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add to cart $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GIOCOMO PUCCINI Puccini: Madama Butterfly (complete opera) Amsterdam Muziekther / Cheryl Barker, Martin Thompson, etc. / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Edo de Waart (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Oct/2005 ] G :- "A superb DVD that now becomes my top recommendation for this opera on DVD. The production is top-notch, and the orchestral contribution the strongest I have yet to hear" (MusicWeb Jan 2006)
add to cart $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RAMEAU Zoroastre (complete opera recorded at the Drottningholm Court Theatre, 2006) Anders J. Dahlin / Sine Bundgaard / Anna Maria Panzarella / Ditte Andersen / Christophe Rousset (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/Jun/2007 ] G - "Christophe Rousset and his forces deliver an excellently paced reading and much of the singing is perfectly judged. Pierre Audi's production, while it moves the cast around efficiently enough, is at times obscure in its use of gesture…" (BBC...
add to cart $108.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks VERDI / WAGNER / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / STRAUSS / ROSSINI / BIZET Gala Concerts: A Verdi Gala From Berlin / Gala Concert from the Vienna State Opera / Great Stars in Opera [4 DVD set] Andrea Rost, Ramon Vargas, Alan Titus, Agnes Baltsa, Placido Domingo, Neil Shicoff / Various orchestras & conductors [ EuroArts DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] The greatest names in opera take to the stage for these galas from three musical centres that have come to stand as symbols of rebirth - Vienna, Berlin and Dresden.
add to cart $81.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD STRAUSS Salome (complete opera recorded in 2011) Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Angela Denoke, Kim Begley, Doris Soffel / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor), etc [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] This highly acclaimed production of Strauss' Salome from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is staged by German director Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Starring Angela Denoke as "a brilliant Salome" (FAZ), who is joined by a great ensemble of soloists, Kim Begley,...
add to cart $30.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GIACOMO PUCCINI Puccini: La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Lisette Oropesa / Marco Armiliato (cond) [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "I have never heard Alagna sing better, and Gheorghiu is at her sumptuous best. There are comparably beautiful performances by the younger couple, Marius Brenciu and Lisette Oropesa" New York Daily News
add to cart $64.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks FRANCESCO CAVALLI Cavalli: La Didone (complete opera recorded in 2011) Anna Bonitatibus, Kresimir Spicer, Xavier Sabata, Maria Streijffert / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (cond.) & Clément Hervieu-Léger (dir.) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "This live French performance is a real beauty. Virtually anything William Christie touches these days is, and the cast he has assembled is second to none with Anna Bonitatibus simply stunning in the title role." (AudAud.com)
add to cart $55.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GAETANO DONIZETTI DonizettI: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien / Marco Armiliato (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "Director Mary Zimmerman's…offers a Victorian gloss on the drama… which adds a fresh and fascinating resonance. This is reinforced by the filming, often steeply angled from front stage, and enjoys uncommonly strong choral and orchestral support." BBC
add to cart $40.00 Special Order 3 - 6 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 Special Order 3 - 6 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 Special Order 3 - 6 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 Special Order 3 - 6 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 Special Order 3 - 6 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 $64.00 Special Order 3 - 6 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 $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 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 Special Order 3 - 6 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 $75.00 Special Order 3 - 6 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 $64.00 Special Order 3 - 6 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...
add to cart $60.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Gotterdammerung (Complete Opera recorded in 1982) Bayreuther Festspiele / Peter Hofmann, Karan Armstrong, Elizabeth Connell, Leif Roar, Siegfried Vogel / Woldemar Nelsson (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] DVD re-release of the 1982 exclusive recording of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin from the Bayreuth Festival, a masterful interpretation from the source of Wagnerian culture itself. Richard Wagner's three-act opera, an exquisitely lyrical piece,...
add to cart $90.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Tannhäuser (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Bayreuther Festspiele / Torsten Kerl, Camilla Nylund, Markus Eiche, Michelle Breedt / Axel Kobe (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] "Camilla Nylund's Elisabeth has a range of novel emotions to convey, including humour and sexual interest...Question marks begin with the staging" Gramophone
add to cart $45.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks R. STRAUSS / WAGNER Waldbühne: A Romantic Opera Night (recorded live in 1999) Ben Heppner (tenor) / Berliner Philharmoniker / James Levine [ ArtHaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Conducted by the celebrated James Levine, the 1999 Waldbühne concert for the Berlin Philharmonic features music by Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. The orchestra is joined by the accomplished Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, who is renowned for his...