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Chandos SACDs - the next generation audio discs. Save 10% discount when you buy any 2 or more titles. Valid until 13-Aug-2009.

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Twofers are 2CD titles available at the price of one. Prices from Crotchet begin from £7.99 £6.95. Browse the opera titles on these Twofers.

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When Thomas Adès conducted his opera The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2007, EMI Classics microphones were on hand to record this 'masterpiece of airy beauty and eerie power'. - Alex Ross, The New Yorker.

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The Tempest - complete priced £ 19.56 £ 17.01
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Thomas Ades

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Kate Royal

Ian Bostridge
Simon Keenlyside
Toby Spence

From its triumphant, star-studded première in 1931 until 1985, Peter Ibbetson was the most-performed American opera at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The story (based on the novel by George Du Maurier) of two star-crossed lovers who secretly escape to a mystical 'dream world' was immensely popular in the 1930s.

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Peter Ibbetson op.20 - complete priced £ 8.31 £ 7.23
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Gerard Schwarz

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Anthony Dean Griffey

Lauren Flanigan
Laurent Zeller
Charles Robert Austin

The world première recording of the puppet opera Philemon and Baucis. The opera was supposedly composed and performed to mark a visit the Empress Maria Theresia paid to Prince Miklós Eszterházy, Haydn's once employers. It is also said to have marked the opening of the puppet theatre.

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Philemon and Baucis - complete priced £ 8.07 £ 7.02
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Wolfgang Brunner

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Nathalie Vinzent

Manuel Warwitz
Bernhard Berchtold
Ulrike Hofbauer

Friedrich Klose was a German neo-romantic composer admired for his original orchestration and instrumentation. Ilsebill, or "The Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife" is based on the well known fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

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Ilsebill - complete priced £ 24.47 £ 21.28
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Marcus R Bosch

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Norbert Schmittberg

Sabine Turner
Jaroslaw Sielicki

If you're one of those people who are finding René Jacobs' Mozart opera series for harmonia mundi one of the recorded marvels of our time, then another treat is on the way. Idomeneo is an opera which seethes with tension and everyone subscribed to the roller-coaster of tension and release and inevitably more tension.

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Idomeneo - complete priced £ 24.47 £ 21.28
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Rene Jacobs

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Richard Croft

Bernarda Fink
Sunhae Im
Alexandrina Pendachanska

Since 1987, Naxos has redefined how classical music is presented and marketed. Innovative strategies of recording exciting new repertoire with exceptional talent have enabled the label to develop one of the largest and fastest growing catalogues of unduplicated repertoire available anywhere with state-of-the-art sound and consumer-friendly prices.
Crotchet prices from £4.77 £4.15 per disc. Browse these opera titles. They can be included with the other titles in the Naxos multi-buy.

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Schwarzkopf, Price, Gobbi, Callas, Sutherland, Bjorling, Bergonzi and Gedda are just some of the legendary names performing in historical operas and recitals which have been remastered on the Gala label.
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