Medea

Tragic opera first performed in Paris in 1797 as an opera-comique, sung in French. The dialogue was replaced with recitatives by Franz Lachner. This recording (with recitatives) is sung in Italian in a performing edition by Flavio Testi. Booklet contains Italian libretto with translations, notes & biographies in Hungarian, English, German & Russian. The recording was processed with Dolby "A" Noise Reduction System. Medea was Schubert's favourite opera. And Brahms, who very rarely had praise for the works of other composers, had this to say about it: "This Medea is the work we musicians recognize among ourselves as the highest peak of dramatic music."