On February 13, Deutsche Grammophon and Decca/London will give lovers in the US a monster DVD simultaneous release of a box set with "Mozart's entire oeuvre of operas and operatic fragments", recorded live at the 2006 Salzburg Festival as part of last year's 250th-anniversary celebration of Mozart's birth.
It's 51 hours* of hawt DVD action for, ahem, $500$ bucks only, and it's like, a steep 10-clams an hour: if you can splurge, there are "productions of all 22 operas, plus a wealth of bonus interviews with conductors, singers, and other members of the artistic team".
OC, in Italy, has already seen some of the DVDs (it already came out in Europe, to baffingly good sales considering the price): she really loved Die Zauberflöte with Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night, René Pape as Sarastro, Paul Groves as Tamino, VPO conducted by Opera Chic's beloved Riccardo Muti.
She quickly fell asleep watching Le Nozze di Figaro conducted (if by "conducted" you mean "moving as if in a scene of Awakenings before De Niro wakes the hell up") in opera-slo-mo by Herr Nikolaus Harnoncourt (too bad for Anna Netrebko and Dorothea Röschmann, part of the excellent cast).
Kudos, instead, to hunky Thomas Hampson's Don Giovanni. In the other titles, there are really cool singers such as Ramon Vargas, Magdalena Kozena, Diana Damrau.
* 44 hours of which are eaten up by Harnoncourt's Nozze lol