Alphabetical List

Alphabetical List of All Fine-Art High-Definition Video Discs You Can Buy or Preorder

Ignore ``A'' and ``The'' and the like beginning a title. Click on a title for a link to more information.

The Grades "A" thru "X" mean:

A+ = "must have" title with exemplary content and disc engineering. To earn an A+, the title must have broad appeal. And it must be something you can enjoy (or use as a teacher) over and over.
A = excellent content and satisfactory disc engineering.
A- = exemplary or excellent content with some reservation. An example would be some of the EuroArts titles that have wonderful content but substandard menus.
B = a fine disc you will probably like a lot if the subject interests you.
C = damnation of faint praise. But will no doubt have appeal to some folks.
D = don't bother to buy it unless you have a real good reason. An sad example of this would be the Opus Arte Jewels, which has great content ruined for most by motion artifacts.
F = somebody should have gotten Fired.
X = extraordinary title that doesn't easily fit the rubric given for the rest of the site. While these discs tend to be of undeniable quality, they may be too obscure or too specific to appeal to the majority of HDVD connoisseurs. See the thumbnail for the title for more information.

Grades were mostly supplied by Henry McFadyen, Jr. with help from Gordon Smith and his L'OperaDou jury which grades some titles listed here. (The higher of the grade from McFadyen or the jury is posted.) McFadyen takes full responsibility for all errors of fact or judgment. Let us know if you think a title deserves a different grade.

Type codes are: A = animation; B = ballet; C = concert; D = dance; Doc = documentary; O = opera; O/ta = operetta; P = play. The numbers after the type show the year the title was published. All discs are Blu-ray unless otherwise indicated.

Some discs have on them recordings of more than one title. If the disc has its own title, we use that. Examples of this are the Karajan Memorial Concert (which features the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 ) and recital discs such as the Opera Gala. Where the disc has no "metatitle," we will list it several places. An example of this is Opus Arte OA BD7010D, which we list under Gianni Schicchi and The Miserly Knight. Double feature titles are indicated with the code "(2/1)."

Not all fine-art Blu-ray titles make it on this alphalist. Our definition of HDVD requires at least 5.0 sound. So titles with only stereo sound are excluded. We also will exclude a title if we feel the video source is too poor to take advantage of high-definition TV. Stated differently, we don't accept DVD-quality video spruced up in Blu-ray dress. See a list of excluded titles at the end of the alphalist.

Title and Link	Grade	Type	House or Group	Publisher	Buy
Acis and Galatea	D+	O-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Admeto	C	O-09	Handel Festival	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Admeto	___	O-10	Handel Festival	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Adriana Lecouvreur	___	O-10	Di Torino	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Adventures of Pinocchio	C	O-09	Opera North	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Aida	B	O-08	La Scala	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Aida	___	O-10	Bregenz Festival	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Amelia	A	D-09	Studio	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Amor, Vida de mi Vida	B	C-09	Mozarteum/Salzburg	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Ariadne auf Naxos	B	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
As You Like It	A+	P-10	Globe Theatre	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Ballo in maschera	___	O-10	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Barbiere di Siviglia	A-	O-08	Madrid Teatro Real	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Beethoven Piano Concertos 1-5	A-	C-09	Berlin Staatskapelle	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (2/1)	___	C-10	Boston Symphony Orchestra	NHK	CDJapan
Berlin Concert	B	C-08	Berlin Waldbüne	DG	US UK DE CA FR
Berlioz Symphony fantastique (2/1)	A	C-09	Saito Kinen	NHK	CDJapan
Berlioz Symphony fantastique	A	C-09	San Francisco Symphony	SFSmedia	US UK CA
Bohème (HD DVD)	A	O-08	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	UK DE
Bohème	A	O-08	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Bohème	B+	O-09	Motion Picture	Kultur	US UK CA
Bohème	A-	O-09	Motion Picture	Axiom	UK
Bohème	C+	O-10	English National Opera	Kultur	US
Bohème	C+	O-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2	D	C-10	London Symphony	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Brahms Sym. No. 2 (2/1)	A+	C-10	Saito Kinen Orchestra	NHK	CDJapan
Brandenburg Concertos 1-6	A+	C-08	Orchestra Mozart	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (2/1)	A	C-09	Concertgebouw	NHK	CDJapan
Caravaggio	B	B-09	Berlin State Ballet	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Carmen	B	O-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Carmen	A	O-08	ROH	Decca	US UK DE CA
Cavalleria rusticana (2/1)	A	O-09	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Cavalleria rusticana (2/1)	B	O-10	Zurich Opera House	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Cecilia & Byrn (HD DVD)	A-	C-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA
Cecilia & Byrn	A-	C-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Cenerentola	A	O-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Chamber Music Palisades	X	C-10	Studio Recording	AIX	US
Clemeza di Tito	B+	O-10	Opéra national de Paris	Opus Arte	UK
Così fan tutte	A+	O-09	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Così fan tutte	B	O-10	Zurich Opera House	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Così fan tutte	___	O-10	Salzburg Festival	EuroArts	UK
Cunning Little Vixen	B	O-09	Paris National Opera	Idéale Audience	US UK DE CA FR
Cunning Little Vixen	___	O-10	Saito Kinen	NHK	CDJapan
Dame aux cameléas	A+	B-09	POB	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Dialogues des Carmélites	___	O-10	Staatsoper Hamburg	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Dido and Aeneas	C	O-09	Royal Opera House	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Dido and Aeneas	A	O-10	Opéra Comique	FRA	US UK DE CA FR
Doctor Atomic	C	O-09	Nederlandse Oper	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Doctor Faust	C	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Don Giovanni	A-	O-08	Freiburger Barock.	harmonia mundi	US UK DE CA FR
Don Giovanni	B-	O-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Don Giovanni	B+	O-10	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Don Giovanni	___	O-10	Salzburg Festival	EuroArts	UK
Don Pasquale	B-	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	Decca	US UK DE CA
Don Pasquale	A-	O-10	Ravenna Festival	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Edgar	C+	O-09	Di Torino	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Elektra	C+	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Elisir d'amore	A	O-10	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Entführung aus dem Serail	C+	O-09	Amsterdam	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Ercole Amante	___	O-10	Nederlandse Oper	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Eugene Onegin	A	O-08	Met	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Fairy Queen	___	O-10	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Falstaff	B-	O-10	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Fidelio	___	O-10	Zurich Opera House	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Fille du pharaon	A	B-10	Bolshoi Ballet	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Fille mal gardée	A+	B-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Finta giardiniera	A-	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Forza del destino	C	O-09	Maggio Musicale	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Fledermaus (HD DVD)	A+	O/ta-07	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	UK DE CA FR
Fledermaus	A+	O/ta-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Gambler	B+	O-10	Berlin State Opera	C Major	UK DE FR
Gazzetta	C	O-09	Teatre del Liceu	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Genoveva	C+	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Gianni Schicchi (2/1)	A+	O-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Giselle	A	B-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Giselle	A+	B-09	POB	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Giselle	B+	B-10	Nederlandse ballet	Kultur	US UK CA
Giulio Cesare	A+	O-09	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Glenn Gould: Hereafter	A-	Doc-09	Motion Picture	Idéale Audience	US UK DE CA FR
Götterdämmerung	___	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Götterdämmerung	___	O-10	Valencia	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Hamlet	___	P-10	Motion Picture	Warner Bros.	US
Hansel & Gretel	B+	O-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Hänsel und Gretel	B+	O-09	Dessau	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Ives Holidays Symphony	A	C/Doc-09	San Francisco Symphony	SFSmedia	US UK CA
Jewels	D	B-08	POB	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Karajan Memorial Concert	A-	C-09	Berlin Philharmonic	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk	C+	O-09	Nedersandse Oper	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk	B	O-09	Maggio Musicale Fiorentino	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Lohengrin	A+	O-09	Baden-Baden	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Love for Three Oranges	A	O-08	Nederlandse Opera	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Love's Labour's Lost	___	P-10	Globe Theatre	Opus Arte	UK
Luisa Fernanda	B	O/ta-09	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Lulu	___	O-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE FR
Mahler Symphony No. 1 (2/1)	A	C-09	Saito Kinen	NHK	CDJapan
Mahler Symphony No. 2(HD DVD)	A	C-08	Berlin Staatskapelle	EuroArts	US UK DE CA
Mahler Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"	___	C-10	Lucerne Festival	EuroArts	UK
Mahler Symphony No. 3	A	C-09	Lucerne Festival	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Mahler Symphony No. 6	___	C-10	Lucerne Festival	EuroArts	UK
Mahler Symphony No. 9 (2/1)	___	C-10	Boston Symphony Orchestra	NHK	CDJapan
Manon	A	O-08	Berlin Staatsoper	DG	US UK DE CA FR
Marco Polo	C	O-09	Netherlands Chamber	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Mayerling	A	B-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Mendelssohn Piano Con. No. 1 (2/1)	A	C-09	Ozawa & Mito	NHK	CDJapan
Mendelssohn Mid. Night's Dream (2/1)	A	C-09	Ozawa & Mito	NHK	CDJapan
Merry Widow	B	O-10	San Francisco Opera	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Messiah	___	C-10	Theater an der Wien	C Major	UK
Midsummer Night's Dream (HD DVD)	A	B-07	Pacific Northwest Ballet	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Midsummer Night's Dream	A	B-08	Pacific Northwest Ballet	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Minotaur	D+	O-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Miserly Knight (2/1)	A+	O-08	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
New Year's 2009 Concert	A	C-09	Wiener Philharmoniker	Decca	US UK DE FR
Norma	B-	O-08	Nederlandse Opera	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Nozze di Figaro	B	O-08	Salzburg Festival	DG	US UK DE CA FR
Nozze di Figaro	A+	O-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Nutcracker	B-	B-08	Mariinsky	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Nutcracker	A	B-09	San Francisco Ballet	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Nutcracker	A	B-10	Royal Ballet	Opus Arte	UK
Ondine	A	B-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Opera Gala	A+	C-08	Baden-Baden	DG	US UK DE CA FR
Opus Arte Sampler	N/A	N/A-08	13 Selections	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Orlando	A	O-09	Opernhaus Zürich	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Orphée et Eurydice	B+	O+B-10	Bologna Opera	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Orpheus und Eurydike	A+	B+O-09	POB	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Otello	B	O-09	Teatre del Liceu	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Otello	___	O-10	Salzburg Festival	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Pagliacci (2/1)	A	O-09	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Pagliacci (2/1)	B	O-10	Zurich Opera House	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Parsifal	___	O-10	Festspielhaus	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Pavarotti Tribute	C	C-09	Prague Philharmonia	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Pelléas et Mélisande	C	O-10	Opernhaus Zürich	TDK	US UK DE CA
Peter & der Wolf	X	A-10	Short Film	Arthaus Musik	DE FR
Puritani	A+	O-08	Met	DG	US UK DE CA
Pyongyang Concert	A	C-08	N. Y. Philharmonic	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Rake's Progress	B+	O-09	La Monnaie de Munt	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Rattle Conducts ("Russian Rhythms")	C+	C-10	Berlin Philharmoniker	Euroarts	US UK DE CA FR
Rheingold	___	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Rheingold	B+	O-09	Valencia	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Rigoletto	B+	O-08	Opernhaus Zürich	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Ring des Nibelungen	___	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Romeo and Juliet	A+	B-09	ROH	Decca	US UK DE CA
Romeo and Juliet	B+	P-10	Globe Theatre	Opus Arte	US UK DE FR CA
Roméo et Juliette	B	O-09	Mozarteum Orchester	DG	US UK DE CA FR
Rondine	B+	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Rosenkavalier	A	O-08	Semperoper	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Rosenkavalier	C+	O-09	Baden-Baden	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
St. Petersburg Gala	C	C-09	St. P. Philharmonic	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Salome	A	O-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE FR
Seiji Ozawa 75th Anniversary	___	C-10	5 disc compilation	NHK	CDJapan
Semele	B	O-09	La Sintilla	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Schumann Piano Concerto (2/1)	B	C-09	Concertgebouw	NHK	CDJapan
Schumann Piano Concerto No. 1 (2/1)	A	C-10	Gewandhaus	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Schumann Symphony No. 4 (2/1)	A	C-10	Gewandhaus	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Shostakovich Sym. No. 5	A	C/Doc-09	San Francisco Symphony	SFSmedia	US UK CA
Shostakovich Sym. No. 5 (2/1)	A+	C-10	Saito Kinen Orchestra	NHK	CDJapan
Siegfried	___	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Siegfried	___	O-10	Valencia	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Silk Road	C	Doc-09	Motion Picture	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Sistema	A	D-09	Boliver Youth Orch	EuroArts	US UK DE CA FR
Sleeping Beauty	A	B-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Spartacus	A	B-08	Bolshoi	Decca	US UK CA FR
Stravinsky/Ballets Russes	B+	B-09	Mariinsky	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Swan Lake (HD DVD)	A	B-07	POB	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Swan Lake	A+	B-08	POB	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Swan Lake	B	B-08	Mariinsky	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Swan Lake	C	B-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Swan Lake	B+	B-10	Zurich Ballet	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Sylvia	A	B-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Tales of Beatrix Potter	A	B-10	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Tamerlano	A	O-09	Madrid Teatro Real	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Tannhäuser	B-	O-09	Baden-Baden	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Tchaikovsky Gala	C	B-08	La Scala	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Tchaikovsky Sym. No. 6	X	C-08	Berlin Philharmonic	NHK	CDJapan
Thaïs	C+	O-09	Di Torino	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Tosca	D	O-09	Arena di Verona	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Traviata	B+	O-08	La Scala	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Traviata "Give Away" Deal	B+	O-10	La Scala	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Traviata	B	O-09	Los Angeles Opera	Decca	US UK DE CA FR
Traviata	B-	O-09	Salzburg Festival	DG	US UK DE CA
Tristan und Isolde	B-	O-09	Glyndebourne	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Tristan und Isolde	D	O-10	Bayreuth	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Trittico	A	O-09	Di Modena	TDK	US UK DE CA FR
Trovatore (HD DVD)	B	O-08	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA
Trovatore	B	O-08	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Troyens	A+	O-10	Théâtre Musical de Paris	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Turandot	A	O-09	Valencia	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Turco in Italia	C	O-10	Teatro Carlo Felice	Arthaus Musik	US UK DE CA FR
Twin Spirits	A+	C-09	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Unquiet Traveller	D	D-10	Film	Euroarts	US UK DE CA
Virtual Haydn	X	C-09	McGill University	Naxos	US UK CA
Volodos in Vienna	A-	C-10	Musikverein Wien	Sony Classical	US UK DE CA FR
Walküre	___	O-08	Aix-en-Provence Festival	BelAir	US UK DE CA FR
Walküre	___	O-09	Weimar	Arthaus	US UK DE CA FR
Walküre	___	O-09	Valencia	C Major	US UK DE CA FR
Zauberflöte (HD DVD)	A	O-07	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Zauberflöte	A	O-08	ROH	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR
Zoroastre	A	O-08	Drottningholm	Opus Arte	US UK DE CA FR

Title and Link

Grade

Type

House or Group

Publisher

Buy

Acis and Galatea

D+

O-10

ROH

Opus Arte