Search Results: Blu-ray opera
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete opera cycle recorded in Valencia, 2007-09) BLU-RAY Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia / Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Peter Seiffert, Juha Uusitalo / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "Quite a spectacle, brilliantly sung." The Sunday Times / "It looks like a landmark Ring cycle, it is outstanding." BBC Music Magazine |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Johan Botha, Edith Haller, Linda Watson, Albert Dohmen / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "[Botha] is outstanding throughout as Siegmund...Dorst's production, and this filming of it, are at their best in the latter stages of Act 3 and the result is a powerful and affecting account of one of The Ring's greatest episodes" (Gramophone) |
JANACEK
Janacek: Kata Kabanova (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Karita Mattila / Miroslav Dvorsky / Guy de Mey / Dali Schaechter / Orchestra del Teatro Real Madrid / Jiri Belohlavek [ FRA Musica Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Dec/2012 ] "Throughout, Mattila sings with a flood of golden tone… Bělohlávek's conducting is beautifully judged, whether in tension or release. Utterly brilliant!" (Gramophone) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great' - A Ballet By Uwe Scholz BLU-RAY Kiyoko Kimura, Christoph Böhm, Oksana Kulchytska (dancers) / Leipzig Ballet, Choir of the Leipzig Opera & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Balázs Kocsár [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The full length Choreography takes its name from Mozart's famous unfinished Mass in C minor and adds other works by the same composer, such as the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the motet Ave verum corpus as well as passages of Gregorian chant, and... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (complete opera recorded in 2022) Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor) Eva Heidi Stober (soprano) Johan Reuter (bass-baritone) / John Fiore (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Triumphantly premiered in 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg evokes the singing guilds of mid-16th-century Nuremburg, a focal point of the Northern European Renaissance. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Equivoco stravagante (Complete Opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Königliches Kurtheater, Bad Wildbad / Antonella Colaianni, Giulio Mastrototaro, Emmanuel Franco, Patrick Kabongo / José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] No opera has been performed at Rossini in Wildbad as often as L'equivoco stravagante, so it was the perfect choice for the festival's 30th anniversary in 2018. |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY La Fenice / Jessica Pratt, Sonia Ganassi, Rubén Amoretti, Shalva Mukeria / Shalva Mukeria (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 13/May/2022 ] "I can tell you that from the first to the fourth performance, which was on Sunday, enthusiasm reached, or perhaps surpassed, the levels of Il Pirata and La Straniera in Milan" Bellini in a letter to a friend |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti:Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Mariella Devia, Marco Caria, Silvia Tro Santafe, Gregory Kunde / Bruno Campanella (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims:... |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Rusalka, Op. 114 (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY La Monnaie Opera / Myrtò Papatanasiu, Pavel Černoch, Annalena Persson, Willard White / Ádám Fischer (cond) [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Jul/2016 ] "The cast throw themselves into [the production] with admirable energy, but it's simply too calculated and posturing...musically this isn't at all bad. Adam Fischer's conducting is smooth, rich and idiomatic, his principals good." (BBC Music) |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (complete opera recorded in 2023) BLU-RAY La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Stephane Degout, Sally Matthews, Bogdan Volkov, Bernadetta Grabias, Nicolas Courjal / Alain Altinoglu (cond [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 21/Mar/2025 ] 'The soprano Sally Matthews brings a radiant voice and natural allure', wrote the New York Times. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY La Scala Milan / Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Anna Prohaska, Barbara Frittoli / Daniel Barenboim (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2015 ] Recorded live at the opening of the 2011-12 La Scala season, Don Giovanni was released in honour of Bryn Terfel's 50th birthday which was on 9 November 2015. It also tied in with the traditional opening of the new season at La Scala - 7 December. |
FERDINANDO PAER
Paer: Agnese (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio Torino / Bruno Taddia, Filippo Morace, Laura Giordano, Pietro Adaini / Federico Maria Sardelli (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 1/Feb/2020 ] Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Diego Fasolis, Leo Muscato (director) |
WAGNER
Tristan und Isolde (Complete opera recorded live in 2007) BLU-RAY La Scala Opera / Waltraud Meier, Ian Storey, Gerd Grochowski, Matti Salminen / Daniel Barenboim (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 16/Nov/2015 ] "The gaudiest event of the opera season in Europe, La Scala's opener on Dec. 7 was a sublime new version of Tristan und Isolde directed by Patrice Chéreau under the baton of the house's new principal guest conductor, Daniel Barenboim." New York Times |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196 (complete opera sung in Italian recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Le Concert d'Astrée / Carlo Allemano, Erin Morley, Enea Scala, Marie-Adeline Henry / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2015 ] The French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm conducts here her music ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée during this performance of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at the Opéra de Lille (France) on March 22nd and 25th 2014. This production, directed by David Lescot |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Rodelinda (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Le Concert d'Astrée / Jeanine de Bique, Jakub Józef Orliński, Tim Mead, Benjamin Hulett, Avery Amereau / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Nov/2019 ] With this Blu-ray of Rodelinda, one of Handel's most emotionally complex operas, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm adds to her impressive Erato catalogue of the composer's works. The imaginative production, by Jean Bellorini, was seen at the Opéra de Lille... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 2023) (Blu-ray) Le Concert d'Astree / Christophe Dumaux, Julie Fuchs, Cecilia Molinari, Teresa Iervolino, Cameron Shahbazi, Frederik Bergman / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Sep/2025 ] 'This was a masterful production, and not just for the wonderful performances from Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée or for the excellent contributions from all the singers....superbly directed by Bieito and relevant to the present day' - Operawire.com |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Leipzig Opera / Massimiliano Pisapia, Franco Vassallo, Chiara Taigi, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You / Riccardo Chailly [ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "traditional costumes and stylized sets...[Talgi] has a pure, warm soprano, finely controlled in her legato singing, and Franco Vassallo sings magnificently, making his defying aria, Eri tu, a powerful climax, helped by Riccardo Chailly's conducting" |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2015) DVD + Blu-ray Theatre de Caen / Cyril Auvity, Hannah Morrison, Paul Agnew / Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] "Cyril Auvity's tremulous and emphatic singing of the title-role has unstinting dramatic commitment: the shadowy silhouettes of the obbligato instrumentalists in 'Possente spirto' appear as if the underworld is conjured to do Orfeo's bidding)." |
EMILIO de CAVALIERI:
de Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo (complete opera recorded in 2021) Blu-ray Theater an der Wien / Georg Nigl, Cyril Auvity, Anett Fritsch, Daniel Schmutzhard / Giovanni AntoninI [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 24/Mar/2023 ] "This Rappresentatione is as entertaining a sermon as you're ever likely to see. Does it belong in the opera house? Carsen certainly makes a persuasive case." Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2023 |
BENET CASABLANCAS
Casablancas: L'Enigma di Lea (complete opera recorded in 2019) Blu-ray Liceu Grand Theatre / Allison Cook, José Antonio López, Sara Blanch, Marta Infante, Sonia de Munck / Josep Pons (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 21/Jan/2022 ] Recorded at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain, 12-13 February 2019 |
