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This luxurious set containing 39 CDs, 3 DVDs, 1 CD-Rom and four detailed booklets will tell you the full story of Baroque opera in Italy, France, England and Germany. No fewer than 17 complete operas (including two on DVD) and two supplementary CDs (the dawn of opera, Overtures for the Hamburg Opera) provide the most comprehensive overview of the genre ever attempted!

The finest performers are assembled here under the direction of René Jacobs and William Christie to offer you 47 hours of music. An opportunity to discover or to hear again the masterpieces of Baroque opera, some of which have been unavailable on CD for many years.

Contents:
Italia
1 CD Comédie madrigalesque & madrigaux florentins (Madrigal comedy and Florentine madrigals)
Ensemble Clément Janequin / Dominique Visse

1 DVD MONTEVERDI: L’Orfeo (with Trisha Brown Company & Collegium Vocale Gent)
3 CD MONTEVERDI: L’incoronazione di Poppea
3 CD CAVALLI: La Calisto
3 CD SCARLATTI: Griselda

France
3 CD LULLY: Atys
3 CD CHARPENTIER: Médée
1 CD CHARPENTIER: Le Malade imaginaire
3 CD CAMPRA: Idoménée
3 CD RAMEAU: Les Indes galantes
Les Arts Florissants / William Christie

England
1 CD BLOW: Venus and Adonis
1 CD PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas
3 CD HANDEL: Rinaldo
2 CD HANDEL: Flavio

2 DVD HANDEL: Giulio Cesare
Concerto Copenhagen / Lars Ulrik Mortensen

Deutschland
1 CD Ouvertures pour l’opéra de Hambourg (Overtures for the Hamburg Opera)
3 CD KEISER: Croesus
2 CD TELEMANN: Orpheus
3 CD GRAUN: Cleopatra e Cesare