Browse: Opus Arte (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Opus Arte.
-
Whether Gay needed an overhaul is one question. Another is whether the new script’s breathless speed gels with the Baroque musical manners of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. The answer... — More…
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
-
-
Feola is everything that Rosenblatt Recitals hope to discover - a beautiful voice in its youthful prime, an artist upon the threshold of an auspicious career...at the close of 'Pace non trovo',... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Britten: Billy Budd
RecommendedJohn Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere), Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Phillip Ens (Claggart), Iain Paterson (Mr Redburn), Matthew Rose (Mr Flint), Darren Jeffery (Lieutenant Ratcliffe), Alasdair Elliott (Red Whiskers), John Moore (Donald), Jeremy White (Dansker), Ben Johnson (Novice), Colin Judson (Squeak)...
[Elder paces] the developing tragedy with airily lyrical detail and brooding, ominous power. John Mark Ainsley' s plangent, dark-toned tenor and intense diction show us a more neurotic Vere than... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2011
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Finalist
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, DVD Choice
-
-
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
RecommendedStéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice), Paul Appleby (Bénédict), Philippe Sly (Claudio), Sophie Karthäuser (Hero), Lionel Lhote (Somarone), Frédéric Caton (Don Pedro) & Katarina Bradić (Ursule)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonello Manacorda, Laurent Pelly (director)
This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today...The LPO rise magnificently to the... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Opera Choice
-
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
-
-
Benjamin, G: Written on Skin
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie) & Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, George Benjamin (conductor) & Katie Mitchell (director)
This is an outstanding release in every way...Benjamin's extraordinary music is breathtaking in its lightly worn compositional virtuosity...The cast is sensational...Hannigan deserves all the... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Contemporary
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique contemporaine
-
-
Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl Tabarro
Lucio Gallo (Michele), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Luigi), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Giorgetta), Alan Oke (Tinca), Jeremy White (Talpa), Irina Mishura (La Frugola), Ji-Min Park (Venditore), Robert Anthony Gardiner (Due Amanti)
Suor Angelica
Ermonela...
a triumph...three wonderfully directed and expertly acted productions. Add in Pappano's impeccable conducting and his valuable introductions to the pieces, and you have a nigh-on ideal Trittico. — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Blu-ray of the Month
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, DVD & Blu-ray Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Opera
-
-
Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24
RecommendedSergei Leiferkus (The Baron), Richard Berkeley-Steele (Albert), Maxim Mikhailov (The Servant), Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (The Money-lender), Albert Schagidullin (The Duke), Matilda Leyser (Aerialist)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, directed by Annabel Ardenmir
A rather sobering story derived from a play by Pushkin, The Miserly Knight tells the story of a profligate son attempting, by various means both above- and below-board, to extract some money... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, DVD Choice
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
-
Penguin Guide, Rosette
-
-
Benjamin, G: Written on Skin
RecommendedChristopher Purves (Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie) & Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, George Benjamin (conductor) & Katie Mitchell (director)
This is an outstanding release in every way...Benjamin's extraordinary music is breathtaking in its lightly worn compositional virtuosity...The cast is sensational...Hannigan deserves all the... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Contemporary
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique contemporaine
-
-
Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
Seokjong Baek (Samson), Elina Garanča (Dalila), Lukasz Golinski (High Priest of Dagon), Blaise Malaba (Abimelech)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
-
Offer,
Sing, Precious Music Five Centuries of Music from Magdalen
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams
The Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford has boasted a choir for nigh on five and a half centuries; and, recorded in the Chapel of Merton, this eclectic love letter to itself tracks a snapshot... — More…
CD
Original price ($15.75) Reduced price $12.75Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
