Opera

As part of the ambitious Tutto Verdi project, the rarely performed Il corsaro is available on DVD and for the first time - Blu-ray. The marvelous orchestra, chorus, and crew of Il Teatro Regio di Parma allow today's great Verdi voices (Ribiero, Lungu,...

Rolando Villazon, Marina Poplayskaya, Simon Keenlyside, and Ferruccio Furlanetto star in this 2007/8 Royal Opera House production of the Verdi opera conducted by Antonio Pappano and directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirchschlager, Danielle de Niese, Christophe Dumaux, Patricia Bardon, Christopher Maltman, Rachid Ben Abdeslam, and Alexander Ashworth star in this Glyndebourne production of the Handel opera with William Christie conducting.

Cmilla Thilling, Rod Gilfry, Hubert Delamboye, Henk Neven, and Tom Randle star in this de Nederlandse Opera production of the Messiaen opera conducted by Ingo Metzmacher on 3 DVDs.

Victoria Simmonds, Jonathan Summers, Mary Plazas, Rebecca Bottone, and Graeme Broadbent star in this Opera North production of the Jonathan Dove opera with David Parry conducting.

Les Arts Florissants performs this Rameau opera.

Laura Brioli, Marie-Ange Todorovich, Raul Gimenez, Marco Vinco, Paolo Bordogna, and Pietro Spagnoli star in this 2007 High Definition Teatro Real production of the Rossini opera conductd by Alberto Zedda and directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.

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...

John Tomlinson, Johan Reuter, Christine Rice, Andrew Watts, and Philip Langridge perform in this Royal Opera House production of the Harrison Birtwistle opera conducted by Antonio Pappano. This set includes 2 DVDs.

Gerald Finley, Jessica Rivera, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink, James Maddalena, Thomas Glenn, Jay Hunter Morris, and Ellen Rabiner star in this San Francisco Opera/Lyric Opera of Chicago/De Nederlandse Opera production of the John Adams opera.

Wolf-Ferrari's comic opera La Vedova Scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in it's witty if skeptical look at the mechanisms governing the interplay of...

Aquiles Machdo, Konstantin Gorny, Katharine Goedner, Maria Bayo, Valentina Kutzarova, and Milagros Poblador star in this Bilbao Opera production of the Offenbach opera directed by Giancarlo Del Monaco and conducted by Alain Guingal.