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?ducation Manqu
Series Title: Op?ra Fran?ais
Call Number: DVD 2007-265
Description: 1994 production of Chabrier's operetta about a young man in 18th century Paris discovering what it is to be married; stars Frank Cassard, Mary Saint-Palais; conducted by Michel Swierczewski
Keywords: Chabrier, Emmanuel

Africaine
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Call Number: VCR 2007-225
Description: San Francisco Opera production of Meyebeer's opera about Vasco da Gama's expedition to find passage beyond Africa; starring Placido Domingo, Shirley Verrett; conducted by Maurizio Arena
Keywords: Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Aida
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Call Number: DVD 2007-247
Description: 1988 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera about the tragic romance between Egyptian captain Radames and the slave woman Aida; stars Aprile Millo, Placido Domingo
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Aida
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Call Number: VCR 95- 1
Description: 1980s performance at La Scala
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Aida
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Call Number: VCR 2001- 2
Description: 1989 Metropolitan Opera performance; Placido Domingo, Aprile Millo
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Alcina
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Call Number: DVD 2007-264
Description: 1999 producction of Handel's opera about the sorceress Alcina; recorded at the Staatsoper Stuttgart; starring Catherine Naglestad, Alice Coote; conducted by Alan Hacker
Keywords: Handel, Georg Friedrich

Alfonso und Estrella
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Call Number: DVD 2007-230
Description: 2004 production of Schubert's romantic opera, filmed at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Italy; starring Eva Mei, Rainer Trost; conducted by G?rard Korsten
Keywords: Schubert, Franz

Amahl and the Night Visitors
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Call Number: VCR 2007-123
Description: Menotti's opera tells the story of the crippled boy Amahl who, one night, encounters three strangers: three Kings on their way to Bethlehem
Keywords: Menotti, Gian Carlo; Nativity story

Andrea Chenier
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001- 69
Description: Starring Placido Domingo; 2 copies
Keywords: Giordano, Umberto

Andrea Chenier
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-288
Description: Starring Placido Domingo; performance by the Royal Opera House, London
Keywords: Giordano, Umberto

Arabella
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Call Number: VCR 2007-251
Description: 1984 Glyndebourne Festival opera production of Strauss's opera; starring Ashley Putnam, Gianna Rolandi, Regina Sarfaty; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink
Keywords: Strauss, Richard

Ariadne auf Naxos
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Call Number: DVD 2007-239
Description: 1988 Metropolitan Opera production of Strauss's opera, starring Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, Tatiana Troyanos; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Strauss, Richard

Attila
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Call Number: VCR 2007-227
Description: Teatro alla Scala production of Verdi's opera about the barbarian chief, who attacks the forces of the Emperor Valentinian and marches on Rome; starring Samuel Ramey
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Ballo in Maschera
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Call Number: VCR 2001-296
Description: Starring Placido Domingo; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Barber of Seville
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Call Number: VCR 2001-292
Description: Netherlands Opera Company
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Barber of Seville
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Call Number: VCR 2007-153
Description: 1976 production of Rossini's opera, performed by the New York City Opera and conducted by Sarah Caldwell; starring Beverly Sills
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Beggar's Opera
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Call Number: VCR 2007-222
Description: 1983 BBC Television production of John Gay's opera, set among London's criminal classes and full of satirical jibes about corruption in high places; starring Roger Daltrey and Bob Hoskins
Keywords: Gay, John; Roger Daltrey

Betrothal in a Monastery: The Duenna
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Call Number: DVD 2007-220
Description: Kirov Opera production of Prokofiev's opera based on the play "The Duenna" by R.B. Sheridan; recorded in 1997 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg; conducted by Valery Gergiev
Keywords: Sheridan, R.B.; Prokofiev, Sergei

Billy Budd
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Call Number: DVD 2002- 6
Description: Britten's opera, based on the novel by Herman Melville
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin

Billy Budd
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Call Number: VCR 2007-248
Description: 1988 BBC production of Britten's opera based on the story by Herman Melville; starring Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard Van Allen
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin; Melville, Herman

Bizet's Carmen
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Call Number: VCR 2000-281
Description: 1984 film version of Bizet's opera, starring Placido Domingo
Keywords: Bizet, Georges

Boh?me
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Call Number: DVD 2007-240
Description: 1993 Sydney Opera House performance of Puccini's opera about bohemian pleasures and doomed love among poor artists, with the setting updated to Paris in 1957 and 1958
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Boh?me
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001- 6
Description: Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's opera, recorded live at the Sydney Opera House, 25 February 1993
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Boh?me
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Call Number: VCR 2007-226
Description: Franco Zeffierlli's Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's tragic-comedy exploring the lives of impoverished artists in Paris; starring Jose Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Boris Godunov
Series Title: Bolshoi Presents
Call Number: DVD 2007-263
Description: 1978 Bolshoi Theater production of Mussorgsky's opera, based on the play by Pushkin about the reign of Boris Godunov, Czar of Russia; starring Evgenii Nesterenko, Galina Kalanina
Keywords: Mussorgsky, Modest; Pushkin, Aleksandr

Boris Godunov
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Call Number: VCR 2001- 4
Description: Mussorgsky's opera, based on Pushkin?s play and Karamzin?s History of the Russian state; two parts
Keywords: Mussorgsky, Modest

Carmen
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Call Number: DVD 2007-250
Description: 1987 Metropolitan Opera production of Bizet's opera; in 19th century Seville, Carmen seduces a naive Army corporal, Don Jose; stars Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Bizet, Georges

Carmen
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Call Number: VCR 2001- 68
Description: Starring Placido Domingo
Keywords: Bizet, Georges

Cenerentola
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-156
Description: Rossini's operatic version of the story of Cinderella; 1983 production of the Glyndebourne Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino; Cinderella

Ch?rubin
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Call Number: DVD 2007-260
Description: 2006 production of Massenet's opera, recorded at the Teatro Lirico de Cagliari, Italy; starring Michelle Breedt, Patrizia Ciofi, Carmela Remigio; conducted by Emmanuel Villaume
Keywords: Massenet, Jules

Clemenza di Tito
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Call Number: DVD 2007-225
Description: 1980 performance of Mozart's opera, filmed in Rome; starring Eric Tappy and Tatiana Troyanos; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Comte Ory
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Call Number: DVD 2007-137
Description: 1997 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Rossini's opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity; conducted by Andrew Davis
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Comte Ory
Series Title: Glyndebourne Opera
Call Number: VCR 2007-161
Description: 1997 Glyndebourne Festival Opera performance, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra; conducted by Andrew Davis
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Contes D'Hoffmann
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Call Number: VCR 2007-204
Description: 1988 Teatro Regio performance of Offenbach's opera, in which the poet Hoffmann tells of three past loves and how each affair was thwarted by his rival; starring Alfredo Kraus
Keywords: Offenbach, Jacques

Coq d'Or [The Golden Cockerel]
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Call Number: DVD 2007-241
Description: 2002 Theatre Musical de Paris-Chatelet revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera; starring Albert Schagidullin and Ilya Levinsky; conducted by Kent Nagano
Keywords: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai; Pushkin, Aleksander

Corsaro
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Call Number: DVD 2007-129
Description: Festival Verdi 2004 production of one of the composer's "minor" operas, performed by the Teatro Regio di Parma; conducted by Renato Palumbo
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Cos? fan tutte
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Call Number: DVD 2005- 54
Description: Production at the Teatro alla Scala
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Daughter of the Regiment
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 7
Description: 1974 television production; in English
Keywords: Donizetti

Death in Venice
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2002- 7
Description: Glynedebourne Touring Opera Company production
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin

Dinorah, ou le Pardon de Plo?rmel
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Call Number: DVD 2007-119
Description: Production of the Meyerbeer opera by the Opera d'Etat Hongrois Failoni; produced in 2003; conducted by Olivier Opdebeeck
Keywords: Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Don Carlo
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-127
Description: 1983 Metropolitan Opera house production of Verdi's opera, starring Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppi

Don Giovanni
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007- 66
Description: 2001 broadcast of the Opernhaus Zurich production of Mozart's opera, based on the legendary exploits of Don Juan
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus; Don Juan

Elektra
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-254
Description: 1980 Metropolitan Opera production of Strauss's opera, which tells the story of the violent revenge of Elektra, mourning th emurder of her father by his wife and her lover; stars Birgit Nilsson
Keywords: Strauss, Richard; Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Elisir d'amore
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Call Number: DVD 2004- 3
Description: Frank Dunlop's production at the Opera National de Lyon
Keywords: Donizetti

Elisir d'amore
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2004- 15
Description: 1981 Metropolitan Opera performance w/ Pavarotti
Keywords: Donizetti

Entfuhrung aus dem Serail [Abduction from the Seraglio]
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-217
Description: Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Mozart's opera, starring Ryland Davies, Valerie Masterson, Lillian Watson; music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gustav Kuhn
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Equivico Stravagante
Series Title: Kicco Classic
Call Number: DVD 2007-270
Description: 2001 production of Rossini's comic opera about Ernestina, who does anything she can avoid marriage to Buralicchio; recorded at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; stars Olga Voznessenskaia
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Eugene Onegin
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 6
Description: Covent Garden Opera house
Keywords: Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-289
Description: Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company
Keywords: Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin
Series Title: Opera Series
Call Number: VCR 2007-245
Description: 1958 motion picture version of Tchaikovsky's opera, based on the poem by Alexander Pushking; starring Ariadna Shengelaya, Svetlana Nemoliayeva; Bolshoi Theatre orchestra
Keywords: Tchaikovsky, Peter; Pushkin, Alexander

Eugene Onegin
Series Title: Opera Series (Kultur International Films)
Call Number: VCR 2007-160
Description: Kirov Opera production of Tchaikovsky's opera, adapted from the novel by Alexander Pushkin
Keywords: Tchaikovsky; Pushkin, Alexander

Falstaff
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2000-284
Description: 1982 Covent Garden performance; based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives...
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe; Shakespeare

Falstaff
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-219
Description: 1976 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Verdi's opera, based on the character of Falstaff from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV; starring Donald Gramm
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe; Shakespeare, William

Fanciulla del West
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Call Number: VCR 96- 5
Description: Starring Placido Domingo
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Fanciulla del West
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-158
Description: Puccini's operatic version of the play by David Belasco, set at the height of the notorious Californian Gold Rush
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Faust
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-224
Description: Wiener Staatsoper production of Gounod's opera, based on the story by Goethe; Faust sells his soul to Mephistofeles in return for renewed youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite
Keywords: Gounod, Charles; Goethe

Faust
Series Title: Bel Canto Society Classics
Call Number: VCR 2007-124
Description: Alfredo Kraus stars in this performance of Gounod's opera, produced with nineteenth-century costumes
Keywords: Gounod, Charles; Alfredo Kraus

Fedora
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-188
Description: 1997 production of Giordano's opera, recorded at the Metropolitan Opera House; starring Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo; conducted by Roberto Abbado
Keywords: Giordano, Umberto

Fidelio
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 4
Description: Covent Garden Opera house
Keywords: Beethoven, Ludwig van

Fiery Angel
Series Title: Philips Video Classics
Call Number: VCR 2007-246
Description: 1993 production of Prokofiev's opera, based on the novel by Valery Bryusov; recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg; starring Sergei Leiferkus, Galina Gorchakova
Keywords: Prokofiev, Sergei

Fliegende Holl?nder
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Call Number: DVD 2007-243
Description: 1989 Savonlinna Opera Festival production of Wagner's opera, based on a novel by Heinrich Heine; starring Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens; conducted by Leif Segerstam
Keywords: Wagner, Richard; Heinrich Heine

Forza del Destino
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Call Number: DVD 2007-251
Description: 1984 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera, a tragic story of love, honor, and vengeance; starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Forza del Destino
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 10
Description: Metropolitan Opera production; Oversize
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Francesca da Rimini
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-245
Description: 1984 Metropolitan Opera production of Zandonai's opera, based on the play by Gabriele d'Annunzio; starring Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, Cornell Macneil; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Zandonai, Riccardo

Freisch?tz
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-154
Description: 1983 production of Carl Maria von Weber's classic German opera, set in the style of a 19th-century fairy tale; produced by Achim Freyer and performed by the Wurttemberg State Opera
Keywords: Carl Maria von Weber

Gloriana
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-249
Description: 2000 film adaptation of Britten's opera, which he wrote for the Queen's coronation in 1953; adapted by Phyllida Lloyd; starring Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle; conducted by Paul Daniel
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin

Gondoliers
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Call Number: VCR 2007-164
Description: Gondoliers Giussepe and Marco--one of whom may be the King of Barataria--will let fate chose their mates fromm 24 prospective brides in this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta; two copies
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan

Gotterdammerung
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-306 v. 4
Description: Part 4 of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; Metropolitan Opera, 1980; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Gotterdammerung
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Call Number: VCR 2004-237
Description: Produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1990; conducted by James Levine; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Hans Heiling
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Call Number: DVD 2007-196
Description: 2004 performance of Marschner's opera, produced by the Teatro Regio di Parma; chorus orchestra of the Teatro lirico di Caligiari under the direction of Renato Palumbo
Keywords: Marschner, Heinrich

Huguenots
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Call Number: VCR 2007-220
Description: Sydney Opera house production of Meyebeer's opera; starring Joan Sutherland in her "gala farewell"; Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Richard Bonynge; 2 parts
Keywords: Meyerbeer, Giacomo; Joan Sutherland

Idomeneo
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Call Number: VCR 2007-249
Description: 1974 Glyndebourne Festival opera production of Mozart's opera; starring Richard Lewis, Josephine Barstow, Leo Goeke; conducted by Sir John Pritchard
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Idomeneo
Series Title: Live from the Met
Call Number: VCR 2005- 34
Description: 1982 Metropolitan Opera performance, starring Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; Oversize
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Incoronazione di Poppea
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-127
Description: Performed at the 50th Anniversary of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1984
Keywords: Monteverdi, Claudio

Iolanthe
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-155
Description: Gilbert and Sullivan's satire of Parliament, seen through the eyes of Iolanthe, who was the life and soul of Fairyland until she was banished for marrying a mortal; starring Beverly Mills
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan

Juive
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Call Number: DVD 2007-269
Description: 2003 Wiener Staatsoper production of Halevy's opera; starring Neil Shicoff, Krassimira Stoyanova; conducted by Vjekoslav Sutej
Keywords: Halevy, Fromenthal

Julius Caesar
Series Title: Opera Series
Call Number: VCR 2007-233
Description: Berlin State Opera production of Handel's opera centering around Cleopatra's manipulation of Caesar and Ptolemy; starring Celestina Casapietra, Theo Adam; conducted by Peter Schreier
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric; Julius Caesar

Kat'a Kabanova
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-148
Description: Opera in three acts, telling the story of a young woman who is driven to suicide by love; sung in Czech; produced by the Glyndebourne Festival opera
Keywords: Leos? Jana?c?ek

Khovanshchina
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-149
Description: Mussorgsky's five-act opera, telling the story of the political events that attended the beginning of the reign of Peter the Great
Keywords: Mussorgsky, Modest

King Arthur
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-168
Description: Purcell's popular opera, performed at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg; Nikolas Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus Wien
Keywords: Purcell, Henry; King Arthur

Legend of Tsar Saltan
Series Title: View Video Opera Series
Call Number: VCR 2007- 52
Description: Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic version of Pushkin's story about Tsar Saltan, who was deceived by his sisters-in-law into banishing his wife and son
Keywords: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay; Alexander Pushkin

Linda di Chamounix
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007- 75
Description: 1996 production at the Zurich Opera House, staring Edita Gruberova, Deon van der Walt, Jaco Will; conducted by Adam Fischer
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Lohengrin
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Call Number: DVD 2007-238
Description: 1986 Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner's opera; starring Eva Marton, Peter Hofmann, Leone Rysanek, and John Macurdy; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Lombardi alla prima crociata
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Call Number: VCR 2001-295
Description: Starring Jose Carreras; Teatro alla Scala (1984)
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata
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Call Number: VCR 2007-214
Description: 1984 production of Verdi's opera, starring Jose Carreras, Ghena Dimitrova; recorded at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Louisa Miller
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007- 72
Description: 1988 production, starring June Anderson, Taro Ichihara, Eduard Tumigian; conducted by Maurizio Arena
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppi

Lucia di Lammermoor
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 8
Description: Joan Sutherland & the Metropolitan Opera; Oversize
Keywords: Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor
Series Title: Classic Video Series
Call Number: VCR 2007-205
Description: Katia Ricciarelli and Jose Carreras star in this 1982 production of Donizetti's opera, based on "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Sir Walter Scott; conducted by Lamberto Gardelli
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Lucrezia Borgia
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-209
Description: Donizetti's opera based on Victor Hugo's play about ruthless Lucrezia Borgia, who seeks revenge on an assumed offender until she discovers he is her son; stars Joan Sutherland
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Luther
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-222
Description: Tikka's opera about the life of 16th-century theologan and reformer Martin Luther; recorded live in 2004 at the Temppeliaukio Church (The Rock Church) in Helsinki, Finland
Keywords: Tikka, Kari; Martin Luther

Macbeth
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Call Number: VCR 2007-244
Description: Glyndeboyrne Opera production of Verdi's opera, based on the play by William Shakespeare; starring James Morris, Josephine Barstow; condcuted by Sir John Pritchard
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe; Shakespeare, William

Madame Butterfly
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-287
Description: 1995 production; deluxe widescreen presentation
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Magic Flute
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Call Number: VCR 2007-230
Description: Leo Goeke, Felicity Lott, and Benjamin Luxon star in this production of Mozart's opera about Prince Tamino and his love, Pamina; Londo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitnik
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Makropulos Case
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Call Number: DVD 2007-231
Description: 1995 Glyndebourne Opera production of the opera by Leos? Jana?c?ek, after the play by Karel C?apek about the pros and cons of living for more than 300 years; starring Anja Silja
Keywords: Leos? Jana?c?ek

Manon
Series Title: Lincoln Center Video
Call Number: VCR 2007-162
Description: 1977 New York City Opera performance of Massenet's opera; starring Beverly Sills, Henry Price, Samuel Ramey; conducted by Julius Rudel
Keywords: Massenet

Manon Lescaut
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Call Number: VCR 2001-294
Description: Stars Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa; Hamburg State Opera (1983)
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Manon Lescaut
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-305
Description: Recorded for "Live from the Met" in 1980
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Marin Faliero
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-255
Description: 2002 Teatro regio di Parma production of Donizetti's opera; starring Michele Pertusi, Mariella Devia, Rockwell Blake; conducted by Ottavio Dantone
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Mary Stuart
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Call Number: VCR 2007-213
Description: 1982 English National Opera production of Donizetti's opera about Mary, Queen of Scots; starring Janet Baker, Rosalind Plowright, David Rendall; conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Medea
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-144
Description: Montserrat Caball? and Jos? Carreras star in this 1989 production of Cherubini's opera; recorded at the Teatro Romano de Merida
Keywords: Cherubini; Montserrat Caball?; Jos? Carreras

Medium
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Call Number: DVD 2007-272
Description: 1978 production of Menotti's opera; starring Maureen Forrester, Shawna Farrell, Stelio Calagais; conducted by Raffi Armenian; directed by Pierre Morin
Keywords: Menotti, Gian Carlo

Mefistofele
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Call Number: DVD 2007-221
Description: A post-modern production of Arrigo Boito's treatment of the Faust legend, faithful to Goethe's original conception; starring Samuel Raimey; conducted by Maurizio Arena
Keywords: Boito, Arrigo; Faust; Goethe

Meistersinger von Nurnberg
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Call Number: VCR 96- 34
Description: Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-228
Description: Deutsche Oper Berlin production of Wagner's opera; Franconian knight Walther hopes to win Eva's hand in marriage by winning a singing contest; 2 parts (4 tapes)
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Merlin
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Call Number: DVD 2007-124
Description: Teatro Real de Madrid production of the Albinez opera, telling the story of the wizard Merlin; starring David Wilson-Johnson, Eva Marton; conducted by Jose de Eusebio
Keywords: Albinez, Isaac; Merlin

Merry Widow
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Call Number: VCR 2007-243
Description: 1988 Sydney Opea House production of Leh?r's operetta about the widow Hanna and her attempts to convince Count Danilo to marry her; starring Joan Sutherland, Ronald Stevens
Keywords: Leh?r, Franz

Midsummer Night's Dream
Series Title: The Compleat Operagoer (#53)
Call Number: VCR 2007-232
Description: Britten's oepratic version of William Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers, and tradesmen-actors; starring Curt Appelgren, Cynthia Buchen, Ileana Cotrubas; 2 parts
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin; Shakespeare, William

Mignon
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Call Number: DVD 2007-169
Description: 2000 production of Ambroise Thomas's opera
Keywords: Thomas, Ambroise

Miserly Knight
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Call Number: DVD 2007-143
Description: 2004 Glyndebourne Opera House performance of Rachmaninoff's opera; music performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski
Keywords: Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Mitridate, r? di Ponto
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Call Number: DVD 2005- 22
Description: Production of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mlada
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Call Number: VCR 2007-242
Description: 1992 Bolshoi Theater production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, based on the original text by Viktor Krylov; starring Nina Ananiashvili, Oleg Kulko, Maria Gavrilova; conducted by Alexander Lazerev
Keywords: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai

Nabucco
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-246
Description: Verdi's opera tells the tale of the romantic rivalry of Nebuchadnezzer's fictitious daughters, Abigaille and Fenena; starring Renato Bruson, Lauren Flanigan, Monica Bacelli
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Nabucco
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Call Number: VCR 2001-298
Description: Story of Nebuchadnezzer, king of Babylonia
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Nina, o sia, La Pazza Per Amore
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Call Number: DVD 2007-228
Description: 2002 production of Paisiello's opera, recorded at the Opernhaus Zurich; starring Cicilia Bartoli, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Adam Fischer; directed for television by Thomas Grimm
Keywords: Paisiello, Giovanni

Nixon in China
Series Title: Great Performances
Call Number: DVD 2007-359
Description: 1988 Houston Grand Opera production of John Adams's opera, which depicts U.S. President Richard Nixon?s historic state visit to mainland China in February 1972; directed by Peter Sellars
Keywords: Adams, John; Nixon, Richard M.

Norma
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-273
Description: 1981 Canadian Opera performance of Bellini's opera, based on a French play by Alexandre Soumet about the Druid priestess Norma; starring Joan Sutherland, Tatiana Troyanos
Keywords: Bellini, Vincenzo

Norma
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Call Number: VCR 2000-282
Description: 1981 stage version starring Joan Sutherland and Tatiana Troyanos
Keywords: Bellini, Vincenzo

Nozze di Figaro
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Call Number: VCR 96- 11
Description: In two parts
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Orfeo ed Euridice
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Call Number: VCR 96- 3
Description: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus; featuring Jochen Kowalski, Gillian Webster, Jeremy Budd
Keywords: Gluck

Orlando Furioso
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Call Number: VCR 98- 35
Description: Marilyn Horne and the San Francisco Opera
Keywords: Vivaldi, Antonio

Orph?e et Eurydice
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-211
Description: Gluck's opera based on the story of Orpheus, the grieving musician of Greek myth, who follows his beloved wife Euridice to the depths of Hades in an attempt to bring her back from the dead
Keywords: Gluck, Christophe Willibald; Orpheus (Greek Mythol

Osteria di Marechiaro
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-271
Description: 2001 production of Paisiello's comic opera about a young count who is "promised" to several young ladies; recorded at the Teatro Vincenzo Bellini di Napoli; conducted by Fabio Maestri
Keywords: Paisiello, Giovanni

Otello
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 94- 95
Description: Performance at the Arena di Verono, 1982
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Otello
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-291
Description: Stars Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa; Royal Opera House, London
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Otello
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-194
Description: Verdi's operatic version of the Shakespeare tragedy, starring Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli; performed at the Teatro alla Scala; conducted by Lorin Maazel, directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe; Zefirelli, Franco

Owen Wingrave
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-226
Description: Filmed adaptation of Britten's opera, updated from Edwardian times to the 1950s; starring Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge; conducted by Kent Nagano
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin

Pagliacci
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-187
Description: 1982 production of Leoncavallo's opera, starring Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas; directed by Franco Zeffirelli; music conducted by Georges Pretre
Keywords: Leoncavallo, Ruggero

Paladins
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-150
Description: 2004 production of Rameau's comic opera, filmed at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris; includes a behind-the-scenes documentary
Keywords: Rameau, Jean Philippe

Parsifal
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-135
Description: Filmed in Bavaria in 1982; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Parsifal
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-231
Description: Wolfgang Wagner staged and directed this production of Richard Wagner's opera, performed at the Bayreuther Festspiele; starring Siegfried Jerusalem; conducted by Horst Stein; 2 parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Patience, or, Bunthorne's Bride
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-198
Description: Gilbert and Sullivan's opera about the lovesick maidens of Castle Bunthorne who forsake their handsome soldier suitors to pursue poet, asthete, and fake Reginald Bunthorne
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan; comic operas

Peony Pavilion
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-208
Description: This Chinese opera is a romantic and poetic love story about a woman who returns from the dead to reunite with her true love; music by Ye Tang; based on a story by Tang Xianzu
Keywords: Ye Tang; Tang Xianzu

Pers
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-262
Description: 2004 production of Lully's opera, based on Ovid's "Metamporphoses;" recorded at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto; starring Stephanie Novacek, Cyril Auvity, Marie Lenormand
Keywords: Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Peter Grimes
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-186
Description: Britten's opera, based on the poem by George Crabbe; 1994 performance of the English National Opera at the London Colisseum
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin

Pia De' Tolomei
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-149
Description: 2005 production of Donizetti's opera, which tells a tragic story of mistaken identity and misinterpretation of motive by a jealous husband; filmed at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice
Keywords: Donizetti, Gaetano

Pierre le Grand [Petr Velikii]
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-266
Description: 2002 Helikon Opera production of Gretry's comic opera about the early life of Peter the Great; staged to celebrate the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg; conducted by Sergey Stadler
Keywords: Gretry, Andre-Ernest-Modest

Plat
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-233
Description: Op?ra National de Paris production of Rameau's lyric comedy; directed by Don Kent; music conducted by Marc Minkowski
Keywords: Rameau, Jean Philippe

Prince Igor
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-122
Description: Production of Borodin's opera by the Kirov Ballet and Opera company; conducted by Valery Gergiev
Keywords: Borodin, Alexander

Prince Igor
Series Title: Opera Seria (Kultur International Films)
Call Number: VCR 2007- 28
Description: Starring Boris Khmelnitsky, Nelli Pshennaya, Boris Tokarev, Bimbolat Vataev, and Invetta Murgoyev; Ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of the Kirov Theatre, Gennady Provatorov, conductor
Keywords: Alexander Borodin; Russian

Princess Ida
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-151
Description: Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of his betrothed, Princess Ida, learns that she has renounced men and formed a women's university fromm which men are strictly barred
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan

Rake's Progress
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-224
Description: Stravinsky's opera based on the series of paintings by William Hogarth; 1996 Salzburg Festival performance, starring Dawn Upshaw; conducted by Silvain Cambreling
Keywords: Stravinsky, Igor; William Hogarth

Rasputin
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-261
Description: 2003 Finnish National Opera production of Rautaavaara's opera, which showcases the last moments of Tsar Nikolai's reign, the great Revolution, and the mysterious Rasputin
Keywords: Rautaavaara, Einojuhani

Rheingold
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-227
Description: Acclaimed 1988 Metropolitan Opera production of the first opera of Wagner's "Ring" cycle, starring James Morris, Alan Held, Christa Ludwig; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Rheingold
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-306 v. 1
Description: Part 1 of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; Metropolitan Opera, 1980
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser"
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-136
Description: Oversize; directed for the theater by Werner Herzog, 1998
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Riltorno D'Ulisse in Patria
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-218
Description: 1973 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Monteverdi's opera, based on the story of Ulysses; starring Janet Baker, Peter Hall, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by Raymond Leppard
Keywords: Monteverdi, Claudio

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-259
Description: 1998 Salzburg Festival production of Weill's opera, set to lyrics of Bertold Brecht; starring Gwyneth Jones, Cartherine Malfitano, Gerry Hadley; conducted by Dennis Russell Davies
Keywords: Weill, Kurt; Brecht, Bertolt

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-297
Description: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Keywords: Weill, Kurt; German

Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-130
Description: 1980s Salzburg Festival Production; two parts
Keywords: Monteverdi, Claudio

Roberto Devereux
Series Title: Classic Video Series
Call Number: VCR 2007-141
Description: Cammarano's operatic version of the romance between the first Queen Elizabeth and Robert Devereux; starring Montserrat Caball? and Jos? Carreras
Keywords: Salvatore Cammarano

Roi de Lahore
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-258
Description: 2004 Teatro La Fenice production of Massenet's opera; starring Giuseppe Gipali, Ana Mar?a S?nchez, Vladimir Stoyanov; conducted by Marcello Viotti
Keywords: Massenet, Jules

Room with a View
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-223
Description: Robert Nelson's opera based no the novel by E.M. Forster; 2005 performance at the Moores Opera Center; libretto by Buck Ross
Keywords: Nelson, Robert

Rosenkavalier
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-257
Description: 1985 Covent Garden production of Strauss's opera about Octavian's love for the much older and married Marschallin; starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Anne Howells; conducted by Georg Solti
Keywords: Strauss, Richard; Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Rosenkavalier
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-299
Description: Starring Kiri Te Kanawa; conducted by George Solti; tape 1: act one; tape 2: acts 2 & 3
Keywords: Strauss, Richard

Rossignol
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-142
Description: Stravinsky's opera-ballet tells the story of the nightingale as the waking dream of a child in the land of Chinese art; performed by L'Opera National de Paris; conducted by James Conlon
Keywords: Opera-Ballet; Stravinsky, Igor

Rusalka
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-163
Description: Dvor?a?k's fairy-tale opera, which tells the story of a water-nymph named Rusalka, who yearns to become human because she has fallen in love with a mortal
Keywords: Dvor?a?k, Antoni?n

Sadko
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-223
Description: Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy-tale opera about the adventures of Sadko, who is wooed by the sea princess Volkhova; music performed by the Kirov Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev
Keywords: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai

Salome
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-201
Description: Strauss's one-act opera based on a play by Oscar Wilde, which sets the Biblical story of John the Baptist and the dancer Salome, who asks for his head on a platter; starring Monserrat Caballe
Keywords: Strauss, Richard; Wilde, Oscar

Samson et Dalila
Series Title: Great Performances
Call Number: VCR 2007-125
Description: Saint-S?ens' opera in three acts, based on the Old-Testament story of Samson and Delilah; starring Placido Domingo, Shirley Verrett
Keywords: Saint-S?ens, Camille; Samson and Delilah

Satyagraha
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2004- 18
Description: Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance; in Sanskrit
Keywords: Glass, Philip

Semiramide
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-244
Description: 1991 Metropolitan opera production of Rossini's opera about the Queen of Babylon; starring June Anderson, Marilyn Horne, Samuel ramey; conducted by James Conlon
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Siegfried
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-229
Description: 1990 Metropolitan Opera production of the third opera of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; starring Siegfried Jerusalem, Hildegard Behrens, and Dawn Upshaw; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Siegfried
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-306 v. 3
Description: Part 3 of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; Metropolitan Opera, 1980; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Simon Boccanegra
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-256
Description: 1995 Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi's opera, based on the story by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez; starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Vladimir Chernov; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Simplicius
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-122
Description: The Zurich Opera performs Johann Strauss's operetta in three acts, based on a noval by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
Keywords: Strauss, Johann

Soldaten
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-157
Description: Zimmerman's operatic version of the stage play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz; 1989 production of the Stuttgart State Opera; conducted by Bernhard Kontarsky
Keywords: Zimmermann, Bernd Alois

Sonnambula
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-199
Description: Bellini's opera tells the story of Elvino and Amina, who are engaged to be married until Amina's sleepwalker threatens to jeopardize their romance
Keywords: Bellini, Vincenzo

Speziale
Series Title: Silverline Classics
Call Number: DVD 2006- 11
Description: c.2003 production of Haydn's 1768 opera; starring Antonella Manotti, Carmen Gonzales, Luigi Alva, William Matteuzzi
Keywords: Haydn, Joseph

Stiffelio
Series Title: Pioneer Classics
Call Number: VCR 2007-159
Description: Royal Opera House production of Verdi's opera, starring Jose Carreras, Catherine Malfitano; conducted by Edward Downes
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppi

Streetcar Named Desire
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-152
Description: Opera based on the story by Tennessee Williams, of the stormy relationship between Blanche Dubois and her brother-in-law Stanley; San Francisco Opera performance
Keywords: Tennessee Williams

Tales of Hoffmann
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-250
Description: 1951 film version of Offenbach's opera tells three stories of romance, magic, and mystery arising out of the poet Hoffmann's misadventures in love; starring Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann
Keywords: Offenbach, Jacques

Tamerlano
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-237
Description: 2001 production of Handel's opera, recorded at the 50th Handel-Festspiele at Halle on the Saale; music by English Concert, conducted by Trevor Pinnock
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric

Tannhauser
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-252
Description: David Alden's 1994 production of Wagner's opera, with minimalist sets and costumes; starring Rene Kollo, Jan-Hendrik Rootering; Bayerische Staatsoper; conducted by Zubin Mehta
Keywords: Wagner, Richard; Alden, David

Tannhauser
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-137
Description: Recorded from the National Theatre, Munich, 1995; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Tarare
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-232
Description: 1988 Schwetzing Festival production of Salieri's opera; starring Howard Crook, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Anna Caleb; musical direction by Jean-Claude Malgoire
Keywords: Salieri, Antonio

Thais
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-209
Description: 2002 performance of Massenet's opera, based on the novel by Anatole France; recorded at the Teatro Malibran in Venice; orchestra conducted by Marcello Viotti
Keywords: Massenet, Jules; France, Anatole

Theodora
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-131
Description: 1996 production directed by Peter Sellars; two parts
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric

Tosca
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-304
Description: Oversize; 1985 Zeffirelli production for television
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Tosca
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-312
Description: University of Northern Colorado College of Performing and Visual Arts
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Tosca
Series Title: Live from the Met
Call Number: VCR 2007-212
Description: 1985 Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's opera, starring Heldigard Behrens, Placido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil; Metropolitan Opera production, conducted by Giuseppe Sonopoli
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo

Traviata
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 9
Description: Covent Garden Opera house
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Traviata
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-286
Description: Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Treemonisha
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-247
Description: Joplin's ragtime-style opera tells the story of Treemonisha, who fights superstition amongst her fellow plantation workers; starring Obba Babatunde, Carmen Balthrop
Keywords: Joplin, Scott

Trial by Jury & Cox and Box
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-138
Description: 2 short operas by Gilbert and Sullivan: in "Trial by Jury" a judge in a breach of promise case delivers an unusual verdict; in "Cox and Box" a landlord rents the same room to two tenants
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan

Tristan und Isolde
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-253
Description: 1973 production of Wagner's opera, which tells the story of doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde; starring Birgit Nilsson, Jon Vickers; conducted by Karl B?hm and Walter Hagen-Groll
Keywords: Wagner; Richard

Tristan und Isolde
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2000-283
Description: 1976 Montreal performance starring Jon Vickers and Roberta Knie
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Trouble in Tahiti
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2002-126
Description: 1973 production conducted by the composer and using animated sets
Keywords: Bernstein, Leonard

Trovatore
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001- 67
Description: Starring Placido Domingo
Keywords: Verdi, Giuseppe

Troyens
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-123
Description: Metropolitan Opera production of Berlioz's opera, about the capture of Troy by the Greeks and the love of Dido and Aeneas; starring Placido Domingo, Tatiana Troyanos
Keywords: Berlioz, Hector

Turandot
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007- 76
Description: Franco Zeffierlli directed this 1987 Metropolitan Opera House production of Puccini's opera; starring Eva Marton, Placido Domingo; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Puccini, Giacomo; Domingo, Placido; Zeffierelli, F

Turco in Italia
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-167
Description: 2002 production of Rossini's opera, starring Cecilia Bartoli, Ruggero Raimondi; performed by the orchestra and chorus of the Zurich Opera; conducted by Franz Welser-Most
Keywords: Rossini, Gioacchino

Turn of the Screw
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-248
Description: 1990 Schwetzinger Festspiele production of Britten's opera, based on the book by Henry James; starring Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager; conducted by Steuart Bedford
Keywords: Britten, Benjamin, James, Henry

Vie Parisienne
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-210
Description: Offenbach's opera is a swift-moving pageant of characters and events capturing the spirit of Paris in the 1860s; 1991 production of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Lyon Opera
Keywords: Offenbach, Jacques

Village Romeo and Juliet
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-195
Description: Delius's opera based ona story by Gottfried Keller; musical portions filmed at the Grossersaal Konzerthaus, Vienna, 1989; starring Helen Fireld, Arthur Davies; conducted by Charles Mackerras
Keywords: Delius, Frederick; Keller, Gottfried

Walk?re
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-234
Description: 1989 Metropolitan Opera production of the second opera of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; starring Hildegard Behrens, James Morris, Jessye Norman, Christa Ludwig; conducted by James Levine
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Walkure
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2002- 5
Description: Part 2 of "The Ring" cycle; filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1989
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

Walkure
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001-306 v. 2
Description: Part 2 of Wagner's "Ring" cycle; Metropolitan Opera, 1980; two parts
Keywords: Wagner, Richard

War and Peace
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007- 66
Description: Prokofiev's opera in thirteen scenes, based on the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy; presented by the Kirov Opera
Keywords: Prokofiev, Sergey; Leo Tolstoy

Werther
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-190
Description: 1985 production of Massenet's opera; based on Goethe's story of a young poet and his tragic love affair with the eldest daughter of the town magistrate; Two copies
Keywords: Massenet, Jules; Goethe, Johann

Wiener Blut [Viennese Blood]
Series Title:
Call Number: DVD 2007-242
Description: Muller's operetta arranged from the music of Johann Strauss; Wiener Volksoper, Slovak National Theatre ballet, Philharmonic Orchestra Bratislava; conducted by Johannes Wildner
Keywords: Strauss, Johann; Muller, Adolf

Wozzeck
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 96- 12
Description: Berg's opera which encompasses the passion, horror, and torment of the German Expressionist movement
Keywords: Berg, Alban

Wozzeck
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2007-202
Description: Berg's opera about impoverished soldier Wozzeck, who is driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity; starring Franz Grundheber, conducted by Claudio Abbado
Keywords: Berg, Alban

Xerxes
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 98- 36
Description: Two parts
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric

Zauberflote [The Magic Flute]
Series Title:
Call Number: VCR 2001- 5
Description: Metropolitan Opera production, conducted by James Levine and starring Kathleen Battle, Luciana Serra
Keywords: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus