{"product_id":"great-comedy-overtures","title":"Great Comedy Overtures","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis is an audio-only (i.e., with no video content) Blu-ray disc playable only on Blu-ray players.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ca class=\"links\" href=\"album.jsp?album_id=1740227\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e It is also available on standard CD. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The flourishing genre of the comic opera had its roots in eighteenth-century Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soon taken up outside the country’s borders. In France it produced opéra comique and operetta, and in German-speaking countries Spieloper and Viennese operetta. Some of the world’s most popular comic opera overtures, filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and race-to-the-finish endings, are presented here. They include staples of the concert repertoire such as Hérold’s dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid colour of Lortzing’s Zar und Zimmermann.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Naxos AudioVisual","offers":[{"title":"Blu-Ray","offer_id":49607997751576,"sku":"730099004367","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/2862909_7ffcd383-6c15-49e3-82a0-12899a77de08.jpg?v=1777759185","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/great-comedy-overtures","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}