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Though Haydn was known primarily as an instrumental composer, he also had a successful and prolific career as an opera composer. This budget-priced box set brings together eight complete opera recordings, all under the direction of Antal Dorati with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.

These recordings, made in the late 1970s, were groundbreaking at the time and remain valuable documents of Haydn's lesser-known works.

Includes:

• Armida (Jessye Norman, Norma Burrowes, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Samuel Ramey)
• La Fedeltà Premiata (Ileana Cotrubas, Frederica von Stade, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Luigi Alva, Alan Titus)
• Orlando Paladino (Arleen Auger, Elly Ameling, George Shirley, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Benjamin Luxon)
• La Vera Costanza (Jessye Norman, Helen Donath, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Domenico Trimarchi)
• L’Incontro Improvviso (Linda Zoghby, Margaret Marshall, Della Jones, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Domenico Trimarchi, Benjamin Luxon)
• L’Infedeltà Delusa (Edith Mathis, Barbara Hendricks, Claes H. Ahnsjö, Aldo Baldin, Michael Devlin)
• L’Isola Disabitata (Norma Lerer, Linda Zogbhy, Luigi Alva, Renato Bruson)
• Il Mondo della Luna (Arleen Auger, Edith Mathis, Frederica von Stade, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Luigi Alva, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Domenico Trimarchi)
• Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne conducted by Antal Dorati