Welcome back to another look at the latest CD and DVD releases of the week.

This week audiences will get a new release from Anna Netrebko for the first time in two years, a world premiere video recording of a rare work by Donizetti, and a complete performance of a Bach work on YouTube.

Giacomo Puccini: Turandot

Anna Netrebko’s acclaimed interpretation of Turandot is released by C Major from the Arena di Verona. Recorded in August 2022, the production also stars Yusiv Eyvazov, Carlo Bosi, Maria Teresa Leva, and Ferruccio Furlanetto. Marco Armiliato conducts the staging by Franco Zeffirelli.

Feeling Mozart

Modos Records releases the debut album of Edgardo Rocha featuring an all-Mozart program. The album features music from “Mitridate, re di Ponto,” “La clemenza di Tito,” “Idomeneo re di Creta,” “Lucio Silla,” “Zaide,” “Apollo et Hyacinthus,” and “Il re pastore.”

Missing

Bright Shiny Things releases “Missing,” an opera by librettist Marie Clements and composer Brian Current in collaboration with Artists of the Opera Missing. The recording features sopranos Cait Wood and Melody Courage, mezzo-sopranos Andrea Ludwig, Marion Newman, and Michelle Lafferty, tenor Asitha Tennekoon, and baritone Evan Korbut.

The opera confronts the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

We Are Here 

The new choral album amplifies voices of resistance, resilience, and remembrance. Featuring Kareem Roustom’s Rage Against the tyrant(s) and Eric Banks’ Aluta Continua: The Passion of David Kato Kisule, this album weaves together protest chants, poetry, and sacred texts to confront oppression and honor those who fight for justice.

The album features performances by Coro Allegro under the direction of David Hodgkins and a constellation of guest artists.

Donizetti: Zoraida di Granata

Dynamic releases the world premiere video recording of one of Donizetti’s rarely performed works from the Donizetti Opera Festival. The cast includes Konu Kim, Zuzana Marková, and Cecilia Molinari. Alberto Zanardi conducts Bruno Ravella’s production.

St. Matthew Passion

Conducted by Enrico Onofri at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and recorded live on April 9, 2025, this new recording features the Orchestre National Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Chór NFM, and soloists Werner Güra, Louis Morvan, Julie Roset, Giuseppina Bridelli, Fabien Hyon, and Thomas Dolié.