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The Palazzetto has announced future plans :
HEROLD - Zampa (with Julien Dran)
HOLMES - La Montagne Noire, staged in Bordeaux and recorded subsequently (dir. Pierre Dumoussaud)
MASSENET - An album of orchestral songs (already recorded with the Rouen Opera Orchestra, dir. P. Dumoussaud)
DELIBES - Jean de Nivelle (dir. G. Vashegyi)

and being involved in some way or another in the following staged productions :
HERVE - Le Petit Faust
OFFENBACH - Robinson Crusoé (at the Opera-Comique, by the Pelly-Minkowski team, so probably an audio and video recording)
FOURDRAIN - Les Contes de Perrault (staged production is over, but a recording is probably on its way)
SILVER - La Belle au Bois Dormant, staged production in Saint-Etienne. Not sure whether it will be followed by a CD recording.

I'd missed that one when it came out on CPO (2nd publication of a Kerker work, after "Die oberen Zehntausend").
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kW0apG1lhlNrkFu4ESCWuH4aiaQ9FST7w

Broadcast on BR-Klassik on June 21st, 2025.

You just need to click on the 1st link, and add "last month" in the filters....
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Naxos+Digital+Services+cpo&sp=EgIIBA%253D%253D

B records just issued a nice recording of Reynaldo Hahn's ballet LE DIEU BLEU.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kX7hn7pS-_iQ1Fb_RwmkhQsv3t3TyUJ-g
Another facet of Hahn's talent.

There's Delius suites from A Village Romeo & Juliet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsIZ6HjX7j8) and Irmelin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8leKYXjntSo)

And several Janacek suites (Cunning Little Vixen, Broucek's adventures, etc...)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kBIEvdG8QdolLJHzA_YdD87AXrFoPJXiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUGb0II8OxY&list=PLjMoXE4VR3wVvBohRFU4QuY80FSRMsfYm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sChBN9EqMX0&list=OLAK5uy_k69zrMM-0N6Clt2nvTjDKS73BdB0jbI9E&index=2

There's the Pelleas suite, which really helped me getting into the opera :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP2Hyo9ikRE&t=1263s

And of course all the Wagner suites (Parsifal, Ring, Tristan, Meistersinger...), and the Strauss (Rosenkavalier, Die Liebe der Danae, Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Die Aegyptische Helena), and even a very little known "Ariadne" Suite :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA8qqteDblQ

And to come back to Humperdinck, here's his suite from the little known Dornröschen :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYMuSK0SfU

I just can't stand the guy, his stupid humour, and his raucous voice....

I should have to listen and compare carefully.  There's actually a good choice of Henselt studies available.

You can compare here :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOq6lg9DxHMsp69cT4isL4a37tZ_3bT-s

(and here, all the Piers Lane albums...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBfO0GzTkcB0xGb2EGEFVAQ)

Two other Henselt contributions that seem to have passed unnoticed (at least by me) :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lsZfuJcuHcWzG83zRlfoRr8VP3Le87_ks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mr-LhzJ9MhzqnXix0670SqruWi20is6Z8

Thanks to fellow-member Justin, we can now track new cpo releases:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Naxos+Digital+Services+cpo

And if you want a link to the whole album of one track of particular interest :
Let's take Circé :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UXsPgy1NA

You click on the link to open all the details, and next to the avatar of the album, you have a blue link to the full album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LOoqYDVZQM&list=OLAK5uy_l7JgYLSwp3C9q2nVhTZmBJlbJaN-7Ht1c&index=2
When you click on it, it opens the album and starts reading from the first track.  But on the right side of the page, you can see the whole album.

You have to be aware that pretty much all the recent issues of CD recordings from all the major companies are available on YT for free from the day of their public release. You just have to search through the name of the conductor or one of the main artists.

For example here :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrM6QP6akSPe9dPqj5PMuGQ
then you have all the albums from that artist, and you can click on "show the full playlist" for the desired album, and then you have it.

If, for any reason you can't so easily find the link to the full album, as shown above, all you have to do is find one of the tracks of the desired album (through the track title for example).  And then in the track information, click on "show more", and then next to the thumbnail of the album, you have a blue link to the complete album.


It's perfectly legal, of course, and I said before that I don't understand the economic strategy of putting out all these recordings online for free, but there it is.

"The cases where I do buy physical media is for the booklets or libretto"

You must be aware that many websites now offer booklets on download for free (Hyperion, Naxos, Toccata Classics,... and you can download many others from Idagio, without even buying a subscription.

No need to "engage with younger people online" to be perfectly aware that they "pretty much never buy music any more".  As a matter of fact, it's not only "the younger people", I've myself not bought a CD for the last 5 or 6 years (but again I'm still young at heart !  ).

"([platforms] which aren't free in the truest sense, either because of ads or of course because of being locked behind subscriptions)"
We've had this discussion before.  What counts is that in the end, for the listener, some platforms are free (YT, even though it attempts, rather agressively these days, to either force a monthly subscription on the viewers or subject them to unbearable ads every 5 minutes or so.  Fortunately, there are very efficient ad blockers out there, and ways to get around it, at least for the the geeks among us), and some are not (Qobuz, Idagio, Deezer, Spotify....).
But I'm glad "they (SUPPOSEDLY) have the data that shows they make more money from offering it on these platforms. 
I guess it all comes down, ultimately, to the Schwabian New World Order philosophy: "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy!"

It's really hard to tell "what this will mean for the current and future catalogue in terms of both content and formats", but what this tells me at this point is that I can accesse the whole catalog of Hyperion (what they have put on streaming so far) for free on Youtube and Youtube Music... Idem for the CPO, Chandos, Toccata Classics catalogues and a few others (Warner, etc...).
Who says they're interested in SELLING recordings when they're giving them all for free ? Looks like they're more interested in drowning Deezer, Qobuz, Spotify and all the other paying platforms.