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December 2011
Donizetti: ANNA BOLENA [BLU-RAY]
Mozart: DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL
Rimsky-Korsakov: THE LEGEND OF THE INVISIBLE CITY OF KITEZH
Strauss, R. : CAPRICCIO [BLU-RAY]
January 2012
Andriessen: ANAÏS NIN
Donizetti: LUCREZIA BORGIA [BLU-RAY] - Edita Gruberova, Pavol Breslik, Franco Vassallo, Alice Coote, Bruno Ribeiro, Christian Rieger, Christopher Magiera, Erik Arman, Steven Humes, Emanuele D'Aguanno, Christian Van Horn, Elisabeth Haag; Christof Loy; Bertrand de Billy, Bavarian State Opera, 2009 (EuroArts) [Released on DVD: Nov. 2009]
Lehár: PAGANINI
Naske: DIE ROTE ZORA
Paisiello: NINA - Cecilia Bartoli, Jonas Kaufmann, László Polgár, Juliette Galstian, Angelo Veccia, Federica Bartoli, Golda Fischer; Cesare Lievi; Adam Fischer, Opernhaus Zürich, 2002 (Arthaus Musik) [Re-issue, first released Aug. 2003]
Pergolesi: ADRIANO IN SIRIA
Pergolesi: ADRIANO IN SIRIA [BLU-RAY]
Rossini: TANCREDI
Strauss, R.: SALOME
Strauss, R.: SALOME [BLU-RAY]
Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS [BLU-RAY]
Sullivan: THE MIKADO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Mitchell Butel, Kanen Breen, Taryn Fiebig, Warwick Fyfe, Jacqueline Dark, Richard Alexander; Stuart Maunder; Brian Castles-Onion, Opera Australia, 2011 (Opera Australia)
Verdi: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Verdi: LA FORZA DEL DESTINO [BLU-RAY]
Verdi: SIMON BOCCANEGRA
Verdi: SIMON BOCCANEGRA [BLU-RAY]
February 2012
Berg: LULU
Berg: LULU [BLU-RAY]
Humperdinck: KÖNIGSKINDER - Jonas Kaufmann, Isabel Rey, Oliver Widmer, Liliana Nikiteanu; Jens-Daniel Herzog; Ingo Metzmacher, Opernhaus Zürich, 2010 (Decca)
Kálmán: DIE ZIRKUSPRINZESSIN - Ingeborg Hallstein, Rudolf Schock, Isy Orén, Peter Karner, Jane Tilden, Peter Frankenfeld, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Werner Abrolat, Harry Hardt, Fritz Korn, Ernst Waldbrunn, Viola Wahlen; Manfred R. Köhler; Werner Schmidt-Boelcke, Film, 1969 (Arthaus Musik)
Monteverdi: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Birgitte Christensen, Jacek Laszczkowski, Tim Mead, Marita Solberg, Patricia Bardon, Amelie Aldenheim, Ina Kringlebotn, Tone Kruse, Giovanni Battista Parodi, Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, David Fielder, Magnus Staveland; Ole Anders Tandberg; Alessandro De Marchi, Norwegian National Opera Film, 2011 (EuroArts) Watch TRAILER
Mozart: DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Christoph Strehl, Norbert Ernst, Franz-Josef Selig, Christoph Quest; Christof Loy; Ivor Bolton, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2010 (C Major)
Mozart: DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Saimir Pirgu, Genia Kühmeier, Günther Groissböck, Albina Shagimuratova, Ailish Tynan, Alex Esposito, Peter Bronder; William Kentridge; Roland Böer, Teatro alla Scala, 2011 (Opus Arte)
Puccini: LA BOHÈME [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Ji-Min Park, Takesha Meshé Kizart, José Carbó, Taryn Fiebig, David Parkin, Shane Lowrencev; Gale Edwards; Shao-Chia Lü, Opera Australia, 2011 (Opera Australia)
Rossini: LA GAZZA LADRA [BLU-RAY] - Paolo Bordogna, Kleopatra Papatheologou, Dmitry Korchak, Mariola Cantarero, Alex Esposito, Michele Pertusi, Manuela Custer, Stefan Cifolelli, Cosimo Panozzo, Vittorio Prato, Matteo Ferrara, Sandhya Nagaraja; Damiano Michieletto; Lü Jia, Rossini Opera Festival, 2007 (Dynamic) [Released on DVD: June 2008]
Verdi: AIDA [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Hui He, Marco Berti, Luciana D'Intino, Giacomo Prestia, Ambrogio Maestri, Roberto Tagliavini, Saverio Fiore, Caterina Di Tonno; Ferzan Ozpetek; Zubin Mehta, Teatro Comunale, Florence, 2011 (Arthaus Musik)
Vivaldi: ORLANDO FURIOSO - Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Verónica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Christian Senn, Kristina Hammarström, Romina Basso; Pierre Audi; Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2011 (Naïve) Watch TRAILER
March 2012
Dvorák: RUSALKA
Dvorák: RUSALKA [BLU-RAY]
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
Cilea: ADRIANA LECOUVREUR - 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
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)
Falla: LA VIDA BREVE - 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)
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
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)
Lehár: PAGANINI - Antonio Theba, Teresa Stratas, Johannes Heesters, Dagmar Koller, Peter Kraus, Klaus Havenstein, Fritz Tillmann, Wolfgang Luckschy; Eugen York; Wolfgang Ebert, Film, 1973 (Arthaus Musik)
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: MADAMA BUTTERFLY [DVD & BLU-RAY] - 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) Puccini: TOSCA - Raina Kabaivanska, Flaviano Labò, Gian Piero Mastromei, Carlo Mericiani, Fernando Jacopucci, Guido Mazzini, Franco Lombardi, Toshiko Tsunemori; Oliviero De Fabritiis, NHK Hall, Tokyo, 1973
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)
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: 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: LE COMTE ORY - Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi, Monica Yunus, Susanne Resmark, Tony Stevenson, Tyler Simpson, Rob Besserer; Bartlett Sher; Maurizio Benini, Metropolitan Opera, 2011 (EMI Classics) 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
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. : DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Stephen Gould, Anne Schwanewilms, Michaela Schuster, Wolfgang Koch, Evelyn Herlitzius, Markus Brück, Steven Humes, Andreas Conrad; Christof Loy; Christian Thielemann, Salzburg Festival, 2011
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: EUGENE ONEGIN [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Bo Skovhus, Krassimira Stoyanova, Andrej Dunaev, Elena Maximova, Mikhail Petrenko, Olga Savova, Nina Romanova, Peter Arink, Roger Smeets, Guy de Mey, Richard Prada; Stefan Herheim; Mariss Jansons, De Nederlandse Opera, 2011 (Opus Arte) 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: MACBETH [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Raymond Aceto, Dmitri Pittas, Steven Ebel, Nigel Cliffe, Elisabeth Meister; Phyllida Lloyd; Antonio Pappano, Royal opera House, 2011 (Opus Arte)
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)
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)
Wagner: TANNHÄUSER [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Markus Eiche, Günther Groissböck, Vicente Ombuena, Lauri Vasar, Francisco Vas, Johann Tilli; Robert Carsen; Sebastian Weigle, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 2008 (C Major) | New and Upcoming Releases Complete CATALOG: THE ARCHIVE: ALSO: FUTURE RELEASES
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