In 1984 Joan Sutherland sang the title role in Donizetti's Anna Bolena in Toronto. The video recording is technically flawed but features some great singing plus some seriously over the top costuming. More...

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Continuing the wallow in Metropolitan Opera nostalgia; the 1988 production of Ariadne auf Naxos with Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman. More...

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Another look back to the days when acting in opera was optional the Metropolitan Opera's 1991 recording of Die Zauberflöte. More...

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The DVD of Laurent Pelly's Covent Garden production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment is great fun. More...

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I've posted here about John Adams' Doctor Atomic a couple of times. I've gone from skeptic to strong advocate Most recently I had a chance to review the DVDs of the Amsterdam production. More...

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Another DVD derived from Southern Television's annual broadcasts from Glyndebourne. It's Beethoven, it's Fidelio and the production aesthetic is a little more modern. More...

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In 1975 Glyndebourne staged a production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress with designs by David Hockney. More...

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I put off watching the DVD of Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin until the end of the run at COC. Now I've seen it. It's of the original Peter Sellars production recorded in Helsinki with the original cast. More...

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The Mörbisch production of Die Fledermaus which I reviewed earlier had enough weirdness not to be the "reference" performance I was looking for. I expected that an Otto Schenk production would be suitably unimaginative. I was right. More...

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This production of Die Fledermaus starts out very conventionally, drifts into Max Mosely territory and exits via Benny Hill. More...

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