GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (Complete opera recorded in 2012) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] This is the first EuroArts release in cooperation with the San Francisco Opera, internationally recognized as one of the top opera companies in the world Renée Fleming as "America's most-loved and most-lauded opera singer"(The Times, London)... |
RACHMANINOV
The Miserly Knight (complete opera) Sergei Leiferkus / Vladimir Jurowski / Annabel Arden / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladmir Jurowski [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Dec/2005 ] G :- '…an inspired piece of programming...Sergei Leiferkus was utterly compelling in the title role...he delivered an appropriately mean performance' - Opera |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 2007) Sferisterio Opera Festival / Laura Polverelli / Maria Pia Piscitelli / Giovanna Lanza / Riccardo Frizza (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "Mezzo-soprano Laura Polverelli... reveals impressive depths of dramatic vocal resource and a wide variety of tonal expression and colour, ideal in a good bel-cantist" (MusicWeb) |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies (complete musical comedy recorded in 2015) Opera Toulon / Graham Bickley, Liz Robertson, Charlotte Page, Marilyn Hill Smith, Julia Sutton / David Charles Abell (cond) [ BelAir Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "The choice of the soloists is of irreproachable quality. The Follies' production in Toulouse is shining with a thousand fires." MUSICALAVENUE.FR |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2007) Spoleto Festival / Ann Hallenberg / Laura Cherici / Carlo Lepore / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] G : - "...this is a very very good DVD of a great Handel opera. If you yourself need to expand your horizon and move into the baroque - or know someone who would like to do so - then you will be hard put to start with anything better." (MusicWeb... |
WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2014) Staatsoper Berlin / Peter Seiffert, Marina Prudenskaya, Ann Petersen, Peter Mattei, René Pape / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Dec/2015 ] A brand new production of 'Tannhäuser' from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some of today's best Wagnerian sin |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete opera recorded in 2021) Staatsoper Opera / Benjamin Bernheim, Olga Peretyatko, Angela Brower, Luca Pisaroni / Kent Nagano (con) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "Nagano sweeps it all along with sensuality and verve; the Hamburg orchestra is on colourful form and for a staging that is (essentially) a piece of glorious escapism, it leaves you with a surprising amount to ponder." Gramophone Magazine April 2022 |
MARK ADAMO
Little Women (complete opera recorded in 2000) Stephanie Novacek / Joyce DiDonato / Chad Shelton / Stacey Tappan / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one." (BBC Music) |
AMBROISE THOMAS
Thomas: Hamlet (complete opera) Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo / Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Video Performance |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, Catriona Smith, Enzo Capuano / Gabriele Ferro (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "The Stuttgart team...bluntly portray Amina's sleepwalking as a mental problem...Musical, we are in the safe but far from unexciting hands of Gabriele Ferro…As well as fielding a Caruso/Bjorling-like ability to crescendo on those high peaks, Durlovsk |
LULLY
Persee (complete opera recorded in Toronto, April 2004) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra / Cyril Auvity / Marie Lenormand / Stephanie Novacek / HervAC Niquet (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- "It's 200 years or so since audiences have seen a full production of Lully's opera Persée, and the Opera Atelier production demonstrates that the wait was too long." - Theatre reviews |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2009) Tatiana Serjan / Iano Tamar / Rubens Pelizzari / Iain Paterson / Tigran Martirossian / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Recorded live from the Bregenz Festival, 22 and 24 July 2009. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera recorded in 2012) Teatre alla Scala / John Graham-Hall, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves, Felicity Palmer / Robin Ticciati (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 31/Jul/2013 ] "Gritton's Ellen is remarkable...[Graham-Hall ] lives his role - earnest, lonely, impulsive, with a desperate desire for acceptance...Ticciati is in full control from the start" Gramophone DVD of the month July 2013 |
ROSSINI
Moise et Pharaon (complete opera recorded in 2004) Teatro all Scala / Barbara Frittoli / Sonia Ganassi / Giuseppe Filianoti / Ildar Abdrazakov / Erwin Schrott / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] G :- "A vivid and well-sung performance of a work that deserves greater circulation. It is a very welcome and highly recommended issue" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (complete opera) Teatro alla Scala / Giandrea Gavazzeni / Mirella Freni / Peter Dvorsky / Ivo Vinco [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 16/Dec/2004 ] G - Cilea's four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love, first performed in Milan in 1902, is based on the true-life story of Adriana Lecouvreur, an 18th-Century actress at the Comédie Française |
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro alla Scala / Lance Ryan, Iréne Theorin, Mikhail Petrenko, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gerd Grochowski, Waltraud Meier / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017) Teatro alla Scala / Nina Stemme, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Maria Agresta, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Riccardo Chailly(cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2017 ] "Stemme is in the great tradition of Birgit Nilsson's Turandot, though there is a touching uncertainty around her Princess too...Agresta's Liù is one of the most appealing on record." BBC Opera Choice June 2017 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded March 2016) Teatro Carlo Felice / Mariella Devia, Sonia Ganassi, Stefan Pop, Mansoo Kim / Francesco Lanzillotta (conductor) [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Recorded from the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, 20 and 24 March 2016 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermooor (complete opera recorded in 2003) Teatro Carlo Felice / Stefania Bonfadelli, Marcelo Alvarez, Roberto Frontali / Patrick Fournillier (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This DVD shows an impressive staging of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti filmed at the opera house in Genoa, directed by preeminent opera director Graham Vick, conducted by renowned opera conductor Patrick Fournillier. |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] (complete opera recorded in 2014) Teatro di San Carlo / Patrizia Ciofi, Dmitry Korchak, Dario Solari, Roberto Tagliavini / Gabriele Ferro (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] Staged by: Fabio Sparvoli Bizet is more than Carmen. In his opera Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) you find melodies to die for and not only the vocal music is beautiful, but also the orchestral and ballet pieces too. The opera includes... |