Albums most popular in the United States●Opera

Check out the latest list of albums that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is Classical > Opera.

1. The Mikado (Original Cast) (English National Opera) - Gilbert & Sullivan

Tracks: 19 Release date: 1999-05-18 $9.99
2. HMS Pinafore (Original Cast Recording) [New Sadler's Wells Opera] - Gilbert & Sullivan

Tracks: 24 Release date: 1999-07-13 $19.99
3. The Mikado - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 31 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
4. H.M.S. Pinafore - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 33 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
5. The Very Best of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro - Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei & Fiorenza Cossotto

Tracks: 21 Release date: 2013-01-11 $6.99
6. The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 122 Release date: 2002-12-31 $5.99
7. Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace - The Philip Glass Ensemble

Tracks: 13 Release date: 2007-09-14 $9.99
Comments

1. Like This - I saw this concert in Sarasota, Florida. There were (I swear) only about people at the concert, which surprised me. The concert was one of the most intimate that I've ever attended. And, even after all these years, I still remembered the song Like This. Truly, this whole CD is on a par with Einstein on the Beach and the Low Symphony.
2008-08-23
8. The Very Best of Jussi Björling - Pearl Fisher's Duet - Jussi Björling

Tracks: 21 Release date: 2010-10-05 $6.99
9. The Merry Widow (Original Cast) (The New Sadler's Wells Opera) - Franz Lehár

Tracks: 14 Release date: 1997-11-18 $9.99
10. O Holy Night (with bonus tracks) - Luciano Pavarotti

Tracks: 17 Release date: 2005-01-01 $7.99
Comments

1. The Master at His Best - The Master at his masterful best, laying his great gift at the world's feet. One of the best Christmas gifts ever. Give this gift, in lieu of lesser presents under the tree. Bravo, Pavarotti. We shall not see nor hear your likeness again, without treasuring the gift you gave us. -PM
2021-12-11
11. 40 Essential Soprano Opera Arias, Songs & Duets: Repertoire for High Voice with Quando me'n vo, O mio babbino, Vissi d'arte, Voi che sapete from Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Donizetti, Wagner & More - Various Artists

Tracks: 40 Release date: 2014-04-08 $6.99
12. The Best of Giacomo Puccini - Various Artists

Tracks: 28 Release date: 2011-04-04 $7.99
13. The Most Famous Opera Arias Vol. 1 - Various Artists

Tracks: 18 Release date: 2007-09-20 $7.99
14. La Bohème - Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, The RCA Victor Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham

Tracks: 4 Release date: 2008-11-12 $17.99
Comments

1. One of the top two - Bjorling/de los Angeles & Bergonzi/Tebaldi are both benchmark recordings. I only wish Bjorling and Tebaldi had made the recording together. I have always owned these two albums for over years. There is no way to compare the tenors or the sopranos; each has a unique approach to their role. There are many great recordings made after these, but they were never bettered. I know the average modern collector of opera wants stereo and opulent sound; but if you want great singing, try these .
2012-04-21

2. Amazing - I am not the world's expert on classical music, but you will not be disappointed in any way. From NPR comes this: In , English conductor Thomas Beecham happened to be in New York with time on his hands, and sort of on a hunch, the EMI folks said, "Let's make a recording." It could only have happened in New York, and probably only in the s. The results really do speak for themselves: experience, love of the music and the kind of harmony among the participants — the great tenor Jussi Bjorling, soprano Victoria de los Angeles and baritone Robert Merrill — that is rare on the stage, and especially rare in recordings.
2010-08-13
15. Iolanthe - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 40 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
16. Reader's Digest Music: Anna Moffo Sings Operetta - Anna Moffo

Tracks: 14 Release date: 2006-08-08 $7.99
Comments

1. An Anna Moffo To Treasure - Finally, the legendary ''s multi-album collection "Reader's Digest Treasury of Great Operetta" has made it to digital format, albeit only in an exclusively Anna Moffo highlights version containing most, but not all, of her big show-stoppers. Here IS Anna Moffo. Moffo the operatic sex-kitten, Moffo the middle-brow diva, Moffo the Great Society chanteuse wrapped in such plush stereophonic orchestration that her crooning will keep you warm on a snowy day. Snug in the vocal equivalent of an ermine bathrobe, this is Anna Moffo to me.
2007-02-18
17. La Bohème - Francesco Molinari Pradelli

Tracks: 45 Release date: 2011-02-01 $4.99
18. Gilbert and Sullivan: The Gondoliers (Original Cast Recording) [Complete Score Recording of The New D'Oyly Carte Opera Production] - New D'Oyly Carte Opera

Tracks: 38 Release date: 1990-12-31 $19.99
19. Susannah (Opera In Two Acts) - Phyllis Curtin & Norman Treigle

Tracks: 20 Release date: 1995-09-07 $11.99
20. Trial By Jury - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 18 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
21. The Gondoliers - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 39 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
22. The Juniper Tree - Philip Glass & Robert Moran

Tracks: 10 Release date: 2009-04-01 $9.99
Comments

1. Incredible Melding of Distinct Styles - I was lucky enough to see the premiere of this Opera back at the American Repertory Theatre in or so. It was one of the more powerful performances I have ever witnessed and I have long cherished a recording of the presentation from a WGBH recording. Moran's haunting melodic counterpoints to Glass' more avant garde minimalist settings provide for an incredibly rewarding listening experience. The premiere include a young Jayne West, Sanford Sylvan Lyne Torgove and other Boston based singers. The great pity is that Philip Glass has in the past refused permission to perform the work again.
2013-03-12

2. In The Name of Children - Into the rich history of music inspired by fairy tales comes Glass and Moran's beautiful and haunting evocation of a story by Grimm, with a libretto by Yorinks that is filled with that writer's perfect sense of words in music. Strangely enough, there was another opera of this story setting in the s, by another composer, but it did not fare well. Nor did this, in its original debut -- though it was given its accolades by the usual Glass audiences. This work is closer to Mahler's Das Klagenlied or to Schoenberg's Gurrelieder in its rich orchestrations and dark undertones. It recalls everything from Hansel and Gretel to Peter and the Wolf, and yet it is singular. The soloists all completely become the characters and the superb engineering production has every note in your mouth to taste. Both Glass and Moran share a respect for each other's contributions -- and Glass does not overpower it as he may have done. In a world where parents are killing their own children, this work has a frightening resonance that chills upon listening to the words. This is not a fairy tale; it is a parable for our time that entrances as well as wakes us up.
2009-04-19

3. Thanks Richard G - Or can I just call you Philip? It seems that you only give glowing reviews to Glass's works. Makes one wonder..... In any case this is indeed a long overdue recording of the opera based on the Grimm fary tale. It's an interesting work to say the least becase it sounds as if one is getting two operas for the price of one. Most of the thematic structure remains intact but the styles of both composers seem to clash. Glass's trademark synth doodling is interupted by Moran's more fetching, almost Mozart like classical approach. I confess however that this is the only recording of Moran that I know of so for all I know this could be Glass trying out a new style and seeing how people would react. If that's the gag my hat is off to him. The work itself is about the right amount of time and the performances good enough for this sort of thing. If you're a rabid Glass fan you'll drool over this but if you're anyone else it might be good to say that you have a copy if you have the cash to spare.
2009-04-15

4. Long-Overdue and Neglected Work. - Cue Boolez to put his two cents in about how clueless Glass fans are. It's a curious case that an opera is conceived and composed by two composers. The Juniper Tree is an opera by Philip Glass & Robert Moran with a libretto by Award-winning writer Arthur Yorinks based on a tale by the Brothers Grimm. The opera was hailed by the NY Times critic John Rockwell at its premiere in , the writer expected a long and successful life for the piece. However, the work never found its place in the repetoire. This recording from the original performances may work to change that. Glass and Moran agreed on an instrumentation, and then traded off scenes: Glass scores the prologue, Act One-Scene One, Act Two-Scene One; Moran scores Act One-Scene Two & Epilogue, and Act Two - Scene One, a musical interlude, and the final scene. It's a remarkable accomplishment compositionally because although the two composers have different styles, their work seem to add more dimension to the opera. Yorinks' libretto is witty and precise.
2009-04-14
23. Ruddigore - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Tracks: 29 Release date: 2012-02-01 $5.99
24. The World So Wide - Dawn Upshaw

Tracks: 8 Release date: 1998-05-26 $9.99
Comments

1. A talented artist in an overview of American opera - This disc served as my introduction to Dawn Upshaw. I was impressed ... the high notes were far from perfect, but her singing is quite attractive and idiomatic. Plus, each aria is unmistakably sung by a different character - pretty incredible! I have mixed feelings about the repertoire. I love "Laurie's Song," "What a Movie," "The Willow Song," and "Ain't it a Pretty Night!" The Barber and Weill are fine as well, but I couldn't listen to "Oh Yemanja" or "This is Prophetic" more than once. (Though I did admittedly listen to first phrase of the latter several times, just to hear her mysterious reading of it.)
2008-08-06
25. Die Walküre - The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Clemens Krauss

Tracks: 43 Release date: 2010-11-04 $9.99
26. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - December 7, 1991) - The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Lopardo, Richard Cowan, Carlos Feller & Leopold Hager

Tracks: 50 Release date: 1991-12-07 $11.99
27. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (Recorded Live at The Met - February 14, 2009) - The Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Piotr Beczala & Jiří Bělohlávek

Tracks: 33 Release date: 2009-02-14 $11.99
28. Romantica: The Very Best of Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti

Tracks: 20 Release date: 2002-01-01 $9.99
29. Wagner: Highlights from The Ring Cycle, WWV 86 - Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Hans Knappertsbusch

Tracks: 46 Release date: 2013-12-11 $7.99
30. L'elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) - The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Thomas Schippers

Tracks: 36 Release date: 2012-10-01 $9.99
31. Offenbach: the Tales of Hoffman - The Sadler's Wells Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Tracks: 9 Release date: 2004-10-31 $17.99
32. The Voyage: An Opera In Three Acts - Landestheater Linz & Philip Glass

Tracks: 11 Release date: 2006-08-08 $19.99
Comments

1. The wait is over - it's here! - Commissioned by the NYC Met, Philip Glass handed this opera in early during one of his most creative periods. The year was meant to mark the (re) discovery of America by Christopher Columbus but resulted in several bad movies and general public apathy. A few well received performances and gone - what a shame until now. I am not an avid opera fan but loved this piece as a big fan of Mr. Glass. Musically I am closer to Nirvana however I found the elements that so attracted me to pieces like Barbara O'Reilly in Philip Glass. If you enjoy his work - liked Belle e le Bette - it’s a slam dunk.
2006-08-17