Regie, or Not Regie?: Opera Reviews

I decided to change this title of this page from DVD Reviews to Opera Reviews, since I find I am watching/reviewing more and more webcasts. However, performances were viewed on DVD unless otherwise noted.

Bellini, Vincenzo

La Sonnambula – Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2012 (Arte Webcast)

Post 1 Ana Durlovski is La Sonnambula
Post 2 The Plot is Thicker than Water

Berlioz, Hector

Beatrice e Benedict – Glyndebourne, 2016 (Glyndebourne website Stream)
Berlioz from Glyndebourne

Dallapiccolo, Luigi

Il Prigioniero – New York Philharmonic (Radio Broadcast), 2013
Gerald Finley is Il Prigioniero

Debussy, Claude

Pelléas et Mélisande – Glyndebourne, 1998
Part 1 Turn Off Your Mind...
Part 2 Relax and Float Downstream

Donizetti, G.

L'Elisir d'Amore – Metropolitan Opera, 2012 (Met Live in HD)

Expecting L'Elisir d'Bore – Got L'Elisir d’Like

Escaich, Thierry

Claude – Opéra de Lyon, 2013 (Arte Webcast)

World Premiere

Glass, Philip

The Perfect American – Teatro Real, Madrid, 2013 (Medici Webcast)
Post 1 Preview
Post 2 The Perfect American (A Review)

Gluck, Ch. W.

Orphée et Eurydice – Châtelet Théâtre Musical de Paris, 2000
The Baroque Stylings of…Robert Wilson? (or Blue Orpheus)

Orphée et Eurydice – La Monnaie, Brussels, 2014
Preview 1 More About Orphée – Online Soon from La Monnaie
Preview 2 La Monnaie's Orphée – Some Background
Review Moving Orphée from La Monnaie

Handel, G. F.

Messiah – Theater an der Wien, 2009
Part 1 Not Your Father's Messiah
Part 2 Strange and Wonderful
Part 3 Not Your Mother's Messiah, Either

Theodora – Salzburg, 2009

I Respectfully Dis-regie

Janáček, Leos

Věc Makropulos – Salzburg, 2009
Part 1 The 337-year-old Diva
Part 2 Everything Old is New Again
Interlude Der Festspielhaus Maus
Part 3 Give Me Alchemy, or Give Me Death

From the House of the Dead – Aix-en-Provence, 2007
You Need to See this Opera

Leoncavallo

I Pagiliacci (with Cavalliera Rusticana) – Liege, 2013 (Arte Webcast)

Together Again for the First Time

Mascagni

Cavalliera Rusticana (with Pagiliacci) – Liege, 2013 (Arte Webcast)

Together Again for the First Time

Mozart, W. A.

Apollo et Hyacinthus – Salzburg, 2006 (M22)

Neo-Baroqus in Extremus

La Clemenza di Tito – La Monnaie, Brussels, 2013 (La Monnaie Webcast)
Preview La Clemenza at La Monnaie
Part 1 Servilia and Annio – The Strongest Characters in La Clemenza di Tito?
Part 2 Personal Drama Played Out in Public

Cosi Fan Tutte – Film by Jesusa Rodriguez, 1997 (Excerpts found on YT)
Part 1 Opera as Telenovela
Part 2 A Feminist Cosi

Cosi Fan Tutte – Salzburg, 2006 (M22)

Part 1 Who is What and Which is Who?

Part 2 Fencing, the Feather, the Apple, and the Egg

Part 3 Marry Me a Little

Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Salzburg Festpiele (Webcast), from Hangar 7, 2013
Part 1 Abduction from Hangar 7
Part 2 Re-Abducted – Mozart in Hangar 7, Part 2
Part 3 Die Entfürhung aus Hangar 7 – The Review

Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Bayerischer Staatsoper, Munich, 1980
Part 1 Time to Get Down On Your Knees
Part 2 It Must Never Excite Disgust
Bonus What Did Entführung Ever Do To You?

Die Entführung aus dem Serail – Staatsoper Stuttgart,1998
Part 1 Double Fun
Part 2 Buy One, Get One Free

Don Giovanni – Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, 2013
  Post 1 Preview
  Post 2

Don Giovanni – Dijon, 2013 (Medici Webcast)
  Don Giovanni di Dijon Disappointing

Don Giovanni – Zurich, 2006
  Part 1 The Music and The Mirror
Part 2 Never Stick Your Hand Inside a Singing Statue

Mitridate, Re di Ponto – Salzburg, 2006 (M22)

Part 1 Make Room for Daddy

Part 2 I Can See Clearly Now

Le Nozze di Figaro – Paris Opera, 2006
Part 1 The Chair, the Stair, and the Lectern
Part 2 Eyeglasses and Wine Glasses

Requiem – Vienna, 1991 (no, not an opera, but operatic!)
Mozart Requiem for Mozart

Die Zauberflöte – Baden-Baden, 2013 (Arte Webcast)

Preview Zauberflote in Baden-Baden
Part 1 An Earthly Kind of Magic

Part 2 It Takes a Village

Die Zauberflöte – Zurich, 2000

Part 1 Light and Reason and Freemasonry

Part 2 Pounced into Eternal Night

Puccini, G.

La Boheme – Bregenzer Festspiel, 2002
Part 1 Cafe Grandissimo
Part 2 A Cozy Table for Two Hundred

La Boheme – Royal Opera House, 2013 (Cinema Broadcast)
OK Tevye, Tradition Ain’t All Bad

Madama Butterfly – Teatro Real, Madrid, 2017 (The Opera Platform)
Madama Butterly "en Cinema" – so What?

Tosca – Zurich, 2009

Part 1 Life is Art
Part 2 Art is Life

Ravel, Maurice

Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges – Berliner Philharmoniker, 2008 (DCH)

Digital Concert Hall

Saariaho, Kajia

L'amour de Loin – Metropolitan Opera Live in HD, 2016
Distanced from L'amour de Loin

Schubert, Franz

Fierrabras – Zurich Opera, 2005
Father Knows Best?

Strauss, Richard

Arabella – Metropolitan Opera, 1995
Back to the Future

Arabella – Zurich, 2007
It's Different for Girls

Ariadne auf Naxos – Zurich, 2006
Part 1 Is this the Real Life?
Part 2 They Shoot Composers, Don't They?
Part 3 More Questions than Answers

Capriccio – Opéra National de Paris, 2004
Part 1 Opera about Opera
Part 2 A Decision Not to Decide

Stravinsky, Igor

Oedipus Rex – Armel Opera Festival, 2013 (Arte Webcast)

Science Fiction Double Feature: Stravinsky and Stockhausen

Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin – Metropolitan Opera, 2007
Part 1: Les Feuilles Mortes et Des Rangées de Chaises
Part 2: It's all Fun and Games till Someone Challenges You to a Duel

Verdi, Giuseppe

Don Carlo – Salzburg, 1986

In Spite of the Director

La Forza del Destino – Liege, 2013 (Arte Webcast)
La Forza del Destino

La Traviata – La Scala, 2013 (Arte Webcast)
Post 1 Piotr Peeved with La Scala's Loggionisti
Post 2 Meanwhile, Back at La Scala with Piotr and Diana...

Post 3 La Scala La Traviata on La Arte La-ive Web

Post 4 Boo Who? – Awkward La Scala La Traviata (Review Part 1)

Post 5 Boo Who, Part Two (Review Part 2)

Post 6 Final Note (maybe)

La Traviata – La Monnaie, Brussels, 2012 (La Monnaie Webcast)
More Disturbing Than Shocking

La Traviata – Salzburg, 2005

I Have a Theory, and it's Mine

Il Trovatore - Bayerische Staatsoper, 2013
Post 1 First Review (and some audio)
Post 2 Trovatore on the Tube (Temporarily)

Simon Boccanegra – Göthenberg, Sweden, 2013 (Sveriges Radio Broadcast)

Simon in Sweden (Radio Broadcast)