The Death of Klinghoffer [videorecording] by
The death of Klinghoffer / music by John Adams ; libretto by Alice Goodman ; direction and screenplay by Penny Woolcock ; producer, Madonna Baptiste ; executive producer, Jan Younghusband ; A Blast! Films production for Channel 4 in association with ZDF, ARTE, SBS and SR DRS.
Summary: Opera, based on the hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro.
Yvonne Howard [Marilyn Klinghoffer], Susan Bickley [singing voice of Omar], mezzo sopranos ; Tom Randle [Moloqi], tenor ; Sanford Sylvan [Leon Klinghoffer], Christopher Maltman [Captain], Kamel Boutros [Mamoud], Leigh Melrose [Rambo], baritones ; Emil Marwa, actor [Omar] ; supporting soloists ; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ; John Adams, conductor.
Dido and Aenaes [videorecording] by
Dido & Aeneas / music by Henry Purcell ; [libretto, Nahum Tate] ; Rhombus Media ; produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada, Ontario Film Development Corporation ; directed by Barbara Willis Sweete ; conceived & choreographed by Mark Morris ; produced by Daniel Iron.
Summary: Mark Morris' modern dance is set to Henry Purcell's opera about Dido, the queen of Carthage and her doomed relationship with the Trojan prince Aeneas.
Cast: Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano; Ann Monoyios, Shari Saunders, Meredith Hall, sopranos; Russell Braun, baritone; Benjamin Sutterfield; Mark Morris Dance Group; Tafelmusik Orchestra & Chamber Choir.
Faust [videorecording] by
Faust / Gounod ; the Metropolitan Opera presents ; Decca ; a Metropolitan Opera high-definition production. Production, Des McAnuff ; host, Joyce DiDonato ; director, Barbara Willis Sweete ; set designer, Robert Brill ; costume designer, Paul Tazewell ; lighting designer, Peter Mumford ; choreographer, Kelly Devine ; producers, Louisa Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik.
Jonas Kaufmann (Faust) ; René Pape (Méphistophélès) ; Marina Poplavskaya (Marguerite) ; Russell Braun (Valentin) ; Michèle Losier (Siébel) ; other singers ; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor ; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet.
Based on Carré's play 'Faust et Marguerite' and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play 'Faust', part 1.
Giulio Cesare [videorecording] : opera in three acts by
Giulio Cesare [videorecording] : opera in three acts / libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym ; music by Georg Frideric Handel ; stage director, David McVicar ; producer, Ferenc Van Damme ; television director, Robin Lough ; from Glyndebourne ; a Glyndebourne/Opus Arte co-production.
Disc 1. Act 1 ; Danielle de Niese and the Glyndebourne Experience ; Cast gallery ; Synopsis -- Disc 2. Act 2 -- Disc 3. Act 2 (End) ; Act 3 ; Documentary ; Rehearsals photo gallery.
Sarah Connolly (Giulio Cesare) ; Alexander Ashworth (Curio) ; Patricia Bardon (Cornelia) ; Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto) ; Danielle De Niese (Cleopatra) ; Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno) ; Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo) ; Christopher Maltman (Achilla) ; Glyndebourne Chorus, chorus master, Bernard McDonald ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, leader, Alison Bury ; William Christie, conductor.
Otello [videorecording] by
Otello / Verdi ; producer, Elijah Moshinsky ; director, Barbara Willis Sweete. Opera in 4 acts; libretto by Arrigo Boito based on Shakespeare's tragedy.
Host, Sondra Radvanovsky ; Johan Botha (Otello) ; Renee Fleming (Desdemona) ; Falk Struckmann (Iago) ; Michael Fabiano (Cassio) ; Eduardo Valdes (Roderigo) ; Stephen Gaertner (Montano) ; James Morris (Lodovico) ; Renée Tatum (Emilia) ; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; Semyon Bychkov, conductor.
Parsifal [videorecording] by
Parsifal / by Richard Wagner ; libretto by the composer ; a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Opera National de Lyon, and the Canadian Opera Company ; production by François Girard ; directed by Barbara Willis Sweete.
Host: Eric Owens ; performers: Jonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet.
Prince Igor [videorecording] by
Prince Igor / music by Aleksandr Porfirʹevich Borodin ; the Metropolitan Opera ; production, Dmitri Tcherniakov ; director, Gary Halvorson ; producers, Louisa Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik.
Production and set designer, Dimitri Tcherniakov ; costume designer, Elena Zaitseva ; lighting designer, Gleb Filshtinsky ; choreographer, Itzik Galili ; director, Gary Halvorson ; producers, Louisa Briccetti, Victoria Warivonchik.
Ildar Abdrazakov (Prince Igor) ; Oksana Dyka (Yaroslavna) ; Anita Rachvelishvili (Konchakovna) ; Sergey Semishkur (Vladimir Igorevich) ; Mikhail Petrenko (Prince Galistsky) ; Štefan Kočan (Konchak) ; supporting soloists ; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chors and Ballet Donald Palumbo, chorus master ; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor.