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Recorded in 1986 (for Claude d`Anna's film of the opera) “Nucci's Macbeth is full of the right sense of fear, foreboding and nervous energy, and it is predominantly well sung...Ramey provides quite the best singing, a sturdy, imposing Banquo...The smaller roles are very well taken...[Chailly's] direction seems direct, unfussy and keen” Gramophone Magazine, June 1987 “For a time Shirley Verrett was the world's favourite Lady Macbeth. And Chailly reminds us why. Nucci is a sweet-toned villain, but it's Ramey as Banquo who carries off the prizes.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2012 ***** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Verrett's portrayal, always one of her best roles, is given here with more feeling and involvement than anyone else in the cast...Vocally speaking, the two veteran singers are well attuned to each other, attempting the familiar with nicely varied accents and dynamics...[Pavarotti] sings [Manrico] with such unfailing musicality and sense of line (listen to the recitative before "Ali si, ben mio", indeed the aria itself) that the missing decibels are hardly missed” Gramophone Magazine, July 1995 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), June Anderson (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti (Il Duca di Mantova), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Shirley Verrett (Maddalena), Vitalba Mosca (Giovanna), Natale de Carolis (Monterone), Roberto Scaltriti (Marullo), Piero De Palma (Borsa), Carlo De Bortoli (Conte di Ceprano), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Contessa di Ceprano), Marilena Laurenza (Un paggio) Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly “the vigour and extreme originality of the score is realized...the best reason for acquiring this set is for Pavarotti's delightfully airy and confident Duke of Mantua. Surpassing even his own breezy account for Bonynge, the tireless tenor adds little touches of character and nuances of tone to bring the Duke to life...Ghiaurov, in splendid voice, is a wily, subtle assassin” Gramophone Magazine, January 1990 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Piero Cappuccilli (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Banco), Plácido Domingo (Macduff), Stefania Malagú (Lady in Waiting), Antonio Savastano (Malcolm), Carlo Zardo (Medico), Giovanni Foiani (Servo di Macbeth), Alfredo Mariotti (Sicario), Sergio Fontana (Araldo) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado “Abbado's tempi are unconventional, but with slow speeds he springs the rhythm so infectiously that the results are most compelling...[Verrett] makes a highly individual Lady Macbeth. Cappuccilli has never sung with a finer range of tone or more imagination on record than here, and Placido Domingo makes a real, sensitive character out of the small role of Macduff.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), June Anderson (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti (Il Duca di Mantova), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Shirley Verrett (Maddalena), Vitalba Mosca (Giovanna), Natale de Carolis (Monterone), Roberto Scaltriti (Marullo), Piero De Palma (Borsa), Carlo De Bortoli (Conte di Ceprano), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Contessa di Ceprano), Marilena Laurenza (Un paggio) Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly “the vigour and extreme originality of the score is realized...the best reason for acquiring this set is for Pavarotti's delightfully airy and confident Duke of Mantua. Surpassing even his own breezy account for Bonynge, the tireless tenor adds little touches of character and nuances of tone to bring the Duke to life...Ghiaurov, in splendid voice, is a wily, subtle assassin” Gramophone Magazine, January 1990 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Plácido Domingo (Samson), Shirley Verrett (Dalila), Wolfgang Brendel (Le Grand Prêtre de Dagon), Arnold Voketatis (Abimélech), Kevin Langan (Le Vieillard Hébreu), Le Vieillard Hébreu (Le messager philistin), Michael Ballam (Michael Ballam), Stanley Wexler (Deuxième philistin) San Francisco Opera, Julius Brendel, stage direction by Nicolas Joel Recording Date: 1981
Place of recording: San Francisco Opernhaus
Running Time: 111 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
Subtitle Languages PAL: D, GB, SP
“this DVD of Saint-Saens's biblical opera offers a heavily traditional production with realistic sets and costumes like those in a Hollywood epic...Domingo is in magnificent, heroic voice, with Shirley Verrett also at her peak as Dalila, at once seductive sinister.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Includes a three-language synopsis (English/French/German), full cast-list and detailed track-list. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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This live recording of a performance of Donizetti’s opera Maria Stuarda that took place in Milan in 1971 features one of the outstanding divas in recent times, Montserrat Caballé, alongside other soloists including Shirley Verett, and Ottavio Garaventa. The CD release incorporates a 56-page booklet with historic photos, a complete Italian libretto and new original English translation, and an essay on the performance by Bill Parker. Gaetano Donizetti wrote three operas based on the lives of English Queens, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux. None of them stick very close to history. Each is treated in such a way as to heighten, exaggerate, or simply invent scenes and situations that might have taken place during the lives of these three fascinating monarchs. Maria Stuarda’s dramatic punch, particularly when the two starring women are front and centre, is unique. Rivalry is always the stuff of great drama, but rivalry between monarchs is, by de nition, on an entirely different and much higher level. “[Verrett] produces Elisabetta's anger with strength but also inserting sweet diminuendi...Cecil's unshaken dislike of Maria is displayed in Giulio Fioravanti's steady vocalism. Maria must have been one of Caballe's most animated roles...This is an issue worth buying for her and Verrett.” International Record Review, December 2011 | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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