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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide (complete opera recorded in 2018) Teatro Ventidio Basso / Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Florez, Sergey Romanovsky, Victoria Yarovaya / Giacomo Sagripanti (Cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Oct/2019 ] To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of the Rossini rarity, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro staged Ricciardo e Zoraide with an all-star cast. Juan Diego Flórez makes his debut as the crusader Ricciardo, giving a "masterclass in bel... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (complete opera, sung in German, recorded in 2022) Tempu Ishijima (boy soprano), Dshamilja Kaiser, Paul Schweinester / Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Magnus Loddgard [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Long a Christmas favourite, this new Viennese production, sung in German, boldly re-examines the story finding its key elements to be fantasy, empathy and the enduring power of love. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera recorded in 1988) Teresa Stratas, Bernd Weikl, Astrid Varnay, Hans Beirer, Wieslaw Ochman / Karl Bohm (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophone DVD / DVD - released 28/Nov/2014 ] "It is now almost certainly the best Salome either on CD or DVD...Stratas really looks the part as well as singing it...Above all, Gotz Friedrich's production evokes the atmosphere and dramatic intensity of Strauss's opera" Rosette Penguin Guide |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Alfonso und Estrella (complete opera recorded in 1997) Theater an der Wien / Olaf Bar / Luba Orgonasova / Thomas Hampson / Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] G - Filmed at the Theater an der Wien during performances in Wiener Festwochen, May 1997. |
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (complete opera recorded in 2017) Theater Freiburg / Kim-Lillian Strebel, Anja Jung, Anat Czarny, Katharina Melnikova / Fabrice Bollon (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] The timeless nature of this Freiburg production derives from an 'Alice in Wonderland' look that stimulates the imagination as much as it does the senses. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Theodora (complete opera recorded in 2015) Theatre des Chams-Elysees / Katherine Watson, Philippe Jaroussky, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Callum Thorpe / William Christie (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Handel's Theodora, a tale of Christian martyrdom in 4th century Antioch, is a dramatic oratorio rather than an opera, but it achieved a new currency in 1996, when William Christie conducted a staging at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Christie, who... |
MONTEVERDI
L'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 1998) Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Bruxelles / Trisha Brown / Smon Keenlyside / Juanita Lascarro / Rene Jacobs (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi France / 2 DVD - released 26/Jul/2007 ] G :- "To many fans of the work, it is this production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo which debuted at La Monnaie in Brussels in May of 1998 which offers a near-flawless symbiosis of music, text, and movement. Starring Trisha Brown and René Jacobs, this... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1992) Theatro La Scala / Renato Bruson / Mariella Devia / Vincenzo La Scola / conducted by Stefano Ranzani [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] "A powerfully dramatic and memorable La Scala production. Recommended." (MusicWeb) |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2012) Theâtre du Capitole, Toulouse / Torsten Kerl, Marika Schönberg, Daniela Sindram / Pinchas Steinberg (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] Championing love and personal heroism in the face of ecclesiastical oppression and political chicanery, Wagner's third opera explores characteristic themes with terrific energy which culminates in the eponymous Roman tribune's famous prayer to the... |
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Thin Lizzy
The Boys are Back in Town; Live at the Sydney Opera House October 1978 [ 3 CD/DVD - released 27/Oct/2011 ] The Boys are Back in Town; Live at the Sydney Opera House October 1978 Plus Phil Lynott 'Songs For While I'm Away' film |
POULENC
Dialogues des Carmélites (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Théâtre des Champs-Elysées / Patricia Petibon, Sophie Koch, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau / Jérémie Rhorer (cond) [ Warner Erato Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] "Patricia Petibon gives the performance of a lifetime as Blanche...[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." |
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Ulver
Live in Concert - The Norwegian National Opera [ Kscope / CD/DVD - released 10/May/2013 ] |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (complete opera recorded in 2002) Valeria Esposito, Aquiles Machado, Enrico Marrucci, Erwin Schrott / Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana / Niels Muus [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] Slowly the camera roams through the narrow streets of Macerata, past the cathedral, the monuments, the library and the university, until it reaches the Arena Sferisterio...The stage, which is 14.5 meters deep and 40 meters wide, is sufficiently large... |
VERDI
Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2004) Netherlands Opera / Rolando Villazón, Robert Lloyd, Amanda Roocroft / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/Jul/2011 ] "a fabulous summation of Chailly's qualities as a Verdi conductor… A wonderful piece of stagecraft" (The Guardian) |
ROSSINI
The Italian girl in Algiers (complete opera) Christianne Stotijn / Maxim Mironov / Marco Vinco / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ Bel Air Classique / DVD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] G : - Rossini's wonderful comic opera, written when he was only 21, to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, was first performed in Venice on May 22, 1813. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem (Opera Italiana) Kallen Esperian (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [ Kaleidoscope Film & DVD / Shock Entertainment Group / DVD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] Recorded in Naples Ponticelli Sports stadium, Luciano Pavarotti enthralled a live audience with his beautiful performance of Verdi's Requiem. The opera, which is one of Pavarotti's favourites, concludes with "Libera me Domine", a verse originally... |
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VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Violeta Urmana, Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick & Carlo Guelfi / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ Decca DVD / 2 DVD - released 28/Jul/2011 ] Verdi's epic drama of ancient Egypt comes to life in the Met's monumental production, captured here in a breathtaking Live in HD presentation. Violeta Urmana stars in the title role of the princess-turned-slave girl, opposite Johan Botha as her lover... |
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LEHAR
La Veuve Joyeuse [The Merry Widow] (Complete operetta sung in French recorded in 2006) Lyon Opera / Veronique Gens / Ivan Ludlow / Gordon Gietz / Magali Leger / Francois Le Roux / Alexandre Guerrero / David Lefort / Gerard Korsten (cond) [ Virgin Classics / DVD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] G: - It's crème Chantilly rather than Schlagobers as the greatest Viennese operetta of the 20th century goes back to its literary roots and is presented in French guise by the Opéra de Lyon. |
MONTEVERDI
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (complete opera) Vesselina Kasarova / Dietrich Henschel / Klaus-Michael Gruber / Giacomo Badoaro / Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2003 ] G :- "Fine vocal contributions and a typically purple score adorn this fresh production." (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2015) Vienna Opera / Jonas Kaufmann, Adrianne Pieczonka, Tomasz Konieczny, Hans-Peter König, Olga Bezsmertna / Franz Welser-Möst (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Jonas Kaufmann's gorgeously sung Florestan"(Financial Times) and Leonora - "triumphantly sung by Adrianne Pieczonka" (The Guardian/Observer) |
