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A Piano Evening with Martha Argerich [DVD Video] Best Price: $25.99 This is a remarkable DVD, featuring Martha Argerich--arguably the greatest pianist of all...	Strauss: Salome Best Price: $17.50 Three aspects of this production of Salome turned me on. First, strong singing by the...	Opera Exclusive: Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff/Macbeth/La Traviata Best Price: $47.21	Dvorak - Rusalka / Robert Carsen, James Conlon - Fleming, Urbanova, Diadkova, Larin, Opéra de Paris Best Price: $14.00 I thought this was a gorgeous production, and was riveted from start to finish. Sometimes I get...	Voices of our Time - Felicity Lott / Graham Johnson, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $11.90 VOICES OF OUR TIME:FELICITY LOTT - DVD Movie



Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq d'Or / Schagidullin, Levinsky, Breus, Bannik, Manistina, Banks, Nagano, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $122.97 'Le Coq d'Or' was Rimsky's last opera, premièred as late as 1909. The...	Highlights fom the Catalogue 04/05: Opera & Ballet Best Price: $5.99 Samplers are good for finding music and artists one is not familiar with, so educational as well...	Weber - Der Freischutz / Seiffert, Nielsen, Salminen, Hartelius, Polgar, Vogel, Harnoncourt, Zurich Opera Best Price: $20.83 'Der Freischütz' has not fared well on video even though three versions are now...	Bellini - I Puritani / Gruberova, Bros, Alvarez, Orfila, Gorny, Madrid, Pierotti, Haider, Barcelona Opera The reviews here are all very helpful. I agree that the staging is more stark and grim than I...	Giordano - Fedora Best Price: $20.50 There is another DVD of 'Fedora' starring Mirella Freni and Plácido Domingo...



Prokofiev - War and Peace / Bertini, Gunn, Kit, Mamsirova, Gouriakova, Brubaker, Paris Opera Best Price: $79.88 Very much in the vein of the original Tolstoy novel upon which it is based, as well as the two...	Voices of our Time - Dawn Upshaw / Gil Kalish, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $4.67 [The Amazon customer review dated June 15, 2004 seems to be taken from a review of a live...	Voices of Our Time - Anne Sofie von Otter / Korngold Recital, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $17.68 This DVD is one of the growing series of important song recital releases from the...	Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Bonfadelli, Alvarez, Frontali, Olivieri, Palazzi, Fournillier, Genoa Opera Best Price: $7.25 At the outset, with its many strengths and reltively few, but distracting flaws I liked this...	Maria Callas - Living and Dying for Art and Love Best Price: $11.37 The legend of Maria Callas seem to have taken on a life of its own with a continuing flood of...

Lacotte - La Sylphide / Aurelie Dupont, Mathieu Ganio, Melanie Hurel, Jean-Marie Didiere, Ermanna Floria, Paris Opera Ballet The early nineteenth century marks the advent of a unique style and unforgettable dance, the...	Gunter Wand - Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Beethoven Overture Leonore III Best Price: $44.94 I've historically been one of those who could take or leave (mostly leave) Bruckner's...	Adam - Giselle / Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Vittorio d'Amato, La Scala Ballet Best Price: $20.59 The La Scala proudly presents Giselle, internationally renowned ballet choreographed by Jean...	Il Trittico [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.25 Each of these three short operas (thankfully in traditional settings) are different and that...	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Best Price: $11.99 This concert date by Blakey, filmed during the summer of 1976 in Umbria, Italy, is visually...

Various - Raw Punk, Vol. 1: More Bollocks Best Price: $18.93 The Song List on the back of the DVD is wrong, omitting one song (Rock Bitch - Tick Tock). ...	Voices of Our Time - Barbara Bonney / Malcolm Martineau, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $16.87 Barbara Bonney, of the silvery voice heard in such roles as Sophie in 'Der...	Gabriel Yared - Clavigo / Le Riche, Osta, Gillot, Bridard, Saiz, Petit, Bernas, Paris Ballet Best Price: $23.63 In the pantheons of 20th century ballet (after Fokine), there was the master of the abstract and...	Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen / Gambill, Denoke, Rootering, West, Gasteen, DeVol, Bonnema, Zagrosek, Stuttgart Opera Best Price: $219.85 If you are looking to purchase a complete version of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen, then...	Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Gavrilova, Redkin, Baskov, Novak, Martirosyan, Udalova, Arkhipov, Ermler, Moscow Best Price: $13.20 This 2 DVD set is from a 2000 production at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. It reproduces a...

Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible / Nicolas Le Riche, Karl Paquette, Eleonora Abbagnato, Vello Pahn, Paris Opera Ballet Best Price: $13.64 Sergei Eisenstein's grand unfinished 1940s-50s film trilogy 'Ivan the Terrible' had...	Mozart, Yakar - Mozart Requiem: Harnoncourt, Concentus Music Wien Best Price: $16.84 This live performance of Mozart's Requiem was filmed on 1 November 1981 in the Musikverein...	Verdi - Rigoletto Best Price: $20.69 I am generally not terribly fond of operatic stagings that blur the original intent of the work,...	Delibes - Coppelia / Giezendanner, Ganio, Lacotte, Paris Ballet Best Price: $14.44 I bought this DVD expecting to see another brilliant performance by the Opera National de Paris....	Donizetti - Don Pasquale / Corbelli, Mei, De Candia, Siragusa, Gatti, Korsten, Teatro Lirico Cagliari Best Price: $20.83 I have become a fan of Allesandro Corbelli. He seems to take great pleasure and delight in...

Massenet - Manon / Fleming, Alvarez, Vernhes, Chaignaud, Lopez-Cobos, Paris Opera Best Price: $4.25 So far this is the only 'Manon' to make it to DVD. But you really don't have to wait...	Bizet - Carmen / Domashenko, Berti, Aceto, Dashuk, Pastorello, Josipovic, Lombard, Verona Opera Best Price: $11.56 This 2 DVD set was made at a July 2003 Verona Arena performance of 'Carmen' staged by...	Roland Petit - La Chauve-Souris / Ferri, Murru, Bonino, Zeni, Trucco, Rhodes, La Scala Ballet Best Price: $19.67 of the many reasons why one would purchase this dvd mine was to see alessandra ferri. some...	Schubert - Winterreise / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Alfred Brendel, Sender Freies Berlin Best Price: $67.47 If there is any music with which Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is more identified than...	Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Best Price: $14.22 I can't resist "Abduction from the Seraglio." I reach for it when I'm blue and...

Roland Petit: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort - Carmen; Opera National De Paris Best Price: $16.49 This new release documents the programme dedicated to the French choreographer Roland Petit...	Strauss - Elektra Best Price: $12.00 TDK has released a new DVD of an Elektra captured in Zurich from December 2005. It is a total...	Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmelites Best Price: $159.99 There are two operas which always leave me in tears at the end: La Bohème and...	Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Best Price: $8.38 This is surely the most beautiful, touching and carefully thought out recording of this opera...	Voices of Our Time - Ian Bostridge / Roger Vignoles, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $17.74 For those of us, who have no opportunity to attend Ian Bostridge's recitals, this DVD is a...

Mats Ek - Appartement / Osta, Le Riche, Gillot, Martinez, Belarbi, Paris Opera Ballet I only recently found out about Mats Ek and his choreography, and this is the first DVD I've...	Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Surian, Ciofi, Gallo, Gvazava, Comparato, Donadini, Chama, Bertocchi, Mehta, Florence Opera Best Price: $28.84 I thoroughly enjoyed this production of The Marriage of Figaro. The singing and acting of all...	Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Joyce DiDonato, Roberto Sacca, Dalibor Jenis, Carlos Chausson, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Bruno Campanella, Paris Opera Best Price: $20.38 This Paris Opera production of 'The Barber of Seville' from 2002 has some problems, in...	Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov / Matti Salminen, Philip Langridge, Eric Halfvarson, Par Lindkog, Albert Schagidullin, Anatoli Kotxerga, Brian Asawa, Barcelona Opera Best Price: $20.30 You may have guessed from my headline that I am a HUGE Matti Salminen fan. With his powerful...	Jazz Icons: Series 1 (Nine DVD Boxed Set) Best Price: $120.40 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers * Live in '58 Dizzy Gillespie * Live in '58 &...

Deldevez - Minkus: Paquita, Opera National De Paris Best Price: $79.99 Paquita é mais um balé que se perdeu no tempo. Sua estréia em...	Gunter Wand: Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 Best Price: $19.23 This DVD of a live performance of the Bruckner Symphony No. 7 with Günter Wand...	Donizetti - La Fille du Regiment / Devia, Kelly, Podles, Pratico, Borioli, Rivenq, Renzetti, La Scala Best Price: $29.99 Well, nowadays the classical world loves 'star' singers, and thankfully we have a bunch...	Famous Operas: Carmen/Don Giovanni/Fidelio Best Price: $45.53 This box contains DVDs of three productions of operas that I've previously reviewed...	Opera Exclusive: Teatro alla Scala Best Price: $42.33 VERDI/MASSENET:OPERA EXCLUSIVE TEATRO - DVD Movie

La Forza del Destino [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.61 My father used to play La Forza and other operas like Nabucco, Flying Dutchmen etc. on Sunday...	Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Bohm, Berry, Grist, Mathis, Wixell, Watson, Kelemen, Bence, Salzburg Festpiele Best Price: $23.79 This film, taken from a live 1966 Salzburg Festival performance, has a few disdvantages compared...	Donizetti: Don Pasquale Best Price: $12.21 With incisive orchestral playing and an idiomatic quartet of Italians, this live DON PASQUALE is...	Wagner - Das Rheingold / Zagrosek, Probst, Schuster, Indridadottir, Ruuttunen, Stuttgart Best Price: $20.36 For the courage to release an experimental production of the Ring for American distribution in a...	Minkus - Paquita / Letestu, Martinez, Paquette, Wilk, Coleman, Paris Opera Best Price: $48.98 Paquita é mais um balé que se perdeu no tempo. Sua estréia em...

Berg - Lulu / Aikin, Kallisch, Keller, Straka, Davislim, Muff, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera Best Price: $50.00 Yes, this is the two act version, but if any opera house has the right to pull it off, it is in...	Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Popp, Gruberova, Fassbaender, Weikl, Berry, Hopferwieser, Kunz, Guschlbauer, Vienna Opera Best Price: $17.97 This 'Fledermaus' from a 1980 production at the Vienna State Opera, originally shown on...	Puccini - La Boheme / Alvarez, Gallardo-Domas, Hong, Servile, de Carolis, Parodi, Bartoletti, La Scala Opera Best Price: $3.00 Franco Zeffirelli seems to have a monopoly in video productions of Puccini's 'La...	Famous Operas: Carmen/Don Giovanni/Fidelio Best Price: $45.53 This box contains DVDs of three productions of operas that I've previously reviewed...	Opera Exclusive: Teatro alla Scala Best Price: $42.33 VERDI/MASSENET:OPERA EXCLUSIVE TEATRO - DVD Movie

La Forza del Destino [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.61 My father used to play La Forza and other operas like Nabucco, Flying Dutchmen etc. on Sunday...	Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Bohm, Berry, Grist, Mathis, Wixell, Watson, Kelemen, Bence, Salzburg Festpiele Best Price: $23.79 This film, taken from a live 1966 Salzburg Festival performance, has a few disdvantages compared...	Donizetti: Don Pasquale Best Price: $12.21 With incisive orchestral playing and an idiomatic quartet of Italians, this live DON PASQUALE is...	Wagner - Das Rheingold / Zagrosek, Probst, Schuster, Indridadottir, Ruuttunen, Stuttgart Best Price: $20.36 For the courage to release an experimental production of the Ring for American distribution in a...	Minkus - Paquita / Letestu, Martinez, Paquette, Wilk, Coleman, Paris Opera Best Price: $48.98 Paquita é mais um balé que se perdeu no tempo. Sua estréia em...

Berg - Lulu / Aikin, Kallisch, Keller, Straka, Davislim, Muff, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera Best Price: $50.00 Yes, this is the two act version, but if any opera house has the right to pull it off, it is in...	Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Popp, Gruberova, Fassbaender, Weikl, Berry, Hopferwieser, Kunz, Guschlbauer, Vienna Opera Best Price: $17.97 This 'Fledermaus' from a 1980 production at the Vienna State Opera, originally shown on...	Puccini - La Boheme / Alvarez, Gallardo-Domas, Hong, Servile, de Carolis, Parodi, Bartoletti, La Scala Opera Best Price: $3.00 Franco Zeffirelli seems to have a monopoly in video productions of Puccini's 'La...	Therapeutic Temple - Pure Ambience: Therapeutic Temple Best Price: $16.85 PURE AMBIENCE - DVD Movie	Wagner - Die Walkure / Gambill, Denoke, Rootering, Behle, Jun, Vaughn, Zagrosek, Stuttgart Opera Best Price: $6.91 I have no objections to updating the settings of classical works if this illumines or even...

Schubert - Die Schone Mullerin / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Andras Schiff, Feldkirch, Austria Best Price: $20.99 I confess I burst into tears as the recital began on this DVD. Having been one of the fortunate...	Mozart - Don Giovanni / Alvarez, Pieczonka, Antonacci, Kirchschlager, d'Arcangelo, Schade, Regazzo, Selig, Muti, Vienna Opera Best Price: $50.70 There is no doubt who the stars are in this Vienna State Opera production of 'Don...	Dave Holland Quintet - Live in Freiburg Best Price: $12.67 The first time I saw this dvd at a friend's place, I didn't know almost anything about...	Strauss: Capriccio Best Price: $7.02 This 2004 Paris National Opéra production of Strauss's last opera...	A Trail on the Water Best Price: $35.01 Luigi Nono emerged from the post-war avant-garde; he met Boulez and Stockhausen at the Darmstadt...

Gil Evans - Gil Evans and His Orchestra Best Price: $16.99 SO COOL - I got to wear a HAT !	La Bayadere - The Royal Ballet The great Mariinsky Ballerina Natalia Makarova shares with the West her Russian heritage with...	Minkus - La Bayadere / Asylmuratova, Bussell, Dowell, Mukhamedov; Lanchbery, Royal Ballet This masterpiece of 19th century ballet was originally staged for the Czar's Imperial Ballet...	Puccini: Turandot [DVD Video] Best Price: $124.99 This is the third version of Turandot I bought, and I would like to make a comparison with the...	Bellini - Norma / Anderson, Barcellona, Hoon, Abdrazakov, Biondi, Teatro Regio Parma Best Price: $21.76 This is an auspicious release in many ways. It could, and should, set THE standard for all and...

Mozart - The Abduction from the Seraglio / Mehta, Mei, Ciofi, Trost, Rydl, Montazeri, John, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence Best Price: $74.99 I bought this DVD not knowing what to expect (was my first opera on DVD), but was not...	Voices of our Time - Sylvia McNair / Roger Vignoles, Chatelet Opera Best Price: $16.35 Soprano Sylvia McNair has everything - a perfectly produced and controlled silvery soprano...	Mozart - Die Zauberflote / Gruberova, Talvela, Schreier, Cotrubas, Berry, Moser, Boesch, Murray, Mayr, Levine, Salzburger Festspiele Opera Best Price: $199.98 The magic flute is probably the most overrated opera written by Mozart among his compositions....	Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 - Gunter Wand Best Price: $11.58 Very often reviews key on the conductor and hardly mention the orchestra and the recording...	Massenet - Werther / Marcelo Alvarez, Elina Garanca, Adrian Erod, Ileana Tonca, Peter Jelosits, Philippe Jordan, Vienna Opera Best Price: $155.00 Where "Werther" is concerned, there's not much competition in DVD format--only the...

Band From Utopia - The Band from Utopia: A Tribute to the Music of Frank Zappa - Live in Stuttgart Best Price: $7.45 For those of you familiar with Frank Zappa and his music, this isn't a bad buy. Its a must...	Gunter Wand Edition, Boxset Part II / Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms Best Price: $30.00 After reading the reviews of Part I, I decided to invest in Set 2; however, it was not apparent...	Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Best Price: $30.88 An evening early this week sitting around a local university library, I had a new friend of mine...	Les Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1: Swan Lake/Le Corsair/Go for Barocco/The Dying Swan/Raymonda's Wedding Best Price: $32.99 What amazes me the most about the Trocks is the fact that some of them outstrip their...	Harnoncourt, Vienna Philharmonic - New Year's Concert 2003 Best Price: $67.47 Harnoncourt music making is like a first class scientific experiment. A lot of tricks based on...

Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte / Barenboim, Roschmann, Kammerloher, Bruera, Gura, Chausson, Berlin Opera Best Price: $20.76 Of the three Mozart/da Ponte collaborations, Cosi fan tutte is perhaps the most puzzling....	Rossini - Il Viaggio a Reims / Bayo, Bros, Merced, Rasmussen, Tarver, Cantarero, Dara, Cobos, Barcelona Opera Best Price: $19.99 'Il Viaggio a Reims' is an extremely difficult opera to produce, largely because it...	Horace Silver Quintet: Recorded Live at the Umbria Jazz Festival Best Price: $14.36 Recorded at the 1976 Umbria Jazz Festival, this rare Silver footage features what many believe...	Verdi - La Traviata / Ciofi, Sacca, Hvorostovsky, Tufano, Martorana, Cordella, Porta, Maazel, La Fenice Opera Best Price: $20.97 This performance of "La Traviata" was to celebrate the reopening of the Teatro la...	Puccini - Turandot / Gabriele Schnaut, Johan Botha, Robert Tear, Paata Burchuladze, Valery Gergiev, Salzburg Opera Best Price: $23.95 Making the various characters and chorus automatons, to be humanized by Turandot and Calaf's...

Ballet Concert '06 Best Price: $5.01 This is a sampler and is at a very low price. It gives the viewer a chance to see/hear some...	Elektra [Blu-ray] Best Price: $27.40 STRAUSS:ELEKTRA - Blu-Ray Movie	Ozawa, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Ozawa and the Vienna Philharmonic: New Year's Concert 2002 There are so many features here that it's not easy to decide what you might enjoy most, so...