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add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks VARIOUS COMPOSERS Marvellous Mezzo-Soprano and Contralto: Best Loved Opera Arias Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Marjana Lipovšek (mezzo-soprano), Ewa Podleś (contralto) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] Portraying characters such as Rossini's lovestruck heroines, Verdi's dramatic roles and the seductive Carmen, the mezzo voice is valued for a tone that embodies richness and sensuality in all its operatic variety.
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks ANTONIO VIVALDI Vivaldi: Griselda RV718 (complete opera) Colin Ainsworth / Carla Huhtanen / Lynne McMurty / Marion Newman / Aradia Ensemble / Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 23/Jan/2008 ] Vivaldi's Griselda, one of more than twenty operas, is based on a story retold in Boccaccio's Il decamerone about the testing of Griselda's patience and virtue by her royal husband through a series of cruel trials. The sense of drama that permeates...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU Rameau: Castor Et Pollux [1754 version] Colin Ainsworth, Joshua Hopkins, Monica Whicher, Meredith Hall, Giles Tomkins, Renée Winick Opera in Concert Chorus, Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] Recorded: 9-13 February 2003 Recording Venue: Grace Church on the Hill, Totonto, Canada
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera) Alessandro Carmignani / Marinella Pennicchi / Rosita Frisani / Cappella Musicale di San Petronio di Bologna / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos Early Music / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "Carmignani has an expressive tenor voice...Pennicchi is lovely as Euridice. The singers are excellent and integrated into a carefully prepared ensemble...You will not do much better at triple the price" - Fanfare
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GIOACHINO ROSSINI Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (complete opera recorded in 2002) Alessandro Codeluppi, Maurizio Leoni, Elena Rossi / I Virtuosi Italiani, Claudio Desderi (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Born in Pesaro in 1792, the son of a horn-player and a singer, Rossini even in childhood had experience of the theatre, both as an orchestral player and as a singer himself.
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI Wolf-Ferrari: Das Himmelskleid ('The Garment of Heaven') (complete opera) Angelina Ruzzafante, Anna-Maria Dur, Sibrand Basa, Reinhard Leisenheimer, Peer-Martin Sturm / Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Gerhard Mar [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is best known for his comic operas. With this reputation established, the appearance of Das Himmelskleid in 1927, with its 'symbolical twilight world… that rises musically to religious greatness and a world of dreams' was a...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GEORGES BIZET Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) Rah Graciela Alperyn, Giorgio Lamberti, Doina Palade, Alan Titus / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Ra [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2000 ]
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Humperdinck: Music for the Stage Andrea Chudak, Ruxandra Voda van der Plas, Harrie van der Plas, Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Engelbert Humperdinck won a worldwide reputation through his application of Wagnerian techniques to folk music in Hänsel und Gretel. But he wrote far more widely for the stage than is acknowledged.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks SPYRIDON SAMARAS Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (Complete opera) Angelo Simos, Tassis Christoyannis, Pavlos Maropoulos, Pantelis Kontos / Kaval Choir of Sofia, Pazardzhik Symphony, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GIOACHINO ROSSINI Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia (complete opera) Anna Rita Gemmabella / Islam-Ali-Zade / Riccardo Botta / ARS Brunensis Chamber Choir / Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia is a bold fusion of biblical and secular subjects set to brilliant, thrilling music. Although intended to be staged during Lent, Ciro includes all the time-honoured ingredients of serious opera such as the test of love,...
add to cart $50.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GAETANO DONIZETTI Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022) Annalisa Stroppa (mezzo-soprano) Javier Camarena (tenor) Florian Sempey (baritone) Evgeny Stavinsky (bass) / Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizz [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti's La Favorite contains some of his most famously enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks DEEMS TAYLOR Peter Ibbetson [Complete Opera] Anthony Dean Griffey / Lauren Flanigan / Richard Zeller / Seattle Symphony and Chorale / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] From its triumphant, star-studded première in 1931 until 1985, Peter Ibbetson was the most-performed American opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The story (based on the novel by George Du Maurier) of two star-crossed lovers who secretly...
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks VERDI La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1955) Antonietta Stella (soprano) Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) Tito Gobbi (baritone) / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] Having already recorded La Traviata for CETRA Maria Callas was contractually barred from taking part in this 1955 recording of the opera, which featured, instead, the emerging Italian soprano Antonietta Stella, who went on to become an acclaimed...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel: Rinaldo (Complete opera) Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon (Conductor), Nicole Bower (Soprano), Catherine Affleck (Soprano), Lenard Whiting (Tenor) [ Naxos Opera / 3 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "Fine soloists make the most of their coloratura opportunities, especially Barbara Hannigan as the enchantress Armida and Kimberly Barber in the title role. Recorded in Canada, this budget-price version led by Kevin Mallon is a welcome addition to...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks RAFFAELLO DE BANFIELD Lord Byron's Love Letter (complete opera recorded in 1958) Astrid Varnay / Gertrude Ribla / Nicoletta Carruba / Mario Carlin / Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome / Nicola Rescigno [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] The RCA Victor recording of Raffaello de Banfield's 1955 opera Lord Byron's Love Letter is a true rarity, remaining in their catalogue for only a short time and never reissued on CD before now. Based on a Tennessee Williams play set in late...
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Die Walkure (The Valkyries) (complete opera recorded live in 1941) Astrid Varnay / Helen Traubel / Lauritz Melchior / Kerstin Thorborg / Friedrich Schorr / Alexander Kipnis / Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Erich Leins [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Saturday 6th December 1941 was a momentous afternoon in the history of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, The opera - Die Walkure - was well enough known to the theatre and radio audiences that day, but this particular performance was eagerly...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Gotterdammerung (complete opera, recorded in 1936) Lauritz Melchior / Marjorie Lawrence / Ludwig Hofmann / Artur Bodanzky (cond) [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Naxos Historical's Ring cycle continues with this formidable live performance of Gotterdammerung, the fourth and final part of the tetralogy.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GIOACHINO ROSSINI Rossini: Eduardo e Cristina (complete opera) Baurzhan Anderzhano, Laura Polverelli, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Kenneth Tarver, Xiang Xu / Virtuosi Brunensis, Gianluigi Gelmetti [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Rossini's Eduardo e Cristina was a huge success in its day, but as perhaps the last centone opera (one assembled from previously existing material) by a major composer, it became forgotten under the subsequent tide of Romantic idealism. Today we can...
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks JOHANN SIMON MAYR Mayr: Innalzamento al trono del giovane re Gioas (Oratorio) Cornel Frey, Andrea Lauren Brown, Andreas Burkhart, Robert Sellier / Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Simon Mayr Choir, Simon Mayr Ensemble, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2012 ] "American soprano Andrea Lauren Brown is brilliant and expressive in the fiery role of Sebia, which is enhanced in the oratorio with arias originally intended for other roles in I Misteri." Opera News
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana (complete opera recorded in 1940, conducted by the composer) + opera overtures Beniamino Gigli / Lina Bruna-Rasa / Gino Bechi / Giulietta Simionato / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Pietro Mascagni [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] The fiftieth anniversary of the first staging of Cavalleria rusticana was the occasion of particular celebration, represented by the present recording under the composer’s direction.