Te Kanawa, Kiri

Summary: Opera personified, the poet (words) and the composer (music) are rivals for the love of the countess (opera). Her dilemma is to choose between them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: Fairy tale of a beautiful princess who slept for a hundred years until she was awakened by a prince's kiss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SLE

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

Copies Available at Woodmere

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