A PASSION FOR OPERA: Learning to Love it: The Greatest Masters, Their Greatest Music. By Peter Fox Smith. North Pomfret, Vermont: Trafalfar Square Publishing, 2004. 697 pp. illustrations. Paperback, $24.95 |  MINKUS: La Bayadère (John Lanchbery) |
BEETHOVEN (Life and Times). By Martin Geek (translation: Anthea Bell). Vermont: Haus Publishing, Distributed by Trafalgar Square Books, 2003. 173 pp. Illustrated. $15.00 | MONIUSZKO: Straszny Dwór (Kaspszyk) |
FIRST NIGHTS AT THE OPERA. By Thomas Forrest Kelly. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press, 2004. 423 pp. Illustrations. $35.00 | MONIUSZKO: The Haunted Manor (Jacek Kaspszyk) |
I NEVER WALKED ALONE: The Autobiography of an American Singer. By Shirley Verrett, with Christopher Brooks. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. 336 pp. Illustrations. $30.00 | MONTEVERDI: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) |
THE NEW YORK TIMES ESSENTIAL LIBRARY: OPERA. By Anthony Tommasini, New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2004. 384 pp. $17.00 | MOZART: Arias (Christoph Genz) |
A MOZART GALA FROM SALZBURG (Daniel Harding) | MOZART: Così fan tutti (John Pritchard) |
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Charles Rosekrans) | MOZART: Così fan tutti (John Pritchard) |
ADAM, ADOLPHE: Giselle (David Coleman) | MOZART: Der Schauspieldirektor (Sir Neville Marriner) |
ADAM, ADOLPHE: Giselle (Herbert von Karajan) | MOZART: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Arnold Östman) |
Adelson e Salvini (Andrea Licata) | MOZART: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Gustav Kühn) |
AIRS D'OPÉRAS FRANÇAIS (Natalie Dessay) | MOZART: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Marc Minkowski) |
BALLET FAVORITES (Erich Kunzel) | MOZART: Die Zauberflöte (Bernard Haitink) |
BAYER: The Fairy Doll. Sun and Earth (Andrew Mogrelia) | MOZART: Don Giovanni (Bernard Haitink) |
Beatrice di Tenda (Fabio Luisi) | MOZART: Don Giovanni (Zubin Mehta) |
BECK, FRANZ IGNAZ: Symphonies (Michael Schneider) | MOZART: Horn Concertos (Barry Tuckwell) |
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Fidelio (Karl Böhm) | MOZART: Idomeneo (John Pritchard) |
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Fidelio (Seiji Ozawa) | MOZART: Idomeneo (John Pritchard) |
BEL CANTO ARIAS (Joan Sutherland) | MOZART: Idomeneo (Kent Nagano) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Complete Operas (Various) | MOZART: Idomeneo, re di Creta (Colin Davis) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Fabio Luisi) | MOZART: Komm, liebe Zither. Caro mio Druck... (Xaver Meyer) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Giuseppe Patané) | MOZART: La Betulia liberate (Mario Rossi) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Lorin Maazel) | MOZART: La finta giardiniera (Arnold Östman) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I Capuleti ei Montecchi (Bruno Campanella) | MOZART: La finta giardiniera (Nikolaus Harnoncourt) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I puritani (Riccardo Muti) | MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro (John Pritchard) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I puritani (Riccardo Muti) | MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro (Zubin Mehta) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: I puritani (Richard Bonynge) | MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro. Don Giovanni.... (Jean-Claude Malgoire) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: La sonnambula (Marcello Viotti) | MOZART: Lucio Silla (Adám Fischer) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: La straniera (Parry) | MOZART: Lucio Silla (Tomáš Netopil) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma (Gabriele Santini) | MOZART: Piano Concertos (Mitsuko Uchida) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma (Julian Reynolds) | MOZART: Piano Concertos (Vladimir Ashkenazy) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma (Oliviero de Fabritiis) | MOZART: Symphonies (Roger Norrington) |
BELLINI, VINCENZO: Norma (Richard Bonynge) | MOZART: Zaide (Martin Haselböck) |
BENDA, JIŘÍ ANTONÍN: Der Dorf Jahrmarkt (Hans von Benda) | MOZART; HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC (Franko Fagioli) |
BENDA, JIŘÍ ANTONÍN: Der Dorfjahrmarkt (Hans von Benda) | MOZART; VOŘIŠEK (Karel Ančerl) |
Bianca e Fernando (Andrea Licata) | MUSIC TO THE BOURNONVILLE BALLETS (Lassen) |
BIZET: Carmen (Ernst Märzendorfer) | NEW YEAR’S CONCERT (Matthias Georg Kendlinger) |
BIZET: Carmen (Herbert von Karajan) | Norma (Georges Prêtre) |
BIZET: Carmen (Plasson) | Norma (Paolo Arrivabeni) |
BIZET: L’arlésienne (Michel Plasson) | OFFENBACH: Operatic excerpts (Parry) |
BIZET: Symphony in C. L'arlésienne (Charles Munch) | ONSLOW, GEORGE: Symphonies (Johannes Goritzki) |
BIZET: Symphony in C. Patrie Overture.... (Seiji Ozawa) | PACINI: Alessandro nell’Indie (Parry) |
BIZET; STRAUSS (Christopher Hogwood) | PACIUS: Die Loreley (Osmo Vänskä) |
BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Symphony No. 4... (Marek Janowski) | PAISIELLO: Gli astrologi Immaginari (Bruno Rigacci) |
BRAHMS, JOHANNES; MOZART; WOLF-FERRARI (Ferdinand Leitner) | PAISIELLO: Gli zingari in Fiera (Giovanni di Stefano) |
CATALANI: Loreley (Gianandrea Gavazzeni) | PHILIDOR, ANNE DANICAN: Tom Jones (Jean-Claude Malgoire) |
CAVALLI: Ercole amante (Ivor Bolton) | PONCHIELLI, AMILCARE: Il figliuol prodigo (Silvano Frontalini) |
CHOPIN, FRÉDÉRIC: Die Kameliendame (Heribert Beissel) | PUCCINI MUSICISTI DI LUCCA: VOL. V (Gianfranco Cosmi) |
DELDEVEZ-MINKUS: Paquita (David Coleman) | PUGNI: Esmeralda (André Anichanov) |
Die Frau ohne Schatten: Excerpts (Franz Welser-Möst) | REINTHALER: Jephta und seine Tochter (Wolfgang Helbich) |
DONIZETTI: Anna Bolena (Elio Boncompagni) | RICCI: Corrado d’Altamura (Böer) |
DONIZETTI: Anna Bolena (Julius Rudel) | ROLANDO VILLAZÓN—OPERA RECITAL (Rolando Villazón) |
DONIZETTI: Caterina Cornaro (Elio Boncompagni) | ROSSINI: Adelaide di Borgogna (Carella) |
DONIZETTI: Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal (Elder) | ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Ralf Weikert) |
DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale (Evelino Pidò) | ROSSINI: Il signor Bruschino (Claudio Desderi) |
DONIZETTI: Elvida (Antonello Allemandi) | ROSSINI: Il signor Bruschino (Ion Marin) |
DONIZETTI: Emilia di Liverpool (John Pritchard) | ROSSINI: Il turco in Italia (Marzio Conti) |
DONIZETTI: Francesca di Foix (Antonello Allemandi) | ROSSINI: Il turco in Italia (Nino Sanzogno) |
DONIZETTI: Gianni di Parigi (Carlo Felice Cillario) | ROSSINI: L'italiana in Algeri (Claudio Abbado) |
DONIZETTI: Imelda de’ Lambertazzi (Elder) | ROSSINI: L'occasione fa il ladro (Gianluigi Gelmetti) |
DONIZETTI: La figlia del reggimento (Marzio Conti) | ROSSINI: La cambiale di matrimonio (Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli) |
DONIZETTI: La fille du régiment (Riccardo Frizza) | ROSSINI: La cambiale di matrimonio (Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli) |
DONIZETTI: La fille du régiment (Roland Gagnon) | ROSSINI: La cenerentola (Piero Bellugi) |
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Friedrich Haider) | ROSSINI: La cenerentola (Riccardo Chailly) |
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Gérard Korsten) | ROSSINI: La donna del lago (Alberto Zedda) |
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Herbert von Karajan) | ROSSINI: La donna del lago (Tullio Serafin) |
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Jesus López-Cobos) | ROSSINI: La pietra del paragone (Alessandro de Marchi) |
DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor (Tullio Serafin) | ROSSINI: La scala di seta (Gianluigi Gelmetti) |
DONIZETTI: Lucrezia Borgia (Bertrand de Billy) | ROSSINI: La scala di seta (Marc Andreae) |
DONIZETTI: L’elisir d’amore (Edward Gardner) | ROSSINI: Le Comte Ory (Brad Cohen) |
DONIZETTI: L’elisir d’amore (Gardner) | ROSSINI: L’italiana in Algeri (Donato Renzetti) |
DONIZETTI: Maria Padilla (Kenneth Montgomery) | ROSSINI: L’italiana in Algeri (Nino Sanzogno) |
DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda (Antonino Fogliani) | ROSSINI: Mosè in Egitto (Antonino Fogliani) |
DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda (Fabrizio Maria Carminati) | ROSSINI: Moïse (Georges Prêtre) |
DONIZETTI: Maria Stuarda (Riccardo Frizza) | ROSSINI: Moïse et Pharaon (Riccardo Muti) |
DONIZETTI: Olivo e Pasquale (Bruno Rigacci) | ROSSINI: Moïse et Pharaon (Riccardo Muti) |
DONIZETTI: Pia de’ Tolomei (Parry) | ROSSINI: Opera Arias and Overtures... (Michael Hofstetter) |
DUPORT, JEAN-LOUIS: Cello Concertos (Peter Hörr) | ROSSINI: Overtures... (Evelino Pidò) |
DVOŘÁK, ANTONIN; MASSENET, JULES; MEYERBEER (Jean Martinon) | ROSSINI: Tancredi (Riccardo Frizza) |
DVOŘÁK, ANTONIN; SMETANA (Herbert von Karajan) | ROSSINI: The Barber of Seville (James Levine) |
EXSULTATE JUBILATE (Olga Makarina) | ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie (Parry) |
EYBLER: Die vier letzten Dinge (Hermann Max) | ROSSINI: Torvaldo e Dorliska (Alessandro de Marchi) |
FRANCK, CÉSAR; DUSSEK, JAN LADISLAV (John Barbirolli) | SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ.“ Phaeton (Christian Badea) |
GEMINIANI, F.: Concerti grossi, op. 5 (After Corelli,... (Chiara Banchini) | SCENE D’AMORE (Soile Isokoski) |
GEMINIANI, F.: Der Zauberwald. Concerto grosso... (Michael Schneider) | SCHAF-FRATH: Overtures (Howard Arman) |
GLUCK: Orfeo ed Euridice (Jonel Perlea) | SCHNEITZHOEFFER: La Sylphide (Ermanno Florio) |
GOMES, ANTONIO CARLOS: Salvator Rosa (Maurizio Benini) | SCHNEITZHOEFFER: La Sylphide (Florio) |
GOUNOD, CHARLES: Roméo et Juliette (Emil Cooper) | SCHUBERT: Symphonies (Gordan Nikolić) |
GOUNOD, CHARLES; BIZET (Hans Rudolf Zöbeley) | SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9 in C (Günter Wand) |
GOUNOD, CHARLES; DELIBES; MESSAGER (Charles Mackerras) | SCHWEITZER: Alceste (Michael Hofstetter) |
GRAND PAS IN THE WHITE NIGHT (Kirov Ballet) | SPOHR, LOUIS: Zemire und Azor (Christopher Larkin) |
GRAUN, JOHANN GOTTLIEB: Grosse Passion (Hermann Max) | STRAUSS II, JOHANN: Aschenbrödel (Michael Halász) |
GREAT BARITONE ARIAS (Tommi Hakala) | STRAUSS II, JOHANN: Die Fledermaus (Herbert von Karajan) |
GREAT DANCERS OF OUR TIME (Vladimir Malakhov) | STRAUSS II, JOHANN: Die Fledermaus (Vladimir Jurowski) |
GREAT DANCERS OF OUR TIME (Vladimir Malakhov) | STRAUSS II, JOHANN: Eine Nacht in Venedig (Mika Eichenholz) |
GRIEG, EDVARD: In Autumn. Piano Concerto. Symphony... (Ole Kristian Ruud) | STRAUSS II, JOHANN: ORCHESTRAL PIECES... (Mika Eichenholz) |
GRIEG, EDVARD; SCHUMANN (Jansons) | STRAUSS, J.: Die Fledermaus (Theodor Guschlbauer) |
GRIEG, EDVARD; SCHUMANN (Leif Ove Andsnes) | STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier (Christian Thielemann) |
GRÉTRY: Zémire et Azor (Doneux) | STRAUSS; WAGNER (Donald Runnicles) |
HERBERT, VICTOR: Mlle. Modiste (Michael Borowitz) | SULLIVAN: Cox and Box (Gary McKercher) |
HUMMEL, JOHANN NEPOMUK: Mass in d. Salve Regina. (Richard Hickox) | SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore (John Owen Edwards) |
HUMPERDINCK: Hansel and Gretel (Andreas Delfs) | SULLIVAN: Patience (Blake Walter) |
HUMPERDINCK: Hansel and Gretel (Charles Mackerras) | SULLIVAN: Ruddigore (Michael Borowitz) |
HUMPERDINCK: Königskinder (Fabio Luisi) | SULLIVAN: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan (Godrey) |
HÉROLD: La somnambule (Bonynge) | SULLIVAN: The Mikado (Christopher Ocasek) |
I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Luciano Acocella) | SULLIVAN: The Mikado (J. Lynn Thompson) |
I puritani (Richard Bonynge) | SULLIVAN: The Pirates of Penzance (William Elliott) |
Il pirata (Marcello Viotti) | SULLIVAN: The Sorcerer (Gary McKercher) |
JEWELS: Emeralds; Rubies; Diamonds (Paul Connelly) | SULLIVAN: The Sorcerer. Cox and Box (Madison Savoyards O & Ch) |
JONATHAN LEM ALU: OPERA ARIAS (Jonathan Lemalu) | SULLIVAN: The Yeomen of the Guard (Michael Alexander) |
KÁLMÁN, EMMERICH: Der Zigeunerprimas (Flor) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Ballet at the Opera... (Colin Davis) |
La sonnambula (Giuliano Caella) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Nutcracker (Martin West) |
La sonnambula (Leonard Bernstein) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Sleeping Beauty (George Weldon) |
La straniera (Nino Sanzogno) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Anatole Fistoulari) |
LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT & CARMEN (Paul Connelly) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (James Tuggle) |
LEHÁR: Das Land des Lächelns. Die lustige... (Otto Ackermann) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Valery Gergiev) |
LEHÁR: Schönist ist die Welt... (Alfie Boe) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Valery Gergiev) |
LEHÁR: Zigeunerliebe (Beermann) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Vello Pähn) |
LEHÁR; LEHÁR (Willi Boskovsky) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake (Victor Fedotov) |
LIGHT OPERA GEMS, GREAT VOICES OF THE PAST (Peter Anders) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake... (David Coleman) |
LORTZING: Der Waffenschmied (Leopold Hager) | TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake... (Vasily Petrenko) |
LORTZING: Der Wildschütz (Robert Heger) | TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker (Aleksandr Kopilov) |
MASCAGNI, PIETRO: An Introduction to Cavallerìa rusticana (David Timson) | TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker (Yevgeny Svetlanov) |
MASCAGNI, PIETRO: Cavalleria rusticana (Zhang Jiemin) | TCHAIKOVSKY: The Sleeping Beauty (Aleksandr Kopilov) |
MASSENET, JULES: Don Chisciotte (Alfredo Simonetto) | TCHAIKOVSKY: The Sleeping Beauty (Valeriy Ovsyanikov) |
MASSENET, JULES: Manon (Jesus López-Cobos) | TCHAIKOVSKY; SAINT-SAËNS (Valery Gergiev) |
MASSENET, JULES: Sapho (Bernard Keefe) | THE ART OF THE COLORATURA—FRENCH OPERA ARIAS (Elizabeth Vidal) |
MASSENET, JULES: Thais (Marcello Viotti) | THOMAS, AMBROISE: Hamlet (Bertrand de Billy) |
MAYA PLISETSKAYA—DIVA OF DANCE (Maya Plisetskaya) | THOMAS, AMBROISE: La cour de Célimène (Litton) |
MAYR: Ginevra di Scozia (Severini) | VERDI: Aida... (Daniele Gatti) |
MAYR: Ginevra di Scozia (Tiziano Severini) | VERDI: Il trovatore (Oliviero de Fabritiis) |
MAYR: L’amor coniugale (Franklin) | VERDI: La traviata (Carlo Rizzi) |
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: A Midsummer's Night Dream (John Nelson) | VERDI: Macbeth (Daniele Callegari) |
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”... (Thomas Fey) | VERONIKA KINCSES -- SONGS AND DUETS FROM OPERETTAS (Veronika Kincses) |
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX: The Hebrides Overture, “Fingal’s... (Ross Pople) | VIENNA STATE OPERA GALA CONCERT—50TH ANNIVERSARY... (Various) |
MERCADANTE: Caritea, regina di Spagna (Carella) | VIENNA, CITY OF MY DREAMS (Plácido Domingo) |
MERCADANTE: Caritea, regina di Spagna (Giuliano Carella) | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Bassoon Concertos (Tamás Benkócs) |
MERCADANTE: Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia (Antonello Allemandi) | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: The Four Seasons... (Daniel Gaede) |
MERCADANTE: Virginia (Benini) | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Vespri solenni per la festa dell'assunzione... (Rinaldo Alessandrini) |
MESSAGER: Les deux pigeons (Richard Bonynge) | WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Charles Mackerras) |
MEYERBEER: L’esule di Granata (Carella) | WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Charles Mackerras) |
MEYERBEER: Margherita d'Anjou (Parry) | WAGNER: Die Meistersinger... (Christian Thielemann) |
MEYERBEER: Semiramide (Bonynge) | WEBER: (completed Mahler) Die drei Pintos (Paolo Arrivabeni) |
MEYERBEER: Semiramide (Richard Bonynge) | WEBER: Euryanthe (Gérard Korsten) |
MINKUS: Don Quijote (Giovanni Duarte) | WEBER: Overtures (Wolfgang Sawallisch) |
MINKUS: Don Quixote (Nayden Todorov) | Zaira (Paolo Olmi) |
MINKUS: La Bayadère (David Coleman) | ZIEHRER, CARL: Die drei Wünsche (Herbert Mogg) |
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