Arthaus Musik Studio DVDs


Il Viaggio a Reims Best Price: $20.63	Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Ravenna Festival 2006) [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.20 To begin with, Laura Giordano. I know she has been around for the last few years, but this was...	Homage to Robert Schumann Best Price: $16.73 Either you like Schumann or you don't. His orchestral works have been criticized as opaque,...	Jeune Homme Et La Mort / Carmen Best Price: $20.78 DVD Details * Actor(s): Petit :search Petit Bach :search Bach Bizet :search Bizet Orchestre...	Mozart: Don Giovanni Best Price: $27.81 On the 24th of September in 1961 the new house of the Deutsche Oper Berlin opened on...



Karajan Memorial Concert - Mozart: Requiem / Claudio Abbado Best Price: $17.59 Claudio Abbado has always been, to me, the greatest interpreter of Mozart's music. He excels...	Christine Schäfer: Pierre Boulez Best Price: $17.93 If you're like me, you're considering buying this DVD because you love Schoenberg,...	Wagner - Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Best Price: $26.68 I cannot imagine what the previous reviewer was referring to when he said that Wolfgang Brendel...	Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet / Bessmertnova, Mukhamedov, Sharkov, Vetrov, Zhuraitis, Bolshoi Best Price: $3.99 Having seen most of the available DVD versions of Romeo and Juliet, I still greatly prefer the...	Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible / Mukhamedov, Bessmertnova, Taranda, Zhuraitis, Bolshoi Ballet Best Price: $13.19 If you've ever tried to decide who the worst choreographer of the twentieth century was,...



Kent Nagano Conducts Classical Masterpieces 5: Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 Best Price: $11.00 "Towering Cathedrals of Sound" is how I've always described Bruckner's...	Adventure! (Arthaus D20)	Super Guitar Trio and Friends Best Price: $13.17 SUPER GUITAR TRIO & FRIENDS - DVD Movie	An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Best Price: $20.42 While, in the true sense, The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater is not strictly and African American...	Cosi Fan Tutte Best Price: $13.98 Arthaus' new release of Cosi Fan Tutte has scored a first as regards completeness; every...

Verdi: Rigoletto Best Price: $19.85 In their series of celebrated opera productions from the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona,...	Clemenza Di Tito Best Price: $25.99	Appartement Best Price: $20.61 DVD Details * Actor(s): Ek :search Ek Belarbi :search Belarbi Gillot :search Gillot Riche...	Reimann: Medea Best Price: $20.75 DVD Details * Actor(s): Marlis Petersen :search Marlis Petersen Elisabeth Kulman :search...	Zandonai: Francesca Da Rimini Best Price: $20.48 Good sound, nice picture and very very pleasant voices. Dessi and Armiliato are just excellent -...

Christa Ludwig: Lieder Recital Best Price: $16.99	Barockstar: George Frideric Handel Best Price: $13.10	Schumann: Genoveva [Blu-ray] Best Price: $26.71	Fedora Best Price: $18.85 I'm a victim of the "change the cover" marketing ploy! I already had this...	Die Fledermaus Best Price: $20.68 This a great Fledermaus? Here's why: The Vienna State Opera produces a "near...

Michael Nyman: Composer in Progress, In Concert Best Price: $27.77 Michael Nyman is best known as the composer of the soul stirring soundtrack to the Jane Campion...	Winterreise Best Price: $16.59	Raymonda / Bessmertnova, Vasyuchenko, Taranda, Zhuraitis, Bolshoi Ballet (1989)	Die Frau Ohne Schatten Best Price: $25.49 Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten is his grandest work, a three-act fairy tale on an...	Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Lott, Goeke, Ramey, Elias, van Allan, Haitink, Glyndebourne Opera Best Price: $13.82 Maybe I should explain my headline. For anyone approaching this work for the first time, or...

Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera / Richard Croft, Ann-Christine Biel, Petteri Salomaa, Stuart Kale, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Arnold Ostman, Drottningholm Theatre Best Price: $16.75 While the libretto is highly comical - sometimes hilariously over-the-moon, Mozart plunges into...	Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette / Hanna Schwarz, Philip Langridge, Peter Meven, Colin Davis, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $13.08 Sir Colin Davis has recorded the Berlioz 'Romeo et Juliette' several times on CD, most...	Britten - Gloriana Best Price: $19.76 I own the other two versions of this Opera on commercial release. I have to say that the Opera...	Weber - Der Freischutz Best Price: $20.64 I love this film of Rolf Liebermann's 'Der Freischütz' from Hamburg in...	Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel Best Price: $16.91 Some productions of Hansel and Gretel cast one woman as the Mother and the Witch. This is the...

Minkus: Paquita Best Price: $10.53 Paquita é mais um balé que se perdeu no tempo. Sua estréia em...	Don Quichotte Best Price: $20.41	Julio Gonzalez - Julio Gonzalez Best Price: $15.69	Rossini - Il Turco in Italia Best Price: $20.67 Beautiful production. Not just sung but well acted too. No "updating" to the 21st...	Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera / Zagrosek, Reinprecht, Shankle, Costea, Staatsoper Stuttgart Best Price: $21.49 I recommend this Staatsoper Stuttgart production for a fine performance of Mozart's richly...

La Clemenza Di Tito Best Price: $16.74	The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty Best Price: $49.60 I would say that the customer most likely to appreciate this box-set would be the DEDICATED...	Andy Warhol (ArtHaus - Art and Design Series) Best Price: $17.85	Chanel, Chanel To learn and examine Chanel the person and Chanel the designer helps one to appreciate all the...	Sleeping Beauty Dancers Dream: Great Ballet Best Price: $16.90

Sergei Prokofiev: War and Peace Best Price: $27.65 This is a reissue of a no-longer available (except from Amazon's associated vendors who are...	Wagner: Die Walkure (St. Clair Ring Cycle Part 2) Best Price: $17.98 I really wouldn't recommend this performance. It seems to make fun of the opera more than to...	Wassily Kandinsky (ArtHaus - Art and Design Series) Best Price: $8.28 How is it possible to make such a boring film about such a brilliant painter? The entire video...	Othello Best Price: $14.52 VERDI:OTHELLO (WALTER FELSENSTEIN EDI - DVD Movie	Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Lott, Goeke, Ramey, Elias, van Allan, Haitink, Glyndebourne Opera Best Price: $13.82 Maybe I should explain my headline. For anyone approaching this work for the first time, or...

Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera / Richard Croft, Ann-Christine Biel, Petteri Salomaa, Stuart Kale, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Arnold Ostman, Drottningholm Theatre Best Price: $16.75 While the libretto is highly comical - sometimes hilariously over-the-moon, Mozart plunges into...	Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette / Hanna Schwarz, Philip Langridge, Peter Meven, Colin Davis, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $13.08 Sir Colin Davis has recorded the Berlioz 'Romeo et Juliette' several times on CD, most...	Britten - Gloriana Best Price: $19.76 I own the other two versions of this Opera on commercial release. I have to say that the Opera...	Weber - Der Freischutz Best Price: $20.64 I love this film of Rolf Liebermann's 'Der Freischütz' from Hamburg in...	Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel Best Price: $16.91 Some productions of Hansel and Gretel cast one woman as the Mother and the Witch. This is the...

Minkus: Paquita Best Price: $10.53 Paquita é mais um balé que se perdeu no tempo. Sua estréia em...	Don Quichotte Best Price: $20.41	Julio Gonzalez - Julio Gonzalez Best Price: $15.69	Rossini - Il Turco in Italia Best Price: $20.67 Beautiful production. Not just sung but well acted too. No "updating" to the 21st...	Don Quichot Best Price: $20.98 We seem to be in a golden age for classical ballet. Most every new production is just amazing....

Handel: Alcina (Wiener Staatsoper Live) [Blu-ray] Best Price: $28.69 If it doesn't do the mostly static and uneventful nature of Handel's 1735 opera any...	Gioconda Best Price: $23.99	Israel & Berlin Philharmonic: Joint Concert Tel Aviv Best Price: $17.48 In April 1990, at the end of the Berlin Philharmonic's first-ever tour of Israel, the BPO...	Monteverdi - Il Ritorno d'Ulisse In Patria / Kasarova, Henschel, Kaufmann, Hartelius, Rey, Jankova, Zysset, Mayr, Kallisch, Harnoncourt, Zurich Opera Best Price: $20.00 Updated Jan 12, 2010. Impressionist staging that really works. Every singer is excellent. ...	Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)/ Bartoli, G. Quilico, Kuebler, Feller, R. Lloyd; Ferro/Schwetzingen Festival Best Price: $20.82 'The Barber of Seville' - fast, fun, and, at times, frenetic, is well deserving of its...

Brahms - Symphonies No. 3 and 4 / Semyon Bychkov, WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln Best Price: $15.56 This was my first experience with Bychkov and his orchestra, and I continue to be impressed by...	Carl Davis - A Christmas Carol / Jeremy Kerridge, William Walker, Lorena Vidal, Royce Neagle, Steven Wheeler, John Pryce-Jones, Northern Ballet Theatre Best Price: $10.20 This version combines ballet dancing, stage and video effects, costuming, acting (pantomiming)...	Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Vol. 7 - Threads Best Price: $7.49 THREADS is the seventh and final episode of Sir Simon Rattle's "Leaving Home", a...	Penderecki: Die Teufel von Loudun / The Devils of Loudon Best Price: $20.96 I've given this "opera for TV" five stars, but I urge you seriously not to watch...	Semiramide Best Price: $55.80

Abbado: A Portrait Best Price: $15.92 Here Abbado spoke quite often, telling us about his background and his general view on music...	Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Sheng-Kai - Bamboo Dream Best Price: $20.77 As I write this the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is making a triumphant US tour. I am...	Mozart - Symphony in E Flat Major, Symphony in D Major Prague Best Price: $1.80 This DVD of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie (German Chamber Symphony) features not only two...	Rossini - Il Turco in Italia / Bartoli, Raimondi, Macias, Rumetz, Schmid, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera Best Price: $3.95 This is one of my favorite opera's so I was really looking forward to viewing this DVD. I...	Rossini - Tancredi / Bayo, di Nissa, Gimenez, d'Arcangelo, Bak, Piscitelli, Gelmetti, Schwetzingen Festspiele 'Tancredi' was Rossini's first successful opera seria, premièring only...

Leaving Home: Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Vol. 6 - After the Wake Best Price: $11.37 The DVD is fantastic on its own - includes excerpts from Strauss: Four Last Songs; Schoenberg:...	Verdi - Nabucco / Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Gruber, Paata Burchuladze, Teatro Municipale di Piacenza Best Price: $12.95 Actually, I think, the sound bothers me more. I just could not think of how any singer would...	Verdi - La Traviata / Eva Mei, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson, Franz Welser-Most, Zurich Opera Best Price: $19.55 This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction...	Jose Carreras Collection: The Vienna Comeback Best Price: $12.49	Strauss: Elektra Best Price: $19.85 Previously available on an Image Entertainment DVD before falling out of the catalog for some...

Dvorak Requiem / Neumann, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Best Price: $14.80 Unfortunately I ordered this before the other DVD with Popp, Randova, Pso and Altrichter (from...	Britten - Let's Make an Opera Best Price: $11.95 An engaging introduction to opera for children with similarities to Britten's Noye's...	Kent Nagano conducts Classical Masterpieces: Schumann 'Rhenish' Symphony Best Price: $7.39 The performance may not be flawless, but the interpretation Nagano gives is inspired. ...	The Tchaikovsky Cycle, Vol. 5 [DVD Video] Best Price: $10.66 The outstanding performance of the Fifth Symphony alone may well be worth the price of the...	The Dvorak Cycle, Vol. 1 Best Price: $13.22 Arthaus' Dvorak Cycle was recorded in 1993 in the Frankfurt Alte Oper, two years after the...

The Dvorak Cycle, Vol. 3 Best Price: $16.75 [As of the date of this review Amazon lists Lucia Popp and Mischa Maisky for this DVD. Neither...	Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Best Price: $20.70 While not a Tristan for the ages, this set from a German provincial house represents what I love...	Handel: Admeto re di Tessiglia, Opera in three Acts [Blu-ray] Best Price: $18.19 The booklet accompanying this BD is much better than most and gives a good account of the plot...	Rossini: Il Turco in Italia [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.65 Why is (or was) this one of the most neglected Operas of Rossini for over a century? Perhaps the...	Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Best Price: $22.80 This is an opera of high drama and this recording simply doesn't even come close to meeting...

Hansel und Gretel [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.30	Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Best Price: $27.46 A mixture of cheers and boos is the audience's verdict on Robert Carsen's notorious...	Simon Boccanegra Best Price: $17.80	Wagner: Rienzi Best Price: $27.83 Rienzi! Where do you start. I have the complete Schott Vocal Score to this music drama of...	Martha Argerich: A Piano Evening Best Price: $10.52 [This review was written for this DVD's original release in 2007.] While I agree with the...

Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Gala 1997: A Tribute to Carmen Best Price: $17.69 I bought this New Year's Gala DVD because I liked the themes associated with Bizet's...	Francis Poulenc: L'Opéra National du Rhin Best Price: $20.27 I spent a nice couple of hours reacquainting myself with this performance which I had not seen...	Rossini - Tancredi / Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Maria Bayo, Raul Gimenez, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Schwetzinger Opera Best Price: $20.19 This opera is rarely done because the 3 leads of Tancredi, Amenaide, and Argirio are extremely...