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Directed by Emmanuel Villaume. Starring Teresa di Bari, Patrizia Ciofi, Alessandra Palomba.

A 2008 production of Bellini's opera staged at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Maurizio Benini conducts the orchestra and chorus, with performances by Simone Alaimo, Antonino Siragusa and Eglise Gutierrez. Originally released in 2009. Directed by Matteo...

Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Deverux Blu-Ray

World Premiered on DVD. This Liege production, directed by Jean-Louis Pichon, comes from Saint-Etienne. Impressing sets, with large rocks, underline the mythical subject; costumes skillfully blend medieval and 19th-century elements. Patrick Davin,...

I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata is an operatic drama in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The work is based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a child of it's age; a grand historical novel with a...

The 2017 edition of the Reate Festival of Italy staged two operas composed by Nino Rota (1911-1979). Mostly known for his cinema soundtracks, Rota was able to merge the great Italian operatic tradition of Rossini, Puccini and Verdi into a contemporary...

Don Quichotte DVD

A rare and very interesting work composed exactly in the middle of the 19th century, Crispino e la comare is one of the last examples of Italian traditional opera buffa. Composed by Neapoltan brothers Luigi and Federico Ricci, the opera quickly gained...

Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Deverux DVD

I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata is an operatic drama in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The work is based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a child of it's age; a grand historical novel with a...

I Shardana is set in a free Sardinia, an island where rigorous rules are in force and it's people do not tolerate invasions or spiritual contamination, a time when - as Ennio Porrino (b. 1910) specifies in the score - shepherds were warriors and judges,...

Starring Rinaldi, Laplace.