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JANACEK
The Cunning Little Vixen (complete opera animated version) German Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano / Geoff Dunbar [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 4/Jul/2003 ] G : - A lavish animation of Janácek's well-loved classic featuring Sharp Ears, the loveable, flirtatious fox. The innovative animator Geoff Dunbar brings fresh life to this charming opera with its new sound track made in 2001 with the Deutsches... |
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Complete opera recorded in 2016) Glyndebourne Opera / Alessandro Corbelli, Danielle de Niese, Björn Bürger, Taylor Stayton / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Oct/2017 ] "High-flying American tenor Taylor Stayton proves vocally agile and dramatically vital as Count Almaviva, with Danielle de Niese an entrancing Rosina" BBC Music |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Complete opera recorded in August 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Alessandro Corbelli, Danielle de Niese, Nikolay Borchev, Alek Shrader / Enrique Mazzola (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2014 ] "There is plenty to enjoy in this production, with lots of original visual gags that delight the audience and work well in their context without at any time going too far. The performance is really something to cherish." (MusicWeb) |
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BRETT DEAN
Dean: Hamlet (Complete opera recorded in 2018) Glyndebourne Opera / Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 WINNER - Contemporary |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (complete opera) Glyndebourne Opera / David Portillo, Sofia Fomina, Björn Bürger, Brindley Sherratt / Ryan Wigglesworth [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/May/2020 ] Celebrated Canadian directing duo Barbe & Doucet make both their British and Glyndebourne debuts here with their new Die Zauberflöte, a veritable "theatrical feast of eccentricity." (The Guardian). |
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RAMEAU
Hippolyte et Aricie (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Ed Lyon, Christiane Karg, Sarah Connolly / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "if you don't grin and giggle you should check your pulse...But the performers hold wonderfully steady. Sarah Connolly's Phaedra throbs with the bottled desire and vulnerability expected of a queen in love with her stepson...Christie lavishes his lov |
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DONIZETTI
L'Elisir D'Amore / Don Pasquale (Complete operas recorded in 2009 & 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Ekaterina Siurina, Peter Auty, Alessandro Corbelli, Danielle de Niese / Maurizio Benini, Enrique Mazzola (Conductors) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] From fake potions and feigned emotions to the follies of youth and the vulnerability of age, this special set brings together two of Donizetti's greatest comedies, L'elisir d'amore and Don Pasquale, charming works packed with musical wit and in which... |
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STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BIZET / WAGNER / PUCCINI / BRITTEN / etc
Glorious Glyndebourne: (excerpts from various operas recorded at Glyndebourne) Glyndebourne Opera / Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Rose, Anne Sofie von Otter, Danielle de Niese, John Mark Ainsley, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2014 ] "The combination of Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ensures crisp ensemble of the highest quality." (Gramophone on 'The Rake's Progress) |
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STRAVINSKY
The Rake's Progress (Complete opera recorded in 2010) Glyndebourne Opera / Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Matthew Rose / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "The combination of Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra ensures crisp ensemble of the highest quality." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded in 2007) Glyndebourne Opera / Nina Stemme / Robert Gambill / Katarina Karneus / Bo Skovhus / Jiri Belohlavek [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "A performance realised to Glyndebourne's highest standards - the chorus and stage brass are Bayreuth-level, the casting immaculate." (Gramophone) |
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PURCELL
The Fairy Queen (complete opera recorded in 2009) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Dexter, Joseph Millson, Desmond Barrit, Desmond Barrit, Lucy Crowe / William Christie, conductor [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] Gramophone Awards 2010: WINNER DVD Performance - "There are too many highlights to mention in this varied and infinitely delightful entertainment. Glyndebourne has a triumph on its hands." The Stage |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Glyndebourne Box - Mozart: Così fan tutte / Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Le nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Matthews, Edgaras Montvidas, Tobias Kehrer, Mari Eriksmoen, Miah Persson, Anke Vondung, Ainhoa Garmendia [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 23/Feb/2018 ] These three facets in the prism of Mozart's operatic genius shine in Glyndebourne's typically thought-provoking productions, featuring skilled singer-actors buoyed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's luminous period sound. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (complete opera recorded in 2015) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Matthews, Edgaras Montvidas, Tobias Kehrer / Robin Ticciati (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] "This [is] the most convincing dramaturgical presentation of the opera in recent times…Kehrer is magnificent as Osmin, Gunnell is lyrical and alert as Pedrillo, and Eriksmoen steers a delicate path between the amusing and the musically ravishing" BBC |
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W. A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2012) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Matthews, Vito Priante, Audun Iversen, Lydia Teuscher, Isabel Leonard / Robin Ticciati (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Priante is a superb Figaro, perfectly focused of voice and with great stage presence...Teuscher provides a perfectly idiomatic, light-voiced but intensely human Susanna...The OAE is on blistering form throughout...It is fitting that Glyndebourne's m |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the... |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Box Set: Rinaldo / Saul / Giulio Cesare (Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House, 2005-2015) Glyndebourne Opera / Sonia Prina, Anett Fritsch, Sarah Connolly, Danielle de Niese, Christopher Purves, Iestyn Davies / Orchestra of the Age of Enligh [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "Dantone conducts a strongly characterised performance founded on the alert playing of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment." (BBC Music on Rinaldo) |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017 |
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ROSSINI / W. A. MOZART / J. STRAUSS II
Love, Passion & Deceit: Classic Opera productions from Glyndebourne [La Cenerentola, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Fledermaus] Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Ruxandra Donose, Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, etc [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera on Cosi |
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RACHMANINOV / BIZET / PUCCINI / VERDI / DONIZETTI / RACHMANINOV
Glyndebourne: Comedy & Tragedy [Carmen / L'elisir d'amore / The Miserly Knight / Gianni Schicchi / Falstaff] Glynebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Sergei Leiferkus, Ekaterina Siurina, Christopher Purves [ Opus Arte DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Five Classic Opera Productions from the Glyndebourne Festival (2002-2009) |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in February 2006) Gran teatre del Liceu, Barcelona / Jose Cura / Kressimira Stoyanova / Lado Ataneli / Vittorio Grigolo / Anotoni Ros-Marba (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] G :- "…José Cura… sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona, not in the first flush of youth, but heartfelt and direct" (BBC Music) |