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Aida
A spectacular Covent Garden production of Verdi's most popular opera featuring Cheryl Studer and Dennis O'Neill. Also starring Luciana d'Intino, Alexandru Agache, Robert Lloyd, Mark Beesley, John Marsden, and Yvonne Barclay. Edward Downes conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.
D1487
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Aida
Verdi's enduring masterpiece of musical theatre is a blend of human emotion and grand spectacle, full of Egyptian pomp and pagentry. In Sam Wanamaker's lavish production, highly acclaimed for it's extraordinary musical performances, Margaret Price is outstanding as the Ethiopian slave, Aida. Luciano Pavarotti makes a triumphant debut in the role of Radames, commander of the Egyptian army, and the entire performance is masterfully shaped by the Spanish conductor, Garcia Navarro, leading the Orchestra and Chorus of the San Francisco Orchestra. Sung in Italian with subtitles available in English, French, Spanish, Portugese, Italian, and Japanese.
D2251
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La Fille Du Regiment
Joan Sutherland's legendary performance in the Opera Australia production of Donizetti's masterpiece of operatic comedy. Bursting over with Gallic wit and charm, it gave composer Donizetti ample chances to write military rhythms, pastoral mood music and passionate love exchanges, as well as create a role any prima donna with a sense of humor and a lot of technique would fight to perform. Also stars Anson Austin, Gregory Yurisich, Heather Begg, Gordon Wilcock, and Marie-Claire. Richard Bonynge conducts the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, and the Australian Opera Chorus.
D1211
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Der Rosenkavalier
Strauss' dazzling opera is set in 1740s Vienna. This opulent production by Oscar©-winning film director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) marked the 25th anniversary of Sir Georg Solti's spectacular debut at Covent Garden, conducting this very opera. Also features Kiri Te Kanawa's first performance in London of the role of Marschallin, which "deserves to be ranked among her finest achievements" (International Herald Tribune). Also starring Anne Howells, Aage Haugland, Barbara Bonney. Sung in German, with subtitles available in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese.
D2029
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Don Giovanni
Deborah Warner's enthralling production of Don Giovanni sets Mozart's fiery opera in modern dress in the twentieth century. It is the composer's most overtly sexual opera, and tells the story of a compulsive seducer, who schemes, lies and murders to gratify his lust, before being dragged off to hell. Performed at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, starring Gilles Cachemaille, Steven Page, Hillevi Martinpelto, and Adrianne Pieczonka. Yakov Kreizberg conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Sung in Italian, with subtitles available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.
D2032
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The Merry Widow
Joan Sutherland sparkles in the lead role of Lehar's delightful operetta in this Opera Australia production from the Sydney Opera House. Turn of the century Paris provides the glittering setting for this English version by Christopher Hassall, with Sutherland as widow Anna Glawari. Ronald Stevens sings Danilo, with Anson Austin as Camille and Anne Maree McDonald as Valencienne. The Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Richard Bonynge.
D0005
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I Lombardi
When the opera was first produced at La Scala, Milan in 1843, Verdi's operas were becoming increasingly popular not only in Italy but also abroad. The cast of international opera stars is headed by Jose Carreras as Oronte, Ghena Dimitrova as Giselda, Carlo Bii as Arvino and Silvano Carroli as Pagano. Gabriele Lavia, one of Italy's most popular producers and the designer, Giovanni Agostinucci, have designed sets of awesome Spartan Grandeur which match Verdi's atmospheric score with unprecedented intensity. Sung in Italian, with subtitles available in English, German, and Spanish.
D2036
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Simplicius
Set during the Thirty Years' War, this is the tale of concealed identities and thrwarted love - which leads, of course, to a happy ending. David Pountney's ingenious staging for the Zurich Opera brings out the very best in this extraordinary work. Stars Michael Volle, Martin Zysset, and Rolf Haunstein. Sung in German with English subtitles.
D2901
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Manon Lescaut
"Manon",wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is I heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the public." The popularity of Puccini's great masterpiece has never waned and the highly acclaimed Götz Freidrich production at Covent Garden was hailed as an operatic milestone. Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo head a strong cast conducted by brilliant Italian composer Giuseppe Sinopoli. Also starring Thomas Allen. Sung in Italian, with subtitles available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.
D2041
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Parsifal
The definitive documentary about Wagner's final opera hosted by Placido Domingo, who also performs many of the excerpts from the opera. Filmed on location in Bayreuth and St. Petersburg, featuring the Kirov Orchestra and choir conducted by Valery Gergiev. Also starring Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen, and Nikolai Putilin. Directed by Tony Palmer.
D1850.
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Georges Bizet:
Les pêcheurs de perles
Dating from 1863 this represents much more than a mere operatic exercise written by a 25-year-old composer. Pêcheurs is the only Bizet opera, beside Carmen, to have remained in the repertoire. Memorable passages have ensured its long-lasting success and many great singers (beginning with Caruso) have recorded and performed: for example the aria of Nadir Je crois entendre encore; the beautiful aria of Léïla Comme autrefois, dans la nuit sombre and, above all, the superb duet between Léïla and Nadir Ton coeur n’a pas compris le mien. This Venetian production features an extraordinary Annick Massis as Léïla and the refined staging of Pier Luigi Pizzi.
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Euryanthe
Live recording 2002, Cagliari, Sardinia. Weber wanted to write a grand romantic opera and Euryanthe is music of inspiration and originality. It is set to music in its entirety, with accompanied recitative passages that are often of great beauty in a highly supple musical structure. This production features a cast of specialists of German opera and the outstanding direction of Pier Luigi Pizzi. Elena Prokina, soprano; Jolana Fogasova, soprano; Yikun Chung, tenor; Andreas Scheibner, bass-baritone. Sung in German. Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish.
33408
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Owen Wingrave
Thirty years after the original broadcast, Owen Wingrave returned to the small screen in a new version by the highly-regarded music and arts director Margaret Williams, who reveals through a vivid film vocabulary the intensity of the drama and its passionate realization in Britten’s music. Shot entirely on location, the story is updated from Edwardian times to the 1950s, establishing a connection with World War II
D2923.
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La Vie Parisienne
Offenbach's opera is a swift-moving pageant of characters and events capturing the spirit of Paris in the 1860s. Alain Francon's production spills onto the stage complete with a steam train, the carnival stories of servants disguised as their masters, trollops masquerading as society ladies, the decent bourgeoisie and the salt of the earth workers. Francon, aided by a splendid cast whose singing is matched by their comedic acting, captures the helter skelter vision of Offenbach, giving the audience no breathing space. Underlying the frenetic, mad pursuit of fun and pleasure is the quality which is ingrained in all of Offenbach's work - the melancholy of the morning after and the memory of passing joy. Starring Helene Delavault, Claire Wauthion, Isabelle Mazin, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Jean-Francois Sivadier, and Jacques Verzier. With the Orchestra of the Lyon National Opera, conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce
D0057
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Salome
The Royal Opera production of Richard Strauss' powerful opera starring Maria Ewing, Michael Devlin and Kenneth Riegel. Also with Gillian Knight and Robin Leggate. Conducted by Edward Downes.
D1494
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Tosca
Eva Marton stars in this Opera Australia performance of Puccini's most beloved opera also featuring Lamberto Furlan and John Shaw. "Tosca" has been one of the world's most beloved operas since its first performance on January 14th 1900. Based on a play by Sardou, the opera ranges from tender love scenes to murderous rage. The role of Tosca is one of the greatest tests of the soprano. For the music and the dramatic demands this role places upon every prima donna is perhaps unequaled in the entire operatic repertoire. Eva Marton's Tosca is not merely a good, devout woman driven to violence, but suggests a hidden tigress right from her jealous accusations of Cavaradossi in the first act: this explodes in the second act act where her stabbing of Scarpia is no moment of distraction but the calculated culmination of her rising fury and desperation. Also starring Lamberto Furlan, John Shaw, Peter Van der Stolk and John Germain. With the Australian Opera Chorus and the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, conducted by Alberto Erede.
D1213.
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Nabucco
Alberto Gazale; Susan Neves; Orlin Anastassov; Yasu Nakajima, tenor Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova/Riccardo Frizza; Johnatan Miller, director. Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese; Live recording: Genova, April 2004 Nabucco was premièred at Milan’s La Scala on March 9th 1842. It met with enormous success, crowned by as many as 75 performances at La Scala before the end of that year. With Nabucco Verdi finally found his own stance, attaining linguistic and expressive means that, in the space of a decade, would make him the undisputed master of Italian opera theatres. The present, interesting production, staged at the Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa, features young but already internationally renowned interpreters: Alberto Gazale, as a solid and convincing Nabucco; Susan Neves as an Abigaille by the beautiful and powerful vocal means; Orlin Anastassov as a greatly authoritative Zaccaria, which lets foresee for him a radiant career. (Sung in Italian)
33465
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Norma
Starring: Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Ron Stevens
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
A powerful story of love, betrayal and honor, Norma is a classic of the bel canto tradition, combining lavish vocal splendor with a story of great passion and nobility.
Set in Ancient Gaul, Norma tells of the clash between the Druids and the occupying Romans.
"Sutherland masters the dramatic and vocal complexities of Norma to perfection...the vast humanity she radiates seems to fire the whole production." The Bulletin
D0027
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Madama Butterly
Daniela Dessi; Fabio Armiliato; Juan Pons; Rossana Rinaldi; Orchestra e Coro CittaLirica/Placido Domingo, Director: Stefano Monti 130 min. - 16:9
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
On the anniversary of the first success of Madama Butterfly in Brescia on 28th May 1904, Placido Domingo conducted, from the podium of Torre del Lago, Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armilato and Juan Pons in a new production by Stefano Monti with sets designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro and costumes of Maison Gattinoni..
33457.
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Carmen
Maria Ewing, Barry McCauley, Marie McLaughlin, David Holloway
Conductor: Bernard Haitink
Composer: Bizet
Peter Hall's production reveals Bizet's opera as a torrid drama of passion, blood and squalor.
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D2843.
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Maria Maria Ewing, Dennis Bailey, Cynthia Clarey, Robert Lloyd
Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
Monteverdi's final opera, written when he was 75, and often considered his best. First performed in Venice in 1642, a manuscript with the composer's own markings survives to this day. The opera tells the amoral story of Nero's affair with the scheming and seductive Poppea, here portrayed by Maria Ewing, with evil triumphing over good. This sparkling new production by Sir Peter Hall, Director of the National Theatre and Artistic Director of Glyndebourne itself is designed by John Bury and conducted by Ramond Leppard, the celebrated authority on Baroque music.
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D1403.
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