Italian Composers Sale
From Baroque masterpieces to beloved operas, explore over 500 recordings celebrating Italy's most influential composers.
Discover iconic works by Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Vivaldi, Morricone and more with acclaimed performances that bring the passion and beauty of Italian music to life.
Shop the sale before it ends at 9:00am, Monday, August 10th, 2026.
500 products
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
ORGAN WORKS
Verdi: La Forza Del Destino / Theodossiou, Stoyanov, Machado, Gelmetti [blu-ray]
Also available on standard DVD
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
Booklet: English, German, French
No. of Discs: 1
Run time: 190 minutes
Disc Format: Blu-ray 50
Picture: 16:9, HD
Audio: PCM Stereo, PCM 5.1
Bonus Material: Introduction to La forza del destino
Subtitles Bonus: Italian, English
Region Code: 0 (worldwide)
Verdi: La forza del destino
Puccini: Suor Angelica - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Rossini: Sermiramide
A Musical Journey - Genoa: A Musical Tour of the City
ZELMIRA
A Musical Journey - Tuscany: A Musical Tour of Montecatini a
Arias
Messa da Requiem
Puccini: Tosca / Benini, Dessi, Armiliato, Raimondi
TOSCA
Floria Tosca – Daniela Dessi
Mario Cavaradossi – Fabio Armiliato
Baron Scarpia – Ruggero Raimondi
Cesare Angelotti – Marco Spotti
Sacristan – Miguel Sola
Spoletta – Emilio Sanchez
Sciarrone – Josep Miquel Ribot
Gaoler – Francisco Santiago
Shepherd – Eliana Bayon
Madrid Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Martin Merry)
Maurizio Benini, conductor
Nuria Espert, stage director
Ezio Frigerio, set designer
Franca Squarciapino, costume designer
Vinicio Cheli, lighting designer
Recorded live from the Teatro Real de Madrid, 19 and 22 January 2004
Bonus:
- Interviews with Daniela Dessi, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi and Maurizio Benini
- Nuria Espert in conversation with Teatro Real’s Artistic Director, Emilio Sagi
- Cast gallery
Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: LPCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Menu language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
Running time: 194 mins
No. of DVDs: 2
Monteverdi: L'orfeo / Ainsley, Balleys, Stubbs, Chance
Claudio Monteverdi
L’ORFEO
Orfeo – John Mark Ainsley
Euridice – Juanita Lascarro
La Messagiera – Brigitte Balleys
Apollo / Pastore II – Russell Smythe
La Musica – David Cordier
La Speranza – Michael Chance
Caronte – Mario Luperi
Proserpina – Bernarda Fink
Plutone / Pastore IV – Dean Robinson
Pastore I / Eco – Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Pastore III – Douglas Nasrawi
Ninfa – Suzie LeBlanc
Tragicomedia
Concerto Palatino
Stephen Stubbs, conductor
Pierre Audi, stage director
Michael Simon, set designer
Jorge Jara, costume designer
Jean Kalman, lighting designer
Recorded live at Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, July 1997
Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: LPCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch
Running time: 140 mins
No. of DVDs: 2
Rossini: Complete Overtures, Vol. 3
Verdi: La Traviata, Aida, Macbeth [5 DVD Set]
Mireille Delunsch • Matthew Polenzani • Zeljko Lucic
Orchestre de Paris, Conducted by Yutaka Sado
staged by Peter Mussbach
Recorded at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (2003)
AIDA
Nina Stemme • Salvatore Licitra • Luciana D’Intino Juan Pons • Matti Salminen
Zurich Opera Orchestra, Conducted by Adam Fischer
staged by Nicolas Joel
Recorded at the Opernhaus Zürich (2006)
BBC Magazine DVD of the month (august 07)
Gramophone DVD of the month (august 07)
MACBETH
Dimitris Tiliakos • Violeta Urmana • Ferruccio Furlanetto • Stefano Secco
Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, Conducted by Teodor Currentzis
staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov
Recorded at the Opéra national de Paris (2009)
Three masterpieces by Verdi in a limited edition 5-DVD box set: internationally acclaimed productions from Aix Festival, Zurich Opera House and paris Opera, by Peter Mussbach (Traviata), Nicolas Joel (Aida) and Dmitri Tcherniakov (Macbeth). Artists as Mireille Delunsch, Nina Stemme, salvatore Licitra, Violeta Urmana and world famous conductors as Yutaka Sado, Adam Fischer and Teodor Currentzis.
Verdi: Organ Ouvertures for 4 Hands
Rossini: Complete Overtures Vol 4 / Benda
Ricciardo e Zoraide, for example, has an unconventional form, ending quietly with a lengthy aria for solo flute, preceded by a romantic horn solo. Torvaldo e Dorliska reveals that Rossini was always ready with a new and interesting take on his signature “crescendo.” This one ends, not with the conventional climactic tutti, but with a series of more lyrical phrases for the violins. Armida’s opening march leads to another insanely difficult horn solo (the MET’s player blew it horribly at the performance of the opera that I saw). Rossini must have worked with some astoundingly fine individual players.
The performances, as with the other volumes in this series, are crisp, fleet, and shapely, with excellent solo winds nicely balanced against well-coordinated strings. Conductor Christian Benda also takes care to handle the percussion with good taste and common sense. For example, he reserves the cymbals for the very end of The Barber of Seville, an effective decision.
If you’re looking for the complete Rossini overtures, the only other option you have is Marriner’s set on Philips. These performances, on the whole, have just that much more more character and sparkle. They deserve your consideration.
-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
V 3: MASTERS OF VIOLIN
Vivaldi: Solo Concertos
Respighi: The Birds; Three Botticelli Pictures; Suite In G Major / Di Vittorio, Chamber Orchestra Of New York
One of Respighi’s masterpieces, Gli uccelli (The Birds) includes transcriptions of birdsong and music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in writing of evocative, captivating lyricism. Trittico botticelliano, an illustration of three paintings by Botticelli, employs dance rhythms, modal melodies and a variant of the medieval hymn Veni, Veni Emmanuel in deft, often sublime fashion. The Suite in G major, cast for strings and organ in the form of a Concerto grosso, is heard on this première recording in its original edition.
Rossini: Piano Music Vol 6 - Peches De Vieillesse Vol 4 / Alessandro Marangoni
Rossini’s operas have remained amongst the most popular in the repertoire but over the last decade of his life he turned largely to piano music. The Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) occupy thirteen volumes, and the deliciously informal and comic fourth is called Quatre hors d’oeuvres et quatre mendiants. Its theme is food, and Rossini lavishes all his abundant abilities of characterisation in his descriptive passages, not least the introduction of a parakeet.
AIDA
AIDA (BLURAY)
Verdi & Wagner - The Odeonsplatz Concert / Thomas Hampson, Ronaldo Villazon, Yannick Nezet-seguin
This scintillating opera gala offers you the chance to experience the Odeonsplatz Concert 2013 with Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in all its glory, featuring opera arias, duets, overtures and choruses by Verdi and Wagner.
THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT – Verdi and Wagner
Klassik am Odeonsplatz
Giuseppe Verdi:
Les vêpres siciliennes (I vesperi siciliani): Overture
Don Carlos: Autodafé / Dio, che nell’alma infondere
L’esule (arr. L. Berio)
Il trovatore, Act II: Vedi, le fosche notturne, “Anvil Chorus”
Il corsaro, Act III: Alfin questo corsaro … Cento leddiadre vergini
Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, Act II: Ciel, che feci!
Nabucco, Act III: Vá pensiero, “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves”
Jules Massenet:
Hérodiade, Act II: Ce breuvage pourrait … Vision fugitive
Le Cid, Act III: Ah! tout est bien fini … Ô souverain, ô juge, ô pere
Maurice Ravel: La valse (version for orchestra)
Richard Wagner:
Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts I & III
Tannhäuser: O du mein holder Abendstern / Entry of the Guests on the Wartburg
Rolando Villazón, tenor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Bavarian Radio Symphony Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Recorded live at Odeonsplatz, Munich, 2013
Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 111 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)
