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Opera on Video gives the opera lover and opera fan a searchable database of all full operas recorded on video as well as concerts, documentaries, interviews and movies related to opera, composers and singers. Opera on Video provides LINKS to videos published elsewhere in the Internet – if available.
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You can view at least an excerpt of any recording and you get extensive information about the performance such as composer, conductor, singers,, venue, date –
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You, the opera lover can rate, comment and discuss any recording with other opera lovers and you can find the recording you are looking for by searching for certain operas, singers, composers and more.
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Publishing and editing is performed in Zurich, Switzerland. The web server is located in the USA.
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Thank you for your effort to run this site.
What a wonderful discovery I made when I found this website. Thank you for opening my eyes to operas.
I agree with Jorgen. I just found your website and I am sure I will be passing hours and hours…. Thanks for the work and the initiative
I still don’t understand the limits of “Fair Use.” For example, a movie like “Io, Don Giovanni” has a copyright under its director, Carlos Saura, and its production company. It’s stated clearly on the DVD that no one can distribute its content, not even in a website like this one since the only way for an audience to see it is by paying for it to be rented or bought via Netflix, Amazon, etc. As a filmmaker, I find it dubious that Amazon might give permission. This is why complete films are taken down from Youtube. It’s infringement of copyright.
You are absolutely right about complete movies. Opera on Video does not publish any complete movies. It only links to videos published by someone else elsewhere. The “Fair Use” is only claimed for the few excerpts it publishes on its website itself.
As you say the copyright owner can and will remove videos on other websites such as YouTube.
When this occurs the link on Opera on Video will disappear too.
Hi, let me make a suggestion:
Would be great you can realise a search about “subtiteled” and “language”.
Also a search – filter to video-resolution could be helpful
Thank you, so, so, so very much for this site.
Hello, I would like to know how the copyrights of performing artists in individual opera productions are handled. I was approached by two singers who perform in a production published on this site and were not informed about this fact. Please provide information about the site operator I can contact in this matter. Well thank you.
OperaonVideo is a catalogue and database of recorded opera performance.
It documents these performances and links to videos published by others somewhere on the Internet.
We do not publish videos ourselves.
If there is a question about copyright of a video, then the publisher of this video should be contacted.
If you let me know specifically which performances you are referring to, I will be glad to assist you to point you in the right direction.
I want to become a member to access complete performances
Opera on Video is free for all. No membership required.
Amazing site with so many productions
i sent you two comments about LA VIE PARISIENNE (excellent) and Lausanne’s IM WEISSEN ROESSL (horrible) – why? E’ assolutamente giusto combattere queste rappresentazioni che offendono i lavori come creati dai loro autori – questo CAVALLINO BIANCO di Lausanne ne è un esempio volgarissimo. Mi dite qualcosa?
Both were approved. What is your point?
May i contact the persons who created this site? I wonder why my opinions about L’AUBERGE DU CHEVAL BLANC à Lausanne et Tourcoing appeared, disappeared and then appeared again, but now it seems gone forever. I expressed a very negative remark on the mise-en-scène de Lausanne, but a very positive for Tourcoing. I have been rather maladroit expressing my thought, but nowadays the theatres go on proposing so strange things that the original works ‘disappear’ – as my opinions! I fight against them, so let me have my opinionz again on the site – a site I do appreciate so much! Thanks.
Ernesto
All your comments were approved and published and are fully available to everyone.
I WAS SAD believing you did not approve my comments. Approve – well, you may even thinking somehting totally different from my point of view, but it is good to see in your splendid OperaOnVideo site our various ideas. So, Thanks from the depths of my heart and a HAPPY NEW YEAR full of your marvellous offers!!!
Grazie mille, Ernesto
Great site which saves me a lot of effort. You may want to consider establishing a subscription to view operas without the annoying adds rather than begging for donations (like YouTube did).
Hi, may I know if I can use one of the recorded opera concert videos for a 30secs TV advertisement. Please advise copyright. Thanks.
You have to contact the copyright holder of the video you want to use.
Opera on Video only links to videos and has no rights for the videos
Too much ads……. this site becomes more and more confusing
Ads are the main source of funding this FREE website.
There are far too few donations !!!!
What about subtitles?
Please read in FAQ
Hello
I am looking for concert with Claire soprano that perfomed with Ensemble La fenice
with program called entre ciel et Terre
also I am looking for Peer Gynt Salle Pleyel
with Paavo Jarvi conductor
Arnaud Denis, récitant
Cher ami,
Je viens à vous ce jour, sous ma casquette de Responsable Éditorial de notre site-projet wagnérien “Le Musée VirtuelRichard Wagner”, car, bien que j’admire toujours un peu plus le travail dantesque que vous réalisez infatigablement pour développer et enrichir votre magnifique plateforme https://operaonvideo.com,
nous n’avons, je crois jamais eu l’occasion d’échanger …
… alors que nos projets disctincts – mus par une même passion “contagieuse” – ont, et ce n’est pas un maint sujet, ceci de commun : l’amour de l’opéra et la mise à disposition de cet Art pour le plus grand nombre. Même si “tardives”, félcitations donc à vous !
Mon message est, je doisl’avouer qqpeu intéressé : chaque anée j’écris, je réalise, contruit quelques uns de nos “Portraits wagnériensé” destinés à notre série pour le web : “Une Voix pour Richard Wagner”: https://richard-wagner-web-museum.com/accueil-2/une-voix-pour-richard-wagner/
Cette année, bien que m’étant mis à la tâche un peu tard – croulant sous X dossiers – j’ai décidé de mettre en ligne le “Portrait” de la soprano Elisabeth Teige (pour coincider avec sa prise de rôle dans l’Imparétrice de FROSH au Capitole de Toulouse la semaine prochaine). Idée en soi louable mais catastrophe ; aucune captation – même de courts extraits – de ses débuts wagnériens jusuqu’à nos jours ne sont trouvables en ligne….
En tant que Grand Spécialiste de tout ce que l’on peut dénichersur le net en matière d’opéra : auriez vous à tout hasard qq part repéré la présence des “témoignages” d’interprétations auxquels je serais étranger ?
Une bouteille àlamer ; si jamais vous connaissez une “chacje” où je pourrais même ne reprendre que 4 mesures de “Dich teure Halle” : vous me sauveriez !
Je vous souhaite une excellente fin de week-end,
Vous adresse tous mes voeux de réussite et de parachèvement de votre projet,
Dans cette attente,
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pour Le Musée Virtuel Richard Wagner,
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PS : ce mail vous a été envoyé par doublon sur Messager (par précaution….)
Can I buy a DVD from you for my collection ?
We do not sell any DVDs.
You can ask for a Download Assist https://www.operaonvideo.com/download-service/
or order a DVD from Amazon with a supplied link
Dear Flamand and viewers
I’ve been searching everywhere for two Cosi fan Tutte productions that were televised in the UK can anyone help
Firstly a Royal Opera production from late 60s early 70s the old John Cooley production inthink it had G Shirley in it
Secondly the Glyndebourne production from 1978 by Peter Hall with M Ewing under Haitink
Both were shown on bbctv I’d have thought someone may ha
I cannot find full video copies of these two.
There is an audio only video available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLR31L6YMxk
Here is the complete cast for the two performances you asked for:
Cosi fan tutte BBC Two
Thu 31st Dec 1970, 21:00 on BBC Two England
A second chance to see this complete opera which was televised live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in July 1968
Contributors
Presenter:
Antony Hopkins
Conductor:
Georg Solti
Producer:
John Copley
Scenery:
Henry Bardon
Costumes:
David Walker
Singers:
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Children trained by:
Jean Povey
Musicians:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Orchestra Leader:
Charles Taylor
Libretto:
Lorenzo da Ponte
Subtitles:
Gillian Widdicombe
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
Fiordiligi, a lady of Ferrara:
Pilar Lorengar
Dorabella, Fiordiligi’s sister:
Josephine Veasey
Despina, lady’s maid to the two sisters:
Lucia Popp
Ferrando, an officer engaged to Dorabella:
Donald Grobe
Guglielmo, an officer engaged to Fiordiligi:
Wladimiro Ganzarolli
Don Alfonso, a cynical old bachelor:
Keith Engen
_________________________________________________________________
COSI FAN TUTTE The Opera July 11, 1978
Venue: Glyndebourne
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Cast
Ferrando: Max-Rene Cosotti
Guglielmo: Hakan Hagegard
Don Alfonso: Stafford Dean
Fiordiligi: Bozena Betley
Dorabella: Maria Ewing
Despina: Nan Christie
Production Team
Original Producer: Peter Hall
Staff Director: Stewart Trotter
Set Designer: John Bury
Costume Designer: John Bury
Lighting Designer: Robert Bryan
Thanks for your help and information
Victor