This may interest some people: we have been putting together a fast-growing collection of
live video broadcasts: large orchestral pieces, choral works, and twentieth-century operas. There are also a few school stories. If you wish to join the forum there and download you will be most welcome.
Link: http://thethird.freeforums.net/board/62/first-rate-videos-operaHere is a selection of recent items, all video:Mahler's Tenth Symphony (Deryck Cooke's completion)
Saint François d'Assise - opera by Messiaen
Death in Venice (Britten's opera filmed in Venice by Tony Palmer 1981)
A Sea Symphony - V. Williams (1908-9)
The Poem of Ecstasy - Alexander Scryabine (1908)
The Kingdom - oratorio by Sir Edward Elgar (1906)
Dvořák's eighth symphony (1889) performed in Prague
Carry on Teacher (1959)
St. John Passion - Bach (1724) - with Harnoncourt conducting his boys' choir
Pelléas et Mélisande - Arnold Schönberg (1903)
Moses und Aron - an opera by Arnold Schönberg (1932)
King Roger - an opera by Karol Szymanowski (1926)
Gurre-Lieder (Songs of Gurre) - Schönberg (1901 and 1912)
Les Faux-Monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters) as a T.V. film
B minor Mass - Bach (1749) - a rare authentic performance from Leipsig with the Thomaner boys' choir
Le Roi Arthus (King Arthur) - an opera by Ernest Chausson (1895)
La ville dont le prince est un enfant
Second Symphony - Sir Edward Elgar (1911) [a good performance from the Proms, available by Sunday]
