Appendix. Seventeenth-century operas (and related genres) on commercial DVD

(Multiple entries for the same opera are in chronological order by performance date.)

Blow, John and unidentified librettist. Venus and Adonis. Louise Moaty, director. Bertrand Cuiller, music director. Filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in 2013. Alpha, 2013.

Cavalieri, Emilio de’ and Agostino Manni. La rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo. Enrico Castiglione, director. Lorenzo Tozzi, music director. Filmed in Rome at the Basilica San Paolo fuori le mura in 2000. Trinidad Entertainment, 2000.

Cavalli, Pier Francesco and Giovanni Faustini. La Calisto. Herbert Wernicke, director. René Jacobs, music director. Filmed in Brussels at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in 1996. Harmonia Mundi, 2006.

Cavalli and Giovanni Francesco Busenello. La Didone. Facoltà di Design e Arti IUAV— Venezia (laboratories directed by Carlo Majer), stage direction. Fabio Biondi, music director. Filmed in Venice at the Teatro Malibran in 2006. Dynamic, 2007.

———. La Didone. Clément Hervieu-Léger, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in 2011. Opus Arte, 2012.

Cavalli and Faustini; libretto completed by Nicolò Minato. Elena. Jean-Yves Ruf, director. Leonardo Garcia Alcarón, music director. Filmed at the Festival Aix-en- Provence, 2013. Ricercar, 2014.

Cavalli and Francesco Buti. Ercole amante. David Alden, director. Ivor Bolton, music director. Filmed in Amsterdam at Het Musiektheater in 2009. Opus Arte, 2010.

Cavalli and Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. Il Giasone. Mariame Clément, director. Federico Maria Sardelli, music director. Filmed in Antwerp at the Vlaamse Opera in 2010. Dynamic, 2012.

Cavalli and Faustini. La Virtù de’ strali d’Amore. Facoltà di Design e Arti IUAV— Venezia (laboratories directed by Carlo Majer), stage direction. Fabio Biondi, music director. Filmed in Venice at the Teatro Malibran in 2008. Naxos, 2011.

Charpentier, Marc-Antoine and Père François Bretonneau. David et Jonathas. Andreas Homoki, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Aix-en-Provence in 2012. Bel Air Classiques, 2013.

Charpentier and Thomas Corneille. Médée. Olivier Simonnet, director. Hervé Niquet, music director. Filmed in Versailles at the Opéra Royal in 2004. Harmonia Mundi, 2005.

Landi, Stefano and Giulio Rospigliosi. Il Sant’Alessio. Benjamin Lazar, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in 2007. Virgin Classics, 2007.

Lully and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Benjamin Lazar, director. Vincent Dumestre, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Théâtre Le Trianon in 2004. Alpha, 2005, reissued 2008.

Lully, Jean-Baptiste and Philippe Quinault. Armide. Robert Carsen, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2008. FRA Musica, 2011.

———. Atys. Jean-Marie Villégier, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Opéra Comique in 2011. FRA Musica, 2011.

———. Cadmus et Hermione. Benjamin Lazar, director. Vincent Dumestre, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Opéra Comique in 2008. Alpha, 2008.

———. Persée. Marshall Pynkoski, director. Hervé Niquet, music director. Filmed in Toronto at the Elgin Theatre in 2004. EuroArts, 2005.

Monteverdi, Claudio and Busenello. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, director. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music director. Filmed in a studio in Vienna in 1979; audio taped in Zurich at the Opernhaus in 1978. Deutsche Grammophone, 2006.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Peter Hall, director. Raymond Leppard, music director. Filmed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1984. Kultur Video, 2004.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. José Montes-Baquer, director. René Jacobs, music director. Filmed at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in 1993. Arthaus Musik, 2001.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Pierre Audi, director. Christophe Rousset, music director. Filmed in Amsterdam at Het Musiektheater in 1994. Opus Arte, 2005.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Klaus Michael Grüber, director. Marc Minkowski, music director. Filmed at the Festival Aix-en Provence in 2000. Bel Air Classiques, 2006.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Robert Carsen, director. Emmanuelle Haïm, music director. Filmed at the Glyndenbourne Festival in 2008. Decca, 2009.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. David Alden, director. Harry Bicket, music director. Filmed in Barcelona at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2009. Opus Arte, 2012.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Ole Anders Tandberg, director. Alessandro di Marchi, music director. Filmed at the Norwegian National Opera in 2010. EuroArts, 2011.

———. L’incoronazione di Poppea. Jean-François Sivadier, director. Emmanuelle Haïm, music director. Filmed in Lille at the Opéra in 2012. Virgin Classics, 2013.

Monteverdi and Alessandro Striggio. L’Orfeo. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, director. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music director. Filmed in Zurich at the Opernhaus in 1977–1978. Deutsche Grammophone, 2007.

———. L’Orfeo. Pierre Audi, director. Stephen Stubbs, music director. Filmed in Amsterdam at the Nederlandse Opera in 1997. Opus Arte, 2005.

———. L’Orfeo. Trisha Brown, director. René Jacobs, music director. Filmed in Brussels at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in 1998. Harmonia Mundi, 2006.

———. L’Orfeo. Gilbert Deflo, stage director. Jordi Savall, music director. Filmed in Barcelona at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2002. Opus Arte and BBC Television, 2002.

———. L’Orfeo. Jacky Lautem and Jean-Claude Malgoire, directors. Malgoire, music director. Filmed in Tourcoing (France) at the Teatro Municipale in 2004. Dynamic, 2005.

———. L’Orfeo. Pier Luigi Pizzi, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Madrid at the Teatro Real in 2008. Dynamic, 2009.

———. L’Orfeo. Robert Wilson, director. Rinaldo Alessandrini, music director. Filmed in Milan at the Teatro La Scala in 2009. Opus Arte, 2011.

———. L’Orfeo. Paul Agnew, stage and music director. Filmed at the Théâtre de Caen in 2017. Harmonia Mundi, forthcoming in late autumn 2017.

Monteverdi and Giacomo Badoaro. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Peter Hall, director. Raymond Leppard, music director. Filmed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1973. Arthaus Musik, 2006.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, director. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music director. Filmed in a studio in Vienna in 1979; audio taped in Zurich at the Opernhaus in 1979. Deutsche Grammophone, 2006.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Pierre Audi, director. Glen Wilson, music director. Filmed in Amsterdam at Het Musiektheater in 1998. Opus Arte, 2005.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Klaus Michael Grüber, director. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music director. Filmed in Zurich at the Opernhaus in 2002. Arthaus Musik, 2012.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Adrian Noble, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed at the Festival Aix-en-Provence in 2002. Virgin Classics, 2003.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Pierre Luigi Pizzi, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Madrid at the Teatro Real in 2009. Dynamic, 2010.

———. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria. Mariame Clément, director. Emmanuelle Haïm, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2017. Rhino Warner Classics, 2017.

Purcell Henry and Nahum Tate, Dido and Aeneas. Peter Maniura, director. Richard Hickox, music director. Filmed at Hampton Court House, England, in 1995. Kultur Video, 2008.

———. Dido and Aeneas. Barbara Willis Sweete, director. Mark Morris, choreographer. Jeanne Lamon, music director. Filmed in 1995, at an unidentified location. Rhombus Media, 1995; Image Entertainment, 2000.

———. Dido and Aeneas: A Choreographic Opera. Sasha Waltz, director and choreographer. Attilio Cremonesi, music director. Filmed in Berlin at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2005. Arthaus Musik, 2005; reissued 2008.

———. Dido and Aeneas. Deborah Warner, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Paris at the Opéra Comique in 2008. FRA Musica, 2009.

———. Dido and Aeneas. Wayne McGregor, director. Christopher Hogwood, music director. Filmed in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 2009. Opus Arte, 2009.

———. Dido and Aeneas. Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubeck, directors. Vincent Dumestre, music director. Filmed at the Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie in 2014. Alpha, 2014.

Purcell. Libretto after William Shakespeare. The Fairy Queen. David Pountney, director. Nicholas Kok, music director. Filmed in the London Coliseum by the English National Opera in 1995. Arthaus Media, 1995; Image Entertainment, 1995; Kultur Video, 2009.

———. The Fairy Queen. Jonathan Kent, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Lewes at the Glyndebourne Opera House in 2009. Opus Arte, 2010.

Purcell, John Dryden, and Sir Robert Howard. Indian Queen. Revised by Peter Sellars, director. Teodor Currentzis, music director. Filmed in Madrid at the Teatro Real in 2013. Sony Classical, 2016.

Purcell and Dryden. King Arthur. Jürgen Flimm, director. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, music director. Filmed in Salzburg at the Felsenreitschule in 2004. EuroArts, 2005.

———. King Arthur. Corinne and Gilles Benizio, directors. Hervé Niquet, music director. Filmed at the Opéra national de Montpellier in 2009. Glossa, 2009.

Rossi, Luigi and Francesco Buti. L’Orfeo. Stéphane Vérité, director. Raphaël Pichon, musical director. Filmed in Nancy at the Opéra national de Lorraine in 2016. Harmonia mundi, 2017.