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The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award®-winning series The Met: Live in HD has excited audiences around the globe. Four highly-requested productions from the past two years are now available on DVD for the first time. These four stunning releases contain recordings of recent acclaimed Metropolitan Opera productions, taken from state-of-the-art, high-definition transmissions broadcast live from the stage of the Met, and include backstage interviews with the cast and production crew. TECHNICAL INFO: Sound: PCM Stereo/ DTS Sound Screen Format: 16:9 Region Code: 0 (All regions) Subtitles: French, German, Spanish and English Recording Date: February 6, 2010 Approximate Running Time: 2 Hrs 29 Min “[Domingo's] portrayal is touching and sounds beautiful, particularly in the last act...[Morris] has the majesty and emotion for the part. The reconciliation duet for the two men in the last act is as emotionally moving as one would want...Levine obviously loves this score and he builds the opera to its tragic climax, with the orchestra and chorus playing and singing gloriously.” International Record Review, March 2011 “[Domingo] explores the role emotionally in some depth, and can supply all the notes, regularly sounding like a baritone...Adrianne Pieczonka brings strength and lyricism to an Amelia more purposively acted than usual...Levine upholds the highest Verdian standards in the pit, producing playing of immense refinement and detail imbued with the complex spirit of the score...Almost cinematically realistic, its grand sets are in their way magnificent” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 *** “it is handsomely executed and beautifully filmed. It takes an artist of rare stature to measure up against a staging as big as this. Happily, Domingo is just that. He brings gravitas to the heart-rending recognition scene with his daughter and bestrides the Council Chamber with conviction.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Ioan Holender Farewell ConcertGala from Vienna State Opera
Bellini: | Ah, non credea mirarti (from La Sonnambula) Diana Damrau (soprano) | Donizetti: | Ah! tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima (from Linda di Chamounix) Stefania Bonfadelli (soprano) Pour ce contrat fatal...Salut à la France (from La fille du régiment) Natalie Dessay (soprano) | Giordano, U: | Amor ti vieta (from Fedora) Ramon Vargas (tenor) | Gounod: | L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) Ramon Vargas (tenor) Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust) Piotr Beczala (tenor) | Hiller, W: | Holenderchen! Ich war dein Traumfresserchen (from Das Traumfresserchen) Herwig Pecoraro (tenor) | Korngold: | Glück, das mir verbleib 'Marietta's Lied' (from Die Tote Stadt) Angela Denoke (soprano), Stephen Gould (tenor) | Lehár: | So kommen Sie! ? Ich bin eine anstnd'ge Frau (from Die lustige Witwe) Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Michael Schade (tenor) | Massenet: | Vision fugitive (from Hérodiade) Boaz Daniel (baritone) Werther! Werther!…Je vous écris de ma petite chambre (from Werther) Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo) Toute mon âme - Pourquoi me réveiller (from Werther) Piotr Beczala (tenor) Suis-je gentille ainsi? ... Je marche sur tous les chemins ... Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (from Manon) Anna Netrebko (soprano) | Mozart: | Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro (from Così fan tutte) Michael Schade (tenor) Prenderò quel brunettino (from Così fan tutte) Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo) E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Barbara Frittoli (soprano) | Offenbach: | Hélas! mon cœur s'égare encore! (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) | Puccini: | Firenze è come un albero fiorito (from Gianni Schicchi) Saimir Pirgu (tenor) Se come voi piccina io fossi (from Le Villi) Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano) | Strauss, R: | Wie schön ist doch die Musik (from Die schweigsame Frau) Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) Nun will ich jubeln wie keiner gejubelt (from Die Frau ohne Schatten) Adrianne Pieczonka, Deborah Polaski (sopranos), Johan Botha (tenor), Falk Struckmann (baritone) Er ist der Richtige nicht für mich … Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt für mich (from Arabella) Adrianne Pieczonka, Genia Khmeier (sopranos) | Verdi: | Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore) Nadia Krasteva (mezzo) In braccio alle dovizie (from I Vespri Siciliani) Leo Nucci (baritone) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Elle ne m'aime pas! (from Don Carlos) Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Violeta Urmana (soprano) Perfidi!…Pietà, rispetto, amore (from Macbeth) Simon Keenlyside (baritone) Tutto nel mondo è burla (from Falstaff) Elisabeth Kulman, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ileana Tonca (sopranos), Nadia Krasteva (mezzo), Gergely Nmeti, Herwig Pecoraro, Michael Roider (tenors), Leo Nucci, Alfred Ramek, Boaz Daniel (baritones) | Wagner: | Rienzi Overture Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (from Die Walküre) Placido Domingo (tenor) Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) Waltraud Meier (soprano) O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe (from Tristan und Isolde) Maria Schnitzer (soprano), Peter Seiffert (tenor) In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) Johan Botha (tenor) Über Stock und Stein (from Das Rheingold) Elisabeth Kulman (soprano), Gergely Nmeti, Adrian Erd (tenors), Boaz Daniel (baritone) | Weber: | Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle (from Der Freischütz) Soile Isokoski (soprano) |
A star-studded benefit concert to celebrate Ioan Holender’s farewell after 19 years as the director of one of the world’s leading and most famous opera houses. The highly acclaimed cast was headed by brilliant singers such as Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Angelika Kirchschlager, Waltraud Meier, Anna Netrebko, Pjotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Thomas Hampson, Leo Nucci, Thomas Quasthoff, Ramon Vargas and many others. No fewer than twelve conductors including Marco Armiliato, Bertrand de Billy, Fabio Luisi, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano and Franz Welser-Möst led the way through a program lasting over four hours at the fully-packed Wiener Staastoper. Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Beethoven - Ideals of the French Revolution
Disc 2 of this double album of Beethoven’s music is devoted to his 5th Symphony and excerpts from Egmont. The first disc is a world premiere recording of The General, a piece based on an original idea by Maestro Nagano, which he premiered with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2007. Scored for orchestra, soprano, chorus and narrator, it brings together excerpts from works by Beethoven interspersed with readings of an original text by author, critic and musicologist Paul Griffiths. The narration pays tribute to Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and recounts the events that took place in Rwanda in 1994. Internationally renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, actor Maximilian Schell and the OSM Chorus under the direction of Marika Kuzma also took part in the recording. “The Beethoven pair is in the first place an oddity. We have the Fifth Symphony… It is a brisk, almost violent performance… On the same disc there are excerpts from Egmont, of which the one that matters is the magnificent Overture, in an account that would have one storming the local Bastille if there were one. The other disc in this pair is a concoction by the music critic Paul Griffiths, which has the purpose of producing a harrowing account of what happened in Rwanda and how this was studiously ignored by the Western powers, animated by the same music from Egmont and the fragments that Beethoven used for the melodrama... The actor Maximilian plays the part of The General, telling us of the horrors and of how his task of helping was...” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 **** “Fragments of Egmont, König Stephan and Leonore Prohaska accompany a new libretto by Paul Griffiths telling of the UN peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire's attempts to prevent the civil war in Rwanda. I'm not sure what this has to do with the French Revolution, but it's gripping stuff, largely thanks to Maximilian Schell's world-wearied narration of Dallaire's predicament.” The Independent, 19th June 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Aria Cantilena - Elina Garanca
Elina Garanca (mezzo soprano), Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Diana Damrau (soprano), Katharina Flade (soprano), Heike Liebmann (mezzo-soprano), Rafael Harnisch (tenor), Dominik Licht (baritone), Mirko Tuma (bass), Matthias Beutlich (bass) & Thomas Müller (bass) 'Something sensational . . . Her voice is a phenomenon of nature.' Opera World | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss & Wagner
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Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Thomas Hampson (Ford), Adrianne Pieczonka (Alice Ford), Danill Shtoda (Fenton), Dorothea Röschmann (Nannetta), Larissa Diadkova (Mistress Quickly), Stella Doufexis (Meg Page), Anthony Mee (Bardolfo), Enrico Facini (Dr Cajus), Anatoly Kotcherga (Pistola) Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Claudio Abbado “Terfel gives a vital, three-dimensional reading as one might expect...the final fugue at a very fast tempo is thrillingly precise, thansk to a team of leading singers who respond brilliantly to Abbado's strong, thoughtful direction...the sensitive detail in [Hampson's] characterization is magnetic. For most collectors this will now be the primary recommendation.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | A Guided Tour of the Classical Era, Vol. 2
Zoltan Tokos (guitar), Gyorgy Eder (cello), Tim Hugh (cello), Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Anthony Camden (oboe), Balazs Szokolay (piano), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Janusz Monarcha (bass), Peter Koves (bass), Orsolya Safar (soprano), Judith Halasz (soprano), Michael Roider (tenor), Gabriele Sima (contralto), Renato Girolami (bass), Marina Mescheriakova (soprano), Michelle Breedt (soprano), Alexander Klinger (tenor), Joanna Borowska (soprano), Peter Mikulas (bass), Rohangiz Yachmi (mezzo-soprano), Priti Coles (soprano), Andrea Martin (baritone), John Dickie (tenor), Ildiko Raimondi (soprano), Boaz Daniel (bass), Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Regina Schorg (soprano), Torsten Kerl (tenor), Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Hellen Kwon (soprano), Georg Tichy (baritone), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Kurt Rydl (bass), Wilfried Gahmlich (tenor), Lotte Leitner (soprano), Anna di Mauro (mezzo-soprano), Anne Buter (mezzo-soprano), Marcus Ullmann (tenor), Martin Snell (bass), Miriam Allan (soprano), Jeno Jando (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Ladislav Kyselak (viola), Jacek Muzyk (horn), Jozsef Balogh (clarinet), Bela Kovacs (clarinet), Jozsef Vajda (bassoon), Jozsef Kiss (oboe), Jeno Kevehazi (horn), Wolf Harden (piano) Danubius Quartet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Chamber Orchestra, Failoni Orchestra, Budapest, Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Capella Istropolitana, Hungarian R, Anthony Halstead, Nicholas Ward, Hanspeter Gmur, Uwe Grodd, Alessandro Amoretti, Michael Halasz, Johannes Wildner, Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Helmut Muller-Bruhl, Barry Wordsworth, Andras Ligeti, Matyas Antal, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Agnieszka Duczmal, Wolfgang | 
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| |  | Berlin Opera NightRecorded live at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2011
Major stars of the international opera stage come together with the Chor und Orchester of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, under the internationally acclaimed conductor Donald Runnicles, in this opera gala in aid of the German AIDS Foundation. Highlights from operas by Rossini, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Delibes, Sartori are performed by world-class musicians from around the globe. Heading the star-studded line-up were established artists of the calibre of Adrianne Pieczonka, Vivica Genaux and Simone Kermes, while the younger generation is represented by tenors Francesco Demuro, Antonio Poli and Teodor Illincai, as well as the exciting soprano Kristin Lewis and mezzo-soprano Anna Smirnova. The result was truly an evening to remember. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Booklet notes: English, German, French Runnning time: 75 mins “Familiar pieces variably sung, but enjoyable” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 *** |
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| |  | Discover Music of the Classical Era
Jeno Jando (piano), Kalman Berkes (clarinet), Phoebe Payne (organ), Joseph Payne (organ), Alain Trudel (trombone), Tim Hugh (cello), Gabriele Sima (contralto), Robert Holzer (bass-baritone), Kurt Azesberger (tenor), Viktoria Loukianetz (soprano), Ann-Christine Biel (soprano), Kurt Rydl (bass), Hellen Kwon (soprano), Renato Girolami (bass), Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Regina Schorg (soprano), Boaz Daniel (bass), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Torsten Kerl (tenor), Ildiko Raimondi (soprano) Kodaly Quartet, Capella Istropolitana, Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Concentus Hungaricus, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, New Zealand Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Drottningholm Theatre Choru, Barry Wordsworth, Christian Benda, Uwe Grodd, Donald Armstrong, Anthony Halstead, Wolfgang Sobotka, Bela Drahos, Hanspeter Gmur, Arnold Ostman, Michael Halasz, Diego Fasolis | |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Salzburger Festspiele, 2004
Set Design by Peter Pabst. Arthaus presents one of the most talked about productions of recent Salzburg festival years – the 2004 staging of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier. The musical comedy has a deep-rooted performance tradition at the Salzburg Festival, but Robert Carsen’s new reading opened up a new view of this operatic staple while Semyon Bychkov leading the Vienna Philharmonic and a cast of internationally renowned singers guaranteed a high musical standard. Semyon Bychkov conducts Strauss with fl exible nuances and a great deal of energy and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung praised the conductor’s ability “to make the dense textures of the score transparent and to throw light on the subtleties of the instrumentation”. The musical side of the performance was additionally sustained by the experience and longstanding Strauss tradition of the Vienna Philharmonic, according to the Münchner Merkur, the only “orchestra in the world that is capable of such decadent excesses and such gloriously honed waltzes.” Carsen marked the work with a coherent vision, cleverly holding its three acts and almost 200 stage personnel together. The wide stage of the Großes Festspielhaus allowed him to keep the main action centre-stage, while the surrounding spaces were used to comment on the action. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9 & DVD 5, NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, ES, IT Running Time: 201 mins FSK: 0 “Adrianne Pieczonka's Marschallin gives a telling portryal of a modern woman thoroughly enjoying her liaison in middle age...Miah Persson is an adorable Sophie and Franz Hawlata, playing Baron Ochs as a not-so-old military man, is less the ineffectual figure of ridicule than usual...Semyon Bychkov unleashes a gutsy, Bavarian kind of Strauss” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 “a thoughtful presentation, finely sung by a distinguished cast and wonderfully conducted by Bychkov.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 ***** “very fine indeed...the cast has no weak link. Adrianne Pieczonka looks excactly right as the Marschallin and sings and acts very movingly throughout...The very boyish Angelika Kirchschlager is perfectly cast as Octavian and, like the lovely Sophie (Miah Persson) sings very beautifully...Brian Large's video direction is near-perfect” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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