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Montserrat Caballé (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Chevalier Des Grieux), Noel Mangin (Geronte de Ravoir), Vicente Sardinero (Lescaut), Robert Tear (Edmondo), Richard Van Allan (The Innkeeper), Bernard Dickerson (The Dancing Master), Delia Wallis (A Singer), Robert Lloyd (Sargeant of the Royal Archers), Ian Partridge (A Lamplighter) & Gwynne Howell (A Naval Captain) Ambrosian Opera Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Bruno Bartoletti | 
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Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), David Kuebler (Il Conte Almaviva), Gino Quilico (Figaro), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Robert Lloyd (Don Basilio), Edith Kertesz-Gabry (Berta) Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Choir of Cologne City Opera, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director) Rossini was 24 years old when in 1816 he wrote his seventeenth and most famous opera The Barber of Seville in an astonishing three weeks. Michael Hampe’s humorous direction of his 1988 live performance at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival stands out with its fast tempo that makes for a highly exuberant production. Ezio Firgerio’s appealing stage and Mauro Pagano’s colourful costumes heighten the comic effect. The musical direction of conductor Gabriele Ferro strikes a beautiful balance between a vibrant orchestral performance and a superb ensemble of singers. The irresistible Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina leads a cast that also includes David Kuebler, Gino Quilico and Carlos Feller. “This is an effective, straightforward traditional performance under Gabriele Ferro, with Cecilia Bartoli in excellent voice, making this an irresistible production which should be in every collection.” Classical London Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), DE, GB, FR, ES, JP Running time: 185 minutes |
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Ludovic Tézier (Il Conte di Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (La Contessa di Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo), Robin Leggate (Don Basilio), Antoine Normand (Don Curzio), Christian Tréguier (Antonio) & Maria Virginia Savastano (Barbarina) Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Philippe Jordan Stage direction and lighting design: Giorgio Strehler The legendary production by Giorgio Strehler filmed at the Paris Opera with a cast that unites the finest Mozartians of our time. A revival of Strehler's 'Marriage of Figaro' is always an event. In 2010, 37 years after its creation, it rose again in triumph at the Opera Bastille with a new generation of performers: Ludovic Tézier (Count Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (Countess), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro) and Karine Deshayes (Cherubino). Conductor, Philippe Jordan directs the Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera. Also in this bonus edition, there is an interview with Humbert Camerlo who has worked extensively with Giorgio Strehler and achieved this staging for the revival, which continues from September 15 to October 25, 2012 at the Opera Bastille for 14 special performances. “This Franco-Italian-Russian-Irish-English combo plays well together … this cast sings well too...Jordan's conducting sound large-scale and Romantic to our period ears...this new set plays as a comfortable, conventional theatrical experience with much art onstage from cast and scenery.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 “Unlike many Figaro productions these days, the physicality is never vulgar, and there are constant small touches that add character...[Pisaroni] displays the ideal bass-baritone instrument for this role, and his person is just as alive to every nuance as his singing...[Siurina] is marvellous when angry...no one on DVD has brought greater tonal shine and firmer technique to Susanna's music...[Frittoli] offers an absolutely complete characterization.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ludovic Tézier (Il Conte di Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (La Contessa di Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo), Robin Leggate (Don Basilio), Antoine Normand (Don Curzio), Christian Tréguier (Antonio) & Maria Virginia Savastano (Barbarina) Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Philippe Jordan Stage direction and lighting design: Giorgio Strehler The legendary production by Giorgio Strehler filmed at the Paris Opera with a cast that unites the finest Mozartians of our time. A revival of Strehler's 'Marriage of Figaro' is always an event. In 2010, 37 years after its creation, it rose again in triumph at the Opera Bastille with a new generation of performers: Ludovic Tézier (Count Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (Countess), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro) and Karine Deshayes (Cherubino). Conductor, Philippe Jordan directs the Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera. Also in this bonus edition, there is an interview with Humbert Camerlo who has worked extensively with Giorgio Strehler and achieved this staging for the revival, which continues from September 15 to October 25, 2012 at the Opera Bastille for 14 special performances. “This Franco-Italian-Russian-Irish-English combo plays well together … this cast sings well too...Jordan's conducting sound large-scale and Romantic to our period ears...this new set plays as a comfortable, conventional theatrical experience with much art onstage from cast and scenery.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 “Unlike many Figaro productions these days, the physicality is never vulgar, and there are constant small touches that add character...[Pisaroni] displays the ideal bass-baritone instrument for this role, and his person is just as alive to every nuance as his singing...[Siurina] is marvellous when angry...no one on DVD has brought greater tonal shine and firmer technique to Susanna's music...[Frittoli] offers an absolutely complete characterization.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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José Carreras (Riccardo), Montserrat Caballé (Amelia), Ingvar Wixell (Renato), Patricia Payne (Ulrica), Sona Ghazarian (Oscar), Jonathan Summers (Silvano), Robert Lloyd (Samuele), Gwynne Howell (Tom), Robin Leggate (Un Giudice) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis “Colin Davis's Verdi is always a slow burn, but when it catches fire it blazes. The Act III finale here has rarely been bettered. Carreras and Caballe are at the top of their game.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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John Noble (The Pilgrim), Raimund Herincx (John Bunyan), John Carol Case (Evangelist), Sheila Armstrong, Marie Hayward, Gloria Jennings (Three Shining Ones), Wynford Evans, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Bernard Dickerson (Four Neighbours), Ian Partridge (Interpreter), John Shirley-Quirk (Watchful, The Porter), Terence Sharpe (A Herald), Robert Lloyd (Apollyon), London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult “What this recording proves to my mind beyond doubt is the drama of the music itself…The chorus sings with glorious focus and freshness all through, the London Philharmonic Orchestra is at peak form, and the recording captures the biggest ensembles with wonderful bloom.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Brian Asawa (Oberon), Sylvia McNair (Tytania), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Theseus), Hilary Summers (Hippolyta), John Mark Ainsley (Lysander), Paul Whelan (Demetrius), Janice Watson (Helena), Ruby Philogene (Hermia), Robert Lloyd (Bottom), Gwynne Howell (Quince), Ian Bostridge (Flute), Stephen Richardson (Snug), Neal Davies (Starveling), Mark Tucker (Snout) London Symphony Orchestra, New London Children's Choir, Sir Colin Davis “Everything is heard with great clarity, the sensuousness of Britten's ravishing score, with all its mysterious harmonies and sonorities, is fully realized, action and reaction among the singers are keenly heard...Another plus for the new set is the casting of the lovers with young singers in their early prime.” Gramophone Magazine, December 1996 “Scintillating pace and quality, with Brian Asawa's classy Oberon and Robert Lloyd's Bottom outstanding. Sylvia McNair's Tytania is beautiful but mannered.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 **** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“the pacing of each tableau vivant is handled so superbly by Sir Colin that there is not a single moment of longueur...The casting polarizes this Werther and this Charlotte. Jose Carreras is very much a Werther of action rather than of dream, of impetuous self-destruction rather than of brooding lyricism...von Stade's performance can hardly be faulted. Her voice is the very incarnation of Charlotte's essential simplicity of character” Gramophone Magazine, February 1987 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“This is above all a lyrical performance, both chorally and, more particularly, in the solo music, the realisation of which gave me especial pleasure. Giulini’s attentiveness to line is always much in evidence, and he obtains solo singing of a beautifully focused quality.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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1. Scena prima - Cruda, funesta smania ... (Enrico/Normanno/Raimondo) 2. Scena seconda - Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte e bruna (Lucia/Alisa) 3. Scena seconda - Quando, rapito in estasi (Lucia) 4. Scena seconda - Sulla tomba che rinserra il tradito genitore (Edgardo/Lucia) 5. Scena seconda - Qui di sposa eterna fede ... Ah, soltanto il nostro foco (Edgardo/Lucia) 6. Scena seconda - Verrano a te sull'aura i miei sospiri ardenti (Lucia/Edgardo) 7. Scena prima - Soffriva nel pianto ... Une folle t'accese (Lucia/Enrico) 8. Lucia di Lammermoor - Che fia?...Se tradirmi tu portrai...Tu che vedi il pianto mio 9. Scena seconda - Per te d'immenso giubilo ... Per poco fra la tenebre (Coro/Arturo) 10. Scena seconda - Chi mi frena in tal momento (Edgardo/Enrico/Lucia/Raimondo/Arturo/Alisa/Coro) 11. Scena seconda - Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono...Ardon gli incensi... 12. Scena seconda - Spargi d'amaro pianto (Raimondo/Enrico/Coro/Lucia) 13. Scena terza - Fra poco a me ricovero darà negletto avello (Edgardo) 14. Scena terza - Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (Coro/Edgardo/Raimondo)
“Gruberova constantly pleases by her innate musicality … Kraus is a master of Donizetti style.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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