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. Méhul: Uthal
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Malvina), Yann Beuron (Uthal), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Larmor), Sébastien Droy (Ullin), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Le Chef des Bardes / Le Troisième Barde)
Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Yann Beuron is the keenly engaged Uthal, while Jean-Sébastien Bou gives Larmor a wronged nobility and Karine Deshayes is consistently expressive as the anguished Malvina. There’s characterful... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018
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Original price ($40.25) Reduced price $32.20Downloads
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Special offer. Louise Bertin: Fausto
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Fausto), Karina Gauvin (Margarita), Ante Jerkunica (Mefistofele), Nico Darmanin (Valentino), Marie Gautrot (Catarina)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Fausto may not be a masterpiece, but it is well worth encountering...There’s strong support from the Flemish Radio Choir and Les Talens Lyriques, with conductor Christophe Rousset revealing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Winner - Complete Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, Rediscovery
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Opera
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Original price ($44.00) Reduced price $35.20Downloads
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Special offer. Spontini: La vestale
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (Julia), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Licinius), Tassis Christoyannis (Cinna), Aude Extrémo (La Grande Vestale), David Witczak (Un Consul / Chef des Aruspices), Nicolas Courjal (Le Grand Pontife)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
this new studio recording offers not only musicologically scrupulous foundations but benefits from the period-instrument forces of Les Talens Lyriques, who are intent upon the drama contained... —
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Opera, June 2023, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Original price ($41.00) Reduced price $32.80Downloads
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Gounod: Faust
Recommended1859 version
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Lully: Atys
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Atys), Marie Lys (Sangaride/Flore), Ambroisine Bré (Cybèle), Philippe Estèphe (Célénus)
Les Talens Lyriques, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
The instrumentalists of Les Talens Lyriques brilliantly tease out the drama...but the ultimate glory is Rousset ’s playing of the harpsichord, to which he gives its own affective voice – rejoicing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Winner - Complete Recording
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Special offer. Salieri: Les Danaides
Judith van Wanroij (Hypermnestre), Philippe Talbot (Lyncée), Tassis Christoyannis (Danaüs), Katia Velletaz (Plancippe) & Thomas Dolié (Pélagus / Officiers)
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Les Talens Lyriques reveals the baleful splendours of Salieri's writing under Christophe Rousset. Judith van Wanroij's Hymnestre is fesity but in places could do with more power. Tassis Christoyannis's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Original price ($42.00) Reduced price $33.60Downloads
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Special offer. Cimarosa: l'Olimpiade
Josh Lovell (Clistene), Rocio Pérez (Aristea), Mathilde Ortscheidt (Licida), Alex Banfield (Aminta), Maite Beaumont (Megacle), Marie Lys (Argene)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Young Spanish coloratura Rocío Pérez (Aristea) is the standout singer in Rousset's excellent cast, with a bell-like core, easy lyricism, searing emotionalism, leaping staccato proficiency and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Sacchini, G: Renaud
Marie Kalinine, Julien Dran, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Pierrick Boisseau, Julie Fuchs, Katia Velletaz, Chantal Santon, Jennifer Borghi, Cyrille Dubois & Pascal Bourgeois
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
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Special offer. Cherubini: Medea
Nadja Michael (Medea), Kurt Streit (Jason), Christianne Stotijn (Néris), Vincent Le Texier (Creon), Hendricke Van Kerckhova (Dirce)
Les Talens Lyriques & Les Choeurs de la Monnai, Christophe Rousset
[the dialogue] was created by director Krzysztof Warlikowski and dramaturg Christian Longchamp, and designed for an in-your-face contemporary staging. That the result is at times shocking is... —
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Opera, June 2013, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Rameau: Castor et Pollux
Anna Maria Panzarella, Véronique Gens, Finnur Bjarnason, Henk Neven, Judith van Wanroij, Nicolas Testé, Thomas Oliemans & Anders J. Dahlin
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Pierre Audi (stage director)
Christophe Rousset directs a superb ensemble performance with a cleanly voiced choir and an acute ear for Rameau's pungent orchestration. Patrick Kinmoth's set and costumes have an austere,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, DVD of the Month
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