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add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks STANISLAW MONIUSZKO Moniuszko: Halka [Complete Opera] Dominik Sutowicz, Magdalena Molendowska, Lukasz Goli?ski, Pozna? State Moniuszko Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Polish composer, conductor and teacher Stanisław Moniuszko is widely known as 'the father of Polish national opera'. Halka tells the tragic story of its title character, a peasant girl whose love for the noble Janusz is betrayed when he abandons her.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN Ruddigore (complete operetta Rec 1950) D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and Orchestra Isidore Godfrey (conductor) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] "the performance is certainly a landmark" - MusicWeb Jan 2005
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN The Pirates of Penzance / Trial by Jury (Rec 1949) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Darrell Fancourt / Leonard Osborn / Martyn Green / Leslie Rands [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 5/Jun/2001 ] "The 1949 Pirates was the old company's high point, with stalwarts such as Green, and the imposing Darrell Fancourt as the Pirate King, reveling in their parts in a way that still sounds fresh. It's and impression greatly enhanced by the deft...
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan (Recorded 1948-1954) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company / Darrell Fancourt / Leonard Osborn / Martyn Green / Leslie Rands / Peter Pratt / Muriel Harding / Ella Halman & others [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2007 ] "Good news for Anglophiles-the great Gilbert and Sullivan recordings of the late 1940s are on their way back into the catalogue, at budget prices and sounding better than ever. The best of these discs are not only agreeable but almost magical in...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN Gilbert & Sullivan: The Sorcerer (Rec 1953) plus highlights from the 1933 recording D'Oyly Carte Opera Company featuring Peter Pratt, Neville Griffiths and Donald Adams [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Nearly two complete recordings of The Sorcerer ... both are among the best of their era. ... One would be hard pressed to find a better rendition" - MusicWeb (April 2005)
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN The Mikado (Complete 1950 Recording) Martyn Green, Margaret Mitchell, Leonard Osborn, Darrell Fancourt / The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] The first release of the Historic 1950 D'Oyly Carte recordings
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN The Yeomen of the Guard (Complete 1950 Recording) plus orchestral music (1935) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (with Darrell Fancourt & Martyn Green), Isidore Godfrey / British Light Orchestra [ Naxos Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] Chronologically the eleventh Gilbert and Sullivan opera, if we number Trial By Jury as their first, and the sixth of the Savoy Opera productions, The Yeomen of the Guard was first given at the London Savoy on 3rd October, 1888.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT and SULLIVAN Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida (complete operetta rec 1954) plus The Gondoliers (excerpts rec 1931) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company with Donald Adams, George Baker, Leonard Osborn, Peter Pratt, Thomas Round and Victoria Sladen / Isidore Godfrey (conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / 2 CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] The three-act comic opera Princess Ida appeared, chronologically, between Iolanthe (1882) and The Mikado (1885) and was first performed under the baton of the composer, on 5th January 1884 at the 'electrically-lighted' Savoy Theatre.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GILBERT & SULLIVAN HMS Pinafore (complete operetta) Darrell Fancourt, Radley Flynn, Joan Gillingham, Martyn Green, Ella Halman / D'oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "Listening to these CDs again made me appreciate just how good some of the soloists were. Darrell Fancourt is striking as Dick Deadeye, Ella Halman is a superb Buttercup, and Joan Gillingham is a prim and proper Hebe." Mel@marbecks.co.nz
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) Désirée Rancatore / Roberto De Biasio / Luca Grassi / Enrico Giuseppe Iori / Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Lucia di Lammermoor's tragic tale of love, feuds, deception, madness and murder has thrilled audiences since its première in 1835.
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 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.
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks STEFANO LANDI Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] La morte d'Orfeo is regarded as the first Roman-style secular opera and is considered a milestone in the development of the genre opera as a whole. The substantial ensemble numbers are typical of the Roman opera style.
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 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...
add to cart $60.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK Humperdinck: Konigskinder [The King's Children] (complete opera recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Daniel Behle, Olga Kulchynska, Josef Wagner, Doris Soffel / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - 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...
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 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
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks WAGNER Rheingold (complete opera) Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Tenor), Catriona Smith (Soprano), Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] Wagner’s tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) was first performed as a whole in August 1876 at the new Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. The complete cycle consists of a Prologue, Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), followed the next day...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GASSMANN Opera Overtures Eclipse Chamber Orchestra / Sylvia Alimena [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Praise for the Sylvia Alimena / Eclipse Chamber Orchestra's recording of Toch Cello works: "Textures remain open even though quite closely recorded ... [i]t is a work of gutsy virtuosity and spidery interplay ... all most aptly and engagingly done...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GOUNOD Romeo et Juliette (complete opera recorded live in 1935) Eide Norena / Charles Hackett / Leon Rothier / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Louis Hasselmans [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Norena characterizes Juliette as a real teenager: her singing is full of wide-eyed wonder and hope until the tragic dénouement. Hackett declaims Roméo’s music with a beauty of legato tone and an amplitude of phrasing which is rarely heard today....
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks VERDI La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1949) Eleanor Steber / Giuseppe d Stefano / Robert Merrill / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Giuseppe Antonicelli [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "For the most part, a vocal feast awaits you, broadcast live from the Met on January 22, 1949... The principals in this marvelous La Traviata are captured in their exultant primes."
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks FRANZ SCHREKER Schreker: Der Ferne Klang (Complete Opera) Elena Grigorrescu, Thomas Harper / Hagen Opera Chorus, Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Halasz [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Naxos has included a detailed synopsis matching the CDs tracks. The solid performance gives a good idea of the work's visionary strengths and its prolix weaknesses." - San...