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. Cavalli: l'Egisto
Marc Mauillon (Egisto), Ambroisine Bré (Climene), Zachary Wilder (Lidio), Sophie Junker (Clori), Romain Bockler (Hipparco)
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
This beguiling early opera by Francesco Cavalli is given an equally beguiling performance in this premiere recording made in the opera theatre at the Palace of Versailles...Dumestre provides... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Cavalli's sparing use of strings is densified into fivepart textures that spread like wildfire - Daucé plasters fulsome orchestral accompaniments on to many arias and recitatives devised originally... —
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Special offer. Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Nahuel di Pierro, Anna Bonitatibus, Giuseppina Bridelli, Francesca Aspromonte, Krystian Adam, Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Even if Pichon’s ideas occasionally gild the fleur-de-lys, Pygmalion’s animated music-making serves to resuscitate this extraordinary opera admirably. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Cavalli: La Didone
Anna Bonitatibus (Didone), Kresimir Spicer (Enea), Xavier Sabata (larba), Maria Streijffert (Ecuba) & Katherine Watson (Cassandra)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor) & Clément Hervieu-Léger (director)
It's a fascinating piece. Cavalli treats Giovanni Busenello's libretto with dignity in a responsive setting...So, too, does Hervieu-Leger, capturing its complex narrative and emotional interactions... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Cavalli: Il Xerse
Carlo Vistoli (countertenor), Aco Bišćević, Gaia Petrone, Carolina Lippo, Dioklea Hoxha, Ekaterina Protsenko, Nicolò Donini, Carlo Allemano, Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Baroque Orchestra Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli
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Special offer. Cavalli: Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne
Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano), Marisa Martins (mezzo-soprano), Agustín Prunell-Friend (tenor), Assumpta Mateu (soprano) & Carlo Lepore (bass)
Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia, Alberto Zedda
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Special offer. Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Luca Pisaroni (Ercole), Veronica Cangemi (Iole), Anna Bonitatibus (Giunone), Jeremy Ovenden (Hyllo), Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira), Marlin Miller (Licco), Umberto Chiummo (Nettuno/Tevere/Spirit of Eutyro), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Bellezza/Venere), Johannette Zomer (Cinzia/Parsitea/Spirit of Clerica),...
This is a ravishing production in every department - scenery, stage effects, costumes, dancing, acting and music. Luca Pisaroni is an assured and vigorous Hercules...but it is Cavalli's women... —
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Opera, October 2011, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Francesco Cavalli: Il Giasone
Valer Sabadus (Giasone), Kristina Hammarström (Medea), Kristina Mkhitaryan (Isifile), Raúl Giménez (Egeo), Willard White (Oreste & Giove), Dominique Visse (Delfa & Eolo), Mariana Flores (Alinda), Mary Feminear (Amore)
Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcón (conductor)
The effect is boisterous, exuberant and just a little too much…A top-notch cast really savour the score’s lyricism, balancing all the cross-dressing camp with something disarmingly heartfelt.... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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The cast leaves nothing to be desired; and unlike almost every live-performance CD I’ve ever heard, there is no clomping around, no coughing, nothing to take one’s attention away from the thing... —
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Special offer. Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Nahuel di Pierro, Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli, Francesca Aspromonte, Krystian Adam, Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Even if Pichon’s ideas occasionally gild the fleur-de-lys, Pygmalion’s animated music-making serves to resuscitate this extraordinary opera admirably. —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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