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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Complete opera recorded in 1994) Deneder Landse Opera / Cynthia Haymon / Brigitte Balleys / Michael Chance / Christophe Rousset (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Jan/2006 ] G :- Monteverdi's timeless masterpiece, which creates a modern, deep involvement in performers and audiences alike, is brilliantly captured in this High Definition live recording of Pierre Audi's moving and beautifully styled production from Het... |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi Cycle: L'incoronazione di Poppea / L'Orfeo / Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, Il Combattimento (Complete operas) Deneder Landse Opera / Cynthia Haymon, Brigitte Balleys, Michael Chance, John Mark Ainsley, Juanita Lascarro, Christopher Gillett, Lorna Anderson, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2016 ] Each opera has an insightful introduction, directed by Roeland Hazendonk, featuring interviews with Pierre Audi, the musical director and members of the cast....."…strikingly staged, beautifully sung…" New York Times |
FRANZ SCHREKER
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber (complete opera recorded in 2022) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Elisabet Strid, Daniel Johansson, Michael Laurenz, Thomas Johannes Mayer / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2023 ] Franz Schreker's career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame with his operas, and the huge success of Der Schatzgräber ('The Treasure Hunter') in the 1920s was the high point of his career. |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) Oper Graz / Dshamilja Kaiser, Nadja Stefanoff, Will Hartmann, Markus Butter / Roland Kluttig(cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Mieczysław Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel. |
RICCARDO ZANDONAI
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (complete opera recorded in 2021) Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sara Jakubiak, Jonathan Telelman, Ivan Inverardi / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] "The whole thing is, I think, a great achievement. Do watch it." Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2022 |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (Complete opera) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester / Kent Nagano / Nikolaus Lehnhoff / Christopher Ventris / Waltraud Meier [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- "If you love Wagner, you'll want this splendid recording. Highest recommendations!" (ClassicalNet Aug 2005) |
LAURO ROSSI
Rossi: Cleopatra (complete opera recorded in 2008) Dimitra Theodossiou / Alessandro Liberatore / Paolo Pecchioli / Sebastian Catana / Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, David Crescenzi [ Naxos Opera DVD / DVD - released 27/Oct/2010 ] From the brooding opening scene in which Diomedes foretells the fall of Egypt to Cleopatra's death scene, this gripping grand opera by one of Italy's forgotten masters springs vividly to life in this revival filmed at the 2008 Macerata Sferisterio... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 2002) Dorothea Roschmann / Werner Gura / Hanno Muller-Brachmann / Katharina Kammerloher / Berlin State Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim [ Euroarts DVD / DVD - released 15/Jun/2010 ] "Outstanding Dorothea Röschmann as Fiordiligi […]" Neue Züricher Zeitung, 2001 |
LEO DELIBES
Delibes: Coppelia (Complete ballet recorded at the Palais Garnier March 2011) Dorothee Gilbert (Swanilda) / Mathias Heymann (Frantz) / José Martinez (Coppélius) / Paris Opera Corps de Ballet & Orchestre Colonne [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "On this DVD, excellent performances are provided by the quartet of principal dancers. The corps de ballet contributes delightfully in well-lit pools of light. Their routines are traditional and much as we would expect." (MusicWeb Feb 2012) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 2008) Dresden Opera / Zeljko Lucic, Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Florez, Georg Zeppenfeld / Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Musically, the show is spectacular...Juan Diego Flórez is wonderfully sure of himself in every way...[Damrau] is no soubrette; the voice has body and power, her breath control is superb" (International record Review) |
STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ] Stefano Landi wrote the operas La morte d'Orfeo (1619) and Il Sant'Alessio (1632), as well as masses, psalms, madrigals and arias. He was maestro di cappella in Padua and Rome, and later a singer in the Sistine Chapel. |
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ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Konigskinder [The King's Children] (complete opera recorded in 2022) Dutch National Opera / Daniel Behle, Olga Kulchynska, Josef Wagner, Doris Soffel / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Hänsel und Gretel brought Humperdinck worldwide fame but his tragic fairy storybrought Humperdinck worldwide fame but his tragic fairy story KönigskinderKönigskinder ('The King's Children') offers a stark contrast to it and has only begun to be... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2022) Dutch National Opera / Malin Byström, Joshua Guerrero, Gevorg Hakobyan / Lorenzo Viotti (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters' Christian faith is clearly a personal defence against the horror of the tyranny under which they live." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2023 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (complete opera recorded in 2014) Dutch National Opera / Maximilian Schmitt, Christina Landshamer, Thomas Oliemans, Brindley Sherratt, Íride Martínez / Marc Albrecht (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2015 ] "It is sparkily conducted in light, historically aware tempi by Marc Albrecht, and acted and sung as a tightly worked ensemble piece....Subtle touches ease what we now find chauvinist and racist in the original...Ingenious. Recommended." (Gramophone) |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (complete opera recorded in 2017) Dutch National Opera / Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov / Mariss Jansons (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "Musically, standards are extremely high, led by Mariss Jansons's inspired presence in the pit...Aksenova sings a steely Lisa...Diadkova is remarkable as the Countess - singing rather than growling her role." Gramophone |
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (complete opera filmed in 1981) Edita Gruberova, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Prey, Helga Dernesch, Sena Jurinac, Norma Burrowes / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 14/Nov/2005 ] This production, filmed in 1981, is released on DVD for the first time. |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys (complete opera recorded in 2011) Emmanuelle de Negri, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Bernard Richter / Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] "..the stage picture is consistently opulent, with even Atys and Sangaride dressed ornately, at least until the shattering final act." New York Times |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Rape of Lucretia (complete opera recorded in 2001) English National Opera / Sarah Connolly, Christopher Maltman, Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Paul Daniel (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] Sarah Connolly's 'outstanding' (The Guardian) portrayal of the wronged Roman noblewoman, written originally for Kathleen Ferrier, lies at the heart of David McVicar's powerfully stark production for English National Opera as 'an everyday sort of... |
CIMAROSA
Il Matrimonio Segreto (Complete Opera) Enrico Fissore / Valeria Baiano / Carmen Gonzalez / Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana / Francis Travis [ OPUS ARTE / FAVEO DVD / DVD ] G :- 'The greatest compliment for this production, both musically and visually, is that three hours was too short…' Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland |
ROSSINI
La Scala di Seta (complete opera) Ernesto Palacio / Robert Coviello / Tiziana Tramonti / Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana / Marc Andreae (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 10/May/2007 ] G :- All Regions - Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - PCM Stereo - Colour - NTSC - 103 minutes |
