Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 12th August. Please note, downloads are not included in this offer.
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Special offer. Bellini: I Puritani
RecommendedMaria Callas, Aurora Cattelani, Carlo Forti, Angelo Mercuriali, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Giuseppe di Stefano
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Tullio Serafin
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Building a Library, January 2005, Budget Choice
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Special offer. Donizetti: Olivo e Pasquale
Bruno Taddia (Olivo), Filippo Morace (Pasquale), Laura Giordano (Isabella), Pietro Adaini (Camillo), Matteo Macchioni (Le Bross), Edoardo Milletti (Columella), Silvia Beltrami (Matilde), Giovanni Romeo (Diego)
Orchestra dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala Coro Donizetti Opera, Federico Maria Sardelli
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
RecommendedGiuseppe di Stefano (Riccardo), Tito Gobbi (Renato), Maria Callas (Amelia), Fedora Barbieri (Ulrica), Eugenia Ratti (Oscar), Silvio Maionica (Samuele), Nicola Zaccaria (Tom), Ezio Giordano (Silvano)
Orhcestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto
Gobbi's chocolate-smooth tones almost steal the show, but Callas gives a touching Amelia, and di Stefano is dashing and irresponsible. There is a strong cast and theatrical conducting from... —
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Building a Library, October 2013, Recommendation available on single CD
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, DVD & Blu-ray Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Birgit Nilsson (Aida), Pier Miranda Ferraro (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramfis), Cornell MacNeil (Amonasro), Agostino Ferrin (Il Re di Egitto)
Teatro alla Scala, Nino Sanzogno
[Nilsson] is in generally good voice but is outmatched by Simionato, who is on excellent form, especially in the Judgement Scene, her tone even from top to bottom as she makes a last plea for... —
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Special offer. Handel: Hercules
Jerome Hines, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf & Franco Corelli
La Scala Milan Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Maria Callas (Leonora), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Renato Ercolani (Un messo/Ruiz), Luisa Villa (Ines)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Herbert von Karajan
Despite later uncut performances, Callas, di Stefano and Karajan at his most dramatic, are a thrilling team, with an excellent cast and vivid recording from EMI's LPs rather than master tapes. —
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Special offer. Operas - Teatro Alla Scala
Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Michele Mariotti, Ádám Fischer, Franz Welser-Möst
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Special offer. Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata
Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Tuty Hernàndez, Lilla Takács, Valerio Morelli, Orchestra Gli Originali, Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Salvo Sgrò, Bruno Ravella, Teatro alla Scala (opera company), Alberto Zanardi
