Trove Thursday

Gaelle Arquez, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz.

With the enchanting Christiane Eda-Pierre.

Featuring the incongruously glamorous Karita Mattila and Sir Simon Keenlyside as the doomed couple conducted by Sir Mark Elder.

Camilla Nylund, Iris Vermillion, Jonas Kaufmann and Franz-Josef Selig.

Joan Sutherland.

Joan Sutherland.

Joan Sutherland, Nicolai Gedda and Spiro Malas.

Lisa Della Casa.

Robert Dean Smith, Marjorie Owens and Tom Fox.

Christa Ludwig, Martti Talvela, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Bernd Weikl and Wieslaw Ochman.

Jessye Norman.

Jessye Norman.

Jessye Norman, Opera Philadelphia 26 November 1982.

Lise Davidsen.

A complete performance of Wagner’s second opera featuring Lise Davidsen.

Raymond Leppard and Janet Baker.

Raymond Leppard and Janet Baker.

Trove Thursday acknowledges the late Raymond Leppard‘s important influence with a live broadcast of his seminal “realisation” of Cavalli’s L’Ormindo.

Featuring the seemingly mismatched pairing of Pilar Lorengar and Fiorenza Cossotto.

1982 Kent Opera Agrippina (using period instruments), performed in an aptly tart English translation that adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of one of Handel's earliest and greatest works.