Since you are interested in L'Amour des 3 Oranges [Love for Three Oranges] (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Ravenna Festival / Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell & Laura Giordano / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ] Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the young Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Gaetano Donizetti is. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Sarah Connolly / Angelika Kirchschlager / Danielle de Niese / Christophe Dumaux / Christopher Maltman / William Christie (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2009 ] G - "The sense of teamwork all round is confirmed in the interviews included in the extras. Robin Lough's DVD direction is faultless." (Gramophoen Classical Music Guide) |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko / Eduardo Valdes / Maria Zifchak / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Looking as graceful as a gazelle and singing as sweetly as a bell struck with a surprising outburst of coloratura, Anna Netrebko sang in I Puritani for the first time at the MET" (The New York Post) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Berlin Concert - Live from the 'Waldbuhne' (complete concert) BLU-RAY Placido Domingo / Anna Netrebko / Rolando Villazon / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Marco Armiliato [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The vocalism consistently stood out as superior...Domingo at 65 remains a phenomenon...His junior colleagues never lapsed vocally below their wonted high levels" (MusicalAmerica.com) |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Angelika Kirchschlager / Diana Damrau / Elizabeth Connell / Thomas Allen / Colin Davis, conductor [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Diana Damrau, a plain-Jane Gretel with awkward pigtails, gets along famously with her brother, dancing, playing, being huffy. They work well off one another and their voices blend beautifully. The Sandman and Dew Fairy are lovely." 10/10 ClassicsTod |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) (complete opera recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Simon Keenlyside / Dorothea Roschmann / Will Hartmann / Diana Damarau / Franz-Josef Selig / Sir Colin Davis (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "Diana Damrau's supremely sung Queen of the Night oozes class, while Simon Keenlyside's profoundly human, touchingly sympathetic view of Papageno deserves an Olivier Award." (Classic FM) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Here is a Figaro to put with the 1973 Glyndebourne production placed among the top five operatic DVDs. Figaro and Susanna are very much the centre here, and we like them not only because they sing and act well but because they are sympathetic in a... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Theatre Musical de Paris / Yannis Kokkos, Susan Graham, Gregory Kunde / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The magnificent high-definition recording does it ample sonic and visual justice. For anyone who loves Les Troyens, this is a revelatory and essential performance." (The Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
STRAVINSKY / FAURE / TCHAIKOVSKY
Jewels [ballet by George Balanchine] (recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Ballet de L'Opera National de Paris / Aurelie Dupont, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Agnes Letestu, Clairemarie Osta [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 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... |
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) |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong / Thomas Allen / Ragnar Ulfung / Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Vladimir Jurowski gives the bottle a good shake before popping his first cork with the overture. The London Philharmonic are on their toes… The pace is racy, the articulation brilliant, the Viennesisms deftly in place, the waltz fruity... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Swan Lake (Complete ballet recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Paris Opera Ballet / Agnes Letestu / Jose Martinez / Karl Paquette / Vello Pahn (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - "Nureyev has adjusted the already-impressive lines of swans in the older version into spectacular geometric shapes. There seem to be more swans than any production of the ballet I had previously seen." (Four Stars AudAud.com) |
PUCCINI
La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Inva Mula / Aquiles Machado / Laura Giordano / Fabio Maria Capitanucci / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Centre-stage is Inva Mula's appealing, vulnerable and intensely sung Mimì…She sings with finely shaped and expressive phrasing.' Gramophone |