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add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GEORGES BIZET Bizet: Carmen (Complete opera recorded in 2002) Glyndebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcus Haddock, Laurent Naouri, Lisa Milne / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] G: "(Von Otter's) Carmen has loads of overt sexuality - she languidly glides through the Habanera while sucking on a piece of fruit and then a cigar - and she shows plenty of temperament and fatalism tinged with fear later." (Los Angeles Times)
add to cart $60.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks HILDEGARD von BINGEN Hildegard von Bingen - In Portrait - Ordo Virtutum Ansy Boothroyd / John Hancorm / Vox Animae, led by Evelyn Tubb / Mayfield Chamber Opera Chorus / Michael Fields / Piers Adams / Steven Devine [ Opus Arte / Kultur DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jan/2004 ] G :- "The vocal artistry is at a very high level… neither Evelyn Tubb nor Ansy Boothroyd try to steal the show. …If I were forced to limit my library to only one recording of music by Hildegard von Bingen, this would be it." -Continuo, USA (Ordo...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (Recorded live in 2006) Opera de Bilbao / Aquiles Machado, Milagros Poblador, Maria Bayo, Valentina Kutzarova, Konstantin Gorny, Katharine Goeldner / Alain Guingal (Conductor [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] 'Excellent work by Giancarlo del Monaco… extremely careful definition of the characters and efficient directing of the actors which brings out the best in them. … An absolute triumph for the women.' El Pais
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GEORGES BIZET Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 2014) Arena di Verona / Ekaterina Semenchuk, Irina Lungu, Carlo Ventre, Carlos Álvarez, Francesca Micarelli / Henrik Nánási (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "This is picture-postcard opera … It's traditional, it's colourful." Gramophone
add to cart $65.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera) Arena di Verona / Luca Salsi, Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, Riccardo Fassi / Pier Giorgio Morandi (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/May/2020 ] It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of...
add to cart $63.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks CHARLES GOUNOD Romeo et Juliette [Romeo and Juliet] (complete opera recorded in 2011) Arena di Verona / Nino Machaidze, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Cristina Melis / Fabio Mastrangello (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "[Machaidze] seems to be the Juliette of choice today and this video makes clear why that's the case: lovely singing and a demeanour that manages to be sensual and innocent at once." (International Record Review)
add to cart $81.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks SCHNEITZHOEFFER La Sylphide (complete ballet recorded in 2004) Aurélie Dupont / Mathieu Ganio / Mélanie Hurel / Le Corps De Ballet And Opéra National De Paris / Ermanno Fl [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 12/May/2011 ] Arthaus presents Pierre Lacotte's landmark reconstruction of the Romantic Ballet La Sylphide, long regarded as a classic in its own right.
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks DONIZETTI L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 2012) Baden-Baden Festspielhaus / Miah Persson, Rolando Villazon, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Roman Trekel / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Villazon turns in an action-packed, razzle-dazzle production. The opera is set in a film studio during the silent movie era, where the cast is filming a Western...Villazon's Nemorino...comes across as individual, hyperactive, zany, but also a bit pe
add to cart $37.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks GAETANO DONIZETTI Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Baden-Baden Festspielhaus / Miah Persson, Rolando Villazon, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Roman Trekel / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Villazon's Nemorino...comes across as individual, hyperactive, zany, but also a bit petulant and unlovable...Persson exudes easy-going charm...[d'Arcangelo] sings with fine, Italianate comic energy." (Gramophone)
add to cart $64.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks STRAVINSKY / FAURE / TCHAIKOVSKY Jewels (ballet by George Balanchine) Ballet de L'Opera National de Paris / George Balanchine / Christian Lacroix [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] G :- 'Jewels', a work first performed by the New York City Ballet in 1967. This alluring, abstract ballet, a triptych in which each piece sparkles with the brilliance of a precious stone, is a lyric tribute to women and to the capital cities of...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: La Forza del Destino (complete opera recorded in 2014) Bavarian State Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Ludovic Tézier, Nadia Krasteva / Asher Fisch (conductor) [ Sony DVD / DVD - released 25/Jul/2016 ] "It is crowned by a magnificent Leonora from Anja Harteros, perhaps the best thing she has done on disc. Her rich, creamy tone makes her just about perfect for Verdi's great lyric roles. Her voice has the technique to conquer the tessitura" MusicWeb
add to cart $72.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks POULENC Dialogues des Carmélites (complete opera recorded in 2010) Bayerische Staatsoper / Alain Vernhes, Susan Gritton, Bernard Richter / Kent Nagano (conductor) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2011 ] A passionate lover of the human voice, Francis Poulenc composed the Dialogues des Carmélites in 1953, using a libretto he himself had written from a screenplay by Georges Bernanos.
add to cart $53.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks LEOS JANACEK Janáček: From The House of The Dead (complete opera) Bayerische Staatsoper / Peter Rose, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Aleš Briscein, Charles Workman / Simone Young (cond) [ Bel Air DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The cast is large and too numerous to acknowledge everyone, and there are no weak links. Bo Skovhus scores another career highlight as Šiškov and makes almost a mini-opera of his long scene." Five Stars OperaNow
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks W. A. MOZART Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (complete opera recorded in 1983) Bayerische State Opera / Kurt Moll, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Gudrun Sieber / Wolfgang Sawallisch (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel DVD / DVD - released 3/Nov/2005 ] G :- "This charming production features Lucia Popp's still glorious Pamina and Moll's resonant Sarastro heading a first-rate cast. Brendel's Papageno lightens the recommendation." (BBC Music)
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock RICHARD STRAUSS Strauss, (R.): Der Rosenkavalier (the complete opera recorded in 1988) Bayerischen Staatsoper / Gwyneth Jones, Manfred Jungwirth, Brigitte Fassbaender, Lucia Popp / Carlos Kleiber (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Aug/2004 ] "Kleiber's conducting is spacious, transparent and warm. Brigitte Fassbaender is ideal as Octavian, Gwyneth Jones a moving Marschallin, Lucia Popp a sweet-voiced if mature Sophie, and Manfred Jungwirth a dignified but funny Ochs." (BBC music)
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks WAGNER Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2013) Bayerischen Staatsoper / Johan Botha, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Stephen Millings / Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/Aug/2013 ] "The singing cast are very fine and, like his players, seem to have studied with their conductor in Goodall-like detail. Both Grail scenes are fully staged, rather than just stood and sung and are almost unbearably moving" (Gramophone)
add to cart $75.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks MODEST MUSSORGSKY Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (complete opera recorded in 2007) Bayerisches State Opera / Anatoly Kotscherga / Paata Burchuladze / Camilla Nylund / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Medici Arts / Unitel / EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Mussorgsky's monumental Khovanshchina is regarded as one of the most important works of Russian Opera.The five-act opera about the Moscow Uprising of 1682 was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881.
add to cart $50.00 Out of Stock RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) Bayreuth Festival / Michael Volle, Klaus Florian Vogt, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Anne Schwanewilms / Philippe Jordan (cond) [ Deutsche DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] "The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle now paces himself well and Lehmkuhl is a magical and unclichéd Magdalene." Gramophone
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded live in 2019) Bayreuth Festival / Stephen Gould, Lise Davidsen, Elena Zhidkova, Markus Eiche / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/May/2020 ] "In his Bayreuth debut, Valery Gergiev conducts with such verve that at multiple turns it was like hearing the score anew." Limelight
add to cart $64.00 Out of Stock 2-4 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer [The Flying Dutchman] (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Bayreuth Festival / Samuel Youn, Franz-Josef Selig, Ricarda Merbeth / Christian Thielemann (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] 2013's revival of Jan Philipp Gloger's controversial 2012 production was greeted (as so often in Bayreuth) with huge acclaim. He translates the tale of the Dutchman, whose travails can only be redeemed through the unconditional love of a woman...