Opera

The Tutto Verdi project introduces audiences to all of Verdi's works, including the lesser known gems like Alzira, here presented for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. The uninitiated can also get a quick introduction to the opera before moving on to...

Act 1 / Acte 1 (40:40) Act 2 / Acte 2 (35:20) Act 3 / Acte 3 (47:12)

When the wife of a Protestant preacher is an adulterer, problems are inevitable from the outset of Verdi's Stiffelio. Even today the finale seems astonishingly bold: superficially it deals with forgiveness and reconciliation, but the orchestral writing...

Alessandro Corbelli, Massimo Giordano, Sally Matthews, Felicity Palmer, and Marie McLaughlin star in Annabel Arden's new Glyndebourne production of the Puccini opera with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the London Philharmonic.

This recording features the opening concert of the Salzburg Festival in 2010, in which the Festival celebrated it's 90th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Great Festival Hall.

Based in part on Shakespeare's the Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, Falstaff is Verdi's last stage work and his only comic opera. The humor in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human...

Marcelo Alvarez, Violeta Urmana, Marco Vratogna, and Elena Zaremba star in this Teatro Real de Madrid/Royal Opera co-production of the Verdi opera conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos.

This tale of love, disguised nobility, murder, and love lost may sound like any other opera to some. But Verdi's Luisa Miller is a gem of the verismo genre. The gorgeous staging is surmounted only by a cast which includes Marcelo Alavarez, Leo Nucci,...

As part of the ambitious Tutto Verdi project, the rarely performed La battaglia di Legnano is available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. The patriotic war story of La battaglia gives a taste of the real-life revolutionary ideals of the composer, as...

Philip Cumbus, Trystan Gravelle, William Mannering, Jack Farthing, and more star in this production of Shakespeare's play produced by Doninic Dromgoole with original music by Claire van Kampen.

This DVD is the auspicious premiere of a series of New Year's Eve concerts from the Semperoper in Dresden. Christian Thielemann conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden with singers Renee Fleming and Christopher Maltman.

Nabucco is the opera which made Verdi the voice of the Italian people. It's theme of an oppressed people's yearning for freedom touched a responsive chord in the Italy of 1842.