 | Birtwistle: The Minotaur
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $63.44 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
The latest opera from Birtwistle, out on DVD in no time! The great John Tomlinson is the Minotaur.
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 | Pascal Dusapin: Perelà, Uomo di Fumo
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $25.98 PASCAL DUSAPIN (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Clearly the best of the contemporary operas I have heard -- bravo!
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 | Luigi Nono: Al gran sole carico d'amore
Buy used from: $76.98 LUIGI NONO (5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Brilliant, moving, tragic work about revolution in the 20th century.
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 | Zimmermann: Die Soldaten
Buy new: $55.98 / Used from: $92.92 BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMAN
From the German Wergo label, a 1965 recording of the powerful serial opera with Michael Gielen conducting.
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 | John Adams: Doctor Atomic
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $32.96 JOHN ADAMS (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
This is the first recording to see the light of day, the Netherlands Opera from 2007. Levine and the NY Met recorded a performance in October, 2008. Of course it was NIXON IN CHINA which launched Adams's career -- it premiered in 1987.
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 | Thomas Adès: The Tempest
Buy new: $21.99 THOMAS ADES (JUNE 30)
This is a recording of the 2007 revival at the ROC (Royal OperaHouse Covent Garden). The premiere was in 2004. I don't know how avant it is, the young Ades seems to have broad appeal like Adams.
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 | Rosa: The Death of a Composer
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $10.02 LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
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 | Georges Aperghis: Avis de Tempete by Donatienne Michel-Dansac
Buy used from: $21.99 GEORGES APERGHIS
"Storm Warning," by the Greek/French experimentalist Aperghis, is partly based on "Moby Dick."
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 | Giorgio Battistelli: L'Anarca
Buy new: $17.98 GIORGIO BATTISTELLI
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 | George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.98 GEORGE BENJAMIN
The British avant-garde composer tries his hand at opera.
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 | The Mask of Orpheus
Buy used from: $139.36 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Fantastically complex electro-acoustic work with a multitude of Orpheuses.
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 | Harrison Birtwistle: Punch and Judy
Buy used from: $71.60 HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
The 1960s opera, newly reissued -- this is the same performance originally released on Decca on vinyl, and then Etcetera on CD.
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 | Elliot Carter: What Next?
Buy used from: $19.79 ELLIOTT CARTER (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
In his nineties, Carter decided to write a one-act opera.
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 | Dallapiccola: Ulisse by Luigi Dallapiccola
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $60.58 LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
Little-known work, this is a 1975 production released on CD in 2003.
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 | Luigi Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero; Canti di Prigionia
Buy used from: $39.95 LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
This is perhaps Dallapiccola's best-known work.
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 | Raaff (Slip) by Raaff
Buy new: $18.98 ROBIN de RAAF
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 | James Dillon: Philomela
Buy new: $31.98 JAMES DILLON
Scottish composer James Dillon is the latest post-WWII composer to turn to opera. (Aeon)
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 | Dusapin - Faustus, The Last Night
Buy used from: $25.97 PASCAL DUSAPIN
Dusapin's latest, a metaphysical farce
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 | Brian Ferneyhough: Shadowtime
Buy new: $48.98 / Used from: $28.98 BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH (4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Brilliant new work, and really funny too!
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 | Begehren
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $13.48 BEAT FURRER
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice from the Austrian composer.
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 | Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1993 Recording) by Robert Wilson
Buy new: $39.49 / Used from: $31.39 PHILIP GLASS
This was Glass's first opera, and his most radical. Including EINSTEIN he has now written a total of 20 operas, so Glass is only sampled for this list.
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 | Satyagraha
Buy used from: $39.97 PHILLIP GLASS
Glass's second opera is about Gandhi, and has recently been performed in a new production in NYC (4/17/08).
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 | Landschaft Mit Entfernten Verwandten: (Landscape With Distant Relatives) For soloists, choir and ensemble by Heiner Goebbels
Buy new: $17.98 HEINER GOEBBELS
The latest avant-opera from Goebbels (Landscape With Distant Relatives in English), and the first one he is actually calling an opera.
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 | Michael Gordon: Van Gogh
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $9.69 MICHAEL GORDON
A minimalist/Glass-style work based on Van Gogh's letters to his brother.
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 | Lazaro
Buy new: $48.49 / Used from: $28.99 CRISTOBAL HALFFTER
DVD of Halffter's operatic rendering of the story of Lazarus.
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 | Hans Werner Henze: Das Wundertheater
Buy new: $26.99 HANS WERNER HENZE
Here's the latest opera from Henze, who celebrated his 80th in 2006!
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 | Hans Werner Henze: Die Bassariden
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $68.57 HANS WERNER HENZE
This is one of 15 operas by Henze, and one of the most renowned.
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 | Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
Buy new: $36.98 / Used from: $28.52 HELMUT LACHENMANN (2 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
What a great concept, but the execution is another story. This ECM recording is better than the original on Kairos, though.
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 | Gyorgy Ligeti Edition Vol 8 - Le Grand Macabre by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Buy used from: $99.80 GYORGY LIGETI (3 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Ligeti's bawdy satire about the end of the world.
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 | Satyricon by Bruno Maderna
Buy new: $12.97 / Used from: $38.04 BRUNO MADERNA
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![Saint Francois d'Assise [DVD Video]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wxt0u5HgL._SL75_.jpg) | Saint Francois d'Assise [DVD Video]
Buy new: $52.99 / Used from: $55.73 OLIVIER MESSIAEN
The Netherlands Opera, recorded May/June 2008, with Rod Gilfry as St. Francis, stage direction by Pierre Audi and musical direction by Ingo Metzmacher.
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![Olga Neuwirth: Lost Highway [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uQGfE-ypL._SL75_.jpg) | Olga Neuwirth: Lost Highway [Hybrid SACD]
Buy new: $31.98 / Used from: $19.99 OLGA NEUWIRTH
This is an operatic rendering of the David Lynch movie from the young Austrian composer. (Kairos)
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 | Per Nørgard: Siddharta
Buy used from: $29.81 PER NORGARD
The Danish composer's opera about the man who became the Buddha, the Awakened One. This 1995 Da Capo disc is still available from Amazon.co.uk.
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 | Penderecki - Die Teufel von Loudun
Buy new: $29.49 / Used from: $23.73 KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
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 | Wolfgang Rihm: Die Eroberung von Mexico
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.50 WOLFGANG RIHM (2 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW)
Based on Artaud, THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO was timed with the 1992 500-year anniversary of the Spanish discovery of the Americas. Rihm has another opera not available in the States -- THE HAMLETMACHINE (available from amazon.co.uk)
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 | Saariaho - L'Amour de Loin / Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Monica Groop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.39 KAIJA SAARIAHO
Saariaho's first opera met with acclaim when it opened in Paris.
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 | Tan Dun: Marco Polo
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $22.54 TAN DUN
Born in China, Tan Dun came West in the 1980s and has been fantastically successful.
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 | Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 Vol 169/Various by Musik in Deutschland 1950-00
Buy new: $36.98 / Used from: $31.43 GERMAN OPERA, OPERETTE & MUSICALS, 1950-2000
Box 5 (9 CDs) in the RCA series
MUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND 1950-2000
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 | Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000 Vol. 171/Var by Musik in Deutschland 1950-00
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $77.44 GERMAN OPERA, 1950-2000
Box 6 (7 CDs) in the RCA series
MUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND 1950-2000
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![Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000: Experimentelles Musiktheater [Germany]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61P0oDi7PhL._SL75_.jpg) | Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000: Experimentelles Musiktheater [Germany] by Various Artists
Buy new: $29.98 / Used from: $22.00 GERMAN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC THEATER, 1950-2000
This is Box 7 (7 CDs) in the RCA series
MUSIK IN DEUTSCHLAND 1950-2000
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