 | Jules Massenet: Manon
Buy new: $24.97 / Used from: $17.99 No.1 Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon in this amazing and beautiful production from Berlin. The best opera DVD on the market...
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 | Puccini - Turandot / Franco Zeffirelli - Marton, Domingo, Mitchell, Plishka, Cuenod - James Levine, MET (1988)
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $14.00 No.2 Simply one of the best opera productions ever. Eva Marton is glorious in the role.
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 | Madama Butterfly / Opera Australia, Cheryl Barker, Jay Hunter Morris
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.19 No. 3 Cheryl Barker became a star with this role, if you don't know her, buy this now. Beautiful, ravishing production from Sydney, Australia
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![Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31NNTMfZRWL._SL75_.jpg) | Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]
Buy new: $24.97 / Used from: $19.00 No. 4 Simply stunning, prefection!!!
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 | Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq d'Or / Schagidullin, Levinsky, Breus, Bannik, Manistina, Banks, Nagano, Chatelet Opera
Buy used from: $84.95 No. 5 A beautiful Oriental, mystical production of this rare gem.
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 | Verdi - La Traviata
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $14.88 No. 6 SPECTACULAR!!! There is no other word for this production. The singing is astounding and the production is very modern.
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 | Handel - Giulio Cesare / Kenny, Pushee, Dalton, Campbell, Gunn, Bennett, Hickox, Sydney Opera
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.00 No. 7 Simply the best Handel available commercially. Pushee's vocal control is worth it alone, then there is Kenny's beautiful Cleopatra too.
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 | Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Barker, Hobson, Luhrmann (Australian Opera)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.17 No. 8 The most romantic, tragic, beautiful La Boheme on DVD, just prefection...
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 | Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice / David Hobson, Amanda Thane, Miriam Gormley, Marco Guidarini, Opera Australia
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.50 No. 9 The beautiful French version, in an amazing production mixing dance and stunning visuals.
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 | Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) / Pido, Alagna, Gheorghiu, Opera National de Lyon
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $223.66 No. 10 Light and sparkly, like a glass of champagne.
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![Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle [DVD Video]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wjAYDM9VL._SL75_.jpg) | Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle [DVD Video]
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $23.93 The only available DVD of this amazingly beautiful opera. Extremely well sung and interestingly staged film sets...
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 | Bellini - Norma / Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Ron Stevens, Clifford Grant, Richard Bonynge, Opera Australia
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.48 Bellini's opera is like an endurance sprint for a soprano, Sutherland thunders home in unbelievable display of singing.
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 | Bellini: I Puritani
Buy new: $24.97 / Used from: $18.75 Netrebko may not be the prefect Elvira, but she is beautiful and sings well
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 | Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream / Daniels, Sala, Gietz, Dazeley, Meek, Hahn, Waddington, Rigby, Vas, Bicket, Barcelona Opera
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $18.99 The best modern, post-war opera. Enchanting mystical music.
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 | Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)
Buy new: $25.97 / Used from: $26.99 The best of the MET LIVE in HD series. Great singing, great production and shot beautifully...
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 | Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du regiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007)
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $18.44 Natalie Dessay is so fun and Juan Diego Florez sings beautifully in this rollicking comedy for the whole family
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 | Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, Paul Plishka, Richard Bonynge, Metropolitan Opera
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $23.28 The starring role of the greatest soprano of the century, the earliest available complete performance of her in the role that made her a star.
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 | Christoph Williabald Gluck - Iphigenie en Tauride / Galstian, Gilfry, van der Walt, Christie, Guth (Opernhaus Zurich)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.83 The only classical opera to feature gay charcters, is so beautifully written. This production is engrossing.
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 | Handel - Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2006)
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $41.27 A very entertaining, enlightening production of Handel's baroque masterpiece. The only downside is a female/mezzo Cesare... (David McVicar strikes gold again)
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 | Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci / Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Domingo, Stratas, Pons, Bruson, Obraztsova, Pretre
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $15.68 Placido Domingo shows here why he is the greatest living tenor and has been since the early 1980's, along with a fabulous cast lead by Teresa Stratas...
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 | Mozart - Die Zauberflote
Buy new: $24.97 / Used from: $22.99 A fun happy beautifully sung Flute.
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 | Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Keenlyside, Roschmann, Hartmann, Damrau, Selig, Allen, Sir Colin Davis, Covent Garden
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $24.15 A dark thought-provoking Flute. (Another McVicar production)
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 | Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) / Pretre, Domingo, Royal Opera Covent Garden
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $18.61 A beautiful classic production of this wonderful, tuneful piece.
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 | Sergei Prokofiev: War and Peace
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $62.93 Fabulous production of Prokofiev's epic opera...
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 | Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)/ Bartoli, G. Quilico, Kuebler, Feller, R. Lloyd; Ferro/Schwetzingen Festival
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $23.73 Cecilia Bartoli, stars in this simple jewel box production of this comic masterpiece.
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 | Saint-Saens - Samson et Dalila / Domingo, Borodina, Leiferkus, Fink, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $23.16 A wonderful, well-thought, colourful, modern production that is beautifully sung...
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 | Richard Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos / Levine, Norman, Battle, Troyanos, Metropolitan Opera
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $18.48 Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle both singing beautiful in this beautiful production from New York
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 | Strauss - Elektra
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $17.22 Birgit Nilsson shines in this complex piece. One of her very few available dvds.
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 | Richard Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Buy new: $24.97 / Used from: $19.39 Strauss's most thought-provoking symbolic work. Beautifully sung by a cast of superstars.
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 | R. Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $28.97 A new Japanese interpretation of Strauss epic masterpiece.
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 | Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Te Kanawa, Howells, Haugland, Bonney, Solti, Schlesinger (The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.99 Strauss's masterpiece by one of the finest sopranos of our age.
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 | Salome
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $29.95 Amazing, provocative, dark, sexy and bloody Salome...(David McVicar is an amazing director)
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 | R. Strauss - Salome
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $14.99 Teresa Stratas is an amazing Salome. Simply the best available.
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 | Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $23.06 Julie Taymor's costumes are amazing and her direction exemplary, in this dark, modern opera/oratorio based on the Ancient Greek tragedy.
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 | Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $14.50 The colossal Met production, traditional, yet not dusty. Placido Domingo sings wonderfully again...
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 | Verdi - Falstaff / Royal Opera House
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $18.17 Bryn Terfel and Barbara Frittoli sing up a storm in this riotous colouful production
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 | Verdi - Macbeth (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)
Buy new: $25.97 / Used from: $23.99 Another solid production from the Met's "Live in HD" series. Great production set in 20th Century Scotland...
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 | Verdi - Nabucco / Ramey, Guleghina, Pons, White, Hughes Jones, Deshorties, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
Buy new: $18.97 / Used from: $14.84 Maria Guleghina sings this lung-bursting role in this excellent production from the Met
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 | Verdi - Il Trovatore / Cura, Hovorostovsky, Villarroel, Naef, Rizzi, Covent Garden
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $10.00 A spectacular production of Verdi's great work from Royal Opera House Convent Garden.
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 | Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle)
Buy new: $74.97 / Used from: $79.99 The best Ring currently available on DVD, traditional sets, great cast, very solid production...
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