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Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY cover
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Death in Venice (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY cover
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Death in Venice (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY
English National Opera / John Graham-Hall, Andrew Shore, Tim Mead / Edward Gardner (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2014 ]
"Graham-Hall is a real stage-animal, convincing us utterly of his descent into obsession...every colour, timbre and texture of this richly imaginative score comes blazing through under Gardner's baton". (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera)
Elektra (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Elektra (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / Evelyn Herlitzius, Waltraud Meier, Adrianne Pieczonka, Mikhail Petrenko / Esa-Pekka Salonen (cond)
[ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2014 ]
"There's nothing utilitarian about the cast, though, least of all its Elektra. Precise in pitch, unfailingly intense and charismatic, the German soprano Evelyn Herlitzius conquers every challenge." (Gramophone Award WINNER 2015 - Opera)
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY cover
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY
Dutch National Opera / John Osborn, Mariangela Sicilia, Maurizio Muraro, Michèle Losier / Sir Mark Elder (cond)
[ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/May/2018 ]
"Osborn has all the vocal verve and dash to make the devil-may-care sculptor the constant centre of attention. Mariangela Sicilia uses her fearless, technically brilliant vocalism to sustain his beloved Teresa's vibrant personality…a musical treat"
Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY cover
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Benjamin: Written on Skin (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY cover
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Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY cover
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GEORGE BENJAMIN
Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY
Royal Opera House / Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, Gyula Orendt, Peter Hoare / George (cond)
[ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2019 ]
"At just 90 minutes, this is an opera of impressive concentration with not a word or note wasted." Gramophone
Der fliegende Holländer cover
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SCHUMANN
Der fliegende Holländer
Christian Gerhaher, Christiane Iven, Alaistair Mills, Werner Gura / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
[ RCO Live SACD / 2 CD - released 24/Nov/2014 ]
"Anja Kampe provides one of the best Sentas on disc … there's a welcome fullness and firmness to her tone, together with a sense of identification with the character's obsessiveness." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera)
Arnold: The Dancing Master, Op. 34 cover
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MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: The Dancing Master, Op. 34
Eleanor Dennis (sop) Catherine Carby (mezzo) Fiona Kimm (contr) Ed Lyon (ten) Mark Wilde (ten), Graeme Broadbent (bass-bar), BBC Concert Orchestra
[ Resonus / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ]
"Arnold's inventive, eclectic score is vividly brought to life...this is no dismissible pastiche, but a seriously worthwhile addition to the repertoire." BBC Music Award WINNER 2021 - Opera
Miroir(s): Opera Arias cover
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Puccini: Le Willis (complete original production) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Le Willis (complete original production)
Ermonela Jaho, Arsen Soghomonyan, Brian Mulligan / Opera Rara Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
[ Opera Rara / CD - released 25/Sep/2019 ]
"The chorus and orchestra are both impressive, while conductor Mark Elder delivers a lively and loving account of the score" BBC Music Award Finalist 2020
Siegfried (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival) cover
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WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) (Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival)
Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gustav Neidlinger / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth
[ Testament / 4 CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ]
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2006: Historic - "I keep relistening to Keilberth's forging scene closing Act I. Keilberth naturally unfolds the lyrical strength of full rich Bayreuth strings, basses and timps deepen and gather force, Mime animates...
Salieri: Armida cover
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Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande cover
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Julien Behr, Vannina Santoni, Alexandre Duhamel, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, etc / Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille François-Xavier Roth
[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2022 ]
'I enjoyed the orchestral contributions of Les Siècles and the lucidity that period instruments bring to Debussy's score...there's an almost clinical clarity to their playing.' Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Opera
Michael Spyres - BariTenor cover
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MOZART / MEHUL / OFFENBACH / LEONCAVALLO / LEHAR / WAGNER / RAVEL / etc
Michael Spyres - BariTenor
Michael Spyres (baritone/tenor) / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja, Choeur d'hommes de l'Opéra national du Rhine
[ Erato Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ]
"The range of roles is astonishing, but then so are these performances...Spyres really is a tenor - and a baritone, it seems - who has the operatic world at his feet." Gramophone Award WINNER 2022 - Vocal & Ensemble
Mozart: Il Sogno di Scipione (complete opera) cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Il Sogno di Scipione (complete opera)
The Choir and Orchestra of Classical Opera, Ian Page
[ Signum / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2017 ]
Classical Opera continue their continuing complete Mozart opera recording series with the one-act dramatic serenade 'Il sogno di Scipione', K126. Composed in 1771 as a celebratory homage to Prince Archbishop Sigismund Schrattenbach of Salzburg,...
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias cover
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FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Ombra mai fu: Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) / Ensemble Artaserse, with Emöke Baráth (soprano)
[ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 15/Mar/2019 ]
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 WINNER - Recital
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera)
Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Michele Pertusi / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accadmia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
[ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ]
"A Turandot for the ages? This recording holds its own against venerable competition and, in the original Alfano completion, is unique." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Opera
Stravinsky: Persephone (compete melodrama) cover
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Persephone (compete melodrama)
Andrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller / Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
[ Pentatone SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ]
"Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise. In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or word seems wasted…The choral singing is warm and focused."
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (complete opera) cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (complete opera)
Dimitris Tiliakos, Vito Priante, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Kenneth Tarver, Karina Gauvin / MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis
[ Sony Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2017 ]
"Do not expect a familiar 'warm bath' experience here; it offers an invigorating shower of fresh new insights" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017 - Opera Winner