Brian Large Director DVDs


Zandonai - Francesca Da Rimini / James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $76.95 I love opera and I'm not picky, so it isn't often that I watch an opera and say,...	Siegfried [VHS]	Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny	Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte / Harnoncourt, Bartoli, Nikiteanu, Zurich Opera Best Price: $27.31 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the greatest composer of all time. Among his 626 extraordinary...	L' Africaine Best Price: $127.99 This is both rare and well-done: a sadly neglected grand opera, as spectacular in its own way...



The Makropulos Case Best Price: $20.41	Scooby Doo E I Misteri D'Oriente Best Price: $15.78	Rigoletto/Verdi [VHS] The cast list for this performance includes Garbis Boyagian as Rigoletto, Alida Ferrarini as...	Götterdämmerung [VHS] According to director Patrice Chereau, " Götterdämmerung undoubtedly presents a...	Adriana Lecouvreur [VHS]



Wagner - Das Rheingold / Levine, Morris, Jerusalem, Ludwig, Metropolitan Opera (Levine Ring Cycle Part 1) Best Price: $14.58 There is more to like...and less to be somewhat dissatisfied with...in this Metropolitan Opera...	Don Quixote Best Price: $15.80 "Don Quixote" is a classic staple of the ballet repertoire, and its individual set...	Lohengrin [VHS]	Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Best Price: $14.17 I am a long time magic flute lover, who has heard or owned most of the major recording out...	Romeo et Juliette [VHS]

Verdi - Stiffelio / Downes, Carreras, Malfitano, Royal Opera Covent Garden Best Price: $17.56 There has already been said a lot about this dvd and I can only second those reviewers who...	Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Complete Ring Cycle (Levine, Metropolitan Opera) Best Price: $71.23 Whatever Robert Lepage puts on the Met stage in 2010-12 (as I write, the first installment, DAS...	ABT In San Francisco / American Ballet Theatre Best Price: $17.27 This is a DVD with some of the finest american dancers ever, most of them are retired by now ( I...	Verdi - Stiffelio / Downes, Carreras, Malfitano, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Best Price: $40.00 This rare Verdi work has been re- introduced again by Covent Garden with a starry line up of...	Cecilia Bartoli: Haydn Best Price: $13.00 Once again Cecilia Bartoli displays why she is the best of the contemporary classical vocalists....

La Boheme Best Price: $24.27	Francesca De Rimini [VHS] Best Price: $5.70 This opera doesn't find its way to the stage very much, but I fell in love with this video...	Gounod - Romeo et Juliette / Mackerras, Alagna, Vaduva, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Best Price: $7.94 Charles Gounod is frequently accused by critics of being "too pretty" or...	Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne Best Price: $11.75 I wish I could give this DVD ten stars! Although I've enjoyed Bartoli and Terfel's work...	Wagner - Die Walkure / Levine, Behrens, Norman, Metropolitan Opera (Levine Ring Cycle Part 2) Best Price: $34.91 I cannot view Walkure as can a Wagnerian nor as someone well versed in the art of music, much...

American Ballet Theatre at the Met - Mixed Bill Best Price: $17.66 As denoted, this is a mixed bag of dances from the library of the American Ballet Theater,...	NEW Congo Square (DVD) Best Price: $15.38	Attila [VHS]	Verdi - Un ballo in maschera / James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $39.86 This is an excellent production of "Un Ballo in maschera" from the Met. I have...	Gaetano Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore - Opera National de Lyon Best Price: $13.63 Elisir d'amore is one of Donizetti's most popular operas, and it's easy to see why:...

Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Bonynge, Sutherland, Kraus, Royal Opera Best Price: $17.30 Dame Joan Sutherland's name is one of the best known in opera history. She was married to...	Cecilia Bartoli Sings Haydn Best Price: $21.99	New Year's Concert 1991 [VHS] Best Price: $83.90	Pique Dame: Kirov Opera and Orchestra - Filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg [VHS] Best Price: $24.99	Verdi - Otello / Solti, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] Best Price: $19.35 This live Covent Garden performance is a stellar event...Domingo, the most famous modern Otello,...

Così fan tutte Mozart's third and final opera with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, the hugely ambitious...	Verdi - Don Carlo / Levine, Domingo, Freni, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $49.99 Under the sensitive direction of James Levine, Placido Domingo plays Don Carlo, heir to the...	Rinaldo Best Price: $48.82	Alceste Rebelling against the increasingly formulaic operas of the time, Christoph Willibald...	Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina / Abbado, Ghiaurov, Atlantov, Vienna State Opera Best Price: $49.95 I've had this recording for some years. I've listened to it often trying to resolve...

Verdi - Macbeth / Sinopoli, Bruson, Zampieri, Deutsche Oper Berlin Best Price: $48.99 It is not often that I enjoy watching an opera on DVD from beginning to end, but this one...	Wagner - Gotterdammerung / Boulez, Jones, Jung, Hubner, Altmeyer, Bayreuth Festival (Ring Cycle Part 4) Best Price: $45.99 When I watched for the first time this DVD (well, it was a Laserdisc, for that happened prior to...	Lohengrin Best Price: $57.98	Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $39.95 Boccanegra is not always considered and audience-pleaser, but this DVD could quite possibly...	Otello [VHS] For those who want a home video that preserves the kind of treatment Verdi's Otello gets...

Cecilia Bartoli - Live in Italy Best Price: $13.40 The first known indoor theatre, Palladio's final achievement, completed in 1580, Teatro...	Verdi - Otello / Solti, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Royal Opera Covent Garden Best Price: $16.85 I have known and loved this OTELLO for nearly ten years now, having first watched it on...	Alban Berg - Wozzeck / Adolf Dresen · Claudio Abbado - F. Grundheber · H. Behrens · Vienna State Opera Best Price: $49.94 Wozzeck is one of my favourites operas, a work which I know in some of the most important...	Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $15.78 La versión discográfica de Otello en DVD, del Metropolitan Opera de NYC,...	Donizett - L'Elisir d'Amore / Alagna, Gheorghiu, Scaltriti, Alaimo, Pido, Lyon Opera (Special Edition with Highlights CD) Best Price: $16.63 Although the superstar couple Alagna and Gheorghiu are the leads in this opera, it is Alagna who...

Strauss - Elektra Best Price: $14.88 For me, Strauss' tale of ghastly family dysfunction has always been an opera better heard on...	Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Francesca Zambello · Tiziano Severini - M. Freni · L. Pavarotti · San Francisco Opera Best Price: $13.43 Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I am the biggest Freni fan imaginable. She does not...	Gluck - Alceste / Robert Wilson · John Eliot Gardiner · Anne Sofie von Otter · English Baroque Soloists · Théâtre du Chatelet Best Price: $14.99 When is a CD more visually exciting than a DVD? That's not a joke; the answer is this...	Verdi - Aida - The Metropolitan Opera/James Levine [VHS] Best Price: $19.99 This 1989 Metropolitan production conducted by James Levine is visually stunning with its...	Orphée et Eurydice Gluck's 1762 opera Orphée et Eurydice was groundbreaking in its day and, as this...

Wagner - Die Walkure / Levine, Behrens, Norman, Metropolitan Opera I find it very hard to find fault with this Video presentation of Die Walkure. Some have made...	Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $14.16 How lucky we are to have this gorgeous Metropolitan Opera production on such a high-quality DVD!...	Orlando furioso Best Price: $35.86	Viva Vivaldi! Arias & Concertos / Cecilia Bartoli · Il Giardino Armonico Best Price: $95.01 Watching this DVD was a truly wonderful experience, a real feast both for the eyes and ears. The...	Wagner - Parsifal / Levine, Weikl, Mazura, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $28.07 Levine's 1993 Met performance and Horst Stein's 1981 audience-free Bayreuth production...

Wagner - Gotterdammerung / Levine, Behrens, Jerusalem, Metropolitan Opera (Levine Ring Cycle Part 4) Best Price: $27.44 I have watched the three major options of the ring on dvd (kupfer,schenk,chéreau)....	Don Quixote / Baryshnikov, Harvey, American Ballet Theatre Best Price: $16.83 This particular ballet is what hooked me on ballet. I had watched Swan Lake and was so bored...	Berlioz - Les Troyens / Levine, Troyanos, Norman, Domingo, Metropolitan Opera [VHS] Best Price: $14.00 This is the only video version of Berlioz's masterpiece, and I think it's one of the...	Ghosts of Versailles [VHS] Best Price: $49.00 This innovative production was created as a special celebration for the Met's anniversary...	Aida [VHS] Best Price: $15.32 No, this is not the Broadway hit, but the original Verdi masterpiece, staged and performed to a...

Wagner - Lohengrin / Abbado, Domingo, Lloyd, Studer, Vienna State Opera Best Price: $199.99 This DVD of Lohengrin from Vienna in 1990 gives us a fine rendition of the opera, highlighted by...	Richard Strauss - Elektra / Abbado, Marton, Fassbaender, Vienna State Opera Best Price: $64.86 This production is very satisfying on some levels yet equally disappointing in others. I'll...	The Cunning Little Vixen Best Price: $29.76 There is no other opera quite like The Cunning Little Vixen , which was inspired by a comic...	Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $15.78 La versión discográfica de Otello en DVD, del Metropolitan Opera de NYC,...	Donizett - L'Elisir d'Amore / Alagna, Gheorghiu, Scaltriti, Alaimo, Pido, Lyon Opera (Special Edition with Highlights CD) Best Price: $16.63 Although the superstar couple Alagna and Gheorghiu are the leads in this opera, it is Alagna who...

Strauss - Elektra Best Price: $14.88 For me, Strauss' tale of ghastly family dysfunction has always been an opera better heard on...	Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Francesca Zambello · Tiziano Severini - M. Freni · L. Pavarotti · San Francisco Opera Best Price: $13.43 Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I am the biggest Freni fan imaginable. She does not...	Gluck - Alceste / Robert Wilson · John Eliot Gardiner · Anne Sofie von Otter · English Baroque Soloists · Théâtre du Chatelet Best Price: $14.99 When is a CD more visually exciting than a DVD? That's not a joke; the answer is this...	Verdi - Aida - The Metropolitan Opera/James Levine [VHS] Best Price: $19.99 This 1989 Metropolitan production conducted by James Levine is visually stunning with its...	Orphée et Eurydice Gluck's 1762 opera Orphée et Eurydice was groundbreaking in its day and, as this...

Wagner - Die Walkure / Levine, Behrens, Norman, Metropolitan Opera I find it very hard to find fault with this Video presentation of Die Walkure. Some have made...	Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $14.16 How lucky we are to have this gorgeous Metropolitan Opera production on such a high-quality DVD!...	Orlando furioso Best Price: $35.86	Rossini - Semiramide / Conlon, Anderson, Horne, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $15.23 Finally, Rossini's greatest musical drama reaches the dvd screen with a cast and production...	Wagner - Tannhauser / Mehta, Kollo, National Theatre of Munich Best Price: $16.25 This Tannhauser production is a complete insult to the work and it should be boycotted by all! ...

Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Kleiber, Coburn, Perry, Bayerische Staatsoper Best Price: $58.25 I am rather picky about Fledermice. I may be a redneck from south Arkinsaw, but I also lived in...	Verdi Collection (Aida/Otello/Un Ballo In Maschera/La Forza del Destino/Stiffelio/Luisa Miller) - Amazon.com Exclusive	Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Savall, Zanasi, Figueras, Mingardo, Abete, Turk, Vargas, Bettini, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona Best Price: $29.56 Savall may be today's grand guru of the "historically aware" musical production...	New Year's Concert 1991 [DVD Video] I have been collecting the New Year's concerts for a while, since the 1987 one, this was the...	Don Quixote / Baryshnikov, Harvey, American Ballet Theatre [VHS] Best Price: $39.93 At the time of writing, 14 viewers have rated this 5 stars and one lone sceptic a single star....

Bizet - Carmen / Kleiber, Domingo, Obraztsova [VHS] Best Price: $36.95	Wagner - Die Walkure / Boulez, Jones, Altmeyer, Schwarz, Hofmann, Bayreuth Festival (Ring Cycle Part 2) Best Price: $66.27 The Ring is so great a ception, so formidable a work of art, it is virtually impossible to cast...	Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Levine, Te Kanawa, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $12.17 A then-new Met BOCCANEGRA production that was panned in 1995 (and earned a retrospective...	Turnadot Best Price: $17.07 At the moment there are two DVDs of Turandot and one on Blu-ray but is not yet published, the...	Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $16.82 Of all the 'Aida' productions I've witnessed, this version is my favorite. If you...

Bizet - Carmen / Levine, Baltsa, Carreras, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $14.25 This is a fine MET production from 1988 (omg, I remember the first time I watched it on TV......	Wagner - Siegfried / Boulez, Jung, McIntyre, Jones, Zednik, Bayreuth Festival (Ring Cycle Part 3) Best Price: $50.00 In many ways this is the most difficult of all the operas of THE RING to mount. Not only are...	Richard Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten Best Price: $24.82 Before the DVD, I listened to Solti's CD. I liked it very much at first, and the more I...	Wagner - Siegfried / Levine, Jerusalem, Behrens, Morris, Metropolitan Opera (Levine Ring Cycle Part 3) Best Price: $23.41 This Met production returns to Wagner's original intentions, after decades of Bayreuth...	Tannhäuser Best Price: $30.80 The interpretation of Wagner's music seldom causes really heated discussion among Wagnerians...

Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice / Robert Wilson · John Eliot Gardiner - Kozená · Bender · Petibon - Théâtre du Chatelet Best Price: $19.98 Gluck wrote an Italian version of "Orfeo" in 1762 for Vienna. In 1774 he re-wrote a...	Wagner - Das Rheingold / Boulez, McIntyre, Zednik, Becht, Schwarz, Bayreuth Festival (Ring Cycle Part 1) Best Price: $35.13 This production , by Patrice Chéreau's is a reinterpretation of Wagner's...	Semiramide Best Price: $55.80