Opera on DVD & Blu-ray: January 2010 Releases

Jan 20, 2010 by admin

Opera on DVD & Blu-ray: January 2010 Releases – please note that all Amazon purchases help the station directly.

Debussy: PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE – Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout, Laurent
Naouri, Philip Ens, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Beate Ritter, Tim Mirfin; Laurent Pelly;
Bertrand de Billy, Theater an der Wien, 2009 (Virgin)

Gluck: ORPHEUS UND EURYDIKE [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Maria Riccarda Wesseling,
Julia Kleiter, Sunhae Im; Pina Bausch; Thomas Hengelbrock, Paris, 2008 (BelAir
Classiques)

Gluck: ORPHÉE ET EURYDICE [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Roberto Alagna, Serena
Gamberoni, Marc Barrard; David Alagna; Giampaolo Bisanti, Teatro Comunale di
Bologna, 2008 (BelAir Classiques)

Haydn: ORLANDO PALADINO – Marlis Petersen, Tom Randle, Victor Torres,
Pietro Spagnoli, Magnus Staveland, Sunhae Im, Arttu Kataja, Alexandrina
Pendatchanska; Nigel Lowery; René Jacobs, Berlin, 2009 (EuroArts)

Lehár: LA VEUVE JOYEUSE – Véronique Gens, Ivan Ludlow, François Le Roux,
Magali Léger, Gordon Gietz, Robert Horn, David Lefort, Alexandre Guerrero,
Jean-Philippe Marlière; Macha Makeïeff; Gérard Korsten, Opéra de Lyon,
2006/7 (Virgin)

Massenet: THAÏS – Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Michael Schade, Alain
Vernhes, Trevor Scheunemann, Alyson Cambridge, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Leah
Partridge, Maria Zifchak; John Cox; Jesús López Cobos, Metropolitan Opera,
2008 (Decca)

Mozart: DON GIOVANNI – György Melis, Klara Barlow, John Moulson, Herbert
Rössler, Anny Schlemm, Rudolf Asmus, Eva-Maria Baum, Fritz Hübner; Walter
Felsenstein; Zdenék Kosler, Komische Oper, Berlin, 1966 (Arthaus Musik)
Purcell: DIDO AND AENEAS [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Christopher Maltman, Malena
Ernman, Judith van Wanroij, Hilary Summers, Lina Markeby, Céline Ricci, Ana
Quintans, Marc Mauillon, Ben Davies, Fiona Shaw; Deborah Warner; William
Christie, Opéra Comique, Paris, 2008 (Fra Musica)

Rossini: LA CENERENTOLA – Elina Garanca, Lawrence Brownlee, Simone
Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, Rachelle Durkin, Patricia Risley, John Relyea;
Cesare Lievi; Maurizio Benini, Metropolitan Opera, 2009 (Deutsche
Grammophon)

Rossini: L’EQUIVOCO STRAVAGANTE – Marina Prudenskaya, Bruno De Simone,
Marco Vinco, Dmitry Korchak, Amanda Forsythe, Ricardo Mirabelli; Emilio Sagi;
Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, 2008 (Dynamic)

Rossini: IL TURCO IN ITALIA – Simone Alaimo, Myrto Papatanasiu, Bruno De
Simone, Antonino Sigarusa, Vincenzo Taormina, Antonella Nappa, Federico
Lepre; Egisto Marcucci; Jonathan Webb, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, 2009
(Arthaus Musik)
Schumann: GENOVEVA [BLU-RAY] – Juliane Banse, Shawn Mathey, Cornelia
Kallisch, Martin Gantner, Ruben Drole, Alfred Muff; Martin Kusej; Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, Opernhaus Zürich, 2008 (Arthaus Musik)

Verdi: DON CARLO – Stuart Neill, Fiorenza Cedolins, Ferruccio Furlanetto,
Dalibor Jenis, Dolora Zajick, Anatolij Kotscherga, Diogenes Randes, Carla Di
Censo, Carlo Bosi, Irena Bespalovaite; Stéphane Braunschweig; Daniele Gatti,
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2008 (Hardy Classics)

Verdi: IL TROVATORE – Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza
Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, José van Dam, Maria Venuti, Heinz Zednik, Karl
Caslavsky, Ewald Aichberger; Herbert von Karajan, Vienna State Opera, 1978
(Arthaus Musik) (Previously released by TDK)

Wagner: DAS RHEINGOLD [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Juha Uusitalo, Anna Larsson,
Franz-Josef Kapellmann, John Daszak, Matti Salminen, Stephen Milling, Christa
Mayer, Sabine von Walther, Gerhard Siegel, Ilya Bannik, Germán Villar, Silvia
Vázquez, Ann-Katrin Naidu, Hannah Esther Minutillo; La Fura dels Baus/Carlus
Padrissa; Zubin Mehta, Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 2007 (C Major)

Wagner: DIE WALKÜRE [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Peter Seiffert, Matti Salminen, Juha
Uusitalo, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Jennifer Wilson, Anna Larsson, Bernadette
Flaiz, Helen Huse Ralston, Pilar Vázquez, Christa Mayer, Eugenia Bethencourt,
Heike Grötzinger, Manuela Bress, Hannah Esther Minutillo; La Fura dels
Baus/Carlus Padrissa; Zubin Mehta, Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 2008 (C Major)

Wagner: TRISTAN UND ISOLDE [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Robert Dean Smith, Iréne
Theorin, Robert Holl, Michelle Breedt, Jukka Rasilainen, Ralf Lukas, Clemens
Biber, Arnold Bezuyen, Martin Snell; Christoph Marthaler; Peter Schneider,
Bayreuth Festival, 2009 (Opus Arte)

NOTES:
* DON CARLO from La Scala was originally scheduled for December 2009.
* TRISTAN UND ISOLDE from Bayreuth had been scheduled for November 2009.
* Happy New Year!