Opera

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.

A continuation of the plot of the Barber of Seville, and set several years later, Le nozze di Figaro explores the intricate relationships between men and women of different social classes, weaving passion and humor with genuine dramatic tension...

Angelika Kirchschlager, Gordon Gietz, Rod Gilfry, and Dale Duesing star in this 2002 Royal Opera House performance of the Nicholas Maw opera conducted by Simon Rattle. The set includes 2 DVDs.

Contemporary British Opera Classics DVD

Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in it's premiere DVD release.

Misha Didyk, Emily Magee, Lado Ataneli, Ludovic Tezier, Elena Zaremba, Ewa Podles, Mikhail Vekua, Fransisco Vas, and Claudia Schneider star in this Gran Teatre del Liceu production of the Tchaikovsky opera conducted by Michael Boder.

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...

The Teatro alla Scala in Milan is renowned for it's lavish opera productions with first-rate ensembles and internationally established soloists. Arthaus Musik has compiled three outstanding classics in this exclusive DVD box set. Giorgio Strehler ranked...

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...

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...