Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Summary: Tchaikovsky's most popular opera, the tale of a lovelorn girl and a jaded aristocrat. Star soprano Renée Fleming sings the role of Tatiana for the first time at the Met in Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece. Dmitri Hvorostovsky sings the title role with Ramón Vargas as Lenski. Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Limited 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA EUGMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA THASummary: 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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2 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MADBellini, Vincenzo
Summary: During the English Civil War of the 1640's, a Puritan bride goes mad when she feels betrayed by her Royalist bridegroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PURBellini, Vincenzo
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Opera 2010
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SONVerdi, 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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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDSummary: 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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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BOHWagner, Richard
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA WAGVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2004
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA OTESummary: 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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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA CARVerdi, Giuseppe
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA STIVerdi, 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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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROWagner, Richard
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA WAGWagner, Richard
Contents: disc 1. I. Aufzug (Jessye Norman, Gary Lakes, Kurt Moll).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA WAGVerdi, Giuseppe
Contents: Disc 1, Act I Preludio -- Posa in pace, a' bei sogni ristora -- S'avanza il re - la rivedrà nell'estasi -- Il cenno mio di là con essi attendi -- Alla vita che t'arride -- Il primo giudice -- Volta la terrea -- Signori, oggi d'Ulrica - ogni cura si doni al diletto -- Zitti... l'incanto non dèssi turbare - re dell'abisso, affrettati -- Arrivo il primo! - È lui! è lui! ne' palpiti -- Su, fatemi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA VERWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINDomingo, Placido
Summary: Italian opera set in California during the Gold Rush. It features such Western characters as a sheriff, a Wells Fargo agent, miners, and a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA FANVerdi, Giuseppe
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1994