Collection: CD Music Classical Opera

A grasshopper, a milkmaid’s pail, a shepherd, a fox, a country mouse, a cobbler... These are just some of the diverse and varied characters from the famous Fables that Jacques Offenbach decided to set to music in 1842, some 150 years after they were written by Jean de La Fontaine. With their vivi...

Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1.

Faust is a grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 Marc...

This live recording of Richard Wagner’s Der fliegende Hollander was made at the 2013 Beyreuth Fetival. This performance of Wagner’s opera, which tells the story of Daland, a Norwegian sea captain who just before reaching home is blown off course by a violent storm, received glowing reviews from t...

After a long hiatus due to illness, Georges Prtre returned to conduct at La Scala for the last time. One of the greatest conductors of our era, Prtre and the Teatro alla Scala were bound together by an amicable and artistic relationship of more than 50 years. On February 22, 2016, the Maestro too...

Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world.

A sumptuous world-premiere recording of Gluck's masterpiece of operatic reform, as it was presented in its Naples premiere at the Court Theatre of the Royal Palace in February of 1774, several months before the pastiche version with expanded cast debuted at the Teatro San Carlo.