Since you are interested in Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (Complete opera), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Nel chiuso centro - chamber cantata / etc [special edition] Anna Netrebko (soprano) & Marianna Pizzolato (contralto) / Orchestra dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD/DVD - released 10/Mar/2011 ] "the Russian diva's singing certainly won't disappoint - as thrillingly passionate here as it is in Romantic opera." (BBC Music) |
VERDI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / OFFENBACH / BIZET / etc
Calleja: The Golden Voice Joseph Calleja (tenor) with Anna Netrebko & Tatiana Lisnic (sopranos) / The Academy of St.Martin In The Fields / Carlo Rizzi [ Decca / CD - released 22/Nov/2005 ] "Everything is delivered with skill and imagination, and it's a worthy successor to his previous disc." (BBC Music Nov 2005) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Voice of the Violin Joshua Bell (Violin) Orchestra of St Luke's / Michael Stern [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] From the world of opera and song, Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell has chosen some of the most popular and enduring melodies ever written for his latest Sony Classical recording Voice of the Violin. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier (Complete Opera) Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Janet Perry & Kurt Moll / Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon Opera! / 3 CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "underrated. It has strong vocal performances...and it's gloriously played by the Vienna Philharmonic...this is a set well worth having alongside more fleet-footed versions." (International Record Review) |