SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Aleko / The Miserly Knight / Francesca da Rimini (excerpts) Sofia National Opera Chorus / Sofia National Opera Orchestra / Nayden Todorov (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] "Another Naxos opera triumph. An intelligent and valuable concept. All performed with passion and commitment." (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
MINKUS
Don Quixote (Complete Ballet) Sofia National Opera Orchestra / Nayden Todorov (conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2004 ] Léon Minkus was born Alois Ludwig Minkus in 1826 in Vienna, where he is presumed to have studied. A violinist, conductor and composer, he was said to be of Hungarian origin, although by ancestry of Russian or Polish derivation. |
Sohn/Loeb/Nuttall
Opera Fantasies For Violin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Opera Choruses Soloists And Chorus Of The Royal Swedish Opera / Royal Swedish Orchestra / Leif Segerstam [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Leif Segerstam and the Royal Swedish Opera have put together a beautifully executed program that will be equally enjoyable for either the novice or the seasoned Wagnerian." James Wintle, MusicWeb, 29 March 2005 |
GRIEG
Olav Trygvason Soloists, Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Malmö Chamber Choir, Lund Student Singers / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] Edvard Grieg and his librettist Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson were both fascinated by a great period in Norway's past: the Viking Age, whose sagas, and fierce conflicts between Christianity and the old Norse religion, inspired all three of Grieg's works... |
INGEBORG VON BRONSART
Bronsart: Jery und Bätely, Libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Soloists, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] A native of St Petersburg, Ingeborg von Bronsart studied with Liszt in Weimar, her striking appearance earning her the nickname Ingeborg die Schöne. Goethes libretto for Jery und Bätely is a charming and bucolic tale of unrequited romance between a... |
ANDRE-MODESTE GRETRY
Gretry: L'Épreuve Villageoise Sophie Junker, Talise Trevigne, Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Thomas Dolié / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown [ Naxos Opera / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] L'épreuve villageoise (The Village Trial) - which, in its original form as Théodore et Paulin, was first performed before Marie Antoinette at Versailles - was one of André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry's most popular works. For a century after its 1784... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur (complete opera recorded in 2017, Sung in English with German dialogue) BLU-RAY Staatsoper unter den Linden / Anett Fritsch, Robin Johannsen, Benno Schachtner / Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] The collaboration of the poet John Dryden and Henry Purcell marked a conspicuous leap forward for English opera. Their greatest project, King Arthur, is a five-act dramatick opera, the text of which had its origins in a patriotic musical play Dryden... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Highlights from the complete opera) Stanislav Benacka (bass), Silvano Carroli, (baritone), Jan Durco (baritone), Mirosla Dvorsky (tenor) / Slovak Radio Symphony, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Rahbari |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Pericole (Complete Operetta recorded in 2022) {Blu-ray) Stephanie D'Oustrac, Philippe Talbot, Tassis Christoyannis, Eric Huchet / Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Julien Leroy [ Naxos BLU-RAY / Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2023 ] La Perricholi - in reality, Micaela Villegas - was Lima's leading theatrical l lady in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created... |
MARK ADAMO
Little Women (complete opera recorded in 2000) Stephanie Novacek / Joyce DiDonato / Chad Shelton / Stacey Tappan / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one." (BBC Music) |
AMBROISE THOMAS
Thomas: Hamlet (complete opera) Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo / Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Video Performance |
Strauss/Berlin State Opera Orc
Beethoven:symphonies 5 & 7 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Rec 1954) Streich Rita (Soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Otto Ackermann (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In 1942 Richard Strauss, then approaching his eightieth birthday, recalled that the original intention behind Ariadne auf Naxos was as a grateful offering to the theatre director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943). It was to form an epilogue to a comedy by... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, René Barbera, Roland Bracht, Diana Haller / Manlio Benzi, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2019 ] "Barbera sings Arturo with a mellow beauty of tone that has surely never been matched in the 21st century, enhanced by expressive diction, the smoothest of legatos and a rare ease in the vocal stratosphere." Opera |
AZIO CORGHI
Divara-Wasser Und Blut(Complete Opera) Susanna Von Der Burg / Christopher Krieg / Hasnlutz Hildmann / Munster Symphony Orchestra / Will Humburg [ NAXOS 21ST CENTURY CLASSICS / 2 CD ] |
AZIO CORGHI
Divara - Wasser un Blut (complete opera) Susanna von der Burg / Hanslutz Hildmann / Michael Holm / Christopher Krieg / Robert Schwats [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (complete opera) Svetla Vassileva / Maya Dashuk / Fabio Sartori / Puccini Festival Orchestra and Chorus / Alberto Veronesi [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Although one of his most consistently lyrical operas, La rondine (The Swallow) remains one of Puccini's least known... |
Tagiavini/Tassinari
Opera Arias & Duets [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Stiffelio (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Luciano Ganci, Maria Katzarava, Francesco Landolfi, Giovanni Sala / Guillermo Garcia Calvo (cond) [ Naxos Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2019 ] "Graham Vick's production of Stiffelio is a triumph. This is music-drama with an equal stress on both words." BBC Music |