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add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIACOMO PUCCINI Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera) (Rec 1938) Maria Caniglia / Beniamino Gigli / Armando Borgiolo / Royal Opera Theatre / Oliviero de Fabritiis [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 1/May/2002 ] an old-fashioned, flesh-and-blood, no-subtleties, stand-and-deliver Tosca
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: La Forza del Destino (complete opera recorded in 1941) Maria Caniglia, Tancredi Pasero, Carlo Tagliabue / RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Turin, Gino Marinuzzi [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "This is a fascinating, unmissable set both in historic and musical terms. Marinuzzi, a Toscanini coeval at La Scala, was chosen as conductor, and it's his only complete recording of an opera." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Aida (Highlights from the complete opera) Maria Dragoni, Kristjan Johannsson, Barbara Dever, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Rico Saccani, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "The most impressive performer is indeed the fiery, plush-voiced, confident Dever... Gragoni is an interesting, highly individual Aida with some temperament and a good high C." - American Record Guide (Ralph V. Luciano) May/June 2001
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks DELIBES / GOUNOD / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / VERDI / MOZART / etc SPECTACULAR SOPRANO - Best Loved Opera Arias Maria Pia Ionata, Monika Krause, Hellen Kwon, Ana María Martínez, Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, Luba Orgonášová, Antonietta Stella, Krassimira Stoyanova [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] The soprano voice occupies the highest-sounding line of music (in Italian 'sopra' means 'over' or 'above') and it is subdivided into various types. The coloratura is the virtuoso, suited for rapid ornamentation such as in Mozart's Queen of the Night.
add to cart $47.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera) Maria Reining / Hilde Gueden / Sena Jurinac / Ludwig Weber / Alfred Poell / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Erich Kleiber [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ]
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ROSSINI L'Italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (complete opera) Mariana Pizzolato / Lorenzo Regazzo / Lawrence Brownlee / Bruno de Simone / Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Using the critical edition by Azio Corghi, this recording of L'Italiana in Algeri was made at a jubilee performance of the XXth Rossini in Wildbad Festival in 2008. For his tenth opera, the already celebrated 21-year-old Rossini wanted 'a humorous...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ROSSINI La Donna Del Lago (complete opera recorded in 2006) Mariana Pizzolato / Sonia Ganassi / Maxim Mironov / Prague Chamber Choir / SWR Radio Orchestra / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "Maxim Mironov is memorable as the King and there are equally compelling performances by Sonia Ganassi, Marianna Pizzolato and Ferdinand von Bothmer." (Gramophone)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MENOTTI The Medium / The Telephone (recorded 1947) Marilyn Cotlow / Frank Rogier / Evelyn Keller / Marie Powers / Beverly Dame / Orchestra / Emanuel Balaban [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] This original 1947 cast recording of The Medium, made by the American Columbia company, was first released in the UK in 1961, when The Gramophone wrote enthusiastically "its effectiveness as a musical work for the stage is beyond argument".
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks CAVALLI Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne Mario Zeffiri (tenor) / Mariana Pizzolato (mezzo) / Galicia Youth Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Cavalli's opera deals with the god Apollo's amorous pursuit of the chaste Daphne, who finds refuge in metamorphosis into a laurel tree, to her lover's distress.
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHANN SIMON MAYR Mayr: Saffo (complete opera) Markus Schäfer, Andrea Lauren Brown / Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Choir, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] 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 composer who rose to fame in Italy.
add to cart $49.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (Complete opera) Martina Dike, mezzo-soprano / John Erik Eleby, bass / Hedwig Fassbender, mezzo-soprano / Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos Historical Opera / 3 CD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] "If you were judging this recording only on the soloists (the excellent German soprano Hedwig Fassbender and the lackluster Wolfgang Millgram) it wouldn't be in the running but what lifts it above average is the wonderful playing of the Swedish Opera...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN The Gondoliers (1950 recording) Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Alan Styler, Ella Halman, Richard Watson, Leonard Osborn / D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Isidore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great operetta recordings / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "This recording will appeal to collectors who are confirmed Gilbert and Sullivan fans, particularly to those who want to hear why Martyn Green was such a beloved Savoyard." (ClassicalNet)
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN Iolanthe (1951 recording) with Pineapple Poll ballet Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Alan Styler, Morgan Fisher, Darrell Fancourt, Leonard Osborn / The D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Isido [ Naxos Historical Great operetta recordings / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "We have an experienced stage-performing cast brought into the studio for this recording; all names remembered with affection." (MusicWeb International)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience (1951 recording) Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Alan Styler, Peter Pratt, Darrell Fancourt, Leonard Osborn / The D'Oyly Carte Opera, Isidodore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great operetta recordings / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] One of the most melodious and perennially popular of the G & S operettas, Patience (or Bunthorne's Bride) was first performed at the Opera Comique, London on 23rd April, 1881, under the baton of the composer.
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GAETANO DONIZETTI Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (Complete opera) Massimiliano Pisapia (tenor) Federica Bragaglia (mezzo) Andrew Schroeder (baritone) / Bergamo Musica Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Marcello Rota [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "Complete opera sets where all the pieces fit together are rare indeed and while admiring both Sills and Gruberova enormously, I think that the cast as a whole on this new Naxos set makes it a better proposition" (MusicWeb Feb 2009)
add to cart $37.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Das Rheingold (complete opera) Matthias Goerne, Kim Begley, Michelle DeYoung, Deborah Humble, Peter Sidhom, Anna Samuil / Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zwede [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] The Hong Kong Philharmonic sound fully up for the occasion and have the stamina for this demanding piece…Matthias Goerne sings Wotan beautifully with much baritonal sophistication.
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Die Walkure (The Valkyries) (complete opera recorded 2016) Matthias Goerne, Petra Lang, Michelle DeYoung, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Falk Struckmann / Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / 4 CD Box Set - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Comprising four separate operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) is one of the supreme works in the history of music. Part II of the tetralogy, Die Walküre, centres on the young lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde, whose relationship...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI Il Trovatore (complete opera) Maurizio Frusoni / Daniela Longhi / Irina Tschistiakova / Roberto Servile / Budapest Festival Chorus / Hungarian State Opera Orchestra / Will Humburg [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "The Naxos recording, scores across the board, something not encountered on discs since the Price-Cossotto-Domingo-Milnes/Mehta set foe RCA, some three decades past. As such, it deserves to be short-listed among available Trovatore recordings, even...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BERLIOZ Damnation de Faust (complete) Michael Myers (Tenor) / Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Mezzo-soprano) / Alain Vernhes (Baritone) / Jean-Claude Casadesus (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] "The cast is a good one, the orchestra idiomatic and Jean-Claude Casadesus, who has made his mark on disc before, is at the helm." (MusicWeb July 2006)
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ROSSINI Otello (complete opera) Michael Spyres / Jessica Pratt / Ugo Gagliardo / Cluj Transilvania Philharmonic Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 11/May/2010 ] "Powerful American tenor Michael Spyres is in lower tessitura and sings Otello characterfully and flawlessly. English soprano Jessica Pratt, is strong and heartfelt in the role of Desdemona. All supporting roles are equally fine." (TheWholeNote.com)