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. Getty: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Nathan Granner (Chips), Melody Moore (Kathie/Linford), Lester Lynch (Merrivale), Michael Jankosky (Faulkner), Bruce Rameker (West), Kevin Short (Ralston/Rivers), Barbary Coast Orchestra, San Francisco Boys Chorus, Dennis Doubin
Like Mr Chips himself, this opera isn’t out to change the world, but it may make a small part of it better. —
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Special offer. Getty: The Canterville Ghost
Alexandra Hutton (soprano), Jean Broekhuizen (mezzo-soprano), Denise Wernly (mezzo-soprano), Rachel Marie Hauge (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Oliver (tenor), Jonathan Michie (baritone), Anooshah Golesorkhi (baritone), Matthew Trevino (bass)
Oper Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester, Matthias Foremny
Getty's musical language is conservative but colourful, but his text-setting, with frequent large leaps across consonant intervals, tends to the monotonous...Matthias Foremny conducts the Leipzig... —
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Special offer. Getty: Plump Jack
Lester Lynch (Falstaff), Melody Moore (Boy/Clarence), Suzanne Mentzer (Hostess - 'Nell Quickly'), Nikolai Schukoff (Hal), Christopher Robertson (Henry IV/Pistol), Robert Breault (Shallow/Fat Captain), Diana Kohrig (First Traveller), Bruce Ramkar (Warwick), Nathaniel Webster (Bardolph/Chief Justice),...
Getty's opera is stuffed with period-evoking quotations, and even this shortened 'concert-version', squeezed on to a single disc, feels long and unmemorable. But the strong cast makes a fine... —
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Special offer. Getty: Usher House
Christian Elsner (tenor), Benedict Cumberbatch (speaker), Lisa Delan (soprano), Phillip Ens (bass), Etienne Dupuis (baritone)
Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
