French Grand Opera Sale
Over 600 titles featuring the music of Meyerbeer, Gounod, Bizet, and Berlioz are on sale now at ArkivMusic!
Discover a collection of titles inspired by French Grand Opera, including the music of Carmen, Faust, and Romeo et Juliette, and featuring works by iconic French composers, including Meyerbeer, Gounod, Bizet, and Berlioz.
Shop the sale now before it ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, September 30, 2025.
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BERLIOZ: Benvenuto Cellini / Les Troyens / Symphonie fantast
Famous Marches / Black Dyke Mills Band
Various types of march are featured on this CD. The military march gets a hearing through one of the best known of them all, "Colonel Bogey," the only slightly-lesser known "The New Colonial," and, for good measure, a brilliant arrangement for brass band by Gordon Langford of Under the Double Eagle. This is a wide range of marches guaranteed to bring delight to listeners of all musical tastes.
Bizet: Carmen Highlights / Karajan, Price, Et Al
"Karajan's RCA version, made in Vienna in 1964, owes much to Leontyne Price's seductive, smoky-toned Carmen... Robert Merrill sings with gloriously firm tone, while Mirella Freni is enchanting as Micaëla." -- The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs [2003/4 edition, reviewing RCA 39495]
Meyerbeer, Spohr, Busoni & Baermann: Clarinet Quintets
Merry Christmas / Chicago Brass Quintet
Bizet: L'arlésienne, Carmen - Suites / Bramall, Slovak Po
GLI AMORI DI TEOLINDA
Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder / Marie-Nicole Lemieux
As one of the cruel realities of competition, the winners switch from glory to complete oblivion after a few ephemerous mediatic sparks. When Marie-Nicole Lemieux won the Queen Elisabeth Singing Competition in 1998, nobody knew she would become the contralto of her generation, and nobody knew - even if many guessed at it - that she would become one of the most versatile singers imaginable as well as a first-class tragedian. In August 2000 the producers of Cypres were the first to offer her a recital with the pianist Daniel Blumenthal. Programmed was nothing less than Les Nuits d'été, the Wesendonck and the Rückert-lieder - three cycles of lieder counted among the most intense of the repertory. The calm trembling of the contralto in Berlioz, its poignant dignity in Mahler and its heightened expression in Wagner made this record into an undeniable commercial and artistic success. More than ten years have passed since; Marie-Nicole Lemieux today appears on the biggest stages in the world, and this "historic" record reminds us that even at the beginning of her career, the singer from Quebec was already the genius performer we know today.
Meyerbeer: Music For Festive Occasions / Jurowski, NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover
Experience the grandeur and celebration of Giacomo Meyerbeer's works with "Meyerbeer: Music For Festive Occasions" by the CPO record label. Conducted by Mikhail Jurowski, this CD showcases music specifically composed for special events, performed by the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover. Transport yourself to the joyous atmosphere of the German radio orchestra's performances with this exquisite recording.
