Search Results: Blu-ray opera
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake (complete ballet recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Zurich Ballet / Polina Semionova / Stanislav Jermakov / Arsen Mehrabyan / Vladimir Fedoseyev (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2013 ] In 2005 it was over 30 years since the Zurich Opera House had seen a performance of probably the world's best-loved ballet, Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. |
ROSSINI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Kálmán, John Osborn, Javier Camarena / Muhai Tang (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] DVD/Blu-ray of the Month - July 2014 |
ALBAN BERG
Berg: Wozzeck (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Christian Gerhaher, Brandon Jovanovich, Mauro Peter, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "This is a finely honed production that follows its premise to an absurdist conclusion with slick theatricality and dispassionate zeal." Gramophone Award WINNER 2017 - Opera |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Falstaff (complete opera recorded in October 2012) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera House / Ambrogio Maestri, Barbara Frittoli, Meg Page, Mistress Quickly, Massimo Cavalletti / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "The cast, led by a secure Maestri, can boast a lovable Nannetta in Liebau and further clever variations on Quickly's eccentricity from Naef." Gramophone |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Konigskinder (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Isabel Rey, Oliver Widmer / Jens-Daniel Herzog (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2014 ] Tenor superstar Jonas Kaufmann leads the cast in the first-ever Blu-ray release of the beautiful fairytale opera from the composer of Hänsel und Gretel. |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (complet opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Olga Kulchynska, Benjamin Bernheim, Roberto Lorenzi / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres ever since the Renaissance. Vincenzo Bellini's much too rarely staged Romeo and Juliet opera, I... |
![Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10574/10574035.jpg)
FRANZ LEHAR
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns [The Land Of Smiles] (complete operetta recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Piotr Beczala, Julia Kleiter, Rebeca Olvera, Spencer Lang / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Accentus Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Nov/2018 ] Always smile and always be cheerful, always satisfied, no matter what happens, smile in spite of your sorrows and a thousand aches and pains', sings Prince Sou-Chong, thus introducing the fundamentally melancholic tone of Das Land des Lächelns ('The... |
![Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10611/10611101.jpg)
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY & DVD Bayreuth Festival / John Lundgren, Georg Zeppenfeld, Asmik Grigorian, Attilio Glaser / Oksana Lyniv (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 20/Apr/2024 ] "Lyniv's conducting is superb in terms of pacing and tonal weight and balance...Grigorian and Zeppenfeld sing as fluently and fearlessly as they act." Gramophone Magazine September 2022 Blu-ray of the Month |
GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Carmen Jones BLU-RAY Dorothy Dandridge [singing voice Marilyn Horne], Harry Belafonte [singing voice LeVern Hutcherson], Olga James, Joe Adams, Pearl Bailey [ 20th Century Fox Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2018 ] Carmen Jones had its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on October 28, 1954. The following February, it opened in London and Berlin, and in both cities it played for more than a year in exclusive first-run engagements. |
Dream Theater
Breaking The Fourth Wall (Live From The Boston Opera House BLU-RAY) [ Roadrunner / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Progressive metal titans Dream Theater release BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL (LIVE FROM THE BOSTON OPERA HOUSE), a live DVD set of the band's one-of-a-kind performance from the Boston Opera House on March 25, 2014. BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL (LIVE FROM... |
WAGNER / GOUNOD / MASCAGNI / CILEA / VERDI / PUCCINI
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden 2016 BLU-RAY Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Anja Harteros (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Dec/2016 ] The Festspiel-Saison at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden culminated with Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Anja Harteros and Ekaterina Gubanova all on stage in this magnificent Opera Gala. The gala presented a diverse range of solo-arias and duets. Among the... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Emily Magee, Elena Moșuc, Jonas Kaufmann / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 17/Feb/2014 ] Jonas Kaufmann made his highly acclaimed debut as Bacchus in this 2012 Salzburg Festival production of Ariadne auf Naxos, leading a cast including Emily Magee and Elena Mosuc, with Daniel Harding conducting. Director Sven-Erich Bechtholf's staging is... |
Il Volo
Il Volo... Takes Flight: Live From the Detroit Opera House [ Interscope Records U.S.A. / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Mar/2012 ] G: |
![Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10183/10183264.jpg)
WAGNER
Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Juha Uusitalo / Robert Lloyd / Catherine Naglestad / Marco Jentzsch / The Netherlands Opera / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Harmut Haenchen [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Austrian director Martin Kušej's pioneering vision brings a challenging and provoking insight to Wagner's opera of love and redemption, with his singular ability to connect characters and their actions to the score. Martin Zehetsgruber's spacious,... |
DVORAK
Rusalka (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Kristine Opolais / Klaus Florian Vogt / Gunther Groissbock / Janina Baechle / Nadia Krasteva / Bayerisches Staatsorchester / Tomáš Hanus [ KULTUR Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "The cast has clearly bought into the producer's concept and they deliver a devastating ensemble performance. Kristine Opolais as Rusalka is vocally superb and acts magnificently..Tomáš Hanus draws some wonderful playing from the Bavarian State... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi (complete opera recorded in 2015. Directed by Woody Allen) BLU-RAY Los Angeles Opera / Plácido Domingo, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Andriana Chuchman, Greg Fedderly / Grant Gershon (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Jun/2016 ] Puccini's Gianni Schicchi is the only opera Woody Allen has ever staged. The 2015 version on this release is a revival of Woody Allen's 2008 production for L.A. Opera, a hilarious parody of classical Italian cinema stereotypes. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva, Željko Lučić, Chad Shelton, Dimitri Pittas, Jennifer Johnson / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 24/Sep/2016 ] "Ms. Yoncheva, the fast-rising Bulgarian soprano, just 33, is poised for a major career, and this Desdemona shows why. Her luscious sound has just enough of an earthy tinge and texture to balance the shimmer of her singing." NY Times |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko / Eduardo Valdes / Maria Zifchak / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Looking as graceful as a gazelle and singing as sweetly as a bell struck with a surprising outburst of coloratura, Anna Netrebko sang in I Puritani for the first time at the MET" (The New York Post) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Željko Luèiæ, René Pape, Joseph Calleja / Fabio Luisi (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2015 ] An unforgettable performance of Anna Netrebko at the MET now on DVD/BR! Outstanding press acclaim for her performance: New York Observer stated: ".. a superstar cast ... the most potent: Anna Netrebko's ferociously exciting star turn as Lady... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Peter Mattei, Rene Papp, Jonas Kaufmann, Katarina Dalayman / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Mar/2014 ] "The impassioned intensity Jonas Kaufmann brings to Parsifal's music is matched by the rhetorical conviction of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Evgeny Nikitin's Klingsor." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Opera) |
