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Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) was known primarily for his art songs and song cycles. His one-act opera Penthesilea is his most well-known opera. The work was inspired by Heinrich von Kleist’s tragic play of...

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Release Date: June 10, 2016

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Performance of works from the age of Henry Purcell have changed considerably since this 1960 live recording from Aix en Provence given the exponential growth in all things historically-informed, but there is still enormous pleasure...

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Release Date: October 09, 2015

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Despite its enormous success during the 19th c., Giacomo Meyerbeer’s grand opera Les Huguenots is rarely staged today, and arguably not with much more frequency at the time of this 1955 studio broadcast from the...

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Release Date: September 11, 2015

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Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, was a work the composer struggled with on and off for several years, offering up several overtures and subjecting it to much revision; indeed, even the naming of the work took...

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Release Date: April 14, 2015

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The great attraction of this Vienna 1950 performance of Mozart’s Idomeneo is dramatic soprano Gertrude Grob-Prandl, an Austrian singer spoken of in certain circles in nearly the same breath as that of Flagstad and Nilsson...

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Release Date: August 14, 2015

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This is a Lohengrin sure to be welcomed by the true Wagnerian connoisseur. Offered complete for the first time on CD and re-mastered in 24bit/96kHz audio, Walhall’s Eternity Series brings to market a 1949 Moscow,...

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Release Date: August 14, 2015

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Gaetano Donizetti's la Figlia del Reggimento (or, more appropriately, la Fille du Regiment, in French, the work being extremely popular in 19th century France despite a poor premiere) is now firmly lodged in the standard...

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Release Date: April 14, 2015

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This audiophile remastered, German-sung, Vienna, Austria production from 1960 of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth features some highly accomplished and noted singers active in the middle years of the last century. Hans Braun (1912-97) stars in the...

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Release Date: September 09, 2014

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Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s (1882-1954) opera Oberst Chabert (1912) experienced a modicum of success in the brief period after its premiere and before the onset of WWI, but for that reason and others fell out...

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Release Date: September 09, 2014

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This 24Bit/96kHz audiophile remastered two-disc recording of Aida, captured in performance on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, NYC in 1962 features a young, vibrant cast of future stars and Metropolitan Opera stalwarts. Opposite...

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Release Date: September 09, 2014

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This historic broadcast recording was always counted as one of the best recordings of this opera. With the best singers of the Frankfurt opera after WW II like Heinrich Bensing, there was always a demand...

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Release Date: November 19, 2013

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Winfried Zillig conducts this highly erotic music with an incredible cast featuring Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart. This is a must for any serious opera collector.

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Release Date: November 19, 2013

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Winfried Zillig arranged this recording in 1948 with a unique cast. The young Christa Ludwig, in one of her first recording sessions, gives an excellent interpretation of this opera.

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Release Date: November 19, 2013