Stage on Screen: Great Opera DVDs Editor John Allison Marketing Director Alice Lindsay Deputy Editor Erica Jeal Subscriptions Manager Megan Jackson Publishing Assistant Sara-Mae Tuson Editorial Board Martin Bernheimer Hugh Canning Rupert Christiansen Andrew Clark Andrew Clements Richard Fairman Michael Kennedy Fiona Maddocks Rodney Milnes (Chairman) Roger Parker Andrew Porter Editorial Offices 36 Black Lion Lane London W6 9BE Telephone: 020 8563 8893 Fax: 020 8563 8635 e-mail: editor@opera.co.uk Website: www.opera.co.uk Subscriptions Telephone: 020 8748 0911 e-mail: operasubs@opera.co.uk Advertising Jane Stoggles Cabbell Publishing Ltd Tel: 020 8971 8450 Fax: 020 8971 8480

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1 Stage on Screen Erica Jeal, Supplement Editor

The DVDs: 2 Verdi Aida 4 Mozart Cosìì fan tutte 6 Adams The Death of Klinghoffer 8 Strauss Elektra 10 Donizetti L’elisir d’amore 12 Wagner Der fliegende Holläänder 14 Handel Giulio Cesare 16 Britten Gloriana 18 Offenbach La Grande-Duchesse de Géérolstein 20 Gluck Iphigéénie en Tauride 22 Puccini Madama Butterfly 24 JanááˇcekThe Makropoulos Case 26 Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nüürnberg 28 Mozart Le nozze di Figaro 30 Verdi Otello 32 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (p. Chééreau) 34 Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen (p. Kupfer) 36 Monteverdi Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria 38 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier 40 Glinka Ruslan and Lyudmila 42 Bellini La sonnambula 44 Prokofiev War and Peace 46 Mozart Die Zauberflööte

48 Credits

September 2007