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. Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
Ana Quintans (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass-baritone), La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
With the extra music for Amour in the Prologue, this is a welcome complement to the Budapest recording (with mostly French soloists) conducted by György Vashegyi. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Destouches: Télémaque & Calypso
Margaux Blanchard, Marine Lafdal-Franc (soloist), Adrien Fournaison (soloist), Hasnaa Bennani (soloist), David Tricou (soloist), Emmanuelle de Negri (soloist), Isabelle Druet (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Antonin Rondepierre (soloist), Colin Isoire (soloist), Les Ombres, Les Chantres du Centre...
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Special offer. Jean-Joseph de Mondonville: Titon Et l'Aurore
Reinoud van Mechelen (Titan), Gwendoline Blondeel (L'Aurore), Emmanuelle De Negri (Pales), Marc Mauillon (Eole), Julie Roset (Amour), Renato Dolcini (Promethee), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
One can only imagine how hard it must have been for the performers to play without an audience: they succeed brilliantly...Another triumph for William Christie. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Jean-Joseph de Mondonville: Titon Et l'Aurore
Reinoud van Mechelen (Titan), Gwendoline Blondeel (L'Aurore), Emmanuelle De Negri (Pales), Marc Mauillon (Eole), Julie Roset (Amour), Renato Dolcini (Promethee), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
One can only imagine how hard it must have been for the performers to play without an audience: they succeed brilliantly...Another triumph for William Christie. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Rameau: Platée
Marcel Beekman (Platée), Jeanine De Bique (La Folie), Cyril Auvity (Thespis/Mercure), Marc Mauillon (Momus/Cithéron), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Jupiter)
Les Arts Florissants, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, William Christie
Under Christie, overtures and dances are terse, with tense articulation and precise meter. While carefully shaping soloists’ ensembles, Christie gives tenor Marcel Beekman, cross-dressed in... —
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Special offer. Destouches: Semiramis
Eleonore Pancrazi, Emmanuelle De Negri, Matthias Vidal, Thibault de Damas, David Witczak, Judith Fa, Clement Debieuvre, Choeur du Concert Spirituel, Les Ombres, Sylvain Sartre
a welcome addition to the steady flow of recordings of music by composers from the generation between Lully and Rameau. —
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Special offer. Royer, P: Pyrrhus
Michael Greenberg, Lisa Goode-Crawford, Guillemette Laurens, Emmanuelle De Negri, Alain Buet, Jeffrey Thompson
Les Enfants d’Apollon
Royer's music is certainly elegant and pleasingly melodic...Particularly impressive are the dramatically volatile exchanges between Pyrrhus, sung with commanding tone by Alain Buet...the orchestral... —
