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The Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production. The current title has been used since 1962. Prior to 1961 the awards for operatic and choral performances were combined in a single award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral.
Urania Records initially released opera recordings from East Germany.The label was later run by Rudolph's son, Werner J. Koppl (1923–1996), also Czech-born, who, on March 23, 1956, sold Urania to American Sound Corporation – Daken Karl Broadhead (1905–1999), chairman; and Siegfried Bart (né Siegfried Gerold Bart; 1913–1997), president.
Like Concert Hall Society, MMS was distributed to subscribers, but unlike Concert Hall, subscribers did not have to commit to a fixed number of records. MMS initially focused on the standard classical repertoire, which, from a marketing perspective, made the label an attractive alternative for subscribers who wanted to build a new collection.
also: Music: Musical compositions: Recorded music: Opera recordings Listing of sound and video recordings of opera . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Opera recordings .
Opera News published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild has extensive searchable online archives, many of the articles, even those going quite far back, do not require subscription for access. Although the site has its own search facility, more results can be found using Google by typing the following into the search box:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Live broadcast, 20 February 1937, Metropolitan Opera House) CD: Metropolitan Opera [1] 1937: Gina Cigna, Giovanni Breviario, Ebe Stignani, Tancredi Pasero: Vittorio Gui, Orchestra and Chorus of the EIAR Torino: CD: Premiere Opera Cat: CDNO 322-2 1944: Zinka Milanov, Frederick Jagel, Jennie Tourel, Norman ...
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
This is a discography of audio and video recordings of Carmen, a French-language opera by Georges Bizet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Carmen is one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a near-complete German acoustical recording in 1908.