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Great Baritone Arias / Peter Mattei

1 Super Audio CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2011-04-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le Nozze di Figaro; Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, K 584; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; The Queen of Spades; Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Charles G...
Performers: Mattei, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Renes, Lawrence

The Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has made a formidable reputation for himself performing at the most prestigious opera houses in the world: the Metropolitan, Teatro...continue...
Recording information: Stockholm Concert Hall, Sweden (2008-11-??&2009-03-??&2010-)....continue...

Italian Album / Tenor Timothy Richards

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2011-03-08

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Rigoletto; Un ballo in maschera; Macbeth; La forza del destino; Giacomo Puccini: Il tabarro (The Cloak), opera; La bohème; Turandot; Tosca
Performers: Richards, Timothy [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Keitel, Wilhelm

For ten years this youthful heroic tenor from Wales has enchanted the European opera public (currently at the Comic Opera in Berlin and at the...continue...
Recording information: Stadthalle Merzig (08/23/2010-08/24/2010)....continue...

Sancta Lucia: Licht in Dunkler Zeit / St Gregory Children's Choir

1 Super Audio CD / Cantate / 2010-11-05

Works: Carl-Bertil Agnestig: Lucia, for 2 soloists & chorus; Lusse lella, for chorus; Reinis Sejans: Vindo, for chorus & percussion; Stuart Hinds: Away in a Manger, carol setting for voice & chorus; Arnold ...
Performers: Bergman, Love; Herzog, Hannah; Mikson, Raul; Nilges, Diana; Rueben, Simona; Saus, Wolfgang; Schreyer, Dominika; Schreyer, Gabriel; Vilu, Rainer; Wolff, Pia
Conductors: Schreyer, Steffen
Ensemble: St Gregory Children's Choir

On the longest night of the year, our longing for light is at its greatest. From time immemorial this has found expression in rituals and...continue...
Recording information: Aachen-Burtscheid (2008-11-28_2008-11-29&2009-)....continue...

Verdi: Otello / Colin Davis

2 Super Audio CD / LSO Live (London SO) / 2010-10-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Performers: Clayton, Allan; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Johnson, Ben; Rose, Matthew
Conductors: Davis, Colin

Sir Colin Davis' eagerly anticipated recording of Verdi's Otello is released on the 10th anniversary of the LSO Live label. Opera has always formed an...continue...
Recording information: Barbican, London (12/01/2009-12/06/2009)....continue...

Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Muti, Chicago

2 Super Audio CD / CSO Resound / 2010-09-28

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers: Abdrazakov, Ildar; Borodina, Olga; Frittoli, Barbara; Zeffiri, Mario
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo

Chicago inaugurates Riccardo Muti's tenure as music director with their most anticipated release of the year. Recorded live in January 2009, from sold-out, electrifying concerts,...continue...
Recording information: Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center (01/15/2009-01/17/2009)....continue...

The 14 Berlin Flutists - Flute Waves

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2006-09-19

Works: George Frederick Handel: Solomon; Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Felix Mendel...
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Ensemble: 14 Berliner Flötisten

Verdi: Missa da requiem / Bosch, Ramos, May, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Coviello / 2006-05-04

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass
Performers: Blasius, Martin; Ende, Michael [tenor]; May, Gabriele; Ramos, Melba
Conductors: Bosch, Marcus R.
Ensemble: Aachen Symphony Orchestra; vocapella Choir

Verdi displays the mastery of the great dramatic musician in the simple beauty of the folk tune or Gregorian chant derived melody of the 'Agnus...continue...

Sempre Libera [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2004-11-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Otello; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera
Performers: Concetti, Andrea; Mingardo, Sara; Netrebko, Anna; Pirgu, Saimir; Reckert, Sascha; Ulivieri, Nicola
Conductors: Abbado, Claudio
Ensemble: Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Verdi Chorus Milan

BBC Music Magazine
Few sopranos sing bel canto with the natural beauty she supplies.
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Verdi: La Traviata / Kleiber, Cotrubas, et al

2 Super Audio CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2004-11-09

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Performers: Cotrubas, Ileana; Domingo, Placido; Foiani, Giovanni; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Grella, Bruno; Gullino, Walter; Jungwirth, Helena; Malagú, Stefania; Malagu, Stefania; Milnes, Sherrill; Winter, Paul
Conductors: Kleiber, Carlos
Ensemble: ; Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Great Tenor Arias [Hybrid SACD]

1 Super Audio CD / Decca Import / 2004-11-09

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice; Giuseppe Verdi: Un giorno di regno (Il finto Stanislao); Rigoletto; Gioachino Rossini: Semiramide; La Cenerentola; Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggi...
Performers: Florez, Juan Diego
Conductors: Rizzi, Carlo
Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan

Leontyne Price - Verdi & Puccini Arias

1 Super Audio CD / RCA Records / 2004-09-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; La Rondine; Tosca; Turandot
Performers: Londi, Laura; Price, Leontyne
Conductors: de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: ; Rome Opera House Orchestra

Known by connoisseurs as the legendary 'Blue Album', this historic gem from 1961 was Leontyne Price's debut orchestral recording for RCA. It offers some of...continue...

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence; Verdi / Thompson, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Channel Classics / 2004-01-01

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Strings in D major, Op. 70 "Souvenir de Florence"; Giuseppe Verdi: Quartet for Strings in E minor

Gramophone
The opulent recording allows plenty of detail to be heard within an ambient acoustic, especially on the excellent SACD mastering.
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Verdi: Arias / Dmitri Hvorostovsky

1 Super Audio CD / Delos / 2002-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Rigoletto; Stiffelio; Nabucco; Un ballo in maschera; Ernani; I masnadieri; Il Trovatore
Performers: Grivnov, Vsevolod; Hvorostovsky, Dmitri; Vinogradov, Alexander
Conductors: Bernardi, Mario
Ensemble: Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Italian Opera Arias / Gorchakova, Orbelian, et al

1 Super Audio CD / Delos / 2001-01-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Turandot; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Ruggero Leoncavallo: P...
Performers: Gorchakova, Galina
Conductors: Orbelian, Constantine
Ensemble: Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Marina Domashenko - Opera Arias

1 Super Audio CD / Delos / 2001-01-01

Works: Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanschina; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride; Snow Maiden; Sergey Prokofi...
Performers: Domashenko, Marina
Conductors: Orbelian, Constantine
Ensemble: Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra