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Recorded in: Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen 18-23 & 25-29 August 1997 Sound Engineer(s) Jørn Jacobsen Producer(s) Brian Couzens Executive Claus Due

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HANDEL: Saul

ROSSINI: Stabat Mater

SCHREKER: Gezeichneten (Die)

SZYMANOWSKI: King Roger / Prince Potemkin

BEST OF OPERA, VOL. 2

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Highlights)

Britten: War Requiem

Bizet's opera Carmen was first produced at the Opera-Comique in Paris in 1875. The French genre of opera-comique had arisen in the eighteenth century as a Gallic counterpart of the Italian opera buff, injecting an air of contemporary realism into operatic form. The success of operetta in the nineteenth century offered a challenge to the form, which retained the characteristic of the German Singspiel, spoken dialogue taking the place of the recitative of opera serial or French grand opera, but increasingly lacked power or conviction. Carmen, in it's original version with spoken dialogue, derived largely from Prosper M�rim�e's novel on which the opera was based. Created something of a scandal, and opened the way to a new form of opera. While nineteenth century French audiences at the Opera-Comique might find in Micaela a recognizable character, Carmen, a vicious outcast from decent society, was not the ideal heroine for popular family entertainment.

BEST OF OPERETTA, Vol. 1

Korngold: Tote Stadt (Die)

With Miriam Gauci as Nedda, Nicola Martinucci as Canio, and Eduard Tumagian as Tonio. Rahbari/Czech/Slovak RSO.

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