Opera and DVD releases Sept. 2010

Sep 14, 2010 by admin

The following is a list of all full-length opera DVDs and Blu-ray discs scheduled
for release in the United States in September 2010.

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* A note regarding the JAMES LEVINE: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS AT THE MET
box set.  The set includes 11 complete operas plus a DVD of concert
highlights.  The 1980 LULU was released individually in May and is the only one
not listed below.  The 2003 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS is the only other one
available for individual purchase at this time.  The remaining 9 operas are only
available as part of the full set as of this writing.  LULU can be bought at
Amazon and ARIADNE (being on Virgin Classics) can be bought from any
retailer, but the complete set is currently only offered for purchase at the
Met’s online shop.

September 2010

Berg: WOZZECK – Falk Struckmann, Katarina Dalayman, Wolfgang Neumann,
Graham Clark, Michael Devlin, John Horton Murray, Wendy White, James
Courtney, Ronald Naldi, Anthony Laciura, David Frye, Meredith Derr, Benjamin
Pakman, Robert Morrison; Mark Lamos; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera,
2001 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box set]

Bizet: CARMEN - Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna, Barbara Frittoli, Teddy Tahu
Rhodes, Elizabeth Caballero, Sandra Piques Eddy, Keith Jameson, Earle
Patriarco, Keith Miller, Trevor Scheunemann, Maria Kowroski, Martin Harvey;
Richard Eyre; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Deutsche
Grammophon)

Corigliano: THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES – Teresa Stratas, Marilyn Horne,
Graham Clark, Gino Quilico, Hakan Hagegard, Judith Christin, Peter Kazaras,
Renée Fleming, Tracy Dahl, Neil Rosenshein, Wilbur Pauley, Stella Zambalis, Ara
Berberian, Philip Cokorinos, Dean Badolato, Midhat Serbagi, Jane Shaulis,
James Courtney, Richard Drews, Wendy Hoffman, Betsy Norden, Kitt Reuter-
Foss; Colin Graham; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1992 [Part of the
James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box set]

Dargomyzhsky: THE STONE GUEST – Vladimir Atlantov, Tamara Milashkina,
Alexander Vedernikov, Tamara Sinyaskaya, Vladimir Valaitis, Vladimir Filippov,
Petr Glubokiy; Oleg Moralev; Mark Ermler, Bolshoi Opera, 1979 (VAI) [DVD also
includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri]

Handel: MESSIAH [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Susan Gritton, Cornelia Horak, Bejun
Mehta, Richard Croft, Florian Boesch, Martin Pöllmann, Paul Lorenger, Nadia
Kichler; Claus Guth; Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Theater an der Wien, 2009 (C
Major) [Dramatized/staged performance of the oratorio]

Menotti: DIE ALTE JUNGFER UND DER DIEB (The Old Maid and the Thief) -
Elisabeth Höngen, Olive Moorefield, Hilde Konetzni, Eberhard Waechter; Otto
Schenk; Wolfgang Rennert, Film, 1964 (Arthaus Musik) [DVD includes film of
The Medium] [Sung in German]

Menotti: DAS MEDIUM (The Medium) – Elisabeth Höngen, José De Vine, Nino
Albanese, Hilde Konetzni; Otto Schenk; Armando Aliberti, Film, 1964 (Arthaus
Musik) [DVD includes film of The Old Maid and the Thief] [Sung in German]

Mozart: COSÌ FAN TUTTE [BLU-RAY] – Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Topi
Lehtipuu, Florian Boesch, Bo Skovhus, Patricia Petibon; Claus Guth; Adam
Fischer, Salzburg Festival, 2009 (EuroArts) [Released on DVD: Aug. 2010]

Mozart: DON GIOVANNI [BLU-RAY] – Christopher Maltman, Anatoly Kocherga,
Annette Dasch, Matthew Polenzani, Dorothea Röschmann, Erwin Schrott,
Ekaterina Siurina; Claus Guth; Bertrand de Billy, Salzburg Festival, 2008
(EuroArts) [Released on DVD: Aug. 2010]

Mozart: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO – Ruggero Raimondi, Kathleen Battle, Thomas
Allen, Carol Vaness, Frederica von Stade, Artur Korn, Jocelyne Taillon, Michel
Sénéchal, Dawn Upshaw, James Courtney, Anthony Laciura; Jean-Pierre
Ponnelle; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1985 [Part of the James Levine:
Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box set]

Puccini: LA RONDINE  – Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Lisette Oropesa,
Marius Brenciu, Samuel Ramey, Monica Yunus, Alyson Cambridge, Elizabeth
DeShong, David Won, David Crawford, Tony Stevenson, Anne Nonnemacher,
Belinda Oswald, Alexandra Newland, Marty Singleton, Ashley Emerson, Jason
Hendrix, Roger Andrews; Nicolas Joël; Marco Armiliato, Metropolitan Opera,
2009 (EMI Classics)

Puccini: IL TRITTICO – Renata Scotto, Vasile Moldoveanu, Cornell MacNeil,
Bianca Berini, Italo Tajo, Charles Anthony, Jeffrey Stamm, Michael Best, Louise
Wohlafka, Jocelyne Taillon, Betsy Norden, Linore Aronson, Ann Florio, Gwynn
Cornell, Jean Kraft, Batyah Godfrey Ben-David, Claudia Catania, Elyssa Lindner,
Janet Wagner, Linda Mays, Barbara Bystrom, Loretta Di Franco, Elena Doria,
Gabriel Bacquier, Philip Creech, Ariel Bybee, Russell Christopher, James
Courtney, Dana Watkins, Ara Berberian, Andrij Dobriansky, Herman Marcus,
Peter Sliker, Alfred Slesinger; Fabrizio Melano; James Levine, Metropolitan
Opera, 1981 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box
set]

Rimsky-Korsakov: MOZART AND SALIERI – Alexei Maslennikov, Artur Eizen, L.
Novikov; G. Pankov; Ruben Vartanian, Bolshoi Opera, 1981 (VAI) [DVD also
includes Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest]

Rimsky-Korsakov: THE TSAR’S BRIDE – Alexander Vedernikov, Lydia Kovaleva,
Yuri Grigoriev, Boris Morozov, Evgeny Shapin, Nina Terentieva, Konstantin
Pustovoi, Larissa Yurchenko, Marina Shutova, Nina Grigorieva, Vladislav
Pashinsky, Nina Larionova, Nikolai Vasiliev; Yuri Simonov, Bolshoi Opera, 1983
(VAI)

Sallinen: THE RED LINE – Jorma Hynninen, Päivi Nisula, Aki Alamikkotervo,
Hannu Forsberg, Ari Grönthal, Anna-Lisa Jakobsson, Leena Liimatainen, Rea
Mauranen, Pertti Mäkelä, Tuomo Nisula, Marko Puustinen, Jarmo Rastas, Taisto
Reimaluoto, Tuomas Tuloisela, Kai Vaitonen, Olivia Ainali; Pekka Milonoff; Mikko
Franck, Finnish National Opera, 2008 (Ondine)

Schoenberg: MOSES UND ARON – Dale Duesing, Andreas Conrad, Ilse Eerens,
Karolina Gumos, Finnur Bjarnason, Michael Smallwood, Boris Grappe, Renatus
Mészár, Hanna Herfurtner, Constance Heller, Martin Gerke, Dong-Won Seo;
Willy Decker; Michael Boder, Bochum, 2009 (EuroArts)

Smetana: THE BARTERED BRIDE – Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers,
Martii Talvela, Elizabeth Coss, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Jean Kraft, John
Cheek, Alan Crofoot, Colette Boky, Andrij Dobriansky; John Dexter; James
Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1978 [Sung in English] [Part of the James Levine:
Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box set]

Strauss, R. : ARIADNE AUF NAXOS – Deborah Voigt, Richard Margison, Natalie
Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, Wolfgang Brendel, Waldemar Kmentt, James
Courtney, Mark Schowalter, John Fiorito, Tony Stevenson, Nathan Gunn, John
Nuzzo, Eric Cutler, John Del Carlo, Joyce Guyer, Jossie Pérez, Alexandra
Deshorties; Elijah Moshinsky; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 2003 (Virgin
Classics) [Available individually and as part of the James Levine: Celebrating
40 Years at the Met box set]

Strauss, R. : ELEKTRA – Hildegard Behrens, Deborah Voigt, Brigitte
Fassbaender, Judith Goldberg, Jean Rawn, Philip Creech, Richard Vernon,
Donald McIntyre, Herbert Perry, James King, Janet Hopkins, Ellen Rabiner,
Kaaren Erickson, Jane Shaulis, Elizabeth Byrne, Theresa Cincione; Otto
Schenk; James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1994 [Part of the James Levine:
Celebrating 40 Years at the Met box set]

Strauss, R. : DER ROSENKAVALIER – Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith
Blegen, Kurt Moll, Derek Hammond-Stroud, Barbara Conrad, Joseph Franks,
Luciano Pavarotti, Elizabeth Coss, Shawn Lamont Robertson, Nico Castel,
Judith Goldberg, Joyce Olson, Janet Wagner, Lorraine Keane, Linda Mays, John
Hanriot, Sam Cardea, James Courtney, Erbert Aldridge, Arthur Apy, Robert
Manno, Fawayne Murphy, Sven Leaf; Nathaniel Merrill; James Levine,
Metropolitan Opera, 1982 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at
the Met box set]

Szymanowski: KING ROGER [BLU-RAY] – Scott Hendricks, Olga Pasychnik, John
Graham-Hall, Willy Hartmann, Sorin Coliban, Liubov Sokolova, Justyna Dyla,
Mariusz Stefanski; David Pountney; Mark Elder, Bregenz Festival, 2009 (C-
Major) [Released on DVD: Aug. 2010]

Verdi: DON CARLO – Vasile Moldoveanu, Renata Scotto, Sherill Milnes, Tatiana
Troyanos, Paul Plishka, Jerome Hines, Therese Brandson, John Cheek, Betsy
Norden, Peter Sliker, Dana Talley, Timothy Jenkins; John Dexter; James Levine,
Metropolitan Opera, 1980 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at
the Met box set]

Wagner: RIENZI [DVD & BLU-RAY] – Torsten Kerl, Camilla Nylund, Ante
Jerkunica, Kate Aldrich, Krzysztof Szumanski, Lenus Carlson, Clemens Bieber,
Stephen Bronk; Philipp Stölzl; Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Deutsche Oper Berlin,
2010 (Arthaus Musik)

Weill: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY – Teresa Stratas,
Richard Cassilly, Astrid Varnay, Cornell MacNeill, Ragnar Ulfung, Arturo Sergi,
Vern Shinall, Paul Plishka, Michael Best, Klara Barlow, Nedda Casei, Gwynn
Cornell, Joann Grillo, Isola Jones, Loiuse Wohlafka, Nico Castel; John Dexter;
James Levine, Metropolitan Opera, 1979 [Part of the James Levine: Celebrating
40 Years at the Met box set]

* Visit Amazon to take a look at some of the October titles available for pre-
order now: I PURITANI (Flórez/Machaidze, Bologna 2009), FAUST
(Alagna/Gheorghiu/Terfel, ROH 2004), WERTHER (Kaufmann/Koch, Paris 2010),
TOSCA (Verrett/Pavarotti, Met 1978), DON CARLO (Villazón/Poplavskaya, ROH
2008).