DONIZETTI / LEONCAVALLO / ROSSINI / VERDI
Great Operatic Arias - Alan Opie sing Bel Canto Alan Opie (bass) with orchestra & chorus [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 20/Oct/2003 ] Opie has been a faithful servant of opera for Britain for many years, and this compilation presents him in on impressive form. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino (complete opera recorded in 2002) Alessandro Codeluppi, Maurizio Leoni, Elena Rossi / I Virtuosi Italiani, Claudio Desderi (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Born in Pesaro in 1792, the son of a horn-player and a singer, Rossini even in childhood had experience of the theatre, both as an orchestral player and as a singer himself. |
VERDI / ROSSINI / VERDI / BELLINI
Great Operatic Arias Alistair Miles (bass) with various accompaniments [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 4/Apr/2000 ] Sensational bass arias recorded in English for the first time! |
VERDI / WAGNER / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / STRAUSS / ROSSINI / BIZET
Gala Concerts: A Verdi Gala From Berlin / Gala Concert from the Vienna State Opera / Great Stars in Opera [4 DVD set] Andrea Rost, Ramon Vargas, Alan Titus, Agnes Baltsa, Placido Domingo, Neil Shicoff / Various orchestras & conductors [ EuroArts DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] The greatest names in opera take to the stage for these galas from three musical centres that have come to stand as symbols of rebirth - Vienna, Berlin and Dresden. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia (complete opera) Anna Rita Gemmabella / Islam-Ali-Zade / Riccardo Botta / ARS Brunensis Chamber Choir / Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia is a bold fusion of biblical and secular subjects set to brilliant, thrilling music. Although intended to be staged during Lent, Ciro includes all the time-honoured ingredients of serious opera such as the test of love,... |
ROSSINI
Matilde di Shabran (complete opera) Annick Massis / Juan Diego FlArez / Prague Chamber Choir / Orquesta SinfAnica De Galicia / Riccardo Frizza [ Decca / 3 CD - released 19/Sep/2006 ] "The opera itself is a joy. Typically pacey and tuneful, it was originally composed in a mad hurry, though revised at leisure. On this evidence it deserves to be, if not a mainstay, then at least a regular visitor to opera houses." Recording of the... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Eduardo e Cristina (complete opera) Baurzhan Anderzhano, Laura Polverelli, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Kenneth Tarver, Xiang Xu / Virtuosi Brunensis, Gianluigi Gelmetti [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Rossini's Eduardo e Cristina was a huge success in its day, but as perhaps the last centone opera (one assembled from previously existing material) by a major composer, it became forgotten under the subsequent tide of Romantic idealism. Today we can... |
ROSSINI
The Barber of Seville (Complete Opera in English) Bruce Ford (tenor) Andrew Shore (baritone) Della Jones (mezzo) / English National Opera [ Chandos / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2000 ] .A further addition to Chandos's Opera in English series |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Armida (complete opera recorded live in 1952) Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, Mario Filippeschi / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Rossini is a pillar of bel canto opera, but he was less central to Callas's art and career than Bellini and Donizetti. She performed two of his comic works - Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia - and in 1952, with her mentor Tullio Serafin... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Nicola Rossi-Lemen, Nicolai Gedda / Milan La Scala Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] Callas's Fiorilla is the tenth complete opera recording she made, the only one for EMI [Columbia/Angel] that she undertook of a then unknown work, and which she would later sing at La Scala, Milan. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Semiramide (complete opera) Alex Penda, Marianna Pizzolato, Lorenzo Regazzo, Andrea Mastroni / Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "this new Semiramide rivals Pesaro standards thanks to Fogliani's ever-alert and lively conducting. His cast includes singers who challenge this long and wonderful opera's most famous interpreters on disc...this is an unmissable bargain." (Sunday Ti |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Le Siege De Corinthe (complete opera) Lorenzo Regazzo, Majella Cullagh / Camerata Bach Choir, PoznaĆ & Virtuosi Brunensis, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Rossini adapted his own Italian opera of 1820, Maometto, for the Parisian stage under the title of Le Siège de Corinthe. As Rossini's original work had already absorbed distinctive French characteristics such as heroic arias, and characterisation... |
VERDI / PUCCINI / DONIZETTI / MASCAGNI / ROSSINI
Italian Opera Choruses Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lamberto Gardelli [ EMI Studio / CD - released 25/Jan/1995 ] 11 masterpieces from Italian opera. |
BEETHOVEN / GLUCK / KALMAN / ROSSINI / SULLIVAN / etc
Great Operatic Arias Vol. 1 Christine Brewer (soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 15/Apr/2009 ] "Hats off, gentlemen. A diva. The real, rare, wondrous thing. Her name is Christine Brewer." Evening Standard |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Scala di Seta [The Silken Ladder] (complete opera) Claudia Urru, Meagan Sill (sopranos) Michele Angelini, Remy Burnens (tenors) Emmanuel Franco (baritone) Eugenio Di Lieto (bass) / Kraków Philharmonic [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Gioachino Rossini was only 20 when he was commissioned to compose La scala di seta. It is one of four farsa comica operas which fed popular demand for this genre in Venice in the early 19th century and was wildly successful. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Scala di Seta (complete opera recorded live at Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, August 2009) Daniele Zanfardino, Olga Peretyatko, Anna Malavasi, José Manuel Zapata / Claudio Scimone (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "The cast is uniformly good. With her film-star looks and shiny top register, Olga Peretyatko has a lot of fun as Giulia, Carlo Lepore shows off as the vacuous Blansac, Jose Manuel Zapata makes an engaging Dorvil" (BBC Music) |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Semiramide (complete opera) Deborah Riedel / Filippo Adami / Altensteig Rossini Choir / Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra / Richard Bonynge (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] "An interesting and very worthwhile release that throws light on a neglected corner of Meyerbeer's career. It is even more welcome as it is well performed and decently recorded" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
PUCCINI / ROSSINI / SAINT-SAENS / LEONCAVALLO / DONIZETTI / FLOTOW / MASCAGNI/ etc
Great Arias & Ensembles from your favourite opera (sung in English) Della Jones / Dennis O'Neill / Jane Eaglen / Cynthia Haymon / Susan Parry / Alan Opie / Diana Montague / Philharmonia Orchestra / David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "Here is a 74-minute sampler from Chandos' excellent Opera in English series. Tenor Dennis O'Neill features prominently in many excerpts and he's a known quantity...This is a nice collection, unique in its own way, and recommended."(ClassicsToday) |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / GIORDANO / MASCAGNI / ROSSINI / etc
More Favourite Tenor Arias Dennis O'neill (tenor) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry [ Chandos Opera in English / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] This is the second recital disc from Dennis O'Neill, one of Britain's finest tenors.The first recital received great critical acclaim. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Mosè in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Duomo di Milano / Ruggero Raimondi, Isabelle Kabatu, Bogdan Mihai, Filippo Polinelli, Luciano Ganci / Francesco Quattrocchi (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] For the first time the opera "Mosè" by Gioachino Rossini is on stage inside a Cathedral in a semi-scenic performance at the Duomo di Milano. The Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, in the wake of a centuries-old tradition of dialogue with the... |