Orchestral & Symphonic

Sergei Prokofiev devoted the last twelve years of his life to War and Peace. He completed the instrumentalisation by April 1942 and the entire score was ready in March 1943. Having completed the first version (containing eleven scenes) unusually quickly,...

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 a true Salzburg success story on DVD. Cos? fan tutte is the third most-frequently performed work at the festival after Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberfl?te. This DVD provides a closer look at a classical staging from the Salzburg...

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

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

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

One of the lesser known works by Verdi, Giuseppe; Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers as one of his finest. The action takes place in the 14th century and deals with the political and personal rivalry between the corsair Simon Boccanegra,...

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 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

Starring Andrea Bocelli, Chris Botti, David Foster.

Performed in the picturesque Palace of Cothen, This work is performed by the Freiburger Barokorchester conducted by Gottfried von der Goltz. Also included is Sarabande.