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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Theatre Musical de Paris / Yannis Kokkos, Susan Graham, Gregory Kunde / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The magnificent high-definition recording does it ample sonic and visual justice. For anyone who loves Les Troyens, this is a revelatory and essential performance." (The Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels / Laura Claycomb, Andrew Kennedy, William Shimell / Kazushi Ono (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Blu-Ray - 'Lepage has forged a reputation as one of the most visionary theatre directors of our age… The Rake's Progress is heading our way, and it promises to be a highlight of the 2007/8 season.' Sunday Times |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Lucio Silla (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Theatro Real / Kurt Streit (Silla), Patricia Petibon, Silvia Tro Santafé, Inga Kalna / Ivor Bolton (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2018 ] "But the vocal laurels, and the principal reason for recommending this recording, belong to Patricia Petibon who tears into Giunia's arias as if her really depended on it." BBC MusicBBC Music Magazine October 2018 Opera Choice |
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WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Theâtre du Capitole, Toulouse / Torsten Kerl, Marika Schönberg, Daniela Sindram / Pinchas Steinberg (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "A simple set keeps the action flowing and the moments of high drama are not shirked...Steinberg's conducting provides...a controlled but vivid reading of this sprawling score...Kerl's tenor remains unflagging throughout, with reserves to make someth |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Patricia Petibon, Sophie Koch, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Jérémie Rhorer (cond) [ Warner Erato Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Feb/2015 ] "[Plowright's] performance has a dramatic veracity that is disturbing in the extreme...Long sceptical about the piece, I was completely won over - the highest complement I can pay it." The Guardian |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Rosemary Joshua, Luca Pisaroni, Pietro Spagnoli / René Jacobs (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2018 ] Recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in June 2004, le Nozze de Figaro was unanimously acclaimed by public and critics alike as a Mozart opera landmark. Director Jean-Louis Martinoty brings an elegantly intelligent narrative sense to an... |
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WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen [The Ring of the Nibelungen] (recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Deborah Voigt, Bryn Terfel, Jonas Kaufmann / James Levine, Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / 5 Blu-ray Box Set - released 18/Oct/2012 ] The most famous, the most performed, the most thrilling, and the most recorded opera cycle in music history. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Opera, Ballet & Theatre: The Blu-ray Experience II Various singers, dancers and actors [ Opus Arte BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2010 ] The Blu-ray Experience II: Opera, Ballet & Theatre includes opera, ballet and theatre highlights from the Opus Arte catalogue, and gives everyone the opportunity to experience the stunning quality of High Definition picture and sound. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Il Trittico (complete operas recorded in 2022) BLU-RAY Vienna Opera / Asmik Grigorian, Misha Kiria, Karita Mattila, Roman Burdenko / Franz Welser-Möst,(cond) [ Until Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Jul/2023 ] Il trittico was premiered in New York on 14 December 1918, composed while the First World War was still raging in Europe. At first glance, the three one-act operas Gianni Schicchi, Il tabarro and Suor Angelica seem to have no connection with each... |
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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" |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |