NAXOS DVD

Hindemith conceived Mathis der Maler, his 'opera in seven tableaux', as a reimagining of Matthias Gr?newald's Isenheim Altarpiece, a depiction of Christ's intense suffering and crucifixion. Set...

Charles Gounod was enchanted by the young Proven?al-born Fr?d?ric Mistral's epic love poem Mir?io, and enlisted the distinguished Michel Carr? to fashion a libretto. Against the grain of prevailing...

Missa Salisburgensis DVD

Stefano Landi was an influential early opera composer, and La morte d'Orfeo is regarded as a milestone in the development of the genre. The narrative starts where Monteverdi's L'Orfeo ends, taking us...

Mozart: Violin Concertos 3-5 & Adagio In E K 261 DVD

Valery Gergiev, fresh from his appointment as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015, takes his new ensemble to the BBC Proms for a concert of the utmost in drama and vivid...

The plot of Gounod's opera La Nonne sanglante ('The Bleeding Nun') is drawn from Matthew Lewis's once famous 1796 novel The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring families, two...

Gluck's influential Orph?e et Eurydice tells the story of Orph?e's descent into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice. His singing has the power to overcome the guardian Furies, but the path...

70 years after Det Norske Teatret first staged Peer Gynt, Erik Ulfsby and his excellent team have developed a new version, with the role of old Peer congenially filled by Toralv Maurstad. The play's...

The celebrated actor Elisabet Vogler has fallen silent. She doesn't speak anymore. Together with her nurse Alma the two unequal women spend a carefree summer - until the situation between them shifts...

Pictures / Romeo & Juliet DVD

Adolphe Adam's Le Postillon de Lonjumeau was a great success at it's premiere in 1836, and, along with the ballet Giselle, has remained one of the composer's most popular works. Following the great...