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Italian opera stands as a pinnacle of musical theatrical tradition, emerging from the heart of the Renaissance and baroque periods and stretching well into the verismo movement of the late 19th century. Esteemed for its potent amalgamation of emotive arias, intricate orchestrations, and dramatic narratives, this genre encapsulates the human experience through the soaring voices of its performers. Composers like Verdi and Puccini are revered for their adept ability to marry text and music, creating masterpieces that tug at the heartstrings with tales of love, tragedy, and triumph. Rich with historical and regional influences, Italian opera is a testament to the enduring power of storytelling through the universal language of music, immortalized in grand theatres and cherished by aficionados worldwide.

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Flute Concertos

Jean-Pierre Rampal•

Antonio Vivaldi•

Aram Khachaturian•

Baldassare Galuppi•

Carl Nielsen•

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•

Carl Reinecke•

Carl Stamitz•

Domenico Cimarosa•

Georg Philipp Telemann•

George Frideric Handel•

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•

Giuseppe Tartini•

Jacques Ibert•

Jean-Marie Leclair•

Johann Sebastian Bach•

Johann Stamitz•

Joseph Haydn•

Michel Blavet•

Michel Corrette•

Saverio Mercadante•

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Album - 84 Tracks - Released March 30, 2025

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Carlo Rizzi

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March 30, 2025

Flute Concertos
Jean-Pierre Rampal•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Baldassare Galuppi•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carl Reinecke•
Carl Stamitz•
Domenico Cimarosa•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Jacques Ibert•
Jean-Marie Leclair•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Stamitz•
Joseph Haydn•
Michel Blavet•
Michel Corrette•
Saverio Mercadante•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
84 tracks
March 15

Eugene Ormandy - Opera Highlights from The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Richard Wagner•
Gioachino Rossini•
Jacques Offenbach•
Charles Gounod•
Hector Berlioz•
Georges Bizet•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Pietro Mascagni•
Jules Massenet•
Bedřich Smetana•
Eugene Ormandy
32 tracks
March 15

Eugene Ormandy - Opera Highlights from The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Richard Wagner•
Gioachino Rossini•
Jacques Offenbach•
Charles Gounod•
Hector Berlioz•
Georges Bizet•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Pietro Mascagni•
Jules Massenet•
Bedřich Smetana•
Eugene Ormandy
32 tracks
March 14

Dalla: Caruso
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
March 14

Dalla: Caruso
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
March 9

Airs d'opéras français
June Anderson•
Orchestre Du Capitole De Toulouse•
Michel Plasson•
Ambroise Thomas•
Charles Gounod•
Gaspare Spontini•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Jules Massenet
11 tracks
February 28

D'Anzi: Voglio vivere così
Giovanni D'Anzi•
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
February 28

D'Anzi: Voglio vivere così
Giovanni D'Anzi•
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
February 28

Alexey Shor: Composer's Notebook, Vol. 2
Behzod Abduraimov•
Kyiv Virtuosi•
Massimiliano Caldi•
Dmitry Yablonsky
12 tracks
February 21

Donizetti Songs Vol. 3
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
18 tracks
February 14

Cilea: Gloria (1932 Version)
Francesco Cilea•
Ramaz Chikviladze•
Franco Vassallo•
Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Francesco Cilluffo
20 tracks
February 14

Cilea: Gloria (1932 Version)
Francesco Cilea•
Ramaz Chikviladze•
Franco Vassallo•
Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Francesco Cilluffo
20 tracks
February 7

Donizetti: Le Violon de Cremone. "Cet instrument silencieux"
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
1 tracks
January 29

Sarti: 6 Sonatas for Traversiere Flute & B.C.
Giuseppe Sarti•
Giovanni Miszczyszyn•
Giacomo Benedetti•
Valeria Brunelli
16 tracks
January 24

I Lituani
Amilcare Ponchielli•
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra•
Modestas Pitrenas•
Kaunas State Choir
63 tracks
January 24

Donizetti: Ah! si tu voulais, toi que j'aime
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
1 tracks
January 22

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Pietro Mascagni
1 tracks
January 21

Léon Bakst - A Life for the Stage
Claude Debussy•
Alexander Borodin•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Arrigo Boito•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Charles Gounod•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Erik Satie•
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari•
Frédéric Chopin•
George Frideric Handel•
Giacomo Puccini•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jules Massenet•
Léo Delibes•
Maurice Ravel•
Mily Balakirev•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Ottorino Respighi•
Paul Dukas•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
40 tracks
January 17

Catalani: La Wally, Act I: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana
Alfredo Catalani•
Vannina Santoni•
Orchestre National de Lille•
Jean-Marie Zeitouni
1 tracks
December 15, 2024

Symphonic Cinema
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Ennio Morricone•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Leonard Bernstein•
Maurice Jarre•
Michael Giacchino•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Edward Elgar•
Vincenzo Bellini
82 tracks
November 29

Il Barocco violinistico del primo Settecento
Antonio Sacchini
6 tracks
November 29

Pagliacci
Ruggero Leoncavallo
5 tracks
November 28

Leoncavallo: Nuit de décembre
Ruggero Leoncavallo
1 tracks
November 8

Verdi: Ballet Music from "Il trovatore"
Giuseppe Verdi•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
7 tracks
November 8

Paradies: Toccata in A Major
Pietro Domenico Paradisi•
Benedetta Iardella
1 tracks
November 3

The Flute Master
Jean-Pierre Rampal•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
César Franck•
Domenico Cimarosa•
Francis Poulenc•
François Couperin•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jacques Ibert•
Jean Françaix•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Joseph Haydn•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Robert Schumann•
Saverio Mercadante•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
October 25

Verdi: Ballet Music from Aida
Giuseppe Verdi•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
3 tracks
October 22

Ponchielli: Danza delle ore, Op. 9
Amilcare Ponchielli•
Francesco La Vecchia•
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
1 tracks
October 17

Giordano: Andrea Chénier, Act 4 "Come un bel dì di maggio"
Umberto Giordano
1 tracks
October 15

Walking music vol. 1
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Marco Sollini
18 tracks
October 15

Walking music
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Marco Sollini
17 tracks
October 11

Maria Callas - Cinema
Maria Callas•
Alfredo Catalani•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Francesco Cilea•
Gaetano Donizetti•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
19 tracks
October 11

Maria Callas - Cinema
Maria Callas•
Alfredo Catalani•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Francesco Cilea•
Gaetano Donizetti•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
19 tracks
October 11

Maria Callas - Cinema
Maria Callas•
Alfredo Catalani•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Francesco Cilea•
Gaetano Donizetti•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
19 tracks
October 4

Donizetti Songs Vol. 2
Gaetano Donizetti•
Nicola Alaimo•
Carlo Rizzi
26 tracks
October 4

Bellini: Norma (Critical Edition by Roger Parker)
Vincenzo Bellini•
Felice Romani•
Marina Rebeka•
John Fiore•
Orquesta del Teatro Real, Madrid
44 tracks
October 4

Puccini: Messa di gloria, SC 6 (Live)
Giacomo Puccini•
Bavarian Radio Chorus•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
15 tracks
October 4

Donizetti Songs Vol. 1
Gaetano Donizetti•
Lawrence Brownlee•
Carlo Rizzi
28 tracks
September 27

Giacomo Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot
Giacomo Puccini•
Javier Camarena•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
1 tracks
September 20

Bellini: Norma, Act I, Scene 5: Vanne, si mi lascia, indegno
Vincenzo Bellini•
Felice Romani•
Marina Rebeka•
Karine Deshayes•
John Fiore•
Orquesta del Teatro Real, Madrid
1 tracks

March 30, 2025

Flute Concertos
Jean-Pierre Rampal•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Baldassare Galuppi•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
Carl Reinecke•
Carl Stamitz•
Domenico Cimarosa•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Jacques Ibert•
Jean-Marie Leclair•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Johann Stamitz•
Joseph Haydn•
Michel Blavet•
Michel Corrette•
Saverio Mercadante•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
84 tracks
March 15

Eugene Ormandy - Opera Highlights from The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Richard Wagner•
Gioachino Rossini•
Jacques Offenbach•
Charles Gounod•
Hector Berlioz•
Georges Bizet•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Pietro Mascagni•
Jules Massenet•
Bedřich Smetana•
Eugene Ormandy
32 tracks
March 15

Eugene Ormandy - Opera Highlights from The Columbia Stereo Collection 1964-1983
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Richard Wagner•
Gioachino Rossini•
Jacques Offenbach•
Charles Gounod•
Hector Berlioz•
Georges Bizet•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Pietro Mascagni•
Jules Massenet•
Bedřich Smetana•
Eugene Ormandy
32 tracks
March 9

Airs d'opéras français
June Anderson•
Orchestre Du Capitole De Toulouse•
Michel Plasson•
Ambroise Thomas•
Charles Gounod•
Gaspare Spontini•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Meyerbeer•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Jules Massenet
11 tracks
February 28

Alexey Shor: Composer's Notebook, Vol. 2
Behzod Abduraimov•
Kyiv Virtuosi•
Massimiliano Caldi•
Dmitry Yablonsky
12 tracks
February 21

Donizetti Songs Vol. 3
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
18 tracks
February 14

Cilea: Gloria (1932 Version)
Francesco Cilea•
Ramaz Chikviladze•
Franco Vassallo•
Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Francesco Cilluffo
20 tracks
February 14

Cilea: Gloria (1932 Version)
Francesco Cilea•
Ramaz Chikviladze•
Franco Vassallo•
Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari•
Francesco Cilluffo
20 tracks
January 29

Sarti: 6 Sonatas for Traversiere Flute & B.C.
Giuseppe Sarti•
Giovanni Miszczyszyn•
Giacomo Benedetti•
Valeria Brunelli
16 tracks
January 24

I Lituani
Amilcare Ponchielli•
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra•
Modestas Pitrenas•
Kaunas State Choir
63 tracks
January 21

Léon Bakst - A Life for the Stage
Claude Debussy•
Alexander Borodin•
Ambroise Thomas•
André Messager•
Arrigo Boito•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Carl Maria von Weber•
Charles Gounod•
Christoph Willibald Gluck•
Domenico Scarlatti•
Edvard Grieg•
Erik Satie•
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari•
Frédéric Chopin•
George Frideric Handel•
Giacomo Puccini•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jules Massenet•
Léo Delibes•
Maurice Ravel•
Mily Balakirev•
Modest Mussorgsky•
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•
Ottorino Respighi•
Paul Dukas•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Robert Schumann•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
40 tracks
December 15, 2024

Symphonic Cinema
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Bernard Herrmann•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Dmitri Shostakovich•
Ennio Morricone•
Francis Lai•
George Frideric Handel•
Georges Delerue•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Gustav Holst•
Gustav Mahler•
Howard Shore•
Isaac Albéniz•
John Barry•
John Williams•
Josef Mysliveček•
Leonard Bernstein•
Maurice Jarre•
Michael Giacchino•
Michel Legrand•
Nino Rota•
Paul Dukas•
Philippe Sarde•
Pietro Mascagni•
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•
Richard Strauss•
Richard Wagner•
Samuel Barber•
Sergei Rachmaninoff•
Edward Elgar•
Vincenzo Bellini
82 tracks
November 29

Pagliacci
Ruggero Leoncavallo
5 tracks
November 29

Il Barocco violinistico del primo Settecento
Antonio Sacchini
6 tracks
November 8

Verdi: Ballet Music from "Il trovatore"
Giuseppe Verdi•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
7 tracks
November 3

The Flute Master
Jean-Pierre Rampal•
Antonio Vivaldi•
Aram Khachaturian•
Carl Nielsen•
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach•
César Franck•
Domenico Cimarosa•
Francis Poulenc•
François Couperin•
Georg Philipp Telemann•
George Frideric Handel•
Gioachino Rossini•
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi•
Giuseppe Tartini•
Igor Stravinsky•
Jacques Ibert•
Jean Françaix•
Johann Sebastian Bach•
Joseph Haydn•
Ludwig van Beethoven•
Robert Schumann•
Saverio Mercadante•
Sergei Prokofiev•
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100 tracks
October 15

Walking music
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Marco Sollini
17 tracks
October 15

Walking music vol. 1
Ruggero Leoncavallo•
Marco Sollini
18 tracks
October 11

Maria Callas - Cinema
Maria Callas•
Alfredo Catalani•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Francesco Cilea•
Gaetano Donizetti•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
19 tracks
October 11

Maria Callas - Cinema
Maria Callas•
Alfredo Catalani•
Camille Saint-Saëns•
Francesco Cilea•
Gaetano Donizetti•
Georges Bizet•
Giacomo Puccini•
Giuseppe Verdi•
Umberto Giordano•
Vincenzo Bellini
19 tracks

March 14, 2025

Dalla: Caruso
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
March 14

Dalla: Caruso
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
February 28

D'Anzi: Voglio vivere così
Giovanni D'Anzi•
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
February 28

D'Anzi: Voglio vivere così
Giovanni D'Anzi•
Stefan Pop•
Pier Giorgio Morandi•
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
1 tracks
February 7

Donizetti: Le Violon de Cremone. "Cet instrument silencieux"
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
1 tracks
January 24

Donizetti: Ah! si tu voulais, toi que j'aime
Gaetano Donizetti•
Michael Spyres•
Carlo Rizzi
1 tracks
January 22

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
Pietro Mascagni
1 tracks
January 17

Catalani: La Wally, Act I: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana
Alfredo Catalani•
Vannina Santoni•
Orchestre National de Lille•
Jean-Marie Zeitouni
1 tracks
November 28, 2024

Leoncavallo: Nuit de décembre
Ruggero Leoncavallo
1 tracks
November 8

Paradies: Toccata in A Major
Pietro Domenico Paradisi•
Benedetta Iardella
1 tracks
October 25

Verdi: Ballet Music from Aida
Giuseppe Verdi•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
3 tracks
October 22

Ponchielli: Danza delle ore, Op. 9
Amilcare Ponchielli•
Francesco La Vecchia•
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
1 tracks
October 17

Giordano: Andrea Chénier, Act 4 "Come un bel dì di maggio"
Umberto Giordano
1 tracks
September 27

Giacomo Puccini: Nessun dorma from Turandot
Giacomo Puccini•
Javier Camarena•
Munich Radio Orchestra•
Ivan Repušić
1 tracks
September 20

Bellini: Norma, Act I, Scene 5: Vanne, si mi lascia, indegno
Vincenzo Bellini•
Felice Romani•
Marina Rebeka•
Karine Deshayes•
John Fiore•
Orquesta del Teatro Real, Madrid
1 tracks
September 13

Caldara: Madrigale primo "Dell'uom la vita è un Sogno"
Antonio Caldara•
La Festa Musicale•
Voktett Hannover•
Lajos Rovatkay
1 tracks
September 6

Donizetti: Bolero. L'amante spagnuolo. "Corri destrier, deh celere"
Gaetano Donizetti•
Carlo Rizzi•
Lawrence Brownlee
1 tracks
September 6

Donizetti: O anime affannate
Gaetano Donizetti•
Carlo Rizzi•
Lawrence Brownlee
1 tracks
September 6

Bellini: Norma, Act II, Scene 6: Sì, fino all'ore estreme
Vincenzo Bellini•
Felice Romani•
Marina Rebeka•
Karine Deshayes•
John Fiore•
Orquesta del Teatro Real, Madrid
1 tracks
September 6

Donizetti: Un Baiser pour espoir. "Je vais quitter tout ce que j'aime"
Gaetano Donizetti•
Nicola Alaimo•
Carlo Rizzi
1 tracks