Summary: A ballet based on Shakespeare's tragicomedy that focuses on King Leontes, who accuses his boyhood friend of betrayal, condemns his wife for adultery, and banishes his newborn daughter. The story is taken up fifteen years later when the wronged and innocent parties are re-united with the king who has since come to his senses and now lives in a state of perpetual grief and regret.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: A highly-acclaimed production from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a powerful and fascinating reinterpretation of Dvorak's fairy-tale opera Rusalka. The young, up-and-coming Latvian soprano, Kristine Opolais's performance was rightly praised by the press. With her supple and velvety soprano voice, captivating physical beauty, and hauntingly moving stage presence, Opolais perfectly embodies the role...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2012

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Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012

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Wagner, Richard

Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012

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Summary: Nonesuch Records presents the Metropolitan Opera s performance of John Adams Nixon in China , with the composer conducting, on Blu-ray and DVD together in one package. The Met s production, staged by Adams longtime collaborator Peter Sellars, stars James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he created at the opera s world premiere in 1987 and has since performed at international leading opera...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2012

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Summary: Bonus features (all on disc 2): Backstage at the Met with host Renée Fleming: interviews with Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Maria Zifchak and Carolyn Choa; Anthony Minghella talks about Madama Butterfly.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2011

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Summary: Luciano Pavarotti stars in the vivid staging of Giordano's opera set during the tumultuous French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2011

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Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011

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Glyndebourne Chorus

Summary: Opera revolving around the fatal tensions that develop between a young sailor, the malevolent master-at-arms, and the captain aboard a British man o' war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2011

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Summary: A Saint Petersburg official wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared from his face and has assumed a life of its own, pretending to be human.

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Publisher / Publication Date: VAI 2010

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Summary: Tells of the struggle between the Russians Polovtsian nomads, of Prince Igor's capture and escape from his noble opponent, Kon Konchak, and the love between Igor's son, Vladimir, and Konchak's daughter, Konchakovna; based on The song of Igor's campaign (Slovo o polku Igoreve).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Video Artists International 2010

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Summary: Rossini's adaptation of the classic Cinderella story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2010

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Summary: The debut performance from Jonas Kaufmann as Goethe's love-lorn hero in Massenet's romantic opera. Kaufmann is supported by a cast including Sophie Koch and Ludovic Tézier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2010

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Summary: Carmen, a beautiful and sultry gypsy, woos the corporal Don José. Their relationship leads to his rejection of his former love, mutiny against his superior, and joining a gang of smugglers. His jealousy when she turns from him to the bullfighter Escamillo leads to murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2010

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Summary: Rigoletto, the court jester, plans revenge against his daughter's seducer, the Duke.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Classics 2010

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Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Classics 2010

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Summary: Non-narrative ballet choreographed to the music of Frederic Chopin, orchestrated by Alexander Glazounov.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: View Video 2009

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Summary: Set in the Latin Quarter of 1830's Paris, the opera focuses on the love between the poet Rodolfo and Mimi, who leaves him due to his irrational jealousy, only to return as she is dying of consumption.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2009

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Summary: The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he tries to wash the blood from his hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2009

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Summary: Hoffmann is a lovelorn young man in Nuremberg who is watching his latest love, Stella, dance in the ballet. In the interval he goes to the tavern where he tells his friends the tales of the three major loves of his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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Strauss, Richard

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2009

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