DVD Reviews
TCHAIKOVSKY Pique Dame – Dec 12, 2011
Since re-opening in 1999 after a fire five years earlier did heavy damage to the historic Gran Teatre, Barcelona’s Liceu Opera has developed an [...]
WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer – Dec 02, 2011
Judged purely on audio terms, Opus Arte’s new Blu-ray of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer from Netherlands Opera would qualify as a serviceably sung, expressively [...]
MOZART The Magic Flute – Nov 30, 2011
Mozart lovers interested in seeing what Die Zauberflöte looks like after it has been tossed around the inimitable brain of director Julie Taymor will [...]
MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana LEONCAVALLO Pagliacci – Nov 24, 2011
Plácido Domingo has been regarded as “remarkable for his age” for so many years now, that it comes as a bit of a shock [...]
CLAUDIO ARRAU Arrau and Brahms: The Two Romantics – Nov 07, 2011
Claudio Arrau’s final concert in his native Chile in 1984 is the subject of Arrau and Brahms: The Two Romantics, an absorbing documentary by [...]
VERDI Otello – Oct 28, 2011
There are two principal reasons to savor this 1978 Metropolitan Opera telecast of Verdi’s Otello: Jon Vickers’ searing portrayal of the title role, and [...]
TURNAGE Anna Nicole – Sep 23, 2011
The rise and fall of Anna Nicole Smith was a tawdry saga ripe for operatic burlesque. Lest you’ve forgotten, she was a bimbo from [...]
VERDI Simon Boccanegra – Aug 24, 2011
The raison d’être for the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010 revival of their Giancarlo del Monaco-directed production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra was, presumably, to showcase Plácido [...]
DONIZETTI Don Pasquale – Jul 25, 2011
When Anna Netrebko sang Norina in the first season of Otto Schenk’s Metropolitan Opera production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2006, she proved something [...]
HANDEL Belshazzar – Jul 15, 2011
Belshazzar, a splendid oratorio from 1745, has ample dramatic content for a cogent staging, the appearance of the famous “handwriting on the wall” (as [...]
