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La Boheme
The legendary and incomparable partnership of Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti as the two lovers in Puccini's most popular opera has been captured in this special live recording from stage of the San Francisco Opera. Brian Large has adapted Francesca Zambello's production for video. Gino Quilico sings Marcello, the colorful and moody painter, whose tempestuous relationship with the flirtatious Musetta (sung by Sandra Pacetti), comically mirrors the more profound love of Rodolfo and Mimi. Nicolai Ghiaurov sings Colline.
D0002
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Glyndebourne's production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is pure magic. Brilliantly adapted from Shakespeare's play, the opera follows the adventures of four lovers and a group of naïve rustics who, in a wood on a moonstruck midsummer night, fall foul of Oberon and Tytania, the quarrelling king and queen of the fairies. In Hall's remarkable staging the very wood comes alive as logs and trees move and rustle, creating ambiguous silhouettes in the dark mysterious woodland, lit only by designer John Bury's wonderful rising sun and moon. Stars Felicity Lott, Ileana Cotrubas, and James Bowman.
D1411
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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Salzburg Festival production of the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht opera starring Gwyneth Jones, Jerry Hadley and Catherine Malfitano. This new production depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all of its ripe decadence. Mahagonny is presented as a Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidial towers, carved elephants, commodified sex, and licensed gluttony. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.
D2078
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Orfeo ed Euridice
British mezzo-soprano, Dame Janet Baker, chose to retire from the operatic stage singing the title role in Sir Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. This 1982 recording from Glyndebourne, where Dame Janet appropriately began her professional career, proved a suitable crowning glory to the career of one of the great singing actresses of our age - "…one of her finest and most moving portrayals". TV TIMES
D2100
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Lulu
Alban Berg's operatic swan song charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. With it's intensely beautiful score, Lulu is acknowledged as a twentieth century masterpiece. Performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and starring Christine Schäfer, Kathryn Harries, Patricia Bardon, Jonathan Viera. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Sung in German, with subtitles available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
D2253
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Peter Grimes
In this performance by the Royal Opera, Canadian tenor Jon Vickers - internationally acclaimed for his portrayal of Grimes - heads a cast that gives vivid life to this masterpiece. Conducted by Colin Davis. Sung in English, with subtitles available in English, German, and Spanish.
D1556
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Arabella
With its romantic Viennese plot and lush waltz-time melodies, Arabella is one of Strauss's most popular operas. Starring Ashley Putnam and John Brocheler, with Gianna Rolandi, Regina Sarfarty, Artur Korn, Keith Lewis, Gwendolyn Bradley. Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducted by Bernard Haitink. Sung in German, subtitles available in English, French, German, Spanish.
D2254
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The Makropolous Case
by Leos Janacek. Starring Anja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor Braun, Andrew Shore The Makropolous Case focuses on the issue of the pros and cons of living for 337 years, as happens to the mysterious sexually irresistable prima donna who's seen it all and done it all. Part grotesque human comedy, part profound human tragedy. Glyndebourne Festival Opera, conducted by Andrew Davis. Sung in Czech, subtitles available in English, German, Spanish.
D2256
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Capriccio
Richard Strauss's last opera includes some of the composer's most elegant and sumptuous music. The deftly woven vocal ensembles, detailed orchestral writing and light-handed parodies of eighteenth century music show the hand of the master. Stars Kiri Te Kanawa, Hakan Hagegard, Tatiana Troyanos, and Victor Braun. Sung in German with English subtitles.
D2900
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Thais
The title role, in this excellent production, is sung by an Eva Mei in great vocal form. Beside her, bass-baritone Michele Pertusi, as Athanaël, shows again his unquestionable style. On the podium is Marcello Viotti, music director of the Venetian theatre. The clash between spirituality and sensuality haa been portrayed brilliantly by Pier Luigi Pizzi, one of today’s most talented opera directors. French, English, Italian, German and Spanish subtitles.
050_33427
 $24.99
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Maria Stuarda
Recorded live in 2001, this very high quality production by Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo features, in the roles of the two queens, Carmela Remigio (Maria Stuarda) and Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), two great artists here making a fine display of their excellent vocal and acting skills. Francesco Esposito's direction and costumes, and Italo Grassi's sets are superbly highlighted by the filming. Subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese and interviews to the two female interpreters, the conductor, the director and set-designer.
050_33407
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Agrippina
Agrippina’s triumph sanctioned Handel’s definitive investiture as an operatic composer. After nearly 300 years this opera appears as a masterpiece of 18th-century music and an innovative work, considering that when Handel composed it he was just 24 years old. The composer’s melodic creativity and sense of theatre are quite remarkable. The cast, conducted by Jean-Claude Malgoire, includes Véronique Gens in the title role. This double DVD will not fail to attract the interest of Baroque opera lovers
050_33431
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Alfonso und Estrella
Eva Mei, soprano; Reiner Trost, tenor; Markus Werba, baritone. Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Alfonso und Estrella was completed on 27th February 1822 but was first staged, on the initiative of Franz Liszt, only in 1854, after Schubert’s death. It has the characteristic climate of a Romantische Oper and the power of his creativity and beauty of many arias cannot be denied.
050_33451
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The Life of Verdi
Ronald Pickup plays the title role, with Carla Fracci as Giuseppina Strepponi, Verdi's wife and friend. Supporting them is a parade of colorful personalities who thronged Verdi's life. The biographical events are played out against the tumultuous background of Italy's struggle for unity and independence, a cause to which Verdi dedicated his art. Across the flow of action washes the bright glitter of Verdi's music, artfully woven into the fabric of the program, and sung by the leading voices of contemporary stage. Firmly based on scholarly research, it emerges as an extravaganza of operatic dimensions, a celebration of a musical genius and his lyric legacy
D1246
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Trilogy of Love Collector's Edition
This stunning boxed set is both the perfect introduction to opera for the novice and a must-have for the established aficianado. Three complete performances of Mozart's most beloved operas are included in this special collector's box: Le Nozze di Figaro stars Marco Grimaldi and Madleyn Renee Monti, Don Giovanni stars Renato Bruson, and Cosi fan tutte stars Gloria Scalchi and Adriana Damato. Sung in Italian with English subtitles
D2829
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