Shakespeare Verdi Opera Box

Shakespeare Verdi Opera Box set. Features three operas based on Shakespeare plays, all previously released by Opus Arte:

Falstaff (2010, graded A)
Macbeth (2012, graded A)
Otello (2009, graded B)

Released 2015, each disc has either 5.0 or 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. The Falstaff and Macbeth titles are both excellent. Othello is the weak link in this opera box.

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.