Opera

Lyric Opera of Kansas City - The Shining (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Lyric Opera of Kansas City - The Shining (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:45:50 minutes | 4,0 GB
Classical, Opera | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Lyric Opera of Kansas City presents the world-premiere recording of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s opera The Shining (2016). Based on the novel by Stephen King, this opera “elevates the tale from horror story to a human drama” (Wall Street Journal) thanks to Moravec’s atmospheric, electrifying score and Campbell’s deft libretto.
Haymarket Opera Company - Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges- L'Amant anonyme (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Haymarket Opera Company - Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges- L'Amant anonyme (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:50:16 minutes | 2.73 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Haymarket Opera, Chicago’s premier early opera company that presents historically informed performances played on 18th-century classical era instruments, performs on this world-premiere recording of L’Amant Anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799).
Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera & Riccardo Frizza - Donizetti: Belisario, A. 47 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Riccardo Frizza, Simon Lim, Roberto Frontali, Carmela Remigio, Annalisa Stroppa, Celso Albelo & Donizetti Opera Orchestra - Donizetti: Belisario, A. 47 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 126:47 minutes | 2,21 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Dynamic, Official Digital Download

Donizetti's three-act tragic opera Belisario was a resounding success in its day, driven by its composer’s superlative theatrical instinct and his skilful interweaving of intense tragic narrative and emotional pathos. Belisario is betrayed by his wife Antonina, who falsely accuses him of high treason.
Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal - Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous (2023)

Le Balcon and Maxime Pascal - Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: L'opéra de quat'sous (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless [24bit-96kHz] | 1:27:50 | 1.35 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Alpha Classics

This album presents the songs from The Threepenny Opera in a new French translation by Alexandre Pateau. The recording was made at the 2023 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence during the run of the new production of the legendary work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann, which features the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise and the musicians of Le Balcon, conducted by Maxime Pascal with Thomas Ostermeier as stage director. In this parody of an opera, the songs are the driving force behind the action and the characters ape the bourgeois lifestyle of the audience, the better to denounce the period of moral confusion they are going through. With Maxime Pascal at the helm of a dozen multi-instrumentalists from Le Balcon, we hear a version based on that of the first performance - hard-hitting and as close as possible to the tremendous creative energy deployed by the two creators of the work in the summer of 1928 - acted and sung by the troupe of the Comedie-Francaise, who rise to all its challenges with brio. Other special features of this album are a previously unrecorded song on a text by Yvette Guilbert and the linking texts between the songs read in French by Ostermeier himself. As Diapason wrote of this production, 'Almost a century after its premiere, The Threepenny Opera has lost none of its subversive power.'
Early Opera Company & Christian Curnyn - Maurice Greene Jephtha (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Early Opera Company & Christian Curnyn - Maurice Greene Jephtha (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 98:53 minutes | 1,73 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The passage of time has perhaps been unkind to the English composer Maurice Greene. By 1730 he was one of the most senior musicians in England: Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, Organist and Composer to the Chapel Royal, and Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.
Opera Fuoco & David Stern - Mayr: L'amor conjugale (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Opera Fuoco & David Stern - Mayr: L'amor conjugale (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 103:03 minutes | 1,85 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Aparté, Official Digital Download

A daring wife disguises herself in order to be hired as a prison guard and thus rescue her unjustly detained husband: the story of Leonora, taken from the French novel by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, is familiar to us through Beethoven’s only opera.
Houston Grand Opera - Houston Grand Opera- Werther (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Houston Grand Opera - Houston Grand Opera- Werther (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:04:38 minutes | 2.45 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

This production of Massenet's dramatic Werther features four artists making their long-anticipated Houston debuts.
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and Chorus - Gilbert & Sullivan Utopia, Limited and King Arthur (2022/2025) [24/96]

The Orchestra of Scottish Opera and Chorus - Gilbert & Sullivan Utopia, Limited and King Arthur (2022/2025) [24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:06:48 minutes | 2,27 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Gilbert & Sullivan’s penultimate opera, Utopia, Limited, was written immediately after The Gondoliers. Here, with an updated libretto by director Stuart Maunder and a revised musical version by Scottish Opera’s Head of Music Derek Clark, it is given its Scottish Opera premiere and the airing it so deserves.
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Talbot The Winter's Tale (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Talbot The Winter's Tale (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:48:27 minutes | 2,07 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.
Houston Grand Opera - Houston Grand Opera- Werther (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Houston Grand Opera - Houston Grand Opera- Werther (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:04:38 minutes | 2.45 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

This production of Massenet's dramatic Werther features four artists making their long-anticipated Houston debuts.