Opera

Operas and operettas are basically plays (tragedies, dramas and comedies) set to music. Most feature solo voices and choruses and the whole is accompanied by orchestra. The operetta is a light music version of the opera form, but the French ‘Opéra Comique’ and the German ‘Singspiel’ also represent lighter forms of opera. The most frequently performed opera composers are Mozart, Rossini, Puccini and Verdi, while the most successful operetta composers are Johann Strauss II, Offenbach, Lehár and Sullivan.

Album Title Catalogue No.
101 CLASSICS - The Best Loved Classical Melodies 8.508004
102 MASTERPIECES - ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Miniatures C5051
20 KLASSISKA FAVORITER (20 Classical Favorites) 8.570566
20 YEARS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC: Naxos Anniversary Collection (Naxos Denmark) 8.570598
21ST CENTURY CINEMA CLASSICS 8.556698
40 TRACKS FOR 40 YEARS - Delos' 40th Anniversary Celebration DE3440
A LA DECOUVERTE DU CLASSIQUE 8.550037-38
A Lover's Gift / From Her To Him 8.553620
A TO Z OF CLASSICAL MUSIC (The) (3rd Expanded Edition, 2009) 8.558212-13
A TO Z OF OPERA 8.555037-38
A TO Z OF OPERA (The) (2nd expanded edition) 8.558216-17
A TO Z OF SINGERS 8.558097-100
ABDI, B.: Hafez [Opera] (Motamedi, Alishapour, Sabouri, Anvar, Zakerhossein, Credo Chamber Choir, Ukraine National Symphony, Sirenko) 8.660426-27
ABDI, B.: Rumi [Opera] (Shajarian, Motamedi, Sadeghi, Credo Chamber Choir, Ukraine National Symphony, Sirenko) 8.660424-25
ABEL, M.: Home Is a Harbor [Opera] / The Palm Trees Are Restless (Chamberlin, Pisturino, Plitmann, Tadmor, La Brea Sinfonietta, Makino) DE3495
ABERT, J.J.: Ekkehard [Opera] (Kaufmann, Gerhaher, Ingen, H. Böhm, South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra, Falk) C60080
ABERT, J.J.: Ekkehard [Opera] (Kaufmann, Gerhaher, Ingen, H. Böhm, South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra, Falk) C5392
ACKTÉ, Aino: Collected Recordings, 1902-1913 ODE883-2
ADAM, A.: Postillon de Lonjumeau (Le) [Opera] C51180
ADAMS, J.: I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Mühlpointner, Trotman, Neisser, Holst Sinfonietta, Simon) 8.669003-04
ADAMS, J.: Nixon in China (Orth, Kanyova, Hammons, Heller, Opera Colorado Chorus, Colorado Symphony, Alsop) 8.669022-24
ADOLF FREDRIK GIRLS CHOIR: I'm Here! And You? SCD1135
ADOLPHE: Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering / Mikhoels the Wise (excerpt) 8.559413
AGNESI, M.T.: Sofonisba (La) [Opera] (Arias) (De Simone, Ensemble Il Mosaico) TC720102
ALBERT, E.: Tiefland (Complete) OC312