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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, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (orchestra)

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Showing 1 - 10 of 34 results
  • Rossini: Semiramide

    Offer,Rossini: Semiramide

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    Albina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino)

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

    Semiramide has more than its share of grandness, and in the trumpet-crowned procession as the Queen of Babylon prepares to announce her choice of king you can't help but hear a pre-echo of Verdi's... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 7th Sep 2018
    • Catalogue No: 9293800572
    • Label: Opera Rara
    • Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

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    4 CDs

    Original price ($60.50) Reduced price $51.50

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  • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

    Offer,Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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    Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams...

    Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 26th Apr 2010
    • Catalogue No: OABD7065D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    Blu-ray

    Original price ($36.50) Reduced price $27.25

    Region: All

    This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

  • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

    Offer,Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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    Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams...

    Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 26th Apr 2010
    • Catalogue No: OA1031D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    2 DVD Videos

    Original price ($36.50) Reduced price $27.25

    Format: NTSC, Region: All

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  • Offenbach: Fantasio

    Offer,Offenbach: Fantasio

    Sarah Connolly, Brenda Rae & Russell Braun

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

    • Release Date: 27th Apr 2018
    • Catalogue No: ORC351
    • Label: Opera Rara
    • Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

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    2 CDs

    Original price ($22.25) Reduced price $19.00

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  • Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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    Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno)

    The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie...

    David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 2nd Mar 2009
    • Catalogue No: OABD7024D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    2 Blu-rays

    Original price ($42.75) Reduced price $32.00

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  • Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi

    Offer,Donizetti: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi

    Nicole Cabell (Imelda), James Westman (Bonifacio Geremei), Massimo Giordano (Lamberto), Frank Lopardo (Orlando Lambertazzi), Brindley Sherratt (Ubaldo)

    Geoffrey Mitchell Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mark Elder

    Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families. — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2014 More…
    • Release Date: 3rd Mar 2008
    • Catalogue No: ORC36
    • Label: Opera Rara
    • Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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    2 CDs

    Original price ($32.00) Reduced price $27.25

    Format: Stereo

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  • Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

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    Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla)

    The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar...

    David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
    • Release Date: 3rd Apr 2006
    • Catalogue No: OA0950D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    3 DVD Videos

    Original price ($42.75) Reduced price $32.00

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  • Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

    Offer,Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384

    Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo) & Franck Saurel (Pasha Selim)

    The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & David McVicar (director)

    This [is] the most convincing dramaturgical presentation of the opera in recent times…Kehrer is magnificent as Osmin, Gunnell is lyrical and alert as Pedrillo, and Eriksmoen steers a delicate... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 27th May 2016
    • Catalogue No: OABD7204D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    Blu-ray

    Original price ($36.50) Reduced price $27.25

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  • Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

    Offer,Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

    Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso)

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Ivan Fischer

    When I saw this production at Glyndebourne last May, I thought that it was one of the three perfect operatic performances that I have ever been to. That view is only strengthened by seeing... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 26th Feb 2007
    • Catalogue No: OA0970D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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    2 DVD Videos

    Original price ($36.50) Reduced price $27.25

    Format: NTSC, Region: All

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

  • Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

    Offer,Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588

    Janice Watson (Fiordiligi), Diana Montague (Dorabella), Lesley Garrett (Despina), Toby Spence (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Sir Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras

    This is an account of Così which seems to put momentum first. The opening chord, more ferocious than one would expect, gives way to a rattling overture, and tension and pace never let up. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…
    • Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
    • Catalogue No: CHAN3152(3)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Opera in English
    • Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

    3 CDs

    Original price ($20.75) Reduced price $16.50

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