others...
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021) cover
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2-4 weeks
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera recorded in 2021)
Berlin Opera / Derek Welton, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas Blondelle, Markus Blondelle / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2024 ]
As early as 1851, Wagner wrote, 'I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas, preceded by a lengthy Prelude.' The Prelude was Das Rheingold ('The Rhine Gold') the preliminary evening of Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The...
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (complete opera recorded in 2022) cover
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2-4 weeks
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Deutsche Oper Berlin / Elisabet Strid, Daniel Johansson, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer / Marc Albrecht (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2023 ]
Franz Schreker's career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame with his operas, and the huge success of Der Schatzgräber ('The Treasure Hunter') in the 1920s was the high point of his career.
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) cover
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2-4 weeks
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021)
Oper Graz / Dshamilja Kaiser, Nadja Stefanoff, Will Hartmann, Markus Butter / Roland Kluttig(cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Jul/2022 ]
Mieczysław Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel.
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2021) cover
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2-4 weeks
RICCARDO ZANDONAI
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2021)
Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sara Jakubiak, Jonathan Telelman, Ivan Inverardi / Carlo Rizzi (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 18/Feb/2022 ]
"The whole thing is, I think, a great achievement. Do watch it." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022
Rossi: Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008) cover
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2-4 weeks
LAURO ROSSI
Rossi: Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008)
Dimitra Theodossiou / Alessandro Liberatore / Paolo Pecchioli / Sebastian Catana / Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, David Crescenzi
[ Naxos Opera DVD / DVD - released 27/Oct/2010 ]
From the brooding opening scene in which Diomedes foretells the fall of Egypt to Cleopatra's death scene, this gripping grand opera by one of Italy's forgotten masters springs vividly to life in this revival filmed at the 2008 Macerata Sferisterio...
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) cover
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2-4 weeks
STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018)
Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ]
Stefano Landi wrote the operas La morte d'Orfeo (1619) and Il Sant'Alessio (1632), as well as masses, psalms, madrigals and arias. He was maestro di cappella in Padua and Rome, and later a singer in the Sistine Chapel.
Humperdinck: Konigskinder [The King's Children] (complete opera recorded in 2022) cover
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2-4 weeks
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Konigskinder [The King's Children] (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Dutch National Opera / Daniel Behle, Olga Kulchynska, Josef Wagner, Doris Soffel / Marc Albrecht (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Aug/2023 ]
Hänsel und Gretel brought Humperdinck worldwide fame but his tragic fairy storybrought Humperdinck worldwide fame but his tragic fairy story KönigskinderKönigskinder ('The King's Children') offers a stark contrast to it and has only begun to be...
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2022) cover
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2-4 weeks
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2022)
Dutch National Opera / Malin Byström, Joshua Guerrero, Gevorg Hakobyan / Lorenzo Viotti (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 14/Apr/2023 ]
"...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters' Christian faith is clearly a personal defence against the horror of the tyranny under which they live." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2023
Cimarosa: L'Italiana In Londra (complete opera recorded in 2021) cover
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DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: L'Italiana In Londra (complete opera recorded in 2021)
Frankfurt Opera / Angela Vallone, Bianca Tognocchi, Theo Lebow, Jurii Samoilov / Leo Hussain (cond & fortepiano)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2024 ]
L'Italiana in Londra was Domenico Cimarosa's first international triumph, thrilling audiences all over Europe after its premiere in 1778. However, it later became eclipsed by the even bigger success of Il matrimonio segreto and has become a rarity on...
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (complete opera recorded in 2021) cover
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2-4 weeks
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (complete opera recorded in 2021)
Frankfurt Opera / Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider / Sebastian Weigle (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Nov/2022 ]
Composed using his own libretto, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov created this magical opera based on the short story by Nikolay Gogol 'The Night before Christmas' in which Vakula the handsome blacksmith wants to marry the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who...
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) cover
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2-4 weeks
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013)
Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
[ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ]
Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the...
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera recorded in 2007) cover
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2-4 weeks
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera recorded in 2007)
Grobes festspielhaus, Salzburg / Burkhard Fritz / Maija Kovalevska / Laurent Naouri / Brindley Sherratt / Valery Gergiev (cond)
[ Naxos Unitel DVD / DVD - released 1/Jan/2010 ]
"Burkhard Fritz as Benvenuto is a strong heroic tenor and copes well with the vocal demands of the role, while Maria Kovalevska as his beloved Teresa enchants us with her lovely voice and physical beauty." (The WholeNote.com)
Mercadante: Didone abbandonata (complete opera recorded in 2018) cover
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GIUSEPPE SAVERIO MERCADANTE
Mercadante: Didone abbandonata (complete opera recorded in 2018)
Innsbruck Festival / Viktorija Miškūnaitė, Katrin Wundsam, Emilie Renard, Carlo Vincenzo Allemano, Diego Godoy / Alessandro De Marchi
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 7/Jun/2019 ]
Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante was a contemporary of Donizetti and Rossini, and his prolific output of operas proved influential in founding dramatic techniques that were taken on by Verdi.
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) cover
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2-4 weeks
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018)
Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ]
No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018.
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (complete opera recorded in 2015) cover
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2-4 weeks
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (complete opera recorded in 2015)
La Fenice / Jessica Pratt, Sonia Ganassi, Rubén Amoretti, Shalva Mukeria / Shalva Mukeria (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 13/May/2022 ]
"I can tell you that from the first to the fourth performance, which was on Sunday, enthusiasm reached, or perhaps surpassed, the levels of Il Pirata and La Straniera in Milan" Bellini in a letter to a friend
Mozart: La finta giardiniera (complete opera recorded in 2018) cover
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2-4 weeks
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera (complete opera recorded in 2018)
La Scala / Krešimir Špicer, Julie Martin du Theil, Bernard Richter / Diego Fasolis (cond)
[ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 9/Jul/2021 ]
On 13 January La finta giardiniera, a dramma giocoso, was premiered at the Salvatortheater in Munich, then on 23 April the serenata Il re pastore was staged at the archbishop's palace in Salzburg.
Casablancas: L'Enigma di Lea (complete opera recorded in 2019) cover
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