Orfeo廠牌40週年紀念 稀有歌劇(唐·喬望尼/傑米里/阿米達/薩爾卡/泰蕾茲/波西米亞人)

CD1+CD2  加扎尼加:歌劇(唐·喬望尼) 史爾泰茲 指揮 慕尼黑廣播管弦樂團(原C214902)
CD3 比才:歌劇(加米雷) 嘉德利 指揮 慕尼黑廣播管弦樂團(原C174881)
CD4+CD5 德佛札克:歌劇(阿米達) 阿伯瑞許特 指揮 捷克愛樂管弦樂團(原C404962)
CD6+CD7 費比希:歌劇(夏爾卡) 卡姆布雷靈 指揮 維也納廣播交響樂團(原C541002)
CD8 馬斯奈:歌劇(泰蕾茲) 阿伯瑞許特 指揮 義大利羅馬廣播交響樂團(原C387961)
CD9+CD10 雷翁卡伐洛:歌劇(波西米亞人) 華柏格 指揮 慕尼黑廣播管弦樂團(原C023822)

On the dark side of fame awaits the slide into obscurity. That's certainly true for a number of operas that, while popular and highly lucrative during their composers' lifetimes, soon followed their creators into the shadowy realm of oblivion. Operas, for example, that only ever get mentioned in connection with some much more famous sibling. Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni (Discs 1 & 2) – premiered half a year before Mozart's masterpiece – is such an example, as is Ruggero Leoncavallo's La Boheme (Discs 9 & 10) and George Bizet's Djamileh (Disc 3), widely considered the predecessor of Carmen. Other operas simply fail to achieve the same profile as other works by a composer – Jules Massenet's operas, for example, are hardly a footnote of music history, but his opera Therese (Disc 8) remains a forgotten work. Two examples of works that are scarcely performed or even known outside of what is now the Czech Republic are also included in this collection of Opera Rarities on ORFEO:Dvorak's last opera Armida (Discs 4 & 5) and Zden k Fibich's Sarka (Discs 6 & 7).

DISC 1 and 2 GIUSEPPE GAZZANIGA (1743–1818)
DON GIOVANNI O SIA IL CONVITATO
DI PIETRA
Drama giocoso in one act (1787)
John Aler • Eva Steinsky • Pamela Coburn
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Stefan Soltesz

DISC 3 GEORGES BIZET (1838–1875)
DIJAMILEH
Opera comique in one act (1982)
Lucia Popp • Franco Bonisolli
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Lamberto Gardelli

DISC 4 and 5 ANTONIN DVORAK (1841–1904)
ARMIDA
Opera in four acts (1904)
Joanna Borowska • Pavel Daniluk
Wiesaw Ochman
Tschechische Philharmonie
Gerd Albrecht

DISC 6 and 7 ZDENEK FIBICH (1850–1900)
SARKA
Opera in three acts (1897)
Eva Urbanova • Dalibor Jenis
Janez Lotric
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Sylvain Cambreling

DISC 8 JULES MASSENET (1842–1912)
THERESE
Drame musical in one act (1907)
Agnes Baltsa • Francisco Araiza
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Gerd Albrecht

DISC 9 and 10 RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO (1857–1919)
LA BOHEME
Commedia lirica in four acts (1897)
Franco Bonisolli • Lucia Popp • Bernd Weikl
Munchner Rundfunkorchester
Heinz Wallberg