Search Results: decca opera
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MASSENET
Massenet: Werther (complete opera recorded in 1980) Jose Carreras, Frederica von Stadt, Thomas Allen / Orchestra Royal Opera House, Covent garden, Colin Davis [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "von Stade's performance can hardly be faulted. Her voice is the very incarnation of Charlotte's essential simplicity of character" (Gramophone) |
WAGNER
Das Rheingold (complete opera) Theo Adam, Gerd Nienstedt, Hermin Esser, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger, Erwin Wohlfahrt / Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Bohm [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] 'Warmly recommended . . . more immediately involving than any' The Penguin Guide To CDs |
WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) Wolfgang Windgassen, Erwin Wohlfahrt, Theo Adam, Gustav Neidlinger, Kurt Böhme, Birgit Nilsson / Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Böhm [ Decca Operas / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Windgassen creates a powerful image in sound as the enraptured Siegfried, while Böhm's wonderfully expansive account of the hero's Funeral March is, for me, one of the most moving accounts on disc." BBC Music Magazine, May 2008 |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera recordedin 1992) Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara, Alessandro Corbelli / Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] "All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate conti |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Turn of the Screw (Complete Opera) Peter Pears / Joan Cross / David Hemmings, boy soprano, English Opera, Britten [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/Jan/2002 ] Decca's classic recordings of the music of Benjamin Britten |
Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Hans Sotin, Vienna Philharmonic, Solti
Wagner - Lohengrin (Complete Opera) [ Decca Records / 4 CD - released 11/Aug/2002 ] Solti's monumental recording now remastered |
VERDI
Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1962) Renato Cioni, Joan Sutherland, Cornell MacNeil / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Nino Sanzogno [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Joan Sutherland (Gilda), Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Renato Cioni (Il Duca), Cesare Siepi (Sparafucile), Stefania Malagu (Maddalena), Anna di Stassio (Giovanna) |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore [Elixir of Love] (Complete opera) Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Robert Scaltriti / Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opera National de Lyon / Evelino Pido [ Decca Opera! / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "..becomes a clear and welcome choice for this work, worth every penny of the asking price." (Gramophone) |
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ROSSINI
La Donna Del Lago (complete opera recorded in 1994) Rockwell Blake / Giorgio Surjan / June Anderson / Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan / Riccardo Muti [ Decca Classic Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2009 ] |
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Russell Watson
Amore - The Opera Album [ Decca / CD - released 4/Feb/2013 ] |
WEBER
Der Freischutz (Complete opera) Siegfried Lorenz, Karita Mattila, Eva Lind, Thomas Thomaschke / Staatskapelle Dresden / Sir Colin Davis [ Decca Classic Opera / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "The actual sound in this new recording is, especially in the Wolf's Glen, vivid and detailed, well capturing the eloquence of Weber's wonderful scoring." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Favourite Overtures [incls 'Ride of the Valkyries'] Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Opera Gala / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Richard Wagner was one of the most revolutionary figures in the history of music, a composer who made pivotal contributions to the development of harmony and musical drama that reverberate even today. Indeed, though Wagner occasionally produced... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Jnino Machaidze, Juan Diego Florez, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo / Michele Mariotti(cond) [ Decca Music Group Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2014 ] In this high-definition film of Bellini's historical bel-canto drama, "I Puritani", tenor superstar Juan Diego Flórez is partnered by new young Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze, in her first appearance on Decca DVD. Joining them in a striking new... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologno / Juan Diego Florez, Anna Goryachova, Olga Peretyatko / Michele Mariotti (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 12/Dec/2019 ] The opera that few tenors dare sing and which Flórez has made his own throughout his career. Recorded at the 2012 Pesaro Festival, Flórez reprises the role that shot him to stardom in 1996 aged twenty-three. Conducting is the up-and-coming... |
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Barbiere de Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real, Madrid / Maria Bayo, Juan Diego Florez, Pietro Spagnoli, Ruggero Raimondi / Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) [ Decca DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] G :- A top international cast including soprano María Bayo, tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and the great bass baritone Ruggero Raimondi. |
W. A. MOZART
Cosi Fan Tutte (complete opera recorded in 1990) Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Allen, Francisco Araiza / Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca Classic Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "A strikingly light, fresh Così with a truly superb ensemble, idiomatic and characterful; the voices are large, but only Mattila sounds a little weighty." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
MASCAGNI / WAGNER / DELIBES / PUCCINI / MOZART / GOUNOD / BIZET / etc
Greatest Opera Show on Earth: The World's Greatest Opera Album Various artists incl. Alagna, Carreras, Fleming, Domingo, te Kanawa, Pavarotti & Tebaldi [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 15/Jan/1998 ] A specially priced double CD |
ROSSINI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Kálmán, John Osborn, Javier Camarena / Muhai Tang (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] DVD/Blu-ray of the Month - July 2014 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sosarme (complete opera recorded in 1955) Alfred Deller, William Herbert, Nancy Evans, Margaret Ritchie, etc / The Saint Cecilia Orchestra, Anthony Lewis [ ABC Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] 'Sosarme should cause a good deal of excitement … L'Oiseau-Lyre has assembled a brilliant cast.' New York Times |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Enigma Variations / Froissart / Starlight Express / etc Alison Hagley (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Robert Cohen (cello) / Royal Philharmonic / Welsh National Opera Orch. / Sir Charles Mackerras [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2007 ] "Mackerras captures the wistful charm of the quieter pieces (on CD2) very effectively, and spirits are high in the more robust items" Gramophone |
