Joe Bonamassa
An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House [ J&R Adventures / Blu-ray Disc - released 5/Apr/2013 ] Hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation, Joe Bonamassa has almost single-handedly redefined the blues-rock genre and brought it into the mainstream. He continues this role with his first-ever entirely acoustic... |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: The Exterminating Angel (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz, Sally Matthews, Sophie Bevan, Alice Coote, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies / Thomas Ades (cond) [ Erato Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 20/Feb/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Contemporary |
FRANCESCO CILEA
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (complete opera recorded in 2009) (Blu-ray) Teatro regio Torino / Michaela Carosi / Marcelo Alvarez / Marianne Cornetti / Alfonso Antoniozzi / Renati Palumbo [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Carosi may lack some smoothness of line in her arias but she delivers them with fervour and strong tone and does not hold back in the Phaedra monologue, so the character which she projects is well drawn...Marianne Cornetti blazes forth in an... |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (Complete opera recorded live in 2011) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale Pergolesi / Marina Comparato, Lucia Cirillo, Annamaria Dell'Oste / Ottavio Dantone (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "Top marks go to conductor and director for giving the music space to breathe. The vocal cast is almost uniformly brilliant. Dell'Oste is in a class of her own: she turns coloratura into eloquent, heart-rending declarations" (BBC Music) |
JONATHAN DOVE
Dove: The Adventures of Pinocchio (Complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Opera North / Victoria Simmonds, Jonathan Summers, Mary Plazas, Rebecca Bottone / David Parry, conductor [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Plaudits should also go to the chorus, whose scenes are always visually and sonically spectacular, while the stunning surround sound of the DVD capturing every detail of Opera North's bold undertaking." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Violeta Urmana, Johan Botha, Dolora Zajick & Carlo Guelfi / Daniele Gatti (cond) [ Decca Music Group Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Jul/2011 ] Verdi's epic drama of ancient Egypt comes to life in the Met's monumental production, captured here in a breathtaking Live in HD presentation. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
VerdI Aida (complete opera recorded in 1986) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Leo Nucci / Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "An opera for Cairo!", Verdi is said to have exclaimed. He would certainly have been delighted with this magnificent production. It was a triumphant success when it opened at la Scala in December 1985 |
VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Tatiana Serjan / Iano Tamar / Rubens Pelizzari / Iain Paterson / Vienna Symphonic Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Oct/2010 ] In this production from 2009 stage director Graham Vick and set designer Paul Brown conjure up an "open-air spectacle of superlatives" (Die Zeit). Photos of the stage went to all over the world. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY + BLU-RAY 3D Arena di Verona / Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, Ambrogio Maestri / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "It's straightforward, recalling Edwardian toy theatre...And the spectacle isn't overdone...Ulbrich is a fiery Amneris. But it's the Ethiopians who carry the day, with Maestri's thundering Amonasro and, above all, Chinese soprano Hui He's Aida, vocal |
HANDEL
Alcina (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Anja Harteros, Vesselina Kasarova, Kristina Hammarström / Marc Minkowski (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Conductor and orchestra are superb; so is Anja Harteros, who finds real depth in Alcina's passion for Ruggiero." (Gramophone) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Festival Aix-en-Provence / Patricia Petibon, Philippe Jaroussky, Anna Prohaska, Katarina Bradic / Andrea Marcon (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Jul/2016 ] 'The direction of the singers is outstanding' (BBC DVD/Blu-ray of the Month September 2016) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Alonzo King Lines Ballet (Studio performance recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Alonzo King Lines Ballet [ Arthaus Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2010 ] The choreographer Alonzo King, acclaimed as "one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times" by world-famous William Forsythe, works with his company The Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chénier (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Bregenz Festival / Hector Sandoval, Norma Fantini, Scott Hendricks / Ulf Schirmer (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Girodano Umberto's Andrea Chénier is set against the backdrop of the horrors of the French Revolution and tells the tragic tale of a doomed love affair involving the historical figure of the poet Andrea Chénier, who initially champions the Revolution |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Anna Bolena [complete opera recorded in 2011] BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo / Evelino Pido (cond) [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "No lover of Donizetti's operas should do without this outstanding performance" (MusicWeb May 2012) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Federico Benetti, Marta Torbidoni, Laura Polverelli, Dionisos Tsantinis / Belcanto Chorus, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] This production of Anna Bolena faithfully meets the musical vision proposed by Fabio Biondi. The mise-en-scène, therefore, excludes any explicit reference to the plot's historical time, and the events have been set at the beginning of the 1800s, when |
TURNAGE
Anna Nicole (complete opera recorded in 2011) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Eva-Maria Westbroek, Alan Oke, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte Royal Opera House Collection Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The six camera operators get in close enough for us all to appreciate the visual brilliance of Richard Jones's direction and Miriam Buether's colourfully absurd sets. Better yet, the cameras offer extra chances for the Dutch soprano Eva-Maria... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Arabella (complete opera recorded in 2014) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Beňačková / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ C Major / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2015 ] 2014 celebrates the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss. Arabella from this year´s Salzburg Easter Festival and is after Capriccio the second R: Strauss Opera C Major is releasing in 2014. Der Rosenkavalier from this year´s Salzburg Festival will be re |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Staatskapelle Dresden / Renée Fleming, Robert Dean Smith, Sophie Koch / Christian Thielemann (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2015 ] Filmed live in Baden-Baden by the veteran director Brian Large, Renée Fleming makes her debut in the role of Ariadne together with fellow key Strauss interpreters Sophie Koch and Christian Thielemann, following on from their Rosenkavalier... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Complete opera recorded in March 2013) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Soile Isokoski, Kate Lindsey, Laura Claycomb, Sergey Skorokhodov, Thomas Allen / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] "Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung performance...Skorokhodov, as a wounded airman, has lungs |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Emily Magee, Elena Moșuc, Jonas Kaufmann / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 17/Feb/2014 ] Jonas Kaufmann made his highly acclaimed debut as Bacchus in this 2012 Salzburg Festival production of Ariadne auf Naxos, leading a cast including Emily Magee and Elena Mosuc, with Daniel Harding conducting. Director Sven-Erich Bechtholf's staging is... |