Opera Composers

Alessio Cacciamani, Nicola Ulivieri - Bellini: Bianca e Fernando (Live at Opera Carlo Felice Genova, Italy, 11/30/2021) (2022)

Alessio Cacciamani, Nicola Ulivieri - Bellini: Bianca e Fernando (Live at Opera Carlo Felice Genova, Italy, 11/30/2021) (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:22:04 | 585 / 325 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Dynamic

Bianca e Fernando, commissioned for the inauguration of the Carlo Felice Theatre in 1828, was composed at the start of Bellini’s career as one of the most important opera composers of the 19th century. The superb music for this dramatic story of filial love, wicked intrigues and triumph over tyranny was received with the ‘jubilation and admiration of the citizens of Genoa’ and greatly admired by the likes of Donizetti, earning Bellini recognition throughout Italy and beyond. This acclaimed first modern performance brings to light precious lost pages of music, reviving the original ‘splendid celebration’ of its premiere.
Federico Maria Sardelli, Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera - Cavalli: Il Giasone (2012) [BDRip]

Federico Maria Sardelli, Symfonisch Orkest van de Vlaamse Opera - Cavalli: Il Giasone (2012) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 198 min | 10,7 Gb
Audio: Italian / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 16 bits
Classical | Dynamic | Sub: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean

This is the World Première Recording on Blu-ray of Cavalli’s opera Il Giasone. The plot is loosely based on the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, but the opera contains many comic elements too.
In the wake of Monteverdi, opera was enjoying a real boom in Europe and Francesco Cavalli was one of the most successful Venetian opera composers. Il Giasone was the single most popular opera of the 17th Century.
Markus Poschner, Manuel Hernandez-Silva, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln - Haydn Opera Gala (2015)

Markus Poschner, Manuel Hernandez-Silva, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln - Haydn Opera Gala: L'infedeltà delusa, La vera costanza (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 396 Mb | Total time: 64:48+77:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5255 | Recorded: 2009, 2011

Although Joseph Haydn is still regarded principally as a master of instrumental music, he was also one of the forward-looking opera composers of his day, devoting a significant portion of his working life to the genre. As the opera director for Prince Esterházy, he oversaw more than a thousand opera productions at the Esterházy court, which included popular stage works of the time, as well as his own. These two operas are unusual and ahead of their time in that it is women who take centre stage. These female protagonists are people of real flesh and blood, strong, pragmatic, and clearly representative of the spirit of the Enlightenment.

Singing Sappho : Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by readerXXI at Sept. 22, 2021
Singing Sappho : Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Singing Sappho :
Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

by Melina Esse
English | 2021 | ISBN: 022674177X | 208 Pages | PDF | 8.1 MB
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera (1820-1830) (1995)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry - A Hundred Years of Italian Opera (1820-1830) (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:42:15 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Opera Rara | Catalog: ORCH104

The "100 Years of Italian Opera" series released by Opera Rara is unique in the annals of opera recordings. However, this installment is especially exciting as it documents the evolution of Italian opera during the 1820's, the decade when romanticism truly began to come into its own on the operatic stage. Opera Rara has lovingly compiled a variety of arcana written by composers famous and forgotten. Included is everything from overtures to arias, duets, ensembles, and entire scenes.

The Opera Lover’s Companion  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by tarantoga at Aug. 22, 2019
The Opera Lover’s Companion

Charles Osborne, "The Opera Lover’s Companion"
ISBN: 0300104405, 0300123736 | 2004 | EPUB | 640 pages | 18 MB
Bruno Campanella, Orchestre et Choers de l'Opéra National de Paris - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2007/1998)

Bruno Campanella, Orchestre et Choers de l'Opéra National de Paris - Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (2007/1998)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.83 Gb (DVD9) | 148 min
Classical | TDK | Sub.: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Japanese

TDK presents a production of Rossinis LItaliana in Algeri by renowned opera stage director Andrei Serban and conducted by Bruno Campanella from the prestigious Opéra National de Paris. The excellent cast of singer-actors was led by international mezzo- star Jennifer Larmore who, with her unaffected contact with the audience, beautiful voice and excellent acting, is central to this staging. The American singer has acquired a reputation as a Rossini specialist, and is no stranger to inventive stagings of the composers comedies. However, the work may be named after the Italian girl, but her adversary Mustafà is just as dominant, and this production has one of the leading exponents of this gleeful role, the buffo bass Simone Alaimo.
Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)

Markellos Chryssicos, Venice Baroque Orchestra - L' Olimpiade: The Opera (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 540 Mb | Total time: 65:55+57:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # V 5295 | Recorded: 2011

The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello. In the eighteenth century, 1,300 years after the last Olympic Games in ancient times, the Olympic theme was highly fashionable. Many composers based operas on the libretto L'Olimpiade by Metastasio. This recording has been structured to contain all of Metastasio’s original arias; it is a pasticcio in the sense that the music is by 16 different composers amongst the many that set the libretto between 1733 and the end of the century.
Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra & Patrick Summers - O'Regan: The Phoenix (Live) (2020)

Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra & Patrick Summers - O'Regan: The Phoenix (Live) (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:24:57 | 726 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Pentatone

Pentatone continues its "American Opera Series" with Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere recording of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix (2019), an opera on the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart’s favorite librettist. Da Ponte (1749-1838) was an adventurer, who not only travelled the world, but in a way also through time, living across what seem to be impossible moments of history that never should have aligned in somebody’s life. Together with librettist John Caird, O’Regan has designed The Phoenix as an opera within an opera, exploring Da Ponte’s life in the US, and as such providing a fascinating perspective on America as a nation of immigrants. The young and elder Da Ponte are created by Luca Pisaroni and Thomas Hampson, respectively. Music director Patrick Summers conducts the Houston Grand Opera.

Julia Lezhneva - Graun: Opera Arias (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at June 3, 2017
Julia Lezhneva - Graun: Opera Arias (2017)

Julia Lezhneva - Graun: Opera Arias
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, d. booklet | 65:06 min | 300 MB
Label: Decca - 4831518 | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2017
Classical, Opera

Julia Lezhneva presents 11 World Premiere Recordings in her new album of Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), one of the most important German composers of Italian baroque opera but almost unknown today.