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DONIZETTI / BELLINI
Bel Canto Operas: Lucrezia Borgia / I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Complete operas recorded 2011/12) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong, Joyce DiDonato, Nicole Cabell / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2016 ] "Fleming seems fired by the theatricality of a reviled female character who commands every dramatic situation she encounters...DeShong is a powerful vocal and dramatic presence as Orsini" (Gramophone) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (Complete opera recorded in 2012) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] This is the first EuroArts release in cooperation with the San Francisco Opera, internationally recognized as one of the top opera companies in the world Renée Fleming as "America's most-loved and most-lauded opera singer"(The Times, London)... |
RACHMANINOV
The Miserly Knight (complete opera) Sergei Leiferkus / Vladimir Jurowski / Annabel Arden / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladmir Jurowski [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Dec/2005 ] G :- '…an inspired piece of programming...Sergei Leiferkus was utterly compelling in the title role...he delivered an appropriately mean performance' - Opera |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 2007) Sferisterio Opera Festival / Laura Polverelli / Maria Pia Piscitelli / Giovanna Lanza / Riccardo Frizza (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "Mezzo-soprano Laura Polverelli... reveals impressive depths of dramatic vocal resource and a wide variety of tonal expression and colour, ideal in a good bel-cantist" (MusicWeb) |
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JOHANN STRAUSS
Strauss, (J): Der Zigeunerbaron [The Gipsy Baron] (complete operetta filmed in 1975) Siegfried Jerusalem, Ellen Shade, Ivan Rebroff, Martha Modl / Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart / Kurt Eichhorn [ Universal Classics / Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 7/Apr/2008 ] "Beautifully filmed on location in Hungary with a fine cast of singers, this production is a delight." (MusicWeb August 2008) |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies (complete musical comedy recorded in 2015) Opera Toulon / Graham Bickley, Liz Robertson, Charlotte Page, Marilyn Hill Smith, Julia Sutton / David Charles Abell (cond) [ BelAir Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "The choice of the soloists is of irreproachable quality. The Follies' production in Toulouse is shining with a thousand fires." MUSICALAVENUE.FR |
WAGNER
Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2014) Staatsoper Berlin / Peter Seiffert, Marina Prudenskaya, Ann Petersen, Peter Mattei, René Pape / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Dec/2015 ] A brand new production of 'Tannhäuser' from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some of today's best Wagnerian sin |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete opera recorded in 2021) Staatsoper Opera / Benjamin Bernheim, Olga Peretyatko, Angela Brower, Luca Pisaroni / Kent Nagano (con) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 25/Feb/2022 ] "Nagano sweeps it all along with sensuality and verve; the Hamburg orchestra is on colourful form and for a staging that is (essentially) a piece of glorious escapism, it leaves you with a surprising amount to ponder." Gramophone Magazine April 2022 |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Pericole (Complete Operetta recorded in 2022) Stephanie D'Oustrac, Philippe Talbot, Tassis Christoyannis, Eric Huchet / Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Julien Leroy [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] La Perricholi - in reality, Micaela Villegas - was Lima's leading theatrical l lady in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created... |
MARK ADAMO
Little Women (complete opera recorded in 2000) Stephanie Novacek / Joyce DiDonato / Chad Shelton / Stacey Tappan / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one." (BBC Music) |
AMBROISE THOMAS
Thomas: Hamlet (complete opera) Stéphane Degout, Sabine Devieilhe, Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo / Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Louis Langrée [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] International Classical Music Awards 2021 Winner - Video Performance |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, Catriona Smith, Enzo Capuano / Gabriele Ferro (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "The Stuttgart team...bluntly portray Amina's sleepwalking as a mental problem...Musical, we are in the safe but far from unexciting hands of Gabriele Ferro…As well as fielding a Caruso/Bjorling-like ability to crescendo on those high peaks, Durlovsk |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera filmed in 2003) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Daniela Dessi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Fabio Armiliato, Juan Pons / Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Juan Pons' Amonasro is a big-voiced portrayal by a big man with a big presence. He is quite simply superb, making his mark with every note he sings." (MusicWeb) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2009) Tatiana Serjan / Iano Tamar / Rubens Pelizzari / Iain Paterson / Tigran Martirossian / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] Recorded live from the Bregenz Festival, 22 and 24 July 2009. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Peter Grimes (complete opera recorded in 2012) Teatre alla Scala / John Graham-Hall, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves, Felicity Palmer / Robin Ticciati (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 31/Jul/2013 ] "Gritton's Ellen is remarkable...[Graham-Hall ] lives his role - earnest, lonely, impulsive, with a desperate desire for acceptance...Ticciati is in full control from the start" Gramophone DVD of the month July 2013 |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI / W. A. MOZART
Operas - Aida / I Due Foscari / Die Zauberflote / Le Nozze di Figaro / Die Entfuhrung] (complete operas recorded 2015 - 2019) Teatro alla Scala / Anita Rachvelishvili, George Gagnidze, Placido Domingo, Anna Pirozzi, Martin Summer, Yasmin Ozkan, Carlos Alvarez, Diana Damaru [ C Major DVD / 8 Blu-ray Box Set - released 20/Aug/2021 ] FIVE OUTSTANDING OPERAS FROM THE LEGENDARY TEATRO ALLA SCALA: ON BLU-RAY |
FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (complete opera) Teatro alla Scala / Giandrea Gavazzeni / Mirella Freni / Peter Dvorsky / Ivo Vinco [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 16/Dec/2004 ] G - Cilea's four-act opera of jealousy and tangled love, first performed in Milan in 1902, is based on the true-life story of Adriana Lecouvreur, an 18th-Century actress at the Comédie Française |
WAGNER
Götterdämmerung (complete opera recorded in 2013) Teatro alla Scala / Lance Ryan, Iréne Theorin, Mikhail Petrenko, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Gerd Grochowski, Waltraud Meier / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded March 2016) Teatro Carlo Felice / Mariella Devia, Sonia Ganassi, Stefan Pop, Mansoo Kim / Francesco Lanzillotta (conductor) [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] Recorded from the Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa, 20 and 24 March 2016 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermooor (complete opera recorded in 2003) Teatro Carlo Felice / Stefania Bonfadelli, Marcelo Alvarez, Roberto Frontali / Patrick Fournillier (cond) [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This DVD shows an impressive staging of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti filmed at the opera house in Genoa, directed by preeminent opera director Graham Vick, conducted by renowned opera conductor Patrick Fournillier. |
