| March 2009 Opera releases |
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March 2009 Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC [BLU-RAY] - Gerald Finley, Jessica Rivera, Eric Owens, Richard Paul Fink, James Maddalena, Thomas Glenn, Jay Hunter Morris, Ellen Rabiner; Peter Sellars; Lawrence Renes, Amsterdam, 2007 (Opus Arte) Beethoven: FIDELIO - Waltraud Meier, Peter Seiffert, Carsten Stabell, Juha Uusitalo, Matti Salmminen, Ildikó Raimondi, Rainer Trost, Javier Agulló, Nahuel di Pierro; Pierluigi Pier'Alli; Zubin Mehta, Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 2007 (Medici Arts) Bernstein: CANDIDE - Michael Slattery, Rosalind Elias, Robert Orth, Nancy Allen Lundy, Gabrielle Ribis, Hilda Ramos, Benjamin Brechler; Enrico Castiglione; John De Main, Teatro Argentina, Rome, 2003 (Kultur) Dove: THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO [DVD & BLU-RAY] - Victoria Simmonds, Jonathan Summers, Mary Plazas, Rebecca Bottone, Graeme Broadbent, Allan Clayton, Mark Wilde, James Laing, Carole Wilson; Martin Duncan; David Parry, Opera North, 2008 (Opus Arte) Gounod: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE [BLU-RAY]- Rolando Villazón, Nino Machaidze, Mikhail Petrenko, Russell Braun, Cora Burggraff, Falk Struckmann, Juan Francisco Gatell, Susanne Resmark, Christian van Horn, Mathias Hausmann, Jean-Luc Ballestra, Robert Murray; Barlett Sher; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Salzburg, 2008 (Deutsche Grammophon) Handel: ADMETO [BLU-RAY] - Matthias Rexroth, Romelia Lichtenstein, Mechthild Bach, Tim Mead, Raimund Nolte, Melanie Hirsch, Gerd Vogel; Axel Köhler; Howard Arman, Opernhaus Halle, 2006 (Arthaus Musik) Lalo: LE ROI D'YS - Giuseppina Piunti, Guylaine Girard, Eric Martin-Bonnet, Sébastien Guèze, Werner Van Mechelen, Léonard Graus, Marc Tissons; Jean- Louis Pichon; Patrick Davin, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège, 2008 (Dynamic) Massenet: MANON - Renée Fleming, Marcelo Álvarez, Jean-Luc Chaignaud, Alain Vernhes, Michel Sénéchal, Franck Ferrari, Jaël Azzaretti, Delphine Haidan, Christophe Fel, Josep Miquel Ribot, Nigel Smith; Gilbert Deflo; Jesús López Cobos, Opéra National de Paris, 2001 (Arthaus Musik) (Re-issue: Previously released by TDK) Purcell: THE FAIRY QUEEN - Yvonne Kenny, Thomas Randle, Simon Rice, Richard Van Allan, Janis Kelly, Mary Hegarty, Yvonne Barclay, Michael Chance, Jonathan Best, Marq Le Brocq, Peter Snipp, Andrew Watts, Christopher Ross, Arthur Pita; David Pountney; Nicholas Kok, English National Opera, 1995 (Arthaus Musik/Kultur) (Previously released by Image) Rossini: EARLY OPERAS [BOX SET] - Four early one-act operas from the Schwetzingen Festival conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and directed by Michael Hampe. All four DVDs were released individually by EuroArts: IL SIGNOR BRUSCHINO, LA CAMBIALE DI MATRIMONIO, L'OCCASIONE FA IL LADRO, LA SCALA DI SETA (Medici Arts) Schoenberg: MOSES UND ARON - Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas, Richard Salter, Werner Mann, Ladislav Illavsky, Elfriede Obrowsky; Danièle Huillet; Jean-Marie Straub; Michael Gielen, Film, 1975 (New Yorker Video) [Pushed back from January] Verdi: MACBETH - Renato Bruson, Mara Zampieri, James Morris, Dennis O’Neill, David Griffith, Goetz Rose, Claus Endisch, Josef Becker, Leopold Clam, Klaus Lang, Sharon Sweet, Paul Wolfrum; Luca Ronconi; Giuseppe Sinopoli, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1987 (Arthaus Musik/Kultur) (Previously released by Image) Verdi: LA TRAVIATA [BLU-RAY] - Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson, Anna Alkhimova, Daniel Montenegro, Suzanna Guzmán, Lee Poulis, Philip Kraus, James Creswell, Sal Malaki, Tim Smith, Mark Kelley; Marta Domingo; James Conlon, Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Decca) Zandonai: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI - Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Giacinta Nicotra, Alberto Mastromarino, Giuseppe Altomare, Rosella Bevaqua, Sabrina Modena, Francesca Rinaldi, Roberta Canzian, Angela Masi, L'udovít Ludha, Fancesco Zingariello, Domenico Colaianni, Alessandro Pucci, Michelangelo Brecciaroli; Massimo Gasparon; Maurizio Barbacini, Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata, 2004 (Arthaus Musik) "Opera Exclusive: VIENNA STATE OPERA" [BOX SET] - 3-DVD set: NABUCCO (Nucci/Guleghina/Luisi); SIMON BOCCANEGRA (Hampson/Gallardo- Dômas/Gatti); WERTHER (Álvarez/Garanča/Jordan). These videos have all been previously released individually by TDK The following two DVDs were released in February but were left out of last month's posting: Mascagni: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA - Mario Ortica, Carla Gavazzi, Giuseppe Valdengo, Maria Amadini, Rosita Gilardi; Mario Lanfranchi; Arturo Basile, Film, 1956 (Immortal) Massenet: WERTHER - Juan Oncina, Leyla Gencer, Sandra Ballinari, Enzo Sordello, Marcello Cortis; Alfredo Simonetto, Film, 1955 (Sung in Italian) (Immortal) |