LAURO ROSSI
Rossi: Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008) Dimitra Theodossiou / Alessandro Liberatore / Paolo Pecchioli / Sebastian Catana / Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, David Crescenzi [ Naxos Opera DVD / DVD - released 27/Oct/2010 ] From the brooding opening scene in which Diomedes foretells the fall of Egypt to Cleopatra's death scene, this gripping grand opera by one of Italy's forgotten masters springs vividly to life in this revival filmed at the 2008 Macerata Sferisterio... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (complete opera) Dimitra Theodossiou / Roberto de Biasio / Enrico Guiseppe Iori / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Based on Victor Hugo's most sensational play, Lucrèce Borgia, a scandalous tale of murder, torture, incest, homosexuality, drunkenness and orgies, Donizetti's opera is one of the great masterpieces of Italian bel canto repertoire. While omitting... |
Dj Mclyntock
Classical Lounge:opera [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] |
VERDI
Falstaff (complet opera recorded in 1996) Domenico Trimarchi, Roberto Servile, Julia Faulkner / Hamburg State Opera / Will Humburg [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2009 ] "a Falstaff to savour and one that will surely bear reptition " - Gramophone Editor's Choice |
STANISLAW MONIUSZKO
Moniuszko: Paria [Complete Opera] Dominik Sutowicz, Iwona Sobotka, Piotr Friebe, Rafał Korpik / Poznań Opera House Orchestra & Chorus, Jacek Kaspszyk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Stanisław Moniuszko's music is filled with patriotic character and songful lyricism, and of his numerous operas he is perhaps best remembered for Halka (8.660485-86) and The Haunted Manor (8.111391-92). With his reputation as 'the father of Polish... |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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 |