The prolific and versatile Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, one of the central figures of Italian bel canto opera, also wrote around 200 solo songs. Most of them are rarely performed and some,... more

Marking the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death, this performance of the mighty Requiem or Grande Messe des Morts - presented on both DVD and CD - took place in St Paul's Cathedral, London, in March... more

An album with a mission to defy classification, BariTenor is a tour de force for Michael Spyres. It ranges wide, encompassing repertoire normally assigned to both tenors and baritones. Programming 18... more

Two of today's most brilliant tenors, Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee, celebrate the art of the trailblazing star singers of Rossini's time. Amici e Rivali - 'Friends and Rivals' - comprises... more

Rossini adapted his own Italian opera of 1820, Maometto, for the Parisian stage under the title of Le Siege de Corinthe. As Rossini's original work had already absorbed distinctive French... more

Michael Spyres's new album, recorded with the fabulous Il Pomo d'Oro under Francesco Corti, features works by Handel, Hasse, Mazzoni, Pergolesi, Porpora, Sarro, Scarlatti, Vinci, Vivaldi, and more -... more

Michael Spyres is a singer who challenges and reshapes perceptions - as his albums BariTenor and Contra-Tenor have shown. Now, preparing for his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Summer 2024, he... more

Handel: Messiah (2xCD + Bonus DVD) / "A lifetime of performing Messiah has brought me enough courage to record this singularly famous piece of music. With the finest musicians and soloists on the... more

Meyerbeer completed L'Africaine on the day he died and after he had changed it's title to Vasco da Gama. A performing version was prepared for the premiere under it's original title after the... more

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birthday, CSO Resound releases it's second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi's second-to-last opera, Otello. Recorded live... more

Composed between the Barber of Seville and Cinderella, Rossini' only Neapolitan comic opera La gazzetta was based on a highly popular romantic comedy by Carlo Goldoni.

First staged in Naples in 1816, seventy years before Verdi' very different treatment of the same subject, Rossini' Otello, based on Berio di Salsa' play rather than that of Shakespeare, makes full... more

Conductor John Nelson and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg record Berlioz's orchestral song cycle on a libretto by Théophile Gautier, Les Nuits d'Été, sung by (bari)tenor Michael Spyres.... more

Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birthday, CSO Resound releases it's second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi's second-to-last opera, Otello. Recorded live... more

Five superb singers - Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres and John Chest - portray the characters in Handel's Theodora under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev,... more