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. Handel: Serse
Anna Stéphany (Serse), Rosemary Joshua (Romilda), David Daniels (Arsamene), Hilary Summers (Amastre), Joélle Harvey (Atalanta), Andreas Wolf (Elviro), Brindley Sherratt (Ariodate)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
[Stéphany's] is a stunning central performance, comfortably matched by incisive playing from the Early Opera Company orchestra. Sopranos Rosemary Joshua (as Romilda) and Joelle Harvey (Atalanta)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Handel: Theodora
RecommendedLouise Alder (Theodora), Tim Mead (Didymus), Anna Stéphany (Irene), Stuart Jackson (Septimius), Adam Plachetka (Valens)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
The balance of Cohen’s vigorously confident singers and players allows him to make his ensemble a major character in the story...The soloists also play their parts, led by Louise Alder as the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, March 2024
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Building A Library, June 2024, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Massenet: Werther
Juan Diego Flórez (Werther), Anna Stéphany (Charlotte), Mélissa Petit (Sophie), Audun Iversen (Albert), Cheyne Davidson (Le Bailli), Martin Zysset (Schmidt)
Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Kinderchor der Oper Zürich, Cornelius Meister, Tatjana Gurbaca (dir).
Director Tatjana Gürbaca and designer Klaus Grünberg have transformed Massenet’s masterpiece into a compelling drama that glues you to the edge of your seat from start to finish…Flórez gives... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Massenet: Werther
Juan Diego Flórez (Werther), Anna Stéphany (Charlotte), Mélissa Petit (Sophie), Audun Iversen (Albert), Cheyne Davidson (Le Bailli), Martin Zysset (Schmidt)
Philharmonia Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Kinderchor der Oper Zürich, Cornelius Meister, Tatiana Gurbaca (dir).
Director Tatjana Gürbaca and designer Klaus Grünberg have transformed Massenet’s masterpiece into a compelling drama that glues you to the edge of your seat from start to finish…Flórez gives... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Nicky Spence (Tito), Simona Šaturová (Vitellia), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Chiara Skerath (Servilia), Antoinette Dennefeld (Annio), David Steffens (Publio)
Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Ben Glassberg
The title-role is difficult to cast, but Nicky Spence has the range, the fluency and the technique to bring off all the vocal challenges while equally entering fully into the character’s plight...With... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Richard Croft (Tito), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Alice Coote (Vitellia), Michèle Losier (Annio), Joélle Harvey (Servilia), Clive Bayley (Publio); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Robin Ticciati, Claus Guth
Croft’s mature acting and ardent singing vividly bring to life Tito’s torn emotions…The cruel manipulation by Alice Coote’s psychotic Vitellia of Anna Stéphany’s puppyish Sextus is painful to... —
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Special offer. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Richard Croft (Tito), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Alice Coote (Vitellia), Michèle Losier (Annio), Joélle Harvey (Servilia), Clive Bayley (Publio); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Robin Ticciati, Claus Guth
Croft’s mature acting and ardent singing vividly bring to life Tito’s torn emotions…The cruel manipulation by Alice Coote’s psychotic Vitellia of Anna Stéphany’s puppyish Sextus is painful to... —
