Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Metropolitan Opera (opera company)
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Rossini: La donna del lago Joyce DiDonato (Elena), Juan Diego Florez (Giacomo V), John Osborn (Roderigo), Daniela Barcellona (Malcolm), Oren Gradus (Douglas)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Michele Mariotti, Paul Curran (dir.)
Florez is his usual exuberant self, throwing off top notes casually and deserving his Niagaras of applause...DiDonato as the much sought-after heroine is, as always, in tremendous form, not... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Opera Choice
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Opera, March 2016, Recording of the Month
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Bellini: Norma Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bellini: Norma Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Great Conductors at the Metropolitan Opera: Wagner Torsten Ralf (Lohengrin), Helen Traubel (Elsa), Herbert Janssen (Telramund), Kerstin Thorborg (Ortrud), Norman Cordon (King Heinrich), Hugh Thompson (Herald), Lauritz Melchior (Tristan), Helen Traubel (Isolde), Kerstin Thorborg (Brangäne), Norman Cordon (King Marke), Herbert Janssen (Kurvenal), Emery...
[Beecham] colours and tints the orchestral passages as adroitly as Thorborg colours Doch deine Schmach. His sheer buoyancy survives the subfusc recording as does his expressive power and the... — More…
3 CDs
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha Richard Croft, Rachelle Durkin, Kim Josephson, Alfred Walker, Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Dante Anzolini
The cast is on the mark both vocally and physically…this release is especially recommended as a starting point to Glass’s world of music theatre. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Puccini: Tosca Grace Moore (Tosca), Jan Peerce (Cavaradossi), Lawrence Tibbett (Scarpia), Lorenzo Alvary (Angelotti), Salvatore Baccaloni (Sacristan), Alessio de Paolis (Spoletta) & George Cehanovsky (Sciarrone)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Cesare Sodero
2 CDs
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Verdi: Il Trovatore Antonietta Stella (Leonora), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena), Carlo Bergonzi (Manrico), Ettore Bastianini (Il Conte di Luna)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva
2 CDs
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress Hilde Gueden, Blanche Thebom, Eugene Conley, Mack Harrell, Martha Lipton & Norman Scott
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky
In February 1953, 17 months after the world premiere in Venice, The Rake's Progress received its first American production, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Less than a month later, this studio recording... — More…
2 CDs
Original price ($20.75) Reduced price $16.50Downloads
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