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April 2012
Bizet: CARMEN
Cilea: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR
Delibes: LAKMÉ
Delibes: LAKMÉ [BLU-RAY]
Lehár: ZIGEUNERLIEBE - Janet Perry, Jon Buzea, Adolf Dallapozza, Colette Lorand, Heinz Friedrich, Kurt Grosskurth, Helmut Wallner, Marianne Becker, Gaby Banschebach, Angelika Schütz; Václav Kaslík; Heinz Wallberg, Film, 1974 (Arthaus Musik) Watch TRAILER
Monteverdi: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA - Danielle De Niese, Philippe Jaroussky, Anna Bonitatibus, Max Emanuel Cencic, Ana Quintans, Antonio Abete, José Lemos, Robert Burt, Claire Debono, Katherine Watson, Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Suzana Ograjensek, Mathias Vidal, Andreas Wolf, Damian Whiteley; Pier Luigi Pizzi; William Christie, Teatro Real Madrid, 2010 (Virgin Classics) Watch CLIP
Rossini: LE COMTE ORY
Sciarrino: LUCI MIE TRADITRICI
Strauss, R. : ELEKTRA
Strauss, R. : ELEKTRA [BLU-RAY]
Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN
Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN [BLU-RAY]
Verdi: DON CARLOS
Verdi: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Verdi: LA TRAVIATA - Natalie Dessay, Charles Castronovo, Ludovic Tézier, Adelina Scarabelli, Silvia de la Muela, Manuel Nuñez Camelino, Kostas Smoriginas, Andrea Mastroni, Maurizio Lo Piccolo; Jean-François Sivadier; Louis Langrée, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 2011 (Virgin Classics) Watch TRAILER
Wagner: PARSIFAL
May 2012
Bizet: CARMEN [BLU-RAY]
Cavalli: IL GIASONE
Cilea: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR [BLU-RAY] - Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina, Alessandro Corbelli, Maurizio Muraro, Bonaventura Bottone, Iain Paton, David Soar, Janis Kelly, Sarah Castle; David McVicar; Mark Elder, Royal Opera House, 2010 (Decca) Watch TRAILER
Cimarosa: DIE HEIMLICHE EHE
Donizetti: LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX
Janácek: THE MAKROPULOS CASE
Janácek: THE MAKROPULOS CASE [BLU-RAY]
Lehár: DER GRAF VON LUXEMBURG
Massenet: CENDRILLON - Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Eglise Gutiérrez; Laurent Pelly; Bertrand de Billy, Royal Opera House, 2011 (Virgin Classics) Watch TRAILER
Massenet: DON QUICHOTTE
Monteverdi: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
Monteverdi: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA [BLU-RAY]
Strauss, R. : DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN
Strauss, R. : DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN [BLU-RAY]
Verdi: AIDA June 2012 Cavalli: IL GIASONE [BLU-RAY] - Christophe Dumaux, Katarina Bradic, Robin Johannsen, Josef Wagner, Filippo Adami, Yaniv d'Or, Angélique Noldus, Andrew Ashwin; Mariame Clément; Federico Maria Sardelli, Vlaamse Opera, 2010 (Dynamic) Cherubini: KOUKOURGI - Daniel Prohaska, Çigdem Soyarslan, Johannes Chum, Daniel Belcher, Peter Edelmann, Leonardo Galeazzi, Stefan Cerny; Josef E. Köpplinger; Peter Marschik, Klagenfurt Stadttheater, 2010 (Arthaus Musik) Falla: LA VIDA BREVE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Jorge de León, María Luisa Corbacho, Felipe Bou, Antonio Lozano, Sandra Ferrández, Issac Galan, Esperanza Fernández, Juan Carlos Gómez Pastor; Giancarlo Del Monaco; Lorin Maazel, Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 2010 (C Major)
Graun: MONTEZUMA - Alexandra Papadjiakou, Sophie Boulin, Gudrun Sieber, Catherine Gayer, Barbara Vogel, Walton Grönroos, Karl-Ernst Mercker; Herbert Wernicke; Hans Hilsdorf, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1982 (Arthaus Musik) Heuberger: DER OPERNBALL - Helen Mané, Maria Tiboldi, Tatjana Iwanow, Christiane Schröder, Harald Serafin, Maurice Besançon, Heinz Erhardt; Eugen York; Willy Mattes, Film, 1970 (Arthaus Musik) Mozart: DON GIOVANNI [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Conal Coad, Rachelle Durkin, Daniel Sumegi, Henry Choo, Jacqueline Dark, Taryn Fiebig, Andrew Jones; Göran Järvefelt; Mark Wigglesworth, Opera Australia, 2011 (Opera Australia) Wagner: LOHENGRIN - Plácido Domingo, Cheryl Studer, Robert Lloyd, Dunja Vejzovic, Hartmut Welker, Georg Tichy, Bojidar Nikolov, Franz Kasemann, Claudio Otelli, Peter Köves; Wolfgang Weber; Claudio Abbado, Vienna State Opera, 1990 (Arthaus Musik) [Previously released on DVD in 2001 by Image] Future and Expected Releases (U.S. Release Dates Pending)
Andriessen: LA COMMEDIA - Cristina Zavalloni, Claron McFadden, Jeroen Willems; Hal Hartley, Amsterdam, 2008
Berg: WOZZECK - Georg Nigl, Mardi Byers, Roman Muravitsky, Roman Shulakov, Maxim Paster, Pyotr Migunov, Xenia Vyaznikova, Valery Gilmanvov, Nikolai Kazansky, Leonid Vilensky, Alexandre Nespovity; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Teodor Currentzis, Bolshoi Opera, 2010
Braunfels: SZENEN AUS DEM LEBEN DER HEILIGEN JOHANNA - Mary Mills, Lenus Carlson, Paul McNamara, Daniel Kirsch, Morten Frank Larsen, Thomas Blondelle, Anna Schoeck, Julia Benzinger, Nathan De'Shon Myers, Peter Maus, Simon Pauly, Ante Jerkunica, Paul Kaufmann, Jörg Schörner, Markus Brück, Katarina Bradic, Clemens Bieber, Laura Borgwardt, Karin Witt, Marcos Abranches; Christoph Schlingensief; Ulf Schirmer, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2008 (Arthaus Musik) Watch TRAILER
Britten: DEATH IN VENICE - Hans-Jürgen Schöpflin, Gary Martin, Yossemeh Adjei, Michael Langner; Immo Karaman; David Stahl, Gärtnerplatz State Theater, Munich, 2009 Watch TRAILER
Catalani: LA WALLY - Zuzana Dunajčanová, Stefanna Kybalova, Yannick-Muriel Noah, Mikael Babajanyan, Valter Borin, Torsten Frisch, Kristof Klorek; Reto Nickler; Peter Marschik, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, 2008
Chabrier: L'ÉTOILE - Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Jean-Luc Viala, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Christophe Gay, Blandine Staskiewicz, François Polino, Jean-Marc Bihour, Philippe Leygnac, Patrice Thibaud; Jérôme Deschamps/Macha Makeïeff; John Eliot Gardiner, Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique, Paris, 2007 (FRA Musica)
Cilea: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR - Marcella Pobbe, Nicola Filacurdi, Fedora Barbieri, Otello Borgonovo, Carlo Badioli, Eraldo Coda, Edda Vincenzi, Sandra Ballinari, Miti Truccato Pace, Gino Del Signore, Walter Artioli; Alfredo Simonetto, RAI Film, 1955
Donizetti: IL CAMPANELLO - Roberto De Candia, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Stefania Donzelli, Elena Brescia, Martino D'Amico; Mauro Avogadro; Matteo Beltrami, Teatro della Fortuna, Fano, 2010 (Bongiovanni)
Donizetti: POLIUTO - Gregory Kunde, Paoletta Marrocu, Simone Del Savio, Andrea Papi, Massimiliano Chiarolla, Dionigi D'Ostuni; Marco Spada; Marcello Rota, Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2010 (Bongiovanni)
Gluck: ORFEO ED EURIDICE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Anita Rachvelishvili, Maite Alberola, Auxiliadora Toledano; Carlus Padrissa/La Fura dels Baus; Gordan Nikolic, Festival Castell de Peralada, 2011 (C Major) Watch TRAILER
Gounod: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Stefano Secco, Nino Machaidze, Giorgio Giuseppini, Artur Rucinski, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Manrico Signorini, Cristina Melis, Jean François Borras, Paolo Antognetti, Nicolo Ceriani, Gianpiero Ruggeri, Deyan Vatchkov; Francesco Micheli; Fabio Mastrangelo, Arena di Verona, 2011 (BelAir Classiques)
Guinjoan: GAUDÍ - Robert Bork, Vicente Ombuena, Elisabete Matos, Francisco Vas, Stefano Palatchi; Manuel Huerga; Josep Pons, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2004
Handel: AGRIPPINA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Hiroshi Matsui, Susanne Geb, Judith Braun, Elizabeth Wiles, David Cordier, Markus Jaursch, Steve Wächter, Guido Baehr; Peter Lund; Konrad Junghänel; Saarländisches Staatstheater, 2008
Handel: RINALDO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Sonia Prina, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Tim Mead, Anett, Brenda Rae, Luca Pisaroni, William Towers; Robert Carsen; Ottavio Dantone, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2011
Handel: RODELINDA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Danielle de Niese, Bejun Mehta, Kurt Streit, Konstantin Wolff, Malena Ernman, Matthias Rexroth; Phillipp Harnoncourt; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Theater an der Wien [Cast subject to change - To be recorded March 2011]
Handel: IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Judith Gauthier, Ezgi Kutlu, Marina Prudenskaja, Charles Workman; Calixto Bieito; Sébastien Rouland, Stuttgart State Opera [Dramatized staging of the oratorio][Cast subject to change - To be recorded May 2011]
Humperdinck: HÄNSEL UND GRETEL - Klaus Kuttler, Romelia Lichtenstein, Susanne Kreusch, Bernarda Bobro, Irmgard Vilsmaier; Michael Sturminger; Martin Haselböck, Festival Reinsberg, 2009
Humperdinck: KÖNIGSKINDER - Jonas Kaufmann, Isabel Rey, Oliver Widmer, Liliana Nikiteanu; Jens-Daniel Herzog; Ingo Metzmacher, Opernhaus Zürich, 2010 (Decca)
Janácek: JENUFA - Hildegard Hillebrecht, Astrid Varnay, William Cochran, Jean Cox, Lilian Benningsen; Rafael Kubelík, Munich, 1970 (Sung in German) (Deutsche Grammophon)
Kienzl: DER EVANGELIMANN - Walter Fink, Alexandra Reinprecht, Janina Baechle, Wolfgang Koch, Jürgen Müller, Wolfgang Gratschmaier, Josef Luftensteiner, Daniel Behle, Josef Forstner, Sulie Girardi, Lidia Peski, Markus Raab; Josef Ernst Köpplinger, Alfred Eschwé, Vienna Volksoper, 2005 (Capriccio)
Ligeti: LE GRAND MACABRE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Werner Van Mechelen, Chris Merritt, Ana Puche, Inés Moraleda, Frode Olsen, Barbara Hannigan, Ning Liang, Brian Asawa, Martin Winkler, Francisco Vas; Alex Ollé/La Fura dels Baus; Michael Boder, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2011 (C Major)
Mernier: FRÜHLINGS ERWACHEN - Kerstin Avemo, Thomas Blondelle, Nikolay Borchev, Gaëlle Le Roi; Jonas Alber, Brussels, 2007 (Cypres) Watch CLIP
Mozart: BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE - Michael Slattery, Elizabeth Calleo, Martin Winkler; Dominique Boivin; Laurence Equilbey, Opéra de Rouen, 2007 (Naïve) (Sung in German, performed under the title Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne)
Mozart: LA CLEMENZA DI TITO [BLU-RAY] - Christoph Prégardien, Susan Graham, Catherine Naglestad, Hannah Esther Minutillo, Ekaterina Siurina, Roland Bracht; Ursel Herrmann/Karl-Ernst Herrmann; Sylvain Cambreling, Opéra National de Paris - Palais Garnier (Opus Arte) [Released on DVD: Feb. 2006]
Mozart: DON GIOVANNI - Marc Callahan, Sara Hershkowitz, Chantal Santon, Marc Labonnette, Arthur Espiritu, Caroline Meng, Pierrick Boisseau, Frédéric Bourreau; Yoshi Oïda; David Stern, Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 2009 (Alpha)
Mozart: MOZART-DA PONTE OPERA BOX - Così Fan Tutte, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni from De Nederlandse Opera. Directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, Amsterdam, 2006 (Opus Arte) Watch CLIP
Prokofiev: THE GAMBLER [BLU-RAY] - Vladimir Ognovenko, Kristine Opolais, Misha Didyk, Stefania Toczyska, Stephan Rügamer, Silvia de la Muela, Viktor Rud, Gianluca Pasolini, Alessandro Paliaga; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Daniel Barenboim, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 2008
Puccini: LA BOHÈME - Mary Lincoln, Graham Mackay-Bruce, Darryl Knock, Tim Bruce, Ian K. Jervis; Tony Britten, Film (Sung in English) (Signum)
Puccini: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo, Michael Forest, Richard Bernstein, Adam Laurence Herskowitz, David Crawford, Trevor Scheunemann, Dwayne Croft, Hugo Vera, Edward Parks, Tony Stevenson, Oren Gradus, Keith Miller, Edward Mout, Jeffrey Mattsey, Philip Cokorinos, Ginger Costa-Jackson; Giancarlo del Monaco; Nicola Luisotti, Metropolitan Opera, 2011 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Puccini: MADAMA BUTTERFLY - Elmira Veda, Carlo Barricelli, Annamaria Popescu, Luca Salsi, Sally Wilson, Emanuele Giannino, Manrico Signorini, Giovanni Guagliardo; Stefano Vizioli; Laurence Gilgore, Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, 2007 (Dynamic) [Blu-ray released March 2012]
Puccini: TOSCA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Claudio Sgura, Nikolay Bikov; Renzo Giacchieri; Marco Boemi, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, 2010 (Arthaus Musik) Watch TRAILER
Puccini: IL TRITTICO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Eva-Maria Westbroek, Lucio Gallo, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ermonela Jaho, Anna Larsson, Irina Mishura, Ekaterina Siurina, Francesco Demuro; Richard Jones; Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, 2011 (Opus Arte)
Rameau: PYGMALION - Ed Lyon, Sophie Karthäuser, Emmanuelle De Negri, Karolina Blixt; Trisha Brown; William Christie, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 2010 [Preceded by a selection of highlights from Rameau's HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE in this production]
Rossini: ADELAIDE DI BORGOGNA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Daniela Barcellona, Jessica Pratt, Nicola Ulivieri, Bogdan Mihai, Jeannette Fischer, Francesca Pierpaoli, Clemente Antonio Daliotti; Pier'Alli; Dmitri Jurowski, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro (C Major) Watch TRAILER
Rossini: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA - Rolando Panerai, Antonietta Pastori, Nicola Monti, Marcello Cortis, Franco Calabrese, Eraldo Coda, Fernanda Cadoni; Franco Enriquez; Carlo Maria Giulini, RAI Film, 1954
Rossini: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA - Peter Mattei, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, John Del Carlo, John Relyea, Claudia Waite, Brian Davis, Mark Schowalter, Rob Besserer; Bartlett Sher; Maurizio Benini, Metropolitan Opera, 2007
Rossini: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Luca Salsi, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Dmitry Korchak, Bruno Praticò, Giovanni Furlanetto; Stefano Vizioli; Andrea Battistoni, Teatro Regio di Parma, 2001 (Arthaus Musik) Watch TRAILER
Rossini: DEMETRIO E POLIBIO - María José Moreno, Victoria Zaytseva, Yijie Shi, Mirco Palazzi; Davide Livermore; Corrado Rovaris, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, 2010
Rossini: LA SCALA DI SETA - Daniele Zanfardino, Olga Peretyako, Anna Malavasi, José Manuel Zapata, Carlo Lepore, Paolo Bordogna; Damiano Michieletto; Claudio Scimone, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, 2009 (Opus Arte) Watch TRAILER
Rossini: SIGISMONDO - Daniella Barcellona, Andrea Concetti, Olga Peretyatko, Antonino Sigarusa, Manuela Bisceglie, Enea Scala; Damiano Micheletto; Michele Mariotti, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, 2010
Rossini: IL TURCO IN ITALIA - Lorenzo Regazzo, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Daniele Zanfardino, Filippo Morace, Giulio Mastrototaro, Concetta D'Alessandro, Maria Pia Molinari, Matteo Marchetta; Francesco Micheli; Giovanni Battista Rigon, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, 2009 (Bongiovanni)
Rossini: ZELMIRA - Kate Aldrich, Juan Diego Flórez, Alex Esposito, Gregory Kunde, Marianna Pizzolato, Mirco Palazzi, Francisco Britto, Sávio Sperandio; Giorgio Barberio Corsetti; Roberto Abbado, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, 2009
Saint-Saëns: SAMSON ET DALILA - José Cura, Julia Gertseva, Mark Rucker, Mario Luperi, Ivica Cikes, Cristiano Olivieri, Paolo Cauteruccio, Mauro Corna; Michail Znaniecki; Eilahu Inbal, Bologna, 2008
Shostakovich: MOSCOW, CHERYOMUSHKI - Roman Burdenko, Christina Daletska, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Olga Peretyatko, Nabil Suliman, Andrey Ilyushnikov, Elena Galitskaya, Mikael Babajanyan, Maria Gortsevskaya, Alexander Gerasimov; Macha Makeïeff/Jérôme Deschamps; Kirill Karabits, Opéra de Lyon, 2009
Strauss II, J. : DIE FLEDERMAUS - Emily Magee, Eva Liebau, Michelle Breedt, Christoph Strehl, Oliver Widmer, Reinhard Mayr, Gabriel Bermúdez, Martin Zysset, Karl Markovics; Michael Sturminger; Franz Welser-Möst, Opernhaus Zürich, 2008
Strauss, R. : DER ROSENKAVALIER [BLU-RAY] - Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch, Diana Damrau, Franz Hawlata, Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Grundheber; Herbert Wernicke; Christian Thielemann, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 2009 (Decca)
Tchaikovsky: PIQUE DAME - Vladimir Atlantov, Mirella Freni, Martha Mödl, Vladimir Chernov, Sergei Leiferkus, Vesselina Kasarova, Anna Gonda, Yvette Tannenberg, Wilfried Gahmlich, Rudolf Mazzola, Franz Kasemann, Peter Köves, Peter Jelosits; Kurt Horres; Seiji Ozawa, Vienna State Opera, 1992 (Sony Classical)
Verdi: FALSTAFF [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Ambrogio Maestri, Barbara Frittoli, Massimo Cavalletti, Eva Liebau, Yvonne Naef, Judith Schmid, Javier Camarena, Patrizio Saudelli, Martin Zysset, Davide Fersini; Sven-Eric Bechtolf; Daniele Gatti, Opernhaus Zürich, 2011
Verdi: GIOVANNA D'ARCO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Svetla Vassileva, Evan Bowers, Renato Bruson, Luigi Petroni, Maurizio Lo Piccolo; Gabriele Lavia; Bruno Bartoletti, Teatro Regio di Parma, 2008 (C Major)
Verdi: NABUCCO - Leo Nucci, Maria Guleghina, Fabio Sartori, Carlo Colombara, Patrizia Cigna, Nino Surguladze, Carlo Striuli, Carlo Bosi; Denis Krief; Daniel Oren, Verona, 2007 (Decca)
Verdi: RIGOLETTO - Plácido Domingo, Julia Novikova, Vittorio Grigolo, Ruggero Raimondi, Nino Surguladze, Caterina Di Tonno, Gianfranco Montresor, Giorgio Caoduro, Leonardo Cortelazzi, Giorgio Gatti, Kassandra Dimopoulou, Mariam Battistelli; Pierre Cavassilas; Marco Bellocchio; Zubin Mehta, "Live film" from Mantua, 2010
Verdi: RIGOLETTO - Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Francesco Demuro, Mario Spotti, Stefanie Irányi, Katarina Nikolic, Roberto Tagliavini, Orazio Mori, Mauro Buffoli, Ezio Maria Tisi, Scilla Cristiano, Alessandro Bianchini; Stefano Vizioli; Massimo Zanetti, Teatro Regio di Parma, 2010 (Decca)
Verdi: IL TROVATORE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Marcelo Álvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dolora Zajick, Stefan Kocán, Maria Zifchak, Eduardo Valdes, Raymond Aparentado, Robert Maher; David McVicar; Marco Armiliato, Metropolitan Opera, 2011 (Deutsche Grammophon)
Wagner: LOHENGRIN [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Klaus Florian Vogt, Annette Dasch, Petra Lang, Jukka Rasilainen, Georg Zeppenfeld, Samuel Youn, Stefan Haibach, Willem van der Heyden, Rainer Zaun, Christian Tschelebiew; Hans Neuenfels; Andris Nelsons, Bayreuth Festival, 2011 (Opus Arte) | New and Upcoming Releases Complete CATALOG: THE ARCHIVE: ALSO: FUTURE RELEASES
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