Summary: The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he tries to wash the blood from his hands.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA WOZ

Summary: Wolfgang Wagner's production of his grandfather's opera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PAR

Solti, Georg Sir

Summary: Performance of the opera about the complex medieval Doge of Genoa whose life was ruled by love of family and devotion to country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2007

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA SIM

Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The four parts of the opera have the titles The Duel, The Gypsy, The Gypsy's Son and The Execution. Ferrando tells the story of the revenge taken by a gypsy for the death of her mother, the apparent destruction in the fire of the son of the old Count di Luna. In the palace gardens Leonora waits for her lover, the troubadour Manrico, mistaking the Count di Luna, who also loves her, for him, an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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Summary: Norma, a Druid priestess, has broken her vow of chastity with an enemy of her people, the Roman Proconsul Pollilone, who has now turned to another lover. Norma must choose between taking vengeance against her lover or atoning for her sins.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2006

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA NOR

Puccini, Giacomo

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2009

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Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2009

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA FAL

Verdi, Giuseppe

Summary: The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2004

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA OTE

Summary: Luciano Pavarotti stars in the vivid staging of Giordano's opera set during the tumultuous French Revolution.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2011

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Summary: Opřa en trois actes de Wagner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Unitel Classica 2007

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MEI

Strauss, Richard

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2009

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA ROS

Verdi, Giuseppe

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2007

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA STI