Orchestral & Symphonic

David Pountney's landmark English National Opera staging of Dvo'?k's haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl, on the brink of sensual awakening, dreams of first

Arthaus presents one of the most talked about productions of recent Salzburg festival years - the 2004 staging of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. The musical comedy has a deep-rooted performance tradition at the Salzburg Festival, but Robert Carsen's new...

Arthaus releases on DVD another gem from the archives of Austrian Television. The outstanding production of Verdi's Masked Ball at the Salzburg Festivals 1989 and 1990 was Herbert von Karajan's legacy to the Festival. Supported by a cast of superlative...

Boito, Arrigo's treatment of the Faust legend is imaginative yet also faithful to Goethe's original conception, and the score is memorable for it's rich orchestral sounds, beautifully punctuated with lyrical passages and choral interludes. Robert Carsen's

Giorgio Strehler was one of Europe's most celebrated theatre directors. In his Piccolo Teatro in Milan he created outstanding interpretations of Bertolt Brecht and William Shakespeare. As an opera director he worked at all the major international opera ho

Gloriana came into being when Britten, Benjamin was asked to compose an opera to celebrate the Coronation of HRH Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He took as his starting point Lytton Strachey's Elizabeth and Essex, which had much interested him when he first...

Arthaus presents the Vienna State Opera's outstandingly cast new production of Werther on DVD. The production was the Vienna State Opera debut for the young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan - the Argentinian tenor Marcelo ?lvarez, took the title role. Alth

After personal tragedies and the fiasco of his last opera Un giorno di regno, Verdi wanted to give up composing for ever. Fortunately he made a further attempt: Nabucco. His first real success, the first genuine Verdi opera", was born. Nabucco - the comp

Certainly more than just the composer of the Four Seasons, Vivaldi also wrote hundreds of largely famous instrumental works, and his glorious church music is well known; but it wasn't until recent decades that his operas - of which he is said to have writ

This DVD combines a number of operatic highlights: Puccini's Madama Butterfly - the composer's self-proclaimed favourite work and certainly one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire - is brought to life at the worldfamous Arena di Verona. This opul

From the Vienna State Opera Arthaus presents a timeless document of great opera. Lorin Maazel and a dream cast of distinguished singers, among them the young Eva Marton and Jos? Carreras in his mid-thirties, perform a celebrated staging of Puccini's...

Arthaus Musik presents a DVD release of Weber's masterpiece Der Freisch?tz in a production by the legendary director Ruth Berghaus. Chorus and orchestra of the Zurich opera are conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, universally celebrated for the structural t