Though Haydn was known primarily as an instrumental composer, he also had a successful and prolific career as an opera composer This budget-priced box set brings together eight complete opera recordings, all under the direction of Antal Dorati with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne Dorati's definitive box set of Haydn Symphonies has already been a major hit this year, and this unique collection of operas promises to do the same These recordings, made in the late 1970s, were groundbreaking at the time and remain valuable documents of Haydn's lesser-known works.