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VA - The Greatest Opera Show on Earth (1997)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Jan. 16, 2022
VA - The Greatest Opera Show on Earth (1997)

VA - The Greatest Opera Show on Earth (1997)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 660 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 382 MB
2:34:38 | Classical, Opera | Label: London Records

This is the same CD set as the World's Greatest Opera Album. The Greatest Opera Show On Earth! 2CDs featuring Bocelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Sutherland, Terfel & more! This really is a remarkable collection, and anyone even remotely interested in opera is bound to be vastly entertained by it. Almost everything and everyone is here, albeit in small doses: Tebaldi, Pavarotti (a lot), Bjoerling, Bartoli, Sutherland, Solti, Karajan, Troyanos, Gheorghiu, Nucci; the composers are Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, and all the other usual suspects. There are plenty of fine compilation sets on the market, and this is one of the best. One can only hope that it whets listeners' appetites for whole operas. –Robert Levine
Ji Yoon, Orchestra of Nationaltheater Mannheim & Matthew Toogood - Björk: Vespertine - A Pop Album as an Opera (Live) (2019)

Ji Yoon, Orchestra of Nationaltheater Mannheim & Matthew Toogood - Björk: Vespertine - A Pop Album as an Opera (Live) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 325 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 181 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:51
Classical, Opera | Label: Oehms Classics

An album as an opera. Pop music is theatrical, it lives on stories, constantly creating new characters of art. In addition, no other style has changed and influenced music reception as enduringly as pop music. Most people can draw biographical references on the map of pop mu-sic. So, it seems high time to open the doors of the opera to a new visitor. With its symphonic elements, dramatic singing lines and ethereal choir vocals, Vespertine seems to be the perfect model for the complex project. OehmsClassics begins the new partnership with the Nationaltheater Mannheim (NTM Edition) with a bang. Rarely has a premiere in Germany experienced such a press echo as this, in May 2018.
Kate Miller-Heidke & Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Live At The Sydney Opera House (2017)

Kate Miller-Heidke & Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Live At The Sydney Opera House
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, front cover | 77:18 min | 421 MB
Label: ABC Music ‎– 5768885 | Tracks: 16 | Rls.date: 2017
Pop, Vocal, Classical

Kate Miller-Heidke and The Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Live At The Sydney Opera House album recorded back in March 2017. Featuring favourites and highlights from recent albums,, including ‘The Last Day on Earth, O Vertigo!, Sarah, songs from The Rabbits and much more.

Spectacular Soprano: Best Loved Opera Arias (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 6, 2021
Spectacular Soprano: Best Loved Opera Arias (2021)

Spectacular Soprano: Best Loved Opera Arias (2021)
FLAC tracks | 80:07 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

The soprano voice occupies the highest-sounding line of music (in Italian ‘sopra’ means ‘over’ or ‘above’) and it is subdivided into various types. The coloratura is the virtuoso, suited for rapid ornamentation such as in Mozart’s Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte). Puccini’s Mimì (La Bohème) is an example of the lyric soprano, full of drama and well-rounded sound. More powerful than the lyric but retaining her softer qualities is the spinto, exemplified by Madama Butterfly, while the dramatic soprano, with her huge reserves of stamina, can be heard in works by Wagner. This quintessential collection of best-loved arias confirms that the soprano, in all her variety, sits at the very heart of the operatic experience.

Franco Fagioli, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Messiah (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 22, 2023
Franco Fagioli, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Messiah (2023)

Franco Fagioli, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal - Messiah (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 2:12:30 | 737 Mb
Genre: Classical

Star absolue du baroque et du bel canto du début du XIXe siècle, particulièrement à l’aise dans les acrobaties rossiniennes, Franco Fagioli s’est mis depuis peu à la direction d’orchestre comme en témoigne cet enregistrement du Messiede Haendel réalisé dans l’acoustique généreuse de la Chapelle Royale du château de Versailles.Le célèbre oratorio de Haendel porte ici des couleurs latines avec les voix du Chœur de Chambre du Palais de la Musique de Catalogne et les musiciens de l’Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal avec un quatuor très homogène d’excellents solistes : Marie Lys, soprano, Margherita Maria Sala, contralto, Pablo Bemsch, ténor et Alex Rosen, basse.Cette coloration transalpine n’est nullement un non sens si l’on pense au style italien qu’Haendel avait apporté à l’Angleterre dans ses opéras et dans certains de ses oratorios. C’est à l’occasion d’une invitation en Irlande qu’il composa, à toute vitesse comme à son habitude, un nouvel oratorio en vingt-quatre jours pour des œuvres de bienfaisance de Dublin en 1742. Avec ses tempi rapides et son approche joyeuse, la conception de Franco Fagioli suit le tour de force de Haendel en donnant à cet ouvrage archi-célèbre une allégresse d’une virtuosité vocale et instrumentale bienvenue.
Claude Vivier - Kopernikus - Opera Factory Freiburg (2015) {Bastille Musique 1}

Claude Vivier - Kopernikus - Opera Factory Freiburg (2015) {Bastille Musique 1}
XLD rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 263 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 148 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 45 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2015 Bastille Musique / SWR2 | Bastille Musique 1
Classical / Contemporary Classical / Opera / Opéra rituel de mort

Bastille Musique presents its first release »Claude Vivier: Kopernikus« in a brilliant SWR studio recording by the Opera Factory Freiburg, the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor). Besides the CD containing Vivier’s masterful chamber opera from 1980, which he called opéra-rituel de mort, the lavish package includes a 64-pages trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) and three photo leaflets with previously unpublished pictures of Claude Vivier as well as the artists during a staged performance.

VA - The #1 Opera Album (2000)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 10, 2017
VA - The #1 Opera Album (2000)

VA - The #1 Opera Album (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 02:34:42 | 632 Mb
Classical, Opera | Label: Decca Records

The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera Album. But that's no surprise, since Universal has some of the finest interpreters in its catalogue to draw from. This two-CD set (at the price of one), for example, brings together the likes of Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, and many more. Yet the other key to a successful compilation is canny anthologizing, and here again, you have a nice selection to give you a smattering of opera's heavyweights from the Italian, German, and French repertory (there's even a step outside the standard framework with an aria from Dvorák's lovely Rusalka). Ranging from 1959 to 1997, the choices from back catalogue will doubtless be the entry ticket for many into this grandest of the arts.
Teodor Currentzis, Music Aererna Orchestra of Perm Opera - Purcell: The Indian Queen (2016) [BDRip]

Teodor Currentzis, Music Aererna Orchestra of Perm Opera - Purcell: The Indian Queen (2016) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 195 min | 10,5 Gb
Audio: English / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bit
Classical | Sony Classical | Sub: English, French, German

This is the second creative project bringing together conductor Teodor Currentzis and director Peter Sellars (the first being the operatic double-bill of Iolanta and Perséphone staged in Madrid in 2012), and also the first collective production of three opera companies — the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Spanish Teatro Real and the English National Opera. The action is set in Central America. Spanish colonialists are at war with the native Mayan people. In the face of the armed forces the locals appear armed with bows and arrows, but they are mere children. Blood runs like a river. The Mayans resort to trickery – in order to infiltrate the enemy, the daughter of the Mayan chief becomes a concubine to the commander of the Spanish army. The plan brings her unexpected happiness (she falls in love with the commander and has children with him) but also tragedy (the Spanish colonialists continue the massacre of the Mayans). With nowhere to turn for help, the only hope is that the great Mayan gods will descend from the sky to the earth at the critical moment…
Teodor Currentzis, Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opera national de Paris - Verdi: Macbeth (2011) [Blu-Ray]

Teodor Currentzis, Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris - Verdi: Macbeth (2011) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23992 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 161 min | 41,2 Gb
Audio1: Italian / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2422 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 161 min | 8,72 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | BelAir | Sub: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian

Coproduced with Siberia's Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work. Google Earth satellite images plunge us into the heart of the action: a gloomy square surrounded by soulless buildings, and the interior of an aristocratic residence. Witches are no more a part of Tcherniakov's Macbeth that the duel was of Onegin, but once again the atmosphere is one of brooding claustrophobia. Tcherniakov has chosen a great cast, beginning with the marvellous Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana as Lady Macbeth. Greek baritone Dimitris Tiliakos is a powerful presence as Macbeth, while the Italians Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) and Stefano Secco (tenor) are sumptuous as, respectively, Banquo and Macduff. In this, his second production at the Paris Opera, Teodor Currentzis, music director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre conducts with verve and a splendid theatrical sense.
Anna Ryberg, Stephen Bennett, Cantillation, Sirius Ensemble, Antony Walker - Pinchgut Opera - Handel: Semele (2003)

Anna Ryberg, Stephen Bennett, Cantillation, Sirius Ensemble, Antony Walker - Pinchgut Opera - Handel: Semele (2003)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:30:50 | 836 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera, Choral | Label: ABC Classics | Catalog: 980 047-0

Semele was first presented in London in 1744; it was billed as an oratorio for murky reasons, but indeed it is operatic. I believe that this is the third recording of the work: John Eliot Gardiner’s (on Erato) is severely cut, and although much of the singing is good, it can’t compare with John Nelson’s complete, gorgeous performance (on DG) played on modern instruments. This latter is a lithe, brilliant show with Kathleen Battle in her greatest recording as the vain, self-destructive Semele and Marilyn Horne and Samuel Ramey close to magnificent, with tenor John Aler an elegant if slightly underpowered Jupiter.