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. Verdi: Don Carlo
Franco Corelli, Gundula Janowitz, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Wiener Staatsoper, Horst Stein
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Special offer. Einem: Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit)
Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Horst Stein
Von Einem’s music chases Dürrenmatt’s scene-setting most (almost too) faithfully with colourful often loud tone-painting…The performance sounds well-organised (by conductor Stein) and fluent... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Capriccio
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Countess Madeleine), Eberhard Wächter (Count), Nicolai Gedda (Flamand), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Olivier), Hans Hotter (La Roche), Christa Ludwig (Clairon), Anna Moffo (Italian Singer)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
In the role of the Countess in Strauss's last opera, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf has no equals on CD...a peerless performance from her, full of magical detail both in the pointing of words and in... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
Rudolf Schock (Idomeneo), Waldemar Kmentt (Idamante), Hildegard Hillebrecht (Ilia), Christel Goltz (Elettra), Eberhard Waechter (Arbace) & Kurt Böhme (Nettuno)
Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm
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Special offer. Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Eberhard Wächter (Eisenstein), Hilde Güden (Rosalinde), Erika Köth (Adele), Giuseppe Zampieri (Alfred), Erich Kunz (Frosch), Hedwig Schubert (Ida), Walter Berry (Falke), Peter Klein (Blind), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor - party scene)
Choir and Orchestra Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan
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Special offer. Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Hilde Vadura (Manon), Waldemar Kmentt (Chevalier), Eberhard Wächter (Lescaut), Walter Berry (Geronte), Hugo Meyer-Welfing (Edmondo)
Viennese Radio, Robert Heger
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Special offer. Stolz, R: Die Rosen der Madonna
Eberhard Waechter (Pater Klemens), Alois Pernerstorfer (Veit Hohensinner), Waldemar Kmentt (Pater Heribert/Klaus Hellbrecht), Gundula Janowitz (Maria/Die Madonna mit den Rosen)
Robert Stolz
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Sándor Konya (Lohengrin), Leonie Rysanek (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Ernest Blanc (Telramund), Keith Engen (King Henry) & Eberhard Waechter (herald)
André Cluytens
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Special offer. Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Christa Ludwig (Leonore), Jon Vickers (Florestan), Walter Berry (Pizarro), Walter Kreppel (Rocco), Gundula Janowitz (Marzelline), Waldemar Kmentt (Jaquino), Eberhard Wächter (Don Fernando)
Wiener Staatsoper, Herbert von Karajan
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Gundula Janowitz (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Walter Berry (Guglielmo), Adolf Dallapozza (Ferrando), Olivera Miljakovic (Despina) & Eberhard Waechter (Don Alfonso)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Josef Krips
Everything, from the overture in, is crisply articulated and lovingly phrased without ever over-egging the pudding. Every bar seems natural and thought-through. —
