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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphonies Nos. 52, 53 & 59 Royal Northern Sinfonia, Rebecca Miller (leader & conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] This new release follows Miller's acclaimed recording of the works of CPE Bach with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Rebecca Miller leads the Royal Northern Sinfonia in performances of three Haydn Symphonies. |
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Royal Norwegian Navy Band
Tveitt: Sinfonia Di Soffiatori [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Sousa: Music for Wind Band Volume 10 [includes 'The Salvation Army March'] Royal Norwegian Navy Band, Keith Brion [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] John Philip Sousa's tireless touring with his world-famous band and the distinctive quality of his compositions ensured legendary status and the affectionate title of 'The March King'. This tenth volume of Sousa's complete works for wind band under... |
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BERG
Lulu (complete opera recorded in 2009) Royal Opera / Agneta Eichenholz / Michael Volle / Klaus Florian Vogt / Jennifer Larmore / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] 2010 Grammy Award nomination - Best Opera recording |
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TCHAIKOVSKY / ADAM / DELIBES / VERDI / MOZART / PUCCINI / etc
An Evening with the Royal Ballet & Royal Opera The Royal Opera & Ballet / Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Marianela Nunez, Darcey Bussell, Miah Persson, Jonas Kaufmann, Sarah Connolly, Diana Damrau [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2018 ] Take a seat in the stalls at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for an unforgettable evening of ballet and opera highlights performed by world-renowned stars of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet past and present. This special two-DVD set... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Bryn Terfel, Ioan Hotea, Markus Werba, Olga Peretyatko / Evelino Pidò (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 29/Sep/2023 ] "Terfel sounds wonderful, singing with handsomely focused tone and brings considerable panache to his duet with Werba, which is denied its traditional encore here. In the pit, Evelino Pidò conducts with admirable precision and grace." (The Guardian) |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
King Roger (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY The Royal Opera, Covent Garden / Mariusz Kwiecien, Georgia Jarman, Saimir Pirgu, Kim Begley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2015 ] Kasper Holten's production (The Royal Opera's first) of Król Roger (King Roger) brought the opera back to the London stage after an absence of almost 40 years. Karol Szymanowski's masterpiece powerfully presents the dilemmas of culture versus nature... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (recorded live Covent Garden in 2022) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Elena Stikhina, Francesco Meli, Agnieszka Rehlis, Ludovic Tézier / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 28/Jun/2024 ] Love and duty collide and nations clash in Verdi's political drama, starring Elena Stikhina. In this new production, director Robert Carsen situates Verdi's large-scale drama within a contemporary world, framing its power struggles and toxic... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (recorded live Covent Garden in 2019) Royal Opera / Ermonela Jaho, Charles Castronovo, Placido Domingo / Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2019 ] Verdi based La traviata on Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play La Dame aux camélias, inspired by the life and death of the real Parisian courtesan Marie Duplessis. One of the most popular of all operas, the 2018/2019 season featured 151 productions... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (recorded live Covent Garden in 2019) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Ermonela Jaho, Charles Castronovo, Placido Domingo / Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Sep/2019 ] ".Castronovo is a splendid Alfredo, his bright, springy tone capturing the character's impetuosity...Manacorda conducts sensitively, not always with Solti's zip, but supports his singers well." Gramophone |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Ermonela Jaho, Marcelo Puente, Scott Hendricks, Carlo Bosi / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 5/Dec/2018 ] Puccini's Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly is given a ravishing production by The Royal Opera. Its alluring imagery of Japan from the 19th-century European Imagination heightens the intense clash of East and West. When the American naval officer... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Da Ponte Operas [The Marriage of Figaro / Don Giovanni / Cosi fan Tutte] (complete operas recorded in 2006 - 2016) The Royal Opera / Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley, Dorothea Roschmann, Jonathan Veira, Philip Langridge, Mariusz Kwiecien, etc [ OPUS ARTE DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal." (BBC Music on The Marriage Of Figaro) |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in 2014) Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Kristine Opolais, Christopher Maltman / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2015 ] 'Antonio Pappano has few peers today as a Puccini conductor, and gives the score a tremendous sense of vivid theatricality' THE GUARDIAN |
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W. A. MOZART
Mitridate, re di Ponto (recorded live Covent Garden in 1993) Royal Opera House / Bruce Ford, Jochen Kowalski, Ann Murray, Luba Orgonasova / Paul Daniel (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2012) Royal Opera House, Bryan Hymel, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Eva-Maria Westbroek / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Bryan Hymel, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Eva-Maria Westbroek / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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MEYERBEER
Robert Le Diable (complete opera recorded in 2012) Royal Opera House / Bryan Hymel, Patrizia Ciofi, John Relyea, Marina Poplavskaya / Daniel Oren (conductor) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2013 ] A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer's great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this... |
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VERDI
Aida (recorded live Covent Garden in 1994) Royal Opera House / Cheryl Studer / Luciana d'Intino / Dennis O'Neill / Edward Downes (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "[Sir Edward Downes'] command of the score's structure, its curious blend of delicacy and bombast, of classical propriety and romantic excess, is complete and he drew superbly disciplined playing from the pit and lusty singing from the augmented... |
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GEORGE BENJAMIN
Written on Skin (complete opera recorded in 2013) Royal Opera House / Christopher Purves, Barbara Hannigan, Bejun Mehta, Victoria Simmonds / George Benjamin (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER 2014 - Contemporary |
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ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Hansel und Gretel (complete opera recorded in 2008) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Angelika Kirchschlager / Diana Damrau / Elizabeth Connell / Thomas Allen / Colin Davis, conductor [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] 'Angelika Kirchschlager's tousled, boyish Hänsel and Diana Damrau's Gretel are dramatically convincing and vocally superb, while their parents, excellently sung and played by Elizabeth Connell and Thomas Allen, earn our sympathy as well as our... |