Operetta

Available for the first time on Blu-ray, the lesser known Verdi opera I due Foscari is ready for appreciation by a new generation. A great cast with the likes of Leo Nucci and Roberto de Biasio is assembled at the Teatro Regio di Parma as part of the...

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Regio de Parma and Unitel Classica have joined forces to create a truly unique project. All of the composer's 26 Operas, as well as the Requiem - which is closely related to the Operas -...

On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Teatro Regio de Parma and Unitel Classica have joined forces to create a truly unique project. All of the composer's 26 Operas, as well as the Requiem, which is closely related to the Operas, will...

Les Troyens is a tour de force that ranges from fiery military marches to intense choruses, passionate soliloquies and the lyrical love duets of Dido and Aeneas. For Hector Berlioz, librettist and composer, the opera became the work of decades and the...

Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirschschlager, Danielle de Niese, Patricia Bardon, Christopher Maltman, and Christophe Dumaux star in this Glyndebourne productio of the Handel opera conducted by William Christie on 2 discs.

52 years after their premiere, Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids return, with Kent Nagano at the helm, to the Salzburg Festival for a rare revival of this modern classic in a highly dramatic psychological staging by Krzysztof Warlikowski. Aware of the...

Placido Domingo, Monica Bacelli, Ingela Bohlin, Sara Mingardo, Jennifer Holloway, and Luigi de Donato star in this Teatro Real production of the Handel opera conducted by Paul McCreesh and directed by Graham Vick on 2 discs.

Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, op?ra fantastique, is an unfinished work. When Felsenstein decided to produce Hoffmann, there was little source material to go on. However, not even he could have guessed that preparatory work on that opera...

Felsenstein's Ritter Blaubart is accompanied by the music of French composer Jaques Offenbach and was performed to great critical acclaim in Paris in 1866. Opera reviewer Oscar Bie delightfully remarked: How the music flourishes in soil like this. How...

I Vespri Siciliani Blu-Ray

Recorded live from the Theater and der Wien, 2009.

This is Dove e amore e gelosia's first revival in modern times, and it takes place in the very same Baroque theatre, impeccably restored to it's original glory, that hosted the first performance. With a cast of young singers drawn from Prague's National...