Opera

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...

The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at it's first performances in Madrid in January 2013. Phelim McDermott's spectacular production is worthy of Disney's...

Wagner: Tannhauser DVD

The master of musical parody, Professor Peter Schickele, brings US a complete opera by P.D.Q. Bach, a man who has been called a "pimple on the face of music", "the worst musician ever to have trod organ pedals", and "the most dangerous musician since...