A Night At The Opera
(DVD-Audio)

 

Released in 2002.
5.1 Surround Sound produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Brian May
5.1 Surround Sound Mixed by Elliot Scheiner.

Click here for the original album details, here for details of the 30th Anniversary reissue, or here for details of the Surround Sound Mixes.

This release features a 5.1 Stereo Surround mix and a normal Stereo mix of Queen's classic album, containing: (each song title links to details of it's surround sound mix)

  1. Death On Two Legs
  2. Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
  3. I'm In Love With My Car
  4. You're My Best Friend
  5. '39
  6. Sweet Lady
  7. Seaside Rendezvous
  8. The Prophet's Song
  9. Love Of My Life
  10. Good Company
  11. Bohemian Rhapsody
  12. God Save The Queen

It also allows each song's lyrics to be displayed, with or without the song played simultaneously. Other features include:

  1. The video to 'Bohemian Rhapsody', taken from 'Greatest Flix'
  2. A gallery, showing the 11 photographs from the original album sleeve.
  3. A song selection menu
  4. A list of credits for the release, divided into:
    1. Album credits (with a unique excerpt of 'Seaside Rendezvous')
    2. Stereo credits (with a unique instrumental excerpt of 'I'm In Love With My Car')
    3. 5.1 credits (with an excerpt of 'The Prophet's Song')
    4. DVD credits (with a unique instrumental excerpt of 'Sweet Lady')
    5. Special Thanks (with a unique excerpt of 'Bohemian Rhapsody')
  5. Information about the DTS group, which includes two short excerpts of 'Good Company' (one unique instrumental, one short excerpt)

The release also includes a 'hidden' Group (number 9) which can only be accessed by entering a 4 digit password. This is not mentioned anywhere on the release, but according to the DTS group it contains information relating to the menus and the disc structure.

 

This release (which has a black spine and border) has 5 channel surround sound mixes produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Brian May. Some sources suggest that there was also a DVD-Audio disc in the USA in 2001, which features a blue spine/border, and contains a 4 channel mix by Elliot Scheiner (without Brian), and that the disc was withdrawn as Brian was unhappy with it. However, I cannot confirm whether this is correct, and if so, what the differences between the discs and the mixes are. If the disc was released, it now seems very difficult to get hold of.

The surround sound mixes were later used on the 30th Anniversary reissue DVD, except 'God Save The Queen' (for which the 30th anniversary release features a new mix), 'Seaside Rendezvous' (virtually identical) and 'The Prophet's Song' (on this DVD-Audio release it is a slightly different version, adding eleven seconds of wind at the start of the track). Apart from these differences the mixes are identical.