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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Montserrat Caballé: Diva
Bellini: | Casta Diva (from Norma) Mira, o Norma (from Norma) Ah, non credea mirarti (from La Sonnambula) Dopo l'oscuro nembo (from Adelson e Salvini) Col sorriso d'innocenza (from Il Pirata) | Bizet: | L'amour est un oiseau rebelle 'Habanera' (from Carmen) | Catalani: | Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (from La Wally) | Charpentier, G: | Depuis le jour (from Louise) | Cilea: | Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur) | Delibes: | Lakmé: Dôme épais (Flower Duet) | Donizetti: | E sara in questi orribili momenti (from Roberto Devereux) Vivi ingrato (from Roberto Devereux) Com' e bello! (from Lucrezia Borgia) Dio Possente! Ah! Tu ben sai (from Gemma di Vergy) Maria Stuarda: Final Scene | Flotow: | The Last Rose of Summer (Martha) Martha! Herr! Sie lacht zu meinen Leiden (from Martha) | Giordano, U: | La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier) | Gluck: | Divinités du Styx (from Alceste) | Heuberger: | O mon cher amant (from La Périchole) | Lehár: | Lippen schweigen (from Die Lustige Witwe) Warum hast du mich wachgeküßt? (from Friederike) | Leoncavallo: | Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!.... Hui! Stridono lassù (from I Pagliacci) Musette svaria sulla bocca viva (from La Bohème) | Lloyd Webber, A: | Wishing you were somehow here again (from The Phantom of the Opera) | Mascagni: | Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana) | Massenet: | Il est doux, il est bon (from Hérodiade) Pleurez, mes yeux (Le Cid) | Mozart: | Sull' aria che soave zeffiretto (from Le Nozze di Figaro) Pa-pa-pa-pa-Papagena (from Die Zauberflöte) | Offenbach: | Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) | Ponchielli: | Suicidio! (from La Gioconda) È un anatema (from La Gioconda) | Puccini: | Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) In questa reggia (from Turandot) Senza mamma, o bimbo (from Suor Angelica) | Rodrigo: | En Aranjuez con tu amor | Rossini: | Non si dà follia maggiore (from il Turco in Italia) Di tanti palpiti (from Tancredi) L'ora fatal s'appressa ... Giusto ciel! (from L'Assedio di Corinto) Tanti affetti in tal momento (from La donna del lago) Assisa a' piè d'un salice (from Otello) Armida: D'amor al dolce impero Serbami ognor (from Semiramide) Duetto buffo di due gatti (Comic Duet for Two Cats) | Saint-Saëns: | Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) | Stolz, R: | Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein (from Der Favorit) | Verdi: | Ah! Non m'hanno ingannata!...Grave a core innamorato (from Un Giorno di Regno) Qual prodigio!...Non fu sogno! (from I Lombardi) Tu al cui sguardo onnipossente (from I due Foscari) Oh nel fuggente nuvolo (from Attila) Egli non riede ancora! (from Il Corsaro) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Vieni! t'affretta!…Or tutti sorgete (from Macbeth) Mercè, dilette amiche 'Bolero' (from I Vespri Siciliani) Oh, cielo! Dove son'io!...Ah! dagli scanni eterei...Ah, dal sen di quella tomba (from Aroldo) Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Sempre libera (from La Traviata) Addio del passato (from La Traviata) Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore) Pietà ti prenda del mio dolor (from Aida) Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) Ave Maria (from Otello) | Wagner: | Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) |
This is a x6 CD budget-priced boxset, released to celebrate the 80th birthday & career of opera's last great diva, Montserrat Caballe. Contents: Disc 1 - Rossini & Donizetti. Disc 2 - Bellini & Verdi. Disc 3 - Verdi & Puccini. Disc 4 - Bizet & Wagner. Disc 5 - Operetta & Zarzuela. Disc 6 - Encores, Hits & Evergreens. | 
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| |  | The Very Best of Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni was one of Herbert von Karajan’s favourite singers; indeed, he is known to have commented that if he could have any voice in the world, it would be hers. Combining a stunning voice with heartfelt acting, Freni is equally at home in the lighter roles, such as Mozart’s Susanna and Zerlina, as in the weightier roles of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut and Tosca. This collection brings together arias from throughout Freni’s illustrious career. |
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| |  | The Early Domingo
CD 1: Arias from Giulio Cesare, Don Giovanni, Il duca d'Alba, La Juive, Luisa Miller, Lohengrin, Simon Boccanegra, Eugene Onegin, Le Villi, Iris, Werther, Luisa Fernanda, El último romántico, Rigoletto, La traviata CD 2: Arias from La bohème, L'elisir d'amore, Pagliacci, Manon, L'arlesiana, Martha, La fanciulla del West, Rigoletto, Le Cid, L'Africaine, Aida, Carmen, Andrea Chénier, Cavalleria rusticana, Il trovatore, Tosca CD 3: Arias from Cavalleria rusticana, Faust, Rigoletto, La forza del destino, Adriana Lecouvreur, Turandot, La fanciulla del West, Gianni Schicchi, Les Pêcheurs de perles, Un ballo in maschera, Roméo et Juliette, Chatterton, Mefistofele, Norma, Andrea Chénier, Tosca, I Vespri sicilliani, Il trovatore, Otello CD 4: Arias from Don Carlo, Un ballo in maschera, I Vespri sicilliani, La forza del destino, Otello, Aida CD 5: Arias from La bohème, Manon Lescaut, Francesca da Rimini, Les Pêcheurs de perles, Los claveles, Norma, La Gioconda, Madama Butterfly
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| |  | L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombraDawn divides the light from the shadows
Anna Caterina Antonacci’s enchanting recital entitled 'L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra' delves into a colourful landscape of French and Italian art song. She explores the rich tonal and emotional contrasts of works spanning almost three centuries, with deeply engaging interpretations throughout. Antonacci is famed for her profound and vivid appearances both on the opera stage [most recently in Covent Garden's The Trojans] and recital platform, and this recording manages to capture her spellbinding, dramatic performance and her ability to give clear voice to the varied, ever-shifting psychological states portrayed through this emotional programme, recorded live on 5th December, 2011. “Even without her magnetic stage presence, Antonacci presents a vivid 'face' in all she sings here...Antonacci's tone - fierily intense rather than especially rich - can sound a touch strained at climaxes. But she responds with quicksilver intelligence and empathy to the shifting emotional states of these yearning and/or disenchanted lovers...so gripping is Antonacci in everything she sings that it seems churlish to carp.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “If one wants to be pernickety one could possibly say that Antonacci’s vibrato is sometimes over-generous and that she occasionally sounds slightly worn. Under some circumstances this could be quite serious criticism but with so expressive and life-enhancing a singer it hardly matters. This is a delightful programme, delightfully executed and with delightful accompaniments. I wish I had been there!” MusicWeb International, December 2012 “Antonacci and her scrupulous accmpanist Donald Sulzen, provide alert and imaginative accounts of all their material...Antonacci brings individuality to everything she sings, her colouristic range reinforcing her careful definition of text.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Maria Callas: Lyric & Coloratura Arias
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| |  | La Stupenda: The Glory of Joan Sutherland
Cilea: | Adriana Lecouvreur Joan Sutherland (Adriana), Heather Begg (Principessa di Bouillon), Anson Austin (Maurizio), John Shaw (Michonnet), Jeffrey Black (Quinault), Christopher Dawes (Poisson), Judith Saliba (Mlle. Jouvenot), Jennifer Bermingham (Mlle. Dangeville), Graeme Ewer (L'Abate di Chazeuil) George Ogilvie (director) | Donizetti: | La Fille du Régiment Joan Sutherland (Marie), Anson Austin (Tonio), Heather Begg (Marquise of Berkenfield), Gregory Yurisich (Sulpice), Gordon Wilcock (Hortensius), Stephen Bennett (A Peasant), David Lemke (Corporal), James Huxtable (Dancing Master), Drew McFarlane (Notary) Sandro Sequi (director) Lucrezia Borgia Joan Sutherland (Lucrezia Borgia), Ronald Stevens (Gennaro), Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini), Richard Allman (Don Alfonso), Robin Donald (Jacopo Liveretto), Lyndon Terracini (Don Apostolo Gazella), Gregory Yurisich (Ascanio Petrucci), Lamberto Furlan (Oloferno Vitellozzo), Pieter Van der Stolk (Gubetta), Graeme Ewer (Rustighello), John Germain (Astolfo), Neville Grave (Un servo), Eddie Wilden (Un coppiere) Stephen Lawless (director) | Meyerbeer: | Les Huguenots Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Amanda Thane (Valentine), Anson Austin (Raoul de Nangis), Suzanne Johnston (Urbain), John Pringle (Count de Nevers), Clifford Grant (Marcel), John Wegner (Count de Saint Bris) Lotfi Mansouri (stage director) |
The Australian Opera Chorus & The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge This unique 5 DVD collection brings together, for the first time, the legendary Australian soprano in four key dramatic coloratura roles that were cornerstones of her repertory – Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots, Marie in La fille du Régiment, and the eponymous heroines in Adriana Lecouvreur and Lucrezia Borgia. Accompanying them is the celebrated gala concert she gave in 1983 with her long-time colleague (and one-time protégée), Luciano Pavarotti, featuring extracts from several other major Sutherland roles, including Violetta (La Traviata), Ophélie (Hamlet) and, of course, her signature role, Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor). All four operas and gala concert were filmed in the iconic Sydney Opera House, and conducted by her husband, Maestro Richard Bonynge. Running time: 12 hours 5 minutes Subtitles: EN Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Art of Renée Fleming
plus: Bonus tracks: 15. Wheels of a Dream [with Bryn Terfel] 16. Amazing Grace 17. Rodgers - Carousel / You’ll Never Walk Alone 18. Hallelujah – [new cut]
The Art of Renée Fleming brings together 18 defining tracks spanning Renée’s finest Decca recordings, including favorite arias by Puccini, Handel and Gershwin and duets with Bryn Terfel and Plácido Domingo. Four special bonus tracks reflect Renée’s prominence beyond classical repertoire with two Broadway classics, Amazing Grace - which she memorably sang at the site of the World Trade Centre and a brand new version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Domingo sings Caruso
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| |  | Placido Domingo: La Voce d'Oro
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Angela Gheorghiu (Adriana), Jonas Kaufmann (Maurizio), Olga Borodina (La principessa di Bouillon), Alessandro Corbelli (Michonnet), David Soar (Quinault), Iain Paton (Poisson), Janis Kelly (Mademoiselle Jouvenot), Sarah Castle (Mademoiselle Dangeville), Maurizio Muraro (Principe di Bouillon), Bonaventura Bottone (Abbé de Chazeuil) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director) Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea’s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana’s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouillon. David McVicar’s hit production – the first performance of the opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for more than a century – presents the life of the French actress as a blurring of the distinction between fantasy and reality. The action revolves around a life-size Baroque Theatre, taking us from the bustle and colour of the first act backstage at the playhouse, to the bare final scenes as the drama reaches its fatal climax. The DVD & Blu-ray contain bonus footage featuring interviews with the principal artists, Director, Set Designer and Conductor. “Kaufmann and Gheorghiu radiate sexiness" (Financial Times) “Gheorghiu is a dream" (The Independent) “Gheorghiu is an inspired piece of casting for the heroine...There is an excitement about [Kaufmann's] voice and stage presence that is infectious, ...Borodina chews up the scenery, singing with a voice so commanding that it takes you aback...McVicar’s production is another treat, this time for the eyes...All told, then, this set is an absolute winner. It even supersedes Levine’s Sony CDs as an overall first choice for this opera in any format.” MusicWeb International, June 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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