Opera Baroque - Limited edition box set

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. The set contains the following operas and works: Blow: Venus and Adonis, Campra: Idoménée, Cavalli: La Calisto, Charpentier: Médée and Le Malade imaginaire, Erlebach: Overture No. 4, Graun:Cleopatra & Cesare, Handel: Rinaldo, Flavio and Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Keiser: Croesus and La Ridicule Prince Jodelet Sinfonia, Lully: Atys, Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Rameau:Les Indes Galante, Rore: Ancor che co'l partire, Scarlatti: La Griselda, Schieferdecker: Premiere Concert musicaux, Schurmann: Suite Ludovicus Paris, Telemann: Orpheus and Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso.