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Opera Collections: Part II

Coming January 2026

5 new collections featuring 79 full-length filmed performances from world-class opera houses and festivals including Teatro alla Scala, Vienna State Opera, The Royal Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Real, Opéra Comique, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and more. Stream high-quality performances with features that allow you to pause, slow down, and rewind to dissect complex passages. Don’t just hear the music—see how singers move and interact, how staging, sets and costumes contribute to the production, and how each interpretation breathes new life into iconic composers’ work.

Also available: Opera Collections

Highlights of Early and Baroque Opera 2

  • Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (Opéra Comique, 2008)
  • Handel’s Deidamia (Dutch National Opera, 2009)
  • Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2021)

Download the Early and Baroque Opera 2 title list*

*Title list is provisional and subject to change

Highlights of Classical Opera 2

  • Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Royal Opera, 2022)
  • L'Italiana in Londra (Oper Frankfurt, 2021)
  • Weber’s Oberon (Bayerische Staatsopert, 2017)

Download the Classical Opera 2 title list*

*Title list is provisional and subject to change

Highlights of Romantic Bel Canto

  • Bellini’s Bianca e Fernando (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, 2021)
  • Donizette’s L’elisir d’amore (The Royal Opera, 2023)
  • Rossini’s Armida (Vlaamse Opera, 2015)

Download the Romantic Bel Canto title list*

*Title list is provisional and subject to change

Highlights of Romantic Opera 2

  • Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen including: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2021)
  • Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2013)
  • Verdi’s Falstaff (Teatro Real, 2019)

Download the Romantic Opera 2 title list*

*Title list is provisional and subject to change

Highlights of Modern Opera 2

  • Berg’s Lulu (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2015)
  • Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Teatro Real, 2010)
  • Britten’s Turn of the Screw (Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2001)

Download the Modern Opera 2 title list*

*Title list is provisional and subject to change



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