Since you are interested in Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (complete opera recorded in 2010), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Falstaff (complete opera recorded in 2009) Glyndebourne Opera / Christopher Purves / Tassis Christoyannis / Dina Kuznetsova / Jennifer Holloway / Vladmir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "This Falstaff is immensely enjoyable and amongst the best that I have watched. I strongly recommend it whether you admire Verdi's last work or not..an amiable, pleasing production with an exceptionally fine cast" Recording of the Month MusicWeb Nov... |
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... |
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) |
JEAN PHILIPPE-RAMEAU
Rameau: Zoroastre (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Drottingholm Court Theatre / Anders J. Dahlin, Evgueniy Alexiev, Sine Bundgaard, Anna Maria Panzarella / Christophe Rousset (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "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 Music) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2006) The Royal Opera / Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley, Dorothea Roschmann / Antonio Pappano [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Sep/2008 ] "…so accomplished a cast, in which Gerald Finley's Count, Miah Persson's Susanna and Rinat Shaham's Cherubino stand out as ideal." (BBC Music) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (complete opera recorded live at the Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam in June 2006) Eva-Maria Westbroek / Christopher Ventris / Carole Wilson / Vladimir Vaneev / Lani Poulson / LudovAt Ludha / Alexandre Kravets / Mariss Jansons (con [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/Dec/2006 ] M - Contains nudity. -- "This is wonderful … so well performed on all counts that it makes an outstanding choice" (MusicWeb Dec 2006) |
PUCCINI
La Fanciulla del West [The Girl of the Golden West] (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Eva-Maria Westbroek / Lucio Gallo / Zoran Todorovich / Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi [ Opus Arte DVD / Blu-ray Disc - released 19/Dec/2010 ] "From her first entrance...Westbroek is captivating. She boasts the wonderfully meaty instrument required for Minnie (especially in the all-important middle voice), plus the right wholesome, strawberry-blonde appearance" (International Record Review) |
PUCCINI
La Fanciulla del West [The Girl of the Golden West] (complete opera recorded in 2009) Eva-Maria Westbroek / Lucio Gallo / Zoran Todorovich / Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera / Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Dec/2010 ] "From her first entrance...Westbroek is captivating. She boasts the wonderfully meaty instrument required for Minnie (especially in the all-important middle voice), plus the right wholesome, strawberry-blonde appearance." (International Record Review) |
WAGNER
Parsifal (complete opera recorded in 2004) BLU-RAY Festspielhaus, Baden- Baden / Christopher Ventris, Waltraud Meier, Matti Salminen / Kent Nagano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Put simply, it is interpretively, vocally, instrumentally, visually and audibly a most impressive performance of Wagner's final opera." (Classical Net) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (complete opera recorded live in 2008) Franz Hawlata / Klaus Florian Vogt / Michaela Kaune / Norbert Ernst / Bayreuther Festspiele / Sebastian Weigle [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] Ostensibly Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg tells a humorous tale about artistically inclined craftsmen. Goldsmith Veit Pogner promises his daughter Eva's hand in marriage to the winner of a song contest, to which three men are... |