GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (complete opera recorded in 2007) Teatro Donizetti / Dimitra Theodossiou / Roberto de Biasio / Enrico Giuseppe Iori / Tiziano Severini, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] G - Filmed at the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, Italy, during performances in the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, 30 November and 2 December 2007 |
Tebaldi/Gueden/Prandelli
Puccini: Great Opera Recording [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022) Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Long a Christmas favourite, this new Viennese production, sung in German, boldly re-examines the story finding its key elements to be fantasy, empathy and the enduring power of love. |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Dec/2023 ] "The cast under Magnus Loddgard's baton is good. Boy soprano Tempu Ishijima is outstanding in the title role, incredibly touching but not mawkish, and as his mother, Dshamilja Kaiser has a strong mezzo." Opera Now |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Euryanthe (complete opera) BLU-RAY Theater an der Wien / Jacqueline Wagner, Theresa Kronthaler, Norman Reinhardt, Andrew Foster-Williams / Constantin Trinks (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "Constantin Trinks directs a lovingly nurtured unfolding of Weber's fantastic score. He essays a perfect balance of classical restraint with outright Wagnerian urgency and the orchestra with its very talented French horn section rises magnificently." |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Alfonso und Estrella (complete opera recorded in 1997) Theater an der Wien / Olaf Bar / Luba Orgonasova / Thomas Hampson / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] G - Filmed at the Theater an der Wien during performances in Wiener Festwochen, May 1997. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Agrippina (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Theater an der Wien / Patricia Bardon, Jake Arditti, Danielle de Niese, Filippo Mineccia / Thomas Hengelbrock (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 18/Sep/2018 ] During his years in Italy, Handel absorbed the music of his contemporaries and mastered new stylistic trends. Though the staging of La resurrezione was a memorable event in the Roman musical world, it was the production of Agrippina that marked... |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2017) Theater Freiburg / Kim-Lillian Strebel, Anja Jung, Anat Czarny, Katharina Melnikova / Fabrice Bollon (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] The timeless nature of this Freiburg production derives from an 'Alice in Wonderland' look that stimulates the imagination as much as it does the senses. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Lohengrin (Complete opera recorded 1953) Theo Adam (bass) Hans Braun (baritone) Josef Greindl (bass) Astrid Varnay (soprano) Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) / Bayreuth Festival / Joseph Keilberth [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 3 CD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] "for this price and with this quality of transfer, the Naxos stands alone." (MusicWeb June 2005) |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Werther (complete opera recorded in 1931) Paul Milliet, Edouard Blau, Georges Hartmann / Paris National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Elie Cohen [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] "This first recording of Werther is still the best. There have been many others in up-to-date stereo sound with starry international casts, but none so idiomatic, well conducted, and beautifully sung." ClassicsToday |
Thompson Smilie
Opera Expalined: Mozart: Magig [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 5/Aug/2002 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Introduction To La Traviata Written by Thomson Smillie, Narrated by David Timson [ Naxos Educational Opera Explained / CD - released 3/Jun/2002 ] "If you have a friend or relative who has just started listening to opera, this will make a perfect gift. La Traviata is one of the most beloved of Verdi's many operas" Flying Inkpot |
PUCCINI
Il Tabarro (Complete opera 1955 recording) [plus opera arias sung by Tito Gobbi] Tito Gobbi (baritone) Giacinto Prandelli (tenor) Margaret Mas (soprano) / Rome Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Vincenzo Bellezza [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "All in all this is an essential buy. If you don't have it already, then get it. You will probably want other more modern accounts of the work, though there are not many in the current catalogue. But for dramatic truth this one can hardly be... |
TOBIAS PICKER
Picker: Opera Without Words / The Encantadas Tobias Picker (narrator) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Tobias Picker, hailed as "a genuine creator" by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives... |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Furstin Ninetta (Complete operetta) Tua Aberg, Elin Rombo, Henriikka Grondahl, Fredrik Strid, Jesper Taube / Stockholm Strauss Orchestra / Valeria Csanyi [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "Among the soloists Jesper Taube's Cassim stands out as a superb operetta charmer: manly, warm of voice, with the right operetta lilt and expressive with words. The recording engineer is Gert Palmcrantz, which for many years has been a guarantee of... |
VERDI / MOZART / MASSENET / PURCELL / GLUCK / BELLINI / etc
A-Z of Opera; includes a 762 page illustrated book (Aida, Dideo & Aeneas, Fidelio, Thais, The Marriage of Figaro, Magic Flute, Nabucco, La Traviata) Various Artists [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2000 ] 2-and-a-half hours of opera's most glorious and moving moments! |
Various Artists
Beethoven: Fidelio [ Naxos Opera Plus / 3 CD - released 3/May/2004 ] |
Various Artists
The Best Of Opera - Vol. 2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
Various Artists
The Best Of Opera Vol.5 [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/2000 ] |
VARIOUS
Can-Can And Other Dances From Opera Various Artists [ NAXOS / CD ] |