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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Verdi RaritiesRecordings are from 1978 and 1980
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| |  | Recorded live at the Teatro all Scala, June 2012
John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace Adams), George Von Bergen (Ned Keene) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Richard Jones (director) The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for Peter Grimes at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A strong British cast was marshalled by the baton of Robin Ticciati, who has already won golden opinions for his opera conducting. Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outsider in a brutal society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of an opera that never loses its power. Extra feature: Interviews with cast and crew. Running time: 168 minutes Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KR Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS |
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John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace Adams), George Von Bergen (Ned Keene) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Richard Jones (director) The Italian and international press were unanimous in their praise for Peter Grimes at La Scala, which revived the tradition of Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy. A strong British cast was marshalled by the baton of Robin Ticciati, who has already won golden opinions for his opera conducting. Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outsider in a brutal society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an unforgettable production of an opera that never loses its power. Extra feature: Interviews with cast and crew. Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KR Running time: 168 minutes |
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| |  | Recorded: 4.–9.IX.1956, Teatro alla Scala, Milano
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| |  | Maria Callas: Lyric & Coloratura Arias
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| |  | Habanera: Angela Gheorghiu & Maria Callas7-inch vinyl
4-track 45rpm 7" EP (black vinyl) Packaged using the established mid-50s HMV bag design together with the legendary ‘celebrity red’ classical label, this limited edition Record Store Day UK exclusive is the first commercial Maria Callas 45rpm vinyl EP released by EMI since the mid 1960s, and the very first such release on this format from Angela Gheorghiu, ever. The great diva of the last century joins the great diva of this century to record Bizet's Habanera in a special duet version. Callas recorded the Habanera twice, in 1961 and 1964. The earlier version was selected because it didn’t involve a choir, making the possibility of isolating the singer’s voice easier. The orchestral accompaniment was painstakingly stripped away using Cedar Retouch Technology – ‘like audio Photoshop’ explains recording engineer Jonathan Allen, who masterminded the project – leaving just Callas’s voice. The players of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (all wearing headphones with a click-track to give the tempo) then recorded a new accompaniment. Remarkably there were no problems of pitch, but there were difficulties with speed: Allen found that Callas’s recording changed tempi between edits, and the modern orchestra had to match it. Gheorghiu then performed to this accompaniment and finally the two singers were spliced in, sometimes in unison and sometimes apart. ‘We needed to create the illusion that Angela and Maria were in the same acoustic space,’ says Allen. ‘If it comes across as over-processed, it won’t work. Angela’s voice is incredibly rich in overtones, probably more so than Callas’s, so we had to reduce some of her sound – without degrading it – to match.’ | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Opera Choruses
Where Italian opera is concerned, the centre of the world is in Milan – and the famous La Scala. This is where these recordings of great opera choruses by the doyen of all Italian opera composers were made – under the baton of La Scala's star conductor Riccardo Muti. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Teatro Alla Scala, 2011
Olesia Novikova (Raymonda), Friedemann Vogel (Cavaliere Jean de Brienne) & Mick Zeni (Abdéráhman) Orchestra and Corps de Ballet of The Teatro Alla Scala, Michail Jurowski Original sets OREST ALLEGRI, PËTR LAMBIN and KONSTANTIN IVANOV (1898) Recreated by ELENA KINKULSKAYA and BORIS KAMINSKY Original Choreography by MARIUS PETIPA (1898) Choreographic revival SERGEI VIKHAREV Original costumes IVAN VSEVOLOŽSKIJ (1898) Recreated by IRENE MONTI The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets has never before been performed by the La Scala ballet. Its La Scala premiere marks the most faithful version of Raymonda yet to the original, which met with triumphant success in St. Petersburg in 1898. Based on a medieval legend, with ladies, knights, crusaders and Saracens, cathedrals and castles, the libretto had all the ingredients needed to spark the imagination of the young Alexander Glazunov in his first ballet score, and the infinite wisdom of Marius Petipa, who complemented it with an enormously rich and endless succession of dances, classical variations, exotic dances and character dances, with a grandiose finale, pantomime, lyrical pas de deux and a heavily featured corps de ballet. Drawing on notation from the Harvard archives, original designs housed in the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Theatre Library, La Scala presents the last great work from the glory days of the Imperial Ballet. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Running Time: 154 mins FSK: 0 “Olesia Novikova is a very impressive Raymonda - her dancing always poised and assured, expressive, elegant and graceful. Her awesome point work is especially outstanding in her Act III dance...A lavish production; a feast for the eye; with awesome dancing from the principals.” MusicWeb International, July 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“The set contains some classic things, above all in Callas's several confrontations with her Selim, the wonderfully grave Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, and her ageing husband, Geronio, sung here with all the right hang-dog inflexions by France Calabrese.…it is the special glory of this recording of Il turco in Italia that it allows us to hear Callas at her idiosyncratic best not as some dominating central presence but as part of a finely-honed team.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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