Following his acclaimed first recording for Alpha Classics, "Saga", the German baritone Konstantin Krimmel continues to tell us stories, with a programme focusing on "Zauberoper" (or "magic opera"). Accompanied by the Hofkapelle München orchestra conducted by Rüdiger Lotter, Krimmel explores operas by Mozart (Der Stein der Weisen), Salieri (La grotta di Trofonio) and Haydn (L'Anima del filosofo, Orlando Paladino), alongside less well-known titles by Paul Wranitzky (Oberon) and Peter von Winter: spectacular musical comedies from the eighteenth-century Viennese repertory, with their enchanted fairytale universe. © Alpha Classics