Search Results: Blu-ray opera
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY The Royal Opera / Simon O'Neill, Angela Denoke, René Pape, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2014 ] Wagner's last opera Parsifal is a work of intense humanity. It narrates the story of a troubled community ultimately healed through one man's realization of the power of compassion. Created in honour of the bicentenary of Wagner's birth, Stephen... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY The Royal Opera / Stuart Skelton, Emily Magee, Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, Sarah Connolly / Antonio Pappano [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "Pappano has always had a special relationship with the Ring's second part…and the Royal Opera House Orchestra rewards him with some of its most sumptuous playing." BBC Music Opera Choice June 2020 |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Blu-ray) The Royal Opera [ Opus Arte / Blu-ray - released 25/Aug/2023 ] From the headlong rush of the overture, Mozart's timeless comedy is a breathless journey through one very eventful day in the life of an 1830s château. Figaro and his bride Susanna conspire to foil the unwanted advances of Count Almaviva, while the... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Deidamia (Recorded live at the De Nederlandse Opera, March & April 2012) Sally Matthews, Veronica Cangemi, Olga Pasichnyk / Concerto Köln, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (director) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2013 ] DNO presents a new production of Händel's last Italian opera, Deidamia, staged by the American David Alden. No known literary source has been linked directly to this opera, which is set at the time of the Trojan War. After an oracle has predicted the... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Salzburg Easter Festival / José Cura, Dorothea Röschmann, Carlos Álvarez, Benjamin Bernheim / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2017 ] A superb new Otello from the Salzburg Easter Festival: 'Cura is a commanding Otello with his richly coloured tenor and both fragile delicacy and fiery ardour' Südwestpresse. 'Röschmann as Desdemona guarantees effortless perfection' Neue Musikzeitung. |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: The Makropulos Case (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Angela Denoke, Raymond Very, Peter Hoare, Jurgita Adamonyte, Johan Reuter / Esa-Pekka Salonen (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "The vocal performances are nearly all compelling. The men - Janacek's usual weak and neurotic bunch - are entirely believable...Both the lead and female roles are remarkably complete." (BBC Music) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Cecilia Bartoli, Kathryn Lewek, Nathan Berg, Christophe Dumaux, Sandrine Piau, Rolando Villazon / Gianluca Capuano (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/May/2021 ] "This is no routine Ariodante…Bartoli is Bartoli. Those who find her trilling mannered and freighted with excessive vibrato will wrinkle their noses. But who can doubt her remarkable presence on stage" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, R.: Der Rosenkavalier (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Krassimira Stoyanova, Sophie Koch, Mojca Erdmann, Silvana Dussmann / Franz Welser-Möst [ C Major / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2015 ] This unabbreviated version of The Rosenkavalier from Salzburg Festival 2014 became a triumph and received fantastic reviews. Staged by legendary Harry Kupfer. Great cast incl. Krassimira Stoyanova, Günther Groisböck, Sophie Koch, Mojca Erdman,... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Fierrabras (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Michael Schade, Julia Kleiter, Benjamin Bernheim, Dorothea Röschmann / Ingo Metzmacher (cond) [ C Major / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Oct/2015 ] Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert's stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this heroic-romantic opera has now been staged for the first time ever at the Salzburg Festival by famous director Peter Stein. |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Michael Volle, Roberto Sacca, Anna Gabler, Peter Sonn, Georg Zeppenfeld / Daniele Gatti [ EuroArts / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "Gatti seeks to match Herheim's production with initially chamber-like sonorities then a gradual upping both dynamics a colour for street brawl and singing contest." (Gramophone) |
GOUNOD
Romeo et Juliet (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Nino Machaidze / Rolando Villazon / Russell Braun / Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg / Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 4/May/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "Villazón expresses all of Romeo's hot-blooded passion, his tender, erotic intimacy, and, finally, his deathly despair" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (Recorded live at Salzburg Festival, August 2013) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival opera / Malin Hartelius (Fiordiligi), Luca Pisaroni, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Martin Mitterrutzner, Martina Janková / Christoph Eschen [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Gerald Finley is a wryly humorous Alfonso. Under Christoph Eschenbach, the Vienna Philharmonic is admirably light on its feet." Gramophone |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Arabella (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Beňačková / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ C Major / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2015 ] 2014 celebrates the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss. Arabella from this year´s Salzburg Easter Festival and is after Capriccio the second R: Strauss Opera C Major is releasing in 2014. Der Rosenkavalier from this year´s Salzburg Festival will be re |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids (Complete Opera) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Sean Panikkar, Russell Braun, Willard White, Nikolai Schukoff / Vienna Philharmonic, Kent Nagano [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 11/Oct/2019 ] The opera, inspired by Euripides' tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus - is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? - bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Die Frau ohne Schatten (complete opera recorded in 2011) Salzburg Festival / Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2012 ] Already brimming with symbols and transformations, the epic fairytale recounted by Strauss and his librettist Hofmannsthal in Die Frau ohne Schatten acquires a further allegorical dimension in Christoph Loy's inventive production for the Salzburg... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Salzburg Opera / Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2019 ] Premiered in 1900 with huge success, Puccinis 'melodramma' Tosca is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story. With his gripping opening scene, stage director Michael Sturminger sets the tone for a cinematic, richly detailed Tosca which... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Porgy and Bess (Complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY San Francisco Opera / Eric Owens, Laquita Mitchell, Chauncey Packer, Lester Lynch, Angel Blue / John DeMain (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Triumphant! A top-notch, sold-out Porgy and Bess." San Francisco Examiner This is the first live recording of The Gershwins'®Porgy and Bess℠ on DVD! George Gershwin miraculously melded classical idioms, jazz, blues and spirituals in this... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Show Boat (Complete musical recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY San Francisco Opera / Heidi Stober, Michael Todd Simpson, Kirsten Wyatt, John Bolton / John DeMain (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2015 ] "A triumph-a stylish, fast-paced and colorful show that had the capacity audience on its feet, cheering loud and long" (Chicago Classical Review) |
ARRIGO BOITO
Boito: Mefistofele (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY San Francisco Opera / Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson / Nicola Luisotti (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Jul/2016 ] Boito's resplendent retelling of Goethe's Faust, a monumental work of "choral grandeur and melodic richness" (The New York Times) in one of the most impressive productions ever seen at the War Memorial Opera House. The cast includes Ramón Vargas,... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso (complete opera recorded in 1989) BLU-RAY San Francisco Opera / Marilyn Horne, Susan Patterson, Jeffrey Gall, William Matteuzzi / Randall Behr (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Pier Luigi Pizzi's 1979 production of Orlando furioso in Verona marked the beginning of contemporary international interest in Antonio Vivaldi's operas. Ten years later the same director once more produced this work at the San Francisco Opera. |
