Since you are interested in Wagner: Siegfried (complete opera recorded in Valencia, 2008) BLU-RAY, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walküre (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Bayreuth Festival / Johan Botha, Edith Haller, Linda Watson, Albert Dohmen / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "[Botha] is outstanding throughout as Siegmund...Dorst's production, and this filming of it, are at their best in the latter stages of Act 3 and the result is a powerful and affecting account of one of The Ring's greatest episodes" (Gramophone) |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: The Fairy Queen (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Dexter, Joseph Millson, Desmond Barrit, Desmond Barrit, Susannah Wise / William Christie, conductor [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2010 ] "Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether a riotously funny, ravishingly intelligent |
PUCCINI
La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2009) Teodor Ilincai / Hibla Gerzmava / Gabriele Viviani / Inna Dukach / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden / Andris Nelsons [ Opus Arte Blu-ray Royal Opera House Collection / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Gerzmava is clear in tone and clean in style, the Rodolfo (Teodor Ilincai) light and unforced but wanting richness. All act naturally and well, Jacques Imbrailo (the Schaunard) with panache." (Gramophone) |
WAGNER
Rienzi (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Torsten Kerl, Kate Aldrich, Camilla Nylund / Sebastian Lang-Lessing (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "…spectacularly thanks to brilliant pseudo-historic footage in the style of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films…The production is a knockout." The Sunday Times |