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Guide to the DVD/VHS collection of Operas
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DVDs (Early Opera-Classical)
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- L'Orfeo: favola in musica, 1978 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00296Performer:
Opernhaus Zürich - Monteverdi-Ensemble
Conductor:
Nikolaus Harnoncourt - L'Orfeo: favola in musica, 2002 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00179Music Director: Jordi Savall
Performance Details:
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Jan, 31, 2002 - Julius Caesar byCall Number: MUSICDVD00138Conductor: Charles Mackerras
Production: English National Opera - Don Giovanni: dramma giocoso in due atti byCall Number: MUSICDVD00337Conductor: Craig Smith
Director: Peter Sellars
2005 - Le nozze di Figaro byCall Number: MUSICDVD00300Production: Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973
Soprano: Kiri Te Kanawa - Le nozze di Figaro: opera comica in quattro atti byCall Number: MUSICDVD00336Conductor: Craig Smith
Director: Peter Sellars
1990/91 - Die Zauberflöte byCall Number: MUSICDVD00328Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Jan. 27, 2003
Conductor: Colin Davis
DVDs-19th century
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- Fidelio byCall Number: MUSICDVD00279- James Levine, conductor
- Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, October 2000 - Der Freischütz byCall Number: MUSICDVD00025- Hamburg Opera
- Leopold Ludwig, conductor
- Studio production from the Hamburg State Opera, 1968 - Il barbiere di Siviglia, 1988 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00290- Cecilia Bartoli, soprano
- Gabriele Ferro, conductor - Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 2005 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00326- Teatro Real de Madrid
- Recorded in performance Jan. 2005
- Gianluigi Gelmetti, conductor - Don Pasquale byCall Number: MUSICDVD00321- Recorded at the Zürich Opera House in 2006
- Nello Santi, conductor - I puritani byCall Number: MUSICDVD00305- Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, Jan. 6, 2007
- Anna Netrebko, soprano
- Patrick Summers, conductor - Les Troyens byCall Number: MUSICDVD00322Recorded on October 8, 1983 at the Metropolitan Opera
- Tatiana Troyanos (Dido, Queen of Carthage)
- Jessye Norman (Cassandra)
- Placido Domingo (Aeneas)
- James Levine, conductor - Les Huguenots byCall Number: MUSICDVD00289- Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois)
- Dame Joan Sutherland's farewell performance to the operatic stage
- Produced in 1990 at the Sydney Opera House - Carmen, 1987 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00291Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Feb. 1987
- James Levine, Conductor
- Agnes Baltsa (Carmen)
- Leona Mitchell (Micaëla)
- José Carreras (Don José) - Carmen, 1985 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00323Glyndebourne Festival Opera in Peter Hall's production, Filmed in 1985
- Eugene Onegin byCall Number: MUSICDVD00316Filmed at the Metropolitain Opera, New York, February 2007
- Renée Fleming as Tatiana - Cavalleria rusticana byCall Number: MUSICDVD00301Filmed at Milan, La Scala & Studio Cologno Monzese, Feb. 1981, and on location in Vizzini, Sicily, Apr. 1981
20th Century
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- Wozzeck byCall Number: MUSICDVD00297A historical studio production from the Hamburg State Opera, 1970
- Lulu byCall Number: MUSICDVD00287Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Christine Schäfer (Lulu)
- Kathryn Harries (Countess Geschwitz)
- Wolfgang Schöne (Dr. Schön, Jack the Ripper) - Salome byCall Number: MUSICDVD00310- Teresa Stratas (Salomé)
- Astrid Varnay (Herodias)
- Hans Beirer (Herodes)
- Bernd Weikl (Jochanaan) ; - Der Rosenkavalier byCall Number: MUSICDVD00335Videotaped at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1985
- Kiri Te Kanawa (the Marschallin)
- Georg Solti, conductor - Ariadne auf Naxos byCall Number: MUSICDVD00068Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, March 1988
- Jessye Norman, Primadonna/Ariadne
- Kathleen Battle, Zerbinetta
- James King, Tenor/Bacchus
- James Levine, conductor - Madama Butterfly, 1983 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00315Recorded at the Arena di Verona, Italy, July 1983
- Madama Butterfly, 1974 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00283Filmed Nov. and Dec. 1974 at Union Film, Berlin; sound recorded Jan. and Sept. 1974, Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Mirella Freni (Cic-Cio-San (Butterfly))
- Plácido Domingo (B. F. Pinkterton)
- Herbert von Karajan, conductor - La Bohème byCall Number: MUSICDVD00188Recorded January 16, 1982 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City
- Teresa Stratas (Mimi)
- Renata Scotto (Musetta)
- Josè Carreras (Rodolfo)
- James Levine, conductor - Porgy and Bess byCall Number: MUSICDVD00288Recorded at Shepperton Studios, London, Nov. and Dec. 1992
-Videorecording based on the original Glyndebourne Festival Opera stage production directed by Trevor Nunn
Verdi DVDs
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- Aida, 1988 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00161Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Oct. 1988
- James Levine, Conductor - La traviata, 1994 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00303Recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dec. 1994
- Angela Gheorhiu, soprano
- Frank Lopardo, tenor
- Leo Nucci, baritone
- Sir Georg Solti, conductor - La traviata, 2006 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00314- Filmed in 2006
- Los Angeles Opera
- Renée Fleming (Violetta Valéry) - Rigoletto byCall Number: MUSICDVD00319Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Nov. 7, 1977
- Plácido Domingo (Il Duca di Mantova)
- Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto)
- Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda)
- James Levine, conductor - Otello, 1995 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00286The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.
- Otello, 2001 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00173Recorded in performance, Teatro alla Scala, Dec. 2001
- Plácido Domingo (Otello) - Il trovatore byCall Number: MUSICDVD00194Recorded May 3, 2002 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
- Stiffelio byCall Number: MUSICDVD00354The Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Originally produced in 1993
Wagner Operas
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- Das Rheingold, 1980 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00342Recorded June-July 1980, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
- Pierre Boulez, conductor - Das Rheingold, 1990 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00067Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mar.- April, 1990
- James Levine, conductor - Die Walküre, 1990 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00064Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mar.-May, 1990
- James Levine, conductor
- Brünnhilde, Hildegard Behrens
- Sieglinde, Jessye Norman - Siegfried, 1990 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00066Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Mar.-May, 1990
- Götterdämmerung, 1990 byCall Number: MUSICDVD00065Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, Apr.-May, 1990
- Tristan und Isolde byCall Number: MUSICDVD00408Recorded in performance July 3-9, 1995, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor - Der fliegende Holländer byCall Number: MUSICDVD00334Filmed in performance June 1985, Bayreuth Festspielhaus
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg byCall Number: MUSICDVD00333Recorded: Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 18-29 June 1984
- Lohengrin byCall Number: MUSICDVD00304Recorded in performance June 24-July 1, 1990, Bayreuth Festspielhaus