Complete Operas on YouTube

The latest trend is to post complete opera films on YouTube.  This became possible when YT stopped restricting the size of the films.  I'm starting a list that includes only films that show the action.  This can only lead to madness.  These generally come without English subtitles, but most will have plot summaries in Wikipedia.  This list is constantly changing and I don't always keep up.  There are many more than these.

Early Opera

L'Orfeo by Monteverdi.
La Calisto with Janet Baker

High Baroque


Handel--Theodora from Glyndebourne with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
Handel--Rinaldo audio only with Cecilia Bartoli
Handel--Alcina from Vienna Pt1, Pt2 US restricted.

Classical

Mozart--Nozze di Figaro with Netrebko and Roschmann, Pt1, Pt2.  Giant staircase.
Haydn--L'anima del filosofo with Bartoli.
Gluck--Orfeo ed Euridice in Italian from Glyndebourne.
Gluck--Orphée et Eurydice, the French version of Gluck's opera.
Mozart--I love this Don Giovanni.
Mozart--Peter Sellars' Cosi fan tutte, Pt1, Pt2, Pt3, Pt4.
Mozart--Peter Sellars' Don Giovanni, Pt1, Pt2, Pt3.  Features drug scene.

Bel Canto

I Capuleti e i Montecchi from Paris with Netrebko and DiDonato pt1, pt2.
For fun here is Maria Stuarda with Joyce DiDonato as Elizabeth.
Linda di Chamounix with Damrau
Rossini-- Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Cecilia Bartoli restricted in US

German including operettas

Beethoven--Fidelio with Janowitz, Popp and Bernstein.
Weber--Der Freischütz from Hamburg. 
Die Fledermaus with Kiri Te Kanawa.
Die Fledermaus in a version from Vienna with English subtitles.
Emmerich Kálmán - Gräfin Mariza Janowitz
Das Land des Lächelns Lehár 2017 with Beczala

Verdi

Aida with Pavarotti from San Francisco.
Macbeth movie with Ramey and Verrett.
Attila with Ramey at La Scala

Wagner

Lohengrin with Kaufmann
Parsifal from Bayreuth.

French

Kaufmann sings La Damnation de Faust
Carmen from Salzburg
Gounod--Faust from Zurich
Meyerbeer--Les Huguenots with Joan Sutherland

Verismo

Zeffirelli film of Pagliacci.
Puccini--La Bohème from Salzburg 2012.
Puccini--Tosca movie from Rome

Strauss and German late romantic

Der Rosenkavalier from the Royal Opera
Der Rosenkavalier with Schwarzkopf.  Considered definitive.
Elektra with Gwyneth Jones
Elektra with Janis Martin
Arabella with Lucia Popp
Tiefland by d'Albert

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin film
Pique Dame with Obratzova.
Iolanta from Baden Baden

Modern

Henze's Elegy for young Lovers in English.
Antony and Cleopatra with Malfitano pt1, pt2.  I liked it.
The Aspern Papers original production.
Ainadamar- Osvaldo Golijov Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What a great idea and a great list!