Product Review

With an unrivaled catalogue of over 450 complete opera recordings produced over the last 60 years - and an illustrious succession of artists that today includes such names as Montserrat Caballe, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Antonio Pappano and Carlo Maria Giulini - EMI Classics, with its sister label Virgin Classics, can rightly claim to be the Home of Opera.

Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg is a tragic fairy - tale for music in one act by Georg C. Klaren, based freely on Oscar Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta. James Conlon leads the Gurzenich-Orchester Köln in this live recording featuring Soile Isokoski, Iride Martinex, Andrew Collis and David Kuebler as Der Zwerg.