Since you are interested in Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete Opera recorded in 1984) Julia Migenes, Placido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi / National Orchestra of France, Lorin Maazel [ Warner Erato Classics Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 20/May/2016 ] "Maazel's buoyant lightness and edgy rhythmic energy are suitably Gallic, and his principals are visually and vocally compelling." (Gramophone) |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Ermione (complete opera recorded in 1988) Cecilia Gasdia, Margarita Zimmermann, Ernesto Palacio / Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte-Carlo, Claudio Scimone [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2009 ] Ermione was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, on 27 March 1819. For reasons that are as yet unclear, the opera was withdrawn on 19 April after only seven performances, and was not seen again until well into the 20th Century. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1984) Edita Gruberova, Alfredo Kraus, Renato Bruson, Robert Lloyd / Ambrosian Opera Chorus & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 2 CD - released 4/May/2017 ] "[Gruberova's] purity of tone, like her range and technical accomplishment, is outstanding." Gramophone |
VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1982) Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Giorgio Zancanaro / London Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "This is a recording to have and to turn to, especially if the opera is, you feel, being taken for granted, becoming 'part of the furniture'." (Gramophone) |
WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera) Rene Pape, Peter Seiffert, Thomas Hampson, Jane Eaglen / Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim [ Warner Classics The Home of Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2016 ] Recording of the Month - Gramophone Magazine (May 2002) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: War And Peace (complete opera recorded in1988) Galina Vishnevskaya, Lajos Miller, Katherine Ciesinski, Dimiter Petkov / Orchestre National De France, Mstislav Rostropovich [ Erato Warner Classics Home of Opera / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2017 ] "In Rostropovich's powerful reading one revels in the vividness of the atmosphere, both in the evocative love scenes and ball scenes of the first half and in the high tensions of the battle scenes in the second." - Rosette - Penguin Stereo Guide |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (Complete Opera recorded in 1994) Boje Skovhus, Sergei Leiferkus, Charlotte Margiono, Barbara Bonney / Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "As you would expect, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, tackling Fidelio, reflects the climate of period performance, even though - with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe as immaculate as ever - modern instruments are used." *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. |