Search Results: Blu-ray opera
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Vienna Opera / Ausrine Stundyte, Bo Skovhus, Natascha Petrinsky, Elena Zaremba / Constantin Trinks (cond) [ C Major / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Mar/2022 ] "Aušrinė Stundytė has in recent years made the role of Renate her own; and with the openness and generosity of her soprano, its control of colour, its capacity for tender lyricism with a tragic edge, she is perfect as the suffering heart of the work" |
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Leoncavallo: Zaza (complete opera recorded in 2020) BLU-RAY Vienna Opera / Svetlana Aksenova, Enkelejda Shkosa, Dorothea Herbert, Juliette Mars / Stefan Soltesz (cond) [ C Major / Unitel Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Nov/2021 ] "By far the most telling contributions come from Christopher Maltman in the beau rôle of Cascart, Zazà's protector and former lover, and Enkelejda Shkosa as her alcoholic mama." Opera |
HANDEL
Alcina (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Anja Harteros, Vesselina Kasarova, Kristina Hammarström / Marc Minkowski (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Conductor and orchestra are superb; so is Anja Harteros, who finds real depth in Alcina's passion for Ruggiero." (Gramophone) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon, Thomas Hampson / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Mar/2009 ] "This production is something special: a Traviata so dramatically intense and vocally secure that no other contemporary contender can beat it." - The Times, London |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame ('The Queen of Spades') (complete opera recorded in 2018) Vienna State Opera / Brandon Jovanovich, Evgenia Muraveva, Vladislav Sulimsky, Igor Golovatenko / Mariss Jansons (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Mar/2018 ] "It is all performed with energy and belief by this excellent cast… it is a very fine musical performance of a great score." MusicWeb |
JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Werther (complete recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Marcelo Álvarez, Elina Garanca, Ileana Tonca, Adrian Eröd, Alfred Sramek, Peter Jelosit / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2015 ] "The Vienna State Opera Orchestra plays rhapsodically for Phillip Jordan. He comes close to delivering a great Werther...this is a stunning, newly and originally conceived show." (ClassicsToday) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La forza del destino (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Salvatore Licitra, Nina Stemme, Carlos Alvarez, Alastair Miles / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2018 ] "Stemme is an involving Leonore, with a lovely rich lower and mid-register tone, but she is strained and variable above the stave...Krasteva throws herself into cowgirl Preziosilla with gusto. Mehta conducts effectively." International Record Review |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La forza del destino (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Salvatore Licitra, Nina Stemme, Carlos Alvarez, Alastair Miles / Zubin Mehta (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2012 ] "Nina Stemme's Leonora? A hugely well-acted assumption of the role, with (in the 'Pace! Pace, mio dio' scena) the uncanny presence and vocal fury offered by Price, Barstow or Freni." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete recorded in 2002) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Thomas Hampson, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Miroslav Dvorský / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Arthaus presents a "visually alert, musically sensitive and disturbingly coherent" (The Standard) production of Simon Boccanegra on Blu-ray, one of Verdi's lesser known works yet regarded by many opera lovers as one of his finest. |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Salzburger Festspiele 2016 / Piotr Beczała, Ildar Abdrazakov, Maria Agresta / Wiener Philharmoniker, Alejo Perez [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "An outstanding cast is led by Poland tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role displaying his credentials as one of the most in demand tenors on the world stage today. Ildar Abdrazakov embodies a seductive and demonic Mephistopheles." (MusicWeb) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: War and Peace (complete opera recorded in 1991) BLU-RAY Mariinsky Theatre / Yelena Prochina, Irina Bogachova, Alexander Gergalov / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "if you're looking for a single video recording of War and Peace and your preference is for the complete opera, Gergiev and Mariinsky are undoubtedly the recording of choice." ClassicalNet |
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 |
MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Fiorenza Cedolins, José Cura, Carlo Guelfi, Cheyne Davidson, Paoletta Marrocu / Stefano Ranzani (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 22/Dec/2015 ] Two timeless stories of love, honour, justice and violence - a highlight for every opera lover. Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci speak to one's heart and soul. They are regarded as the most absorbing... |
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 |
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... |
GLUCK
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (complete opera recorded in 2001) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Juliette Galstian, Rodney Gilfrey, Deon Van Der Walt, Anton Scharinger / William Christie (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Mar/2016 ] Gluck's wonderful but neglected 1774 opera Iphigénie en Tauride, inspired by the Greek legend, is treated with forceful and convincing simplicity in Claus Guth's revolutionary production staged at the Zurich Opera House. The psychological drama in a... |
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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... |
BUSONI
Doktor Faust (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Thomas Hampson / GAnther GroissbAck / Gregory Kunde / Philippe Jordan (conductor) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "[Thomas Hampson possesses] all the physical and vocal energy one could wish for…..flourishes and ornaments leap out of his melodic lines….the gestures [are] also natural, his phrasing and pitch sure. Mr. Hampson, as his career justifi ably... |
