Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier / Baker, Carby, Hemm, Fyfe, Pearson. Australian Opera [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Opera Australia / 2013-03-26

Conductors: Litton, Andrew; Fitzgerald, Brian
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

Der Rosenkavalier, the most successful opera of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's partnership, is a story of love, lust and human frailty. With all...continue...
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Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM 2.0, DTS HD Master Audio
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spani...continue...

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro / Summers, Rhodes, Fiebig, Coleman-Wright [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Opera Australia / 2012-10-30

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492
Performers: Breen, Kanen; Coleman-Wright, Peter; Dark, Jacqueline; Durkin, Rachelle; Fiebig, Taryn; Fyfe, Warwick; Pendry, Sian; Tahu-Rhodes, Teddy
Conductors: Summers, Patrick
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Opera Australia Chorus

Neil Armfield's sparkling production of The Marriage of Figaro masterfully captures Mozart's most popular comedic opera. In this classic performance, recorded live at the Sydney...continue...
Run Time: 183 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.0 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish...continue...

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier / Cheryl Barker, Catherine Carby, Manfred Hemm, Emma Pearson. Opera Australia, Andrew Litton [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Opera Australia / 2012-08-28

Works: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Performers: Barker, Cheryl; Brunsdon, Andrew; Carby, Catherine; Choo, Henry; Dark, Jacqueline; Fyfe, Warwick; Hemm, Manfred; Pearson, Emma
Conductors: Litton, Andrew
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

Der Rosenkavalie, the most successful opera of Strauss and von Hofmannsthal's partnership, is a story of love, lust and human frailty. The story is not...continue...
Run Time: 199 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): PCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish,...continue...

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier / Catherine Carby, Cheryl Barker, Manfred Hemm, Emma Pearson. Opera Australia

3 CD / Opera Australia / 2012-08-28

Works: Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Conductors: Litton, Andrew
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Der Rosenkavalie, the most successful opera of Strauss and von Hofmannsthal's partnership, is a story of love, lust and human frailty. The story is not...continue...
Recording information: Sydney Opera House (12/13/2010/12/19/2010)....continue...

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Wigglesworth - Australian Opera & Ballet Orch., Rhodes, Coad, Durkin, Sumegi [2 DVD]

2 DVD Video / Opera Australia / 2012-06-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527
Performers: Choo, Henry; Coad, Conal; Dark, Jacqueline; Durkin, Rachelle; Fiebig, Taryn; Jones, Andrew; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu; Sumegi, Daniel
Conductors: Wigglesworth, Mark
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Opera Australia Chorus

Don Giovanni, a libertine, a rake with a devil-may-care attitude, is portrayed magnificently by Rhodes in this production, where he first appears on stage in...continue...
Run Time: 174 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish...continue...

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Wigglesworth - Australian Opera & Ballet Orch., Rhodes, Coad, Durkin, Sumegi [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Opera Australia / 2012-06-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527
Performers: Choo, Henry; Coad, Conal; Dark, Jacqueline; Durkin, Rachelle; Fiebig, Taryn; Jones, Andrew; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu; Sumegi, Daniel
Conductors: Wigglesworth, Mark
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Opera Australia Chorus

Don Giovanni, a libertine, a rake with a devil-may-care attitude, is portrayed magnificently by Rhodes in this production, where he first appears on stage in...continue...
Run Time: 174 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS-HD 5.1, DTS 2.0
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish, Itali...continue...

Puccini: La Boheme / Edwards, Park, Kizart, Carbo, Fiebig [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Opera Australia / 2012-02-28

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Performers: Carbo, Jose; Fiebig, Taryn; Kizart, Takesha Meshe; Lowrencev, Shane; Park, Ji-Min; Parkin, David
Conductors: Lu, Shao-Chia; Edwards, Gale
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

This sensational new production of La bohFme, the inspired concept of director Gale Edwards, is set in early 1930s Berlin, a city of liberal indulgence,...continue...
Run Time: 117 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Germ...continue...

Puccini: La Boheme / Edwards, Park, Kizart, Carbo, Fiebig [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Opera Australia / 2012-02-28

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème
Performers: Carbo, Jose; Fiebig, Taryn; Kizart, Takesha Meshe; Lowrencev, Shane; Park, Ji-Min; Parkin, David
Conductors: Edwards, Gale; Lu, Shao-Chia
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

Run Time: 117 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): 24-bit LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, German, Sp...continue...

Verdi: Rigoletto / Opie, Matthews, O'Neil, Parkin [DVD]

2 DVD Video / Opera Australia / 2011-07-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Performers: Matthews, Emma; O'Neill, Paul; Opie, Alan; Parkin, David
Conductors: Reggioli, Giovanni
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

One of Opera Australia's best-loved productions, Elijah Moshinsky's retelling of Rigoletto draws Verdi's dark melodrama into a modern day mafioso underworld, inspired by Federico Fellini's...continue...
Run Time: 131 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.0 Surround
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish...continue...

Verdi: Rigoletto / Opie, Matthews, O'Neil, Parkin [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Opera Australia / 2011-07-12

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto
Performers: Matthews, Emma; O'Neill, Paul; Opie, Alan; Parkin, David
Conductors: Reggioli, Giovanni
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

One of Opera Australia's best-loved productions, Elijah Moshinsky's retelling of Rigoletto draws Verdi's dark melodrama into a modern day mafioso underworld, inspired by Federico Fellini's...continue...
Run Time: 131 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): DTS HD Master Audio 5.1, LPCM 2.0
Subtitles: English, French, German...continue...

Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro / Summers, Rhodes, Fiebig [Blu-Ray]

3 Blu-Ray Video / Opera Australia / 2011-06-14

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492
Performers: Coleman-Wright, Peter; Durkin, Rachelle; Fiebig, Taryn; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu
Conductors: Summers, Patrick
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

Neil Armfield's sparkling production of The Marriage of Figaro masterfully captures Mozart's most popular comedic opera. In this classic performance, recorded live at the Sydney...continue...
Run Time: 183 min.
Region: 0
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Germa...continue...

Within a Dream - A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-10-27

Works: Frank Bridge: The Sea; Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39; War Requiem, Op. 66; Peter Grimes; Ralph Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); The Pilgrim's Pr...
Performers: Ainsley, John Mark; Barker, Cheryl; Bullock, Susan; Burgess, Sally; Davies, Arthur [Tenor Vocal]; Eckhoff, Herbert; Elms, Roderick; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Voca...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; BBC National Orchestra of Wales; BBC Welsh Symphony; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of London Sinfonia; Collegium Musicum 90; London Symphony Orchestra; R...

The premature death of Richard Hickox on 23 November 2008, aged sixty, deprived the musical world of one of its greatest conductors. The depth and...continue...

Mozart: Don Giovanni / Fischer/Australian Opera, Gasteen, Black [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2009-09-29

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527
Performers: Black, Jeffrey; Gasteen, Lisa; Hobson, David
Conductors: Fischer, György
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

No hero-villain story is more compelling than Mozart's timeless tale of the world's most legendary lover in the last days of his life. The irresistible...continue...
Run Time: 162 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby 2.0,
Subtitles: English
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Opera - The Greatest Moments Ever

1 CD / Petrol Records / 2008-07-28

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni; Così fan tutte, K 588; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Christoph Willibald Gluck...
Performers: Barker, Cheryl; Begg, Heather; Brennan, David; Buchanan, Isobel; Coleman-Wright, Peter; Elms, Lauris; Fowles, Glenys; Hobson, David [Singer/Composer]; Horne, Marilyn [Mezzo-Soprano Vocal]; James, Fio...
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard; Arnold, Geoffrey; Guidarini, Marco; Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; Walker, Antony; Rizzi, Carlo; Albert, Werner Andreas; Martin, André
Ensemble: ; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Symphony Orchestra; Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra; Sinfonia Australis; Tasmanian Sympho...

Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience / Stanhope/Sydney Opera House, live 1995, Douglas, Begg, Warlow [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2008-03-25

Works: Arthur Sullivan: Patience
Performers: Begg, Heather; Douglas, Christine; Olsen, Dennis; Warlow, Anthony
Conductors: Stanhope, David
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra; Australian Opera Chorus

Set in the early 20th century, the aesthetic poet Bunthorne sings his love for Patience, the village milkmaid. Meanwhile he has captured the heart of...continue...
Run Time: 130 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby 2.0,
Country of Origin: USA
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Power of Love - Wallace, Balfe, Faraday, etc / Bonynge

1 Super Audio CD / Melba Recordings / 2007-07-01

Works: William Vincent Wallace: Maritana; Arthur Sullivan: Ivanhoe; Rose of Persia; Michael Balfe: The Rose of Castille
Performers: Riedel, Deborah
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

This is the SACD version of the highly acclaimed CD (MR301082) we issued last year. Riedel is one of Australia's most celebrated young sopranos, and...continue...

Massenet: Amoureuse, Opera arias, etc / Bonynge, Illing

2 Super Audio CD / Melba Recordings / 2007-06-01

Works: Jules Massenet: Marie-Magdeleine; Eve; La vierge; Hérodiade; Sapho; Le Cid; Grisélidis; Chérubin; Ariane
Performers: Goodman, Joanne; Gunn, Rosemary; Illing, Rosamund; Stannard, Elizabeth
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

One of Australia's most distinguished sopranos is joined by one of the world's greatest opera and ballet conductors in an SACD collection that reveals Massenet's...continue...

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor / Bonynge/Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Kultur International Films / 2007-03-27

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers: Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Sutherland first broke through to international success with her role in this opera, Donizetti's interpretation of Sir Walter Scott's story of love, treachery, and murder....continue...
Run Time: 145 min.
Region: 1
Picture Format: NTSC, 4:3, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby 2.0,
Country of Origin: USA
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Power of Love - Wallace, Balfe, Faraday, etc / Bonynge

1 CD / Melba Recordings / 2006-10-01

Works: William Vincent Wallace: Maritana; Arthur Sullivan: Ivanhoe; Rose of Persia; Michael Balfe: The Rose of Castille
Performers: Riedel, Deborah
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Of 'The Power of Love,' Bonynge writes, "This little record has been in my mind for many years. During my student days in London in...continue...

Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges / Hickox, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2006-01-24

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Love for three oranges
Performers: Alexander, Richard; Arthur, Jud; Baumann, Arend; Carby, Catherine; DuFore, Tim; Ferguson, William; Fyfe, Warwick; Macfarlane, Graeme; MacMaster, John; Martin, Bruce; McGregor, Ali; Rhodes, Teddy Tahu...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

"...[this] Australian performance itself is in every way competitive with current rivals... Hickox and his Australians have a ball throughout, and the recording somehow captures...continue...