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add to cart $65.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks W. A. MOZART Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384 (complete opera recorded in 2015) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Matthews, Edgaras Montvidas, Tobias Kehrer / Robin Ticciati (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] "This [is] the most convincing dramaturgical presentation of the opera in recent times…Kehrer is magnificent as Osmin, Gunnell is lyrical and alert as Pedrillo, and Eriksmoen steers a delicate path between the amusing and the musically ravishing" BBC
add to cart $50.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks W. A. MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro [The marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2012) Glyndebourne Opera / Sally Matthews, Vito Priante, Audun Iversen, Lydia Teuscher, Isabel Leonard / Robin Ticciati (conductor) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 2 DVD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Priante is a superb Figaro, perfectly focused of voice and with great stage presence...Teuscher provides a perfectly idiomatic, light-voiced but intensely human Susanna...The OAE is on blistering form throughout...It is fitting that Glyndebourne's m
add to cart $55.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD STRAUSS Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Director Katharina Thoma sets Richard Strauss's comedy in a country house in the South Downs (a surrogate for Glyndebourne), immediately before and during the Second World War. Hofmannsthals' conceit - that a hapless young composer has to accept the...
add to cart $80.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL Handel Box Set: Rinaldo / Saul / Giulio Cesare (Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House, 2005-2015) Glyndebourne Opera / Sonia Prina, Anett Fritsch, Sarah Connolly, Danielle de Niese, Christopher Purves, Iestyn Davies / Orchestra of the Age of Enligh [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "Dantone conducts a strongly characterised performance founded on the alert playing of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment." (BBC Music on Rinaldo)
add to cart $55.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks HECTOR BERLIOZ Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017
add to cart $65.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks ROSSINI / W. A. MOZART / J. STRAUSS II Love, Passion & Deceit: Classic Opera productions from Glyndebourne [La Cenerentola, Cosi fan Tutte, Die Fledermaus] Glyndebourne Opera / Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Miah Persson, Ruxandra Donose, Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, etc [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2015 ] 'I had to search long and hard down memory lane to recall a Così that so vividly revealed both the pleasure and the overwhelming pain of this evermore disturbing masterpiece, and I failed.' Opera on Cosi
add to cart $115.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RACHMANINOV / BIZET / PUCCINI / VERDI / DONIZETTI / RACHMANINOV Glyndebourne: Comedy & Tragedy [Carmen / L'elisir d'amore / The Miserly Knight / Gianni Schicchi / Falstaff] Glynebourne Opera / Anne Sofie von Otter, Sergei Leiferkus, Ekaterina Siurina, Christopher Purves [ Opus Arte DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Five Classic Opera Productions from the Glyndebourne Festival (2002-2009)
add to cart $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GIUSEPPE VERDI Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in February 2006) Gran teatre del Liceu, Barcelona / Jose Cura / Kressimira Stoyanova / Lado Ataneli / Vittorio Grigolo / Anotoni Ros-Marba (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] G :- "…José Cura… sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona, not in the first flush of youth, but heartfelt and direct" (BBC Music)
add to cart $64.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks BIZET Carmen (complete opera recorded in 2011) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott, Marina Poplavskaya / Marc Piollet (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] This prestigious 2011 production from the Gran Teatre del Liceu was staged by the world famous and highly controversial stage director Calixto Bieito, admired for his raw and evocative stagings.
add to cart $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks ROSSINI La Gazzetta (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Cinzia Forte / Bruno Pratico / Charles Workman / Pietro Spagnoli / Maurizio Barbacini (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Jul/2006 ] G :- "A joyous version of one of Rossini's lesser known operas, well sung and acted, beautiful to look at and characterised by a riot of comic invention" (MusicWeb Sept 2006)
add to cart $90.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD WAGNER Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2008) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Günther Groissböck, Markus Eiche / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "Peter Seiffert sings powerfully and expressively as Tannhauser, and Petra Maria a bit too powerfully as Elisabeth. The orchestra, under Sebastian Weigle, gives a strong account of the score" BBC Music
add to cart $25.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks GAETANO DONIZETTI Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Rolando Villazon, Maria Bayo, Jean-Luc Chaignaud / Daniele Callegari (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism." (BBC Music)
add to cart $65.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks VINCENZO BELLINI Bellini: Norma (Complete opera recorded in 2015) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto / Renato Palumbo (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2016 ] "Renato Palumbo directs a straightforward reading of the score, and the orchestra play for him in their most Italianate manner. The chorus also sounds excellent. This probably now takes the lead as the finest version of Norma available on film" MWeb
add to cart $72.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina (complete opera recorded in 2007) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Vladimir Ognovenko / Vladimir Galouzine / Robert Brubaker / Michel Boder (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] G : - "The staging drifts into occasional dramatic lulls, but nevertheless provides a highly convincing exposition of this difficult but rewarding score. Mussorgsky's drama is an anomaly in the operatic canon, in that it is driven not by character,...
add to cart $63.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU Rameau: Dardanus (complete opera [1739] recorded in 2015) DVD + Blu-ray Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux / Reinoud Van Mechelen, Gaëlle Arquez, Karina Gauvin, Florian Sempey, Nahuel Di Pierro / Raphaël Pichon (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / 2 DVD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] This video was recorded live at performances of the original version of 'Dardanus' (1739) given at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in April 2015, in a production by Michel Fau and choreography by Christopher Williams. Raphaël Pichon, the Ensemble...
add to cart $90.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks WAGNER Tristan und Isolde (complete opera recorded in 2005) Grand Theatre de Geneve / Jeanne-Michele Charbonnet / Clifton Forbis / Mihoko Fujimura / Albert Dohmen /Alfred Reiter / Armin Jordan (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 12/Sep/2006 ] G :- "A bold gamble and an exemplary success.... An interpretation that is intelligent, superlatively musical and unfailingly sensitive." Le Monde
add to cart $63.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks JACQUES OFFENBACH Offenbach: La Belle Helène (complete operetta sung in French recorded in 2014) Hamburg State Opera / Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud, Rebecca Jo Loeb / Gerrit Priessnitz (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] Director Renaud Doucet and designer André Barbe treat the piece as a "great show" with numerous choreographic elements, relocating the action of Offenbach's classical spoof and setting it on a cruise ship in the 1960s
add to cart $65.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera) Hana Blažiková, Kangmin Justin Kim, Carlo Vistoli, Gianluca Buratto, Lucile Richardot / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardine [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "A crowning glory, you might say, to Gardiner's half century association with Monteverdi" (TheTimes Five Stars)
add to cart $45.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks JACQUES OFFENBACH Ritter Blaubart (complete operetta recorded on film in 1973) Hans Nocker, Anny Schlemm, Werner Enders, Ruth Schob-Lipka / Berlin Opera [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2012 ]
add to cart $37.00 Special Order 3 - 6 weeks RICHARD HEUBERGER Heuberger: Der Opernball (The Opera Ball) (complete Operetta Film, 1970. Sung in German) Helen Mané, Harald Serafin, Maria Tiboldi, Maurice Besançon, Tatjana Iwanow / Symphony Orchestra Kurt Graunke, Munich, Willy Mattes [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Richard Heuberger (1850-1914) was born into a well-to-do middle-class family from Graz. He trained initially as an engineer, but after studying for a degree in music, he was appointed director of the Vienna Singakademie. Heuberger created many...