Three vivid female characters and Christian Thielemann dominate one of the most extreme sets ever created in opera. Linda Watson, Manuela Uhl, and Jane Henschel. Laura Giordano is the closest thing to Venus to appear on earth since the death of Homer.Įlektra. Giant-killing, best DP video ever was probably the cheapest to make.

Deborah Warner, William Christie, and François Roussillon come up with an impressively short, taut, zany, and admirable version of Virgil's Dido story.ĭon Pasquale. Immaculate confection puts you in a permanent state of suspended disbelief.ĭido and Aeneas. Famous production has never been equaled in video. Anna Caterina Antonacci and Jonas Kaufmann. Laura Giordano is a fantastically beautiful Musette. Mula manages to really look like a pretty girl dying from a terrible disease. We still don't have the Bohème we deserve, but this one is best so far. The favorite opera of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Maybe the best video ever of a baroque opera presented in historically accurate style. Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Les Arts Florissants. The end tears us every time (double meaning for 'tears').Ītys.

Modern sets with traditional-style costumes create jewel-like images of unbelievably beautiful-looking-and-sounding people in a bel canto universe. The 💓 designations here go to my personal favorites.Īnna Bolena. We would welcome suggestions from readers about other titles that should be on this list. Then we provide another group of (1) modern operas or (2) older works that have been radically updated with modern themes and overlays. First, we list our favorite Blu-rays of (more or less) traditional operas. But read the reviews of the operas below and you can't go wrong. We haven't seen all the Blu-ray operas, so this list is incomplete. Here's a list of 40 of the best opera titles to come out in the last 12 years (since Blu-ray was invented). Opera has benefited hugely from Blu-ray technology.

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