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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie


Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Hippolyte), Veronique Gens (Aricie), Bernarda Fink (Phèdre)

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

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“Phèdre was a breakthrough role for Bernarda Fink, who sings here with grave sensuality, supported by a characterful and largely Francophone cast.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2011 ****

“[Minkowski] relishes the amazing theatricality of this score and generates crackling energy in faster music...[he] finds more spirit in it than any of his rivals.” International Record Review, October 2011

DG Archiv Opera! - 4779393

(CD - 3 discs)

$22.25

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Britten: Peter Grimes

Britten: Peter Grimes


Jon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Teresa Cahill (First Niece), Anne Pashley (Second Niece), John Dobson (Bob Boles), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), John Lanigan (Horace Adams), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson)

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

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“the cast is fine and the tension cumulative” BBC Music Magazine, July 2011 ***

“Sir Colin Davis takes a fundamentally darker, tougher view of Peter Grimes than the composer himself. Jon Vickers's powerful, heroic interpretation sheds keen new light on what arguably remains the greatest of Britten's operas...A genuine bargain.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition ***

Decca Opera! - 4782669

(CD - 2 discs)

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Wagner: Die Walküre

Wagner: Die Walküre


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DG Opera! - 4779135

(CD - 4 discs)

$15.75

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492


Sylvia McNair (Susanna), Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Cheryl Studer (Countess), Boje Skovhus (Count), Cecilia Bartoli (Cherubino), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Marcellina), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Bartolo), Carlo Allemano (Basilio), Peter Jelosits (Curzio), István Gáti (Antonio), Andrea Rost (Barbarina)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado

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“a little on the plush side, perhaps, but with a good cast including a nicely tremulous Cherubino from Cecilia Bartoli” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011

DG Opera! - 4779124

(CD - 3 discs)

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Verdi: Aida

Verdi: Aida


Leontyne Price (Aida), Jon Vickers (Radamès), Rita Gorr (Amneris), Robert Merrill (Amonasro), Plinio Clabassi (Il Re di Egitto), Giorgio Tozzi (Ramfis), Franco Ricciardi (Un Messaggero), Mietta Sighiele (Una Sacerdotessa)

Orchestra e coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir Georg Solti

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Decca Opera! - 4782679

(CD - 2 discs)

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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci


Leoncavallo:

I Pagliacci

José Cura (Canio), Barbara Frittoli (Nedda), Carlos Álvarez (Tonio), Charles Castronovo (Beppe), Simon Keenlyside (Silvio)

Netherlands Radio Choir and Het National Kinderkoor & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Mascagni:

Cavalleria Rusticana

Jessye Norman (Santuzza), Giuseppe Giacomini (Turiddu), Rosa Laghezza (Lucia), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Alfio), Marta Senn (Lola)

Choeurs de l'Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov


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Decca Opera! - 4782672

(CD - 2 discs)

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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72

Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72


Jessye Norman (Leonore), Reiner Goldberg (Florestan), Kurt Moll (Rocco), Pamela Coburn (Marzelline), Hans Peter Blochwitz (Jaquino), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Pizarro), Andreas Schmidt (Don Fernando), Wolfgang Millgramm (First Prisoner), Egbert Junghanns (Second Prisoner)

Staatsopernchor Dresden & Staatskappelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink

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“...the role of Leonore is vocally an ideal one for Norman's unique voice, the noblest instrument of them all...the rugged strength characteristic of Haitink's Beethoven is consistently contrasted against the most refined, transparent textures, with the Staatskapelle Dresden playing beautifully.” Gramophone Magazine, January 1991

Decca Opera! - 4782485

(CD - 2 discs)

$10.00

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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620


Edith Mathis (Pamina), Gottfried Hornik (Papageno), Karin Ott (Königin der Nacht), Francisco Araiza (Tamino), José Van Dam (Sarastro), Janet Perry (Papagena), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Erste Dame), Agnes Baltsa (Zweite Dame), Hanna Schwarz (Dritte Dame), Claudio Nicolai (Sprecher)

Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

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“The orchestral playing and Karajan's sense of hieratic mystery gild the deeply affecting Pamina of Edith Mathis, José Van Dam's noble Sarastro, and the inspired dialogue direction of veteran actor Will Quadflieg.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2011 ****

DG Opera! - 4779115

(CD - 2 discs)

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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk


Maria Ewing (Katerina), Aage Haugland (Boris), Sergei Larin (Sergei), Philip Langridge (Zinovi), Elena Zaremba (Sonyetka), Kurt Moll (Old Convict)

Orchestre et choeurs de l’Opera Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung

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“Chung's version of Shostakovich's sardonic tragedy still packs tremendous punch” BBC Music Magazine, December 2010 ****

DG Opera! - 4779118

(CD - 2 discs)

$15.25

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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer

Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer


Robert Hale (Der Holländer), Hildegard Behrens (Senta), Josef Protschka (Erik), Kurt Rydl (Daland), Iris Vermillion (Mary)

Konzertvereiningung der Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi

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Decca Opera! - 4782503

(CD - 2 discs)

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