Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world.

This week, audiences can hear a recital by one of the most famous sopranos of our time and discover several baroque works by rarely performed composers. They can also get a glimpse at one of the upcoming operas at the Metropolitan Opera. Here are this week’s new releases.

Songs of Remembering: In Memoray of Ahmaud “Quez” Arbery

Bright Shiny Things releases Songs of Remembering: In Memory of Ahmaud “Quez” Arbery, an album of original choral compositions sung by the Los Angeles-based chorus Tonality. The album, which marks the sixth anniversary of Ahmaud Arbery’s death, centers on Tonality Founding Artistic Director Alexander Lloyd Blake’s “Running From, Running To” for chorus, soloists, and orchestra, an eight-part suite reflecting on the life and death of Arbery, the young Black man whose February 23, 2020 killing while jogging sparked a national outcry. “Tonality” is joined on the album by Angel Blue; Jamal M. Moore, and Ogi.

Beethoven – Kolomiiets

Deutsche Grammophon releases the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson’s performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Maxim Kolomiiets’ Suite from “The Mothers of Khersonto.” The recording, captured live in Vilnius, Lithuania, during the UFO’s 2025 Resilience Tour, is dedicated to the Ukrainian people and their struggle.

Garro: Missa O quam pulchra es & Cantate Domino

Cupertinos under Luís Toscano release their latest album on Hyperion. The work by composer Francisco Garro was under earthed by the ensemble.

Arcadian Dreams

AVIE Records will release Arcadian Dreams, a new album of Baroque-era secular cantatas and instrumental works performed by early music ensemble Les Délices and soprano Hannah De Priest.

Azrieli Music Prizes: New Jewish Music, Vol. 5

Analekta releases the Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) fifth album featuring the world‑premiere recordings of the 2024 Azrieli Music Prize–winning works by Jordan Nobles (Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music), Josef Bardanashvili (Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music), Yair Klartag (Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music), and Juan Trigos (Azrieli Commission for International Music). All four works are performed by members of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the OSM Chorus, conducted by Andrew Megill.

Lise Davidsen: Live at the Met

Decca Classics has announced the release of “Lise Davidsen: Live at the Met.”

The album is a release of the soprano’s Sept. 14th, 2023 recital with James Bailieu, where she became one of the youngest-ever singers invited to give a solo recital at the Met. The recital includes music by Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, Sibelius, Kálmán, Loewe, Wagner, and Grieg.

In a statement on social media the soprano said, “I’m so happy to announce that my recital with James Baillieu at the Metropolitan Opera in September 2023 will be released as an album on the 6th of March. It was an unforgettable concert for both of us, and we‘re so happy that now we can share it with all of you!”

Ottorino Respighi: Maria Egiziaca

Francesca Dotto, Vincenzo Costanzo, and Simone Alberghini star in Naxo’s release of Respighi’s opera from the Teatro La Fenice. The Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia are conducted by Manlio Benzi.

Antonio Vivaldi: Il Bajazet

Naxos releases the Teatro La Fenice’s recording of Vivaldi’s 1735 opera starring Valeria La Grotta, Loriana Castellano, Lucia Cirillo, Sonia Prina, Raffaele Pe, and Renato Dolcini. The Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia is conducted Federico Maria Sardelli.

Johann Strauss II: Waldmeister

Celebrating the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II, cpo is releasing the complete recording of his comedy operetta “Waldmeister.” The recording features Andreja Zidaric, Daniel Gutmann, Matteo Ivan Rašić, Sophia Keiler, Daniel Prohaska, and Anna-Katharina Tonauer. Michael Brandstätter conducts the recording.

Engelbert Humperdinck: Das Mirakel

Capriccio releases the first complete recording of Humperdinck’s Pantomime in two Acts and an Interlude for choruses and orchestra.The cast includes Sophie Klussmann and Josette Micheler. The Rundfunkchor Berlin, Kinderchor des Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasiums Berlin, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin are led by Steffen Tast.

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works

The Cappella Amsterdam and Noord Nederlands Orkest under Daniel Reuss perform underappreciated works by Igor Stravinsky. The lineup of soloists on the album includes Berit Norbakken, Marianne Beate Kielland, Guy Cutting, Thomas Walker, Tobias Berndt, and Stephan MacLeod. PENTATONE releases.

Onutė Narbutaitė: Centones Meae Urbi (Oratorio)

Gunta Gelgotė, Nerijus Masevičius, and the Kaunas State Choir with Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under Robertas Šervenikas record Onutė Narbutaitė’s 70-minute multi-language oratorio “Centones Meae Urbi.” The oratorio portrays the rich history of Lithuanian’s capital city, Vilnius, also known as the “Jerusalem of the North.”

Giacomo Carissimi: Jonas

BR Klassik releases Giacomo Carissimi’s oratorio. This performance features leading period-instrument conductor Giovanni Antonini and the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, with instrumentation specially adapted to the project. Also included on the album are the famous “Lamento d’Arianna,” by Claudio Monteverdi and excerpts from the two cycles “Prophetiae Sibyllarum” and “Lagrime di San Pietro” by Orlando di Lasso.

Peter Navarro-Alonso: In Flagrante Delicto

Paul Hillier conducts the Ensemble Stralo and Theatre of Voices in Peter Navarro-Alonso’s work inspired by the life and music of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa.

Marco Marazzoli: A Garden of Earthly Delights (Cantatas).

CPO releases cantatas by Marco Marazzoli featuring soloists Teresa Wakim and Carlotta Colombo. The recording also includes James Reese Aaron Sheehan, Jesse Blumberg, and Mauro Borgioni. They are joined by Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble under Stephen Stubbs and Paul O’Dette.

Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins; The New Orpheus; Concerto for Violin and Wind Orchestra

Wallis Giunta, Jennifer France, Katarina Andreasson, and Benjamin Herzl perform alongside the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under HK Gruber in a recording features three works by Kurt Weill. Bis releases.

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Francis Poulenc: Gloria

Françoise Pollet, and François Le Roux perform two famed French works with the Südfunk-Chor, Chor der Württembergischen Staatstheater and Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR. Georges Prêtre conducts the recording on the SWR label.

Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen”

C Major releases a box set of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s Ring Cycle from October 2022. The Staatskapelle Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann and the production is directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov.