For those without much time to read reviews, I can be extremely brief: hurry and buy this DVD. For all the others: the same advise though maybe they want to know the reasons for such a purchase.
Year: 2006
MOZART: Don Giovanni
Calixto Bieito has made his name as an opera director with productions of unrelenting violence and sex, perhaps exemplified by last year’s Abduction from the Seraglio in Berlin with its full nudity and graphic mutilations.
The Sixteen/Christophers, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article359252.ece
Diva Voigt Takes Off Weight, Puts on Tosca’s Tiara at the Met
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a.rbx1gXlj2s&refer=culture#
BELLINI: I puritani
I puritani, opera seria in three acts
Music composed by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Libretto by Carlo Pepoli from TÍtes rondes et Cavaliers (1833) by Jacques Ancelot and Xavier Saintine.
Tristan und Isolde, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/80cf7a82-d08d-11da-b160-0000779e2340.html
Placido Domingo: A new success under his nose
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article359020.ece
Alex Ross on Adriana Mater
A new opera from the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.