Opera

Operas and operettas are basically plays (tragedies, dramas and comedies) set to music. Most feature solo voices and choruses and the whole is accompanied by orchestra. The operetta is a light music version of the opera form, but the French ‘Opéra Comique’ and the German ‘Singspiel’ also represent lighter forms of opera. The most frequently performed opera composers are Mozart, Rossini, Puccini and Verdi, while the most successful operetta composers are Johann Strauss II, Offenbach, Lehár and Sullivan.

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Album Title Catalogue No.
A LA DECOUVERTE DU CLASSIQUE 8.550037-38
A Lover's Gift / From Her To Him 8.553620
A TO Z OF CLASSICAL MUSIC (The) (3rd Expanded Edition, 2009) 8.558212-13
A TO Z OF OPERA 8.555037-38
A TO Z OF OPERA (The) (2nd expanded edition) 8.558216-17
A TO Z OF SINGERS 8.558097-100
ABDI, B.: Hafez [Opera] (Motamedi, Alishapour, Sabouri, Anvar, Zakerhossein, Credo Chamber Choir, Ukraine National Symphony, Sirenko) 8.660426-27
ABDI, B.: Rumi [Opera] (Shajarian, Motamedi, Sadeghi, Credo Chamber Choir, Ukraine National Symphony, Sirenko) 8.660424-25
ABEL, M.: Home Is a Harbor [Opera] / The Palm Trees Are Restless (Chamberlin, Pisturino, Plitmann, Tadmor, La Brea Sinfonietta, Makino) DE3495
ABERT, J.J.: Ekkehard [Opera] (Kaufmann, Gerhaher, Ingen, H. Böhm, South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra, Falk) C5392
ABERT, J.J.: Ekkehard [Opera] (Kaufmann, Gerhaher, Ingen, H. Böhm, South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra, Falk) C60080
ACKTÉ, Aino: Collected Recordings, 1902-1913 ODE883-2
ADAM, A.: Postillon de Lonjumeau (Le) [Opera] C51180
ADAMS, J.: I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Mühlpointner, Trotman, Neisser, Holst Sinfonietta, Simon) 8.669003-04
ADAMS, J.: Nixon in China (Orth, Kanyova, Hammons, Heller, Opera Colorado Chorus, Colorado Symphony, Alsop) 8.669022-24
ADOLF FREDRIK GIRLS CHOIR: I'm Here! And You? SCD1135
ADOLPHE: Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering / Mikhoels the Wise (excerpt) 8.559413
AGNESI, M.T.: Sofonisba (La) [Opera] (Arias) (De Simone, Ensemble Il Mosaico) TC720102
ALBERT, E.: Tiefland (Complete) OC312
ALBERT, EUGEN d': Tiefland [Opera] (Highlights) (Kupper, Windgassen, Uhde, Bohme, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Philharmonic, Rother) (1953) 9.80948
ALBINONI: Nascimento de L'Aurora (Il) OC913
ALDA, Frances: Victor Recordings 1909-1915 (Complete) 81034-2
ALDRIDGE, R.L.: Elmer Gantry [Opera] (Phares, Risley, Rideout, Kelley, Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony, Boggs) 8.669032-33
ALDRIDGE, R.L.: Sister Carrie [Opera] (Zabala, Phares, M. Morgan, Jordheim, Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Symphony, Boggs) 8.669039-40
ALFANO, F.: Risurrezione [Opera] (Duprels, Vickers, Leon Kim, Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Chorus and Orchestra, Lanzillotta) CDS7866.02