Aceasta este lista celor mai frumoase DVD-uri cu spectacole de operă. Cred că foarte puține dintre alegeri sunt subiective. De-a lungul timpului voi încerca să le comentez pe acest blog. Pentru primele 10 DVD-uri, argumentele le găsiți în articolul acesta: 24 de ore. Titlurile trmit printr-un link la Amazon.

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1. Maria Callas – At Covent Garden 1962 and 1964
2. Simon Boccanegra – James Levine/Giancarlo del Monaco/ Metropolitan Opera, 1995 – Vladimir Chernov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Robert Lloyd etc.
3. Don Carlos – Antonio Pappano/Luc Bondy/ Theatre Chatelet Paris, 1996 – Roberto Alagna, Karita Mattila, Jose Van Dam, Thomas Hampson, Waltraud Meier etc.
4. La Traviata – Georg Solti/Richard Eyre/ Royal Opera House, 1994 – Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Loppardo, Leo Nucci etc.
5. Don Giovanni – Wilhelm Furtwangler/Paul Czinner/Salzburg Festival, 1954 – Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grummer, Lisa della Casa, Anton Dermota, Erna Berger etc.
6. Le Nozze di Figaro – John Pritchard/Peter Hall/Glyndebourne, 1973 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Kiri Te Kanawa, Frederica von Stade, Benjamin Luxon, John Skram etc.
7. Otello – Georg Solti/Elijah Moshinsky/Royal Opera House, 1992 – Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Serghei Leiferkus etc.
8. L’Elisir d’amore – Nicola Rescigno/ Nathaniel Merrill/ Metropolitan Opera, 1981 – Luciano Pavarotti, Judith Blegen, Sesto Bruscantini, Brent Ellis etc.
9. Andrea Chenier – Riccardo Chailly/Lamberto Puggelli/Teatro alla Scala, 1985 – Jose Carreras, Eva Marton, Piero Cappuccilli etc.
10. Il Tabarro/ Pagliacci – James Levine/ Franco Zeffirelli/ Metropolitan Opera, 1994 – Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo/Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons etc.
11. Manon Lescaut – Giuseppe Sinopoli/Gotz Friedrich/Royal Opera House, 1983 – Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Thomas Allen etc.
12. La boheme – Lamberto Gardelli/John Copley/Royal Opera House, 1982 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Neil Shicoff, Thomas Allen etc.
13. Tosca – Giuseppe Patane/Dobberan/Stuttgart, 1961 – Renata Tebaldi, Eugene Tobin, George London
14. Madama Butterfly – James Conlon/Frederic Mitterand/film, 1995 – Richard Troxell, Ying Huang, Ning Lang, Richard Cowan
15. La fanciulla del West – Eduard Slatkin/Giancarlo del Monaco/Metropolitan Opera, 1992 – Barbara Daniels, Placido Domingo, Sherill Milnes etc.
16. Turandot – James Levine/Franco Zeffirelli/Metropolitan Opera, 1987 – Eva Marton, Placido Domingo, Leona Mitchell, Paul Plishka etc.
17. Evgheni Oneghin – Alexandr Vedernikov/Dmitri Cerniakov/Bolșoi Teatr @ Paris, 2008 – Mariusz Kwiecien, Tatiana Monogarova, Andrei Dunaev, Anatoli Kocerga, Makvala Kasrașvili, Emma Sarkisyan etc.
18. Fidelio – James Levine/Jurgen Flimm/Metropolitan Opera, 2002 – Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Rene Pape, Robert Lloyd, Mathew Polenzani, Jennifer Welch-Babidge, Falk Struckmann
19. Norma – Giuseppe Patane/Jacques Burgeois & Jean Darnel/Orange, 1974 – Montserrat Caballe, Jon Vickers, Joseph etc.
20. Carmen – Antonio Pappano/Francesca Zambello/Royal Opera House, 2006 – Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Norah Amselem etc.
21. Adriana Lecouvreur – Mark Elder/David McVicar/Royal Opera House, 2010 – Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina etc.
22. Lucia di Lammermoor – Patrick Summers/Mary Zimmerman/Metropolitan Opera, 2011 – Natalie Dessay, Joseph Calleja, Ludovic Tezier, Kwangchul Youn etc.
23. La fille du régiment – Bruno Campanella/Laurent Pelly/Royal Opera House, 2007 – Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli etc.
24. Faust – Antonio Pappano/David McVicar/Royal Opera House – Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Sophie Koch etc.
25. Romeo et Juliette – Charles Mackerras/Nicolas Joel/Royal Opera House, 1994 – Roberto Alagna, Leontina Văduva etc.
26. Cavalleria rusticana – Ricardo Muti/Liliana Cavani/Ravenna, 1996 – Jose Cura, Waltraud Meier, Paolo Gavanelli etc.
27. Manon – Bertrand de Billy/Andrei Șerban/Wiener Staatsoper, 2007 – Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna etc.
28. Mozart in Turkey (Die Enfuhrung aus dem Serail) – Charles Mackerras/Elijah Moshinsky/Topkapi Palace, 2004 – Paul Grooves, Yelda Kodalli, Desiree Rancatore, Peter Rose etc.
29. Cosi fan tutte – Nikolaus Harnoncourt/Jean-Pierre Ponnelle/film, 1988 – Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler, Luis Lima, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Paolo Montarsolo, Teresa Stratas
30. Trollflojten (Die Zauberflote) – Eric Ericson/Ingmar Bergman/film, 1974 – Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Erikson, Britt-Marie Aruhn etc.
31. Boris Godunov – Vasili Nebolsin/Vera Stroyeva/film, 1964 – Alexandr Pirogov, Gheorghi Nelepp, Maxim Mihailov, Ivan Kozlovsky, Larisa Avdeyeva etc.
32. Il barbiere di Siviglia – Alberto Zedda/Dario Fo/Amsterdam Opera, 1992 – Jennifer Larmore, Simone Alaimo, Renato Capecchi, David Malis etc.
33. La cenerentola – Claudio Abbado/Jean-Pierre Ponnelle/film (Teatro alla Scala), 1981 – Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza, Claudio Desderi, Paul Plishka, Paolo Montarsolo etc.
34. Der Rosenkvalier – Herbert von Karajan/Paul Czinner/film, 1956 – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Sena Jurinac, Anneliese Rothenberger, Otto Edelmann, Erich Kunz etc.
35. Salome – Karl Bohm/Gotz Friedrich/film, 1974 – Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Bernd Weikl etc.
36. Pique Dame – Iuri Simonov/?/Bolșoi Teatr, 1983 – Vladimir Atlantov, Tamara Malașkina, Iuri Mazurok, Elena Obratsova etc.
37. Ernani – Ricardo Muti/Luca Ronconi/Teatro alla Scala, 1982 – Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Renato Bruson, Nikolai Ghiaurov etc.
38. Rigoletto – James Levine/Tania Moiseievici/Metropolitan Opera, 1977 – Cornell MacNeil, Ileana Cotrubaș, Placido Domingo, Isola Jones, Justino Diaz etc.
39. Il Trovatore – Herbert von Karajan/Herbert von Karajan/Wienner Staatsoper, 1978 – Placido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, Piero Cappuccilli, Jose van Dam, Fiorenza Cossotto etc.
40. Un ballo in maschera – James Levine/Piero Faggioni/Metropolitan Opera, 1991 – Luciano Pavarotti, Aprile Millo, Leo Nucci, Harolyn Blackwell, etc.
41. Don Carlo – Ricardo Muti/Franco Zeffirelli/Teatro alla Scala – Luciano Pavarotti, Daniela Dessi, Paolo Coni, Samuel Ramey, Luciana d’Intino, Alexandr Anisimov etc.
42. La forza del destino – Francesco Molinari Pradelli/?/Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, 1958 – Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Ettore Bastianini, Boris Christoff, Renato Cappechi, Oralia Dominguez etc.
43. Aida – Lorin Maazel/Luca Ronconi/Teatro alla Scala, 1986 – Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Nikolai Ghiaurov, Juan Pons, Paata Burchuladze etc.
44. Falstaff – Carlo Maria Giulini/Ronald Eyre/Royal Opera House, 1983 – Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Barbara Hendricks, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Dalmacio Gonzales, Leo Nucci etc.
45. Ruslan y Ludmila – Valery Gergiev/Thierry Bosquet/Mariinsky Sankt Petersburg, 1996 – Anna Netrebko, Vladimir Ognovenko, Mihail Kit, Larisa Diadkova, Galina Gorceakova, etc.
46. Der Ring des Nibelungen – Pierre Boulez/Patrice Chereau/Bayreuth, 1980 – Gwyneth Jones, Donald MacIntyre, Hoffmann, Altmeyer, Jung, Mazura, etc.
47. Belcanto – Tenors From The 78 Era – Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Tito Schipa, Richard Tauber, Leo Slezak, Joseph Schmidt, Lauritz Melchior, Helge Rosvanege, Jussi Bjorling, John McCormack, Georges Thill, Ivan Kozlovsky
48. Great Stars of Opera at The bell Telephone Hour – Giuseppe di Stefano, Franco Corelli, Regine Crespin, George London, Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Richard Tucker, Anna Moffo, Leontyne Price, Roberta Peters, Birgit Nilsson etc.
49. Great Moments in Opera from The Ed Sullivan Show – Beverly Sills, Franco Corelli, Lily Pons, George London, Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Richard Tucker, Anna Moffo, Leontyne Price, Roberta Peters, Birgit Nilsson etc.
50. Mario del Monaco at The Bolshoi – 1959
51. Opera Italia! with Antonio Pappano – 2010
52. The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala – 1983