Collection: CD Music Classical Opera

Following the success of ‘Arias for Nicolino’, a musical portrait of the celebrated castrato of Handel’s era (A427), Carlo Vistoli turns his attention to Venetian opera of the seventeenth century. The Italian countertenor – ‘a voice [...] intrinsically beautiful, strong and powerful’ (Opera Magaz...

Giulia Semenzato, already renowned for her interpretations of the Baroque repertory and her Mozartian roles, presents here her first solo album. The programme, entitled Angelica diabolica, is devoted to the female protagonists of Ludovico Ariosto, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso, whose em...

A composer inextricably linked with London's Covent Garden, Thomas Arne's greatest opera, Artaxerxes, was premièred at the Theatre Royal, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House, on 2 February 1762, and remained in the Covent Garden repertory until the late 1830s - where it received a document...

In 1733, Pergolesi created La Serva padrona in Naples, which won over Paris in 1752, becoming the symbol of Italian music. Quickly played in French as La Servante Maitresse, it inspired Rousseau for his Devin du Village, a parody of which was created under the title Les Amours de Bastien et Basti...

This performance features Mika Kares; Szilvia Voros; and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conducted by Susanna Malkki.

This release celebrates the 200th anniversary of opera master, Giuseppe Verdi, and the 80th birthday of opera's great diva, Montserrat Caballé.

The MDR Radio Choir and its artistic director Philipp Ahmann present a selection of Felix Mendelssohn's choral works, which are among the highlights of 19th century sacred music in Germany. You can hear settings of psalms, motets, Latin verses, excerpts from the "German Liturgy" and the ethereal ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875. The opera, written in the genr...

This production was recorded in the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli in 1960 and is sung in Italian. This CD set also includes excerpts from two other productions; one with Giuletta Simionato as Carmen, recorded in Palermo in 1959 (sung in Italian) and one with Simionato as Carmen and Di Stefano as ...