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Raffaella Angeletti (Butterfly), Massimiliano Pisapia (Pinkerton), Claudio Sgura (Sharpless), Annunziata Vestri (Suzuki), Nino Batatunashvili (Kate Pinkerton), Thomas Morris (Goro), Enrico Cossutta (Principe Yamadori), Enrico Iori (Lo Zio Bonzo), Antonio Maria Golini (Yakusidé) Fondatione Orchestra Regionale Delle Marche, Daniele Callegari (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (stage director) Live recording from Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, Italy, 2009 The story of a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American lover after giving birth to their son, ultimately kills herself is one of the most popular operas today. First Madama Butterfly on Blu-ray! This outstandingly authentic and elegant performance took place in the magnificent open-air neo-classical Arena Sferisterio built in the 1820s. The superior cast is headed by Raffaella Angeletti in the title role, “certainly one of the best Butterflies of our time” (ForumOpera.com), who has performed this role in many Italian theatres, as well as in Madrid and at the Vienna Staatsoper. As Pinkerton, Massimo Pisapia is “brilliant, bold and trim” (L'Opinione) and Annunziata Vestri's Suzuki “outstanding” (Rinascita). Running Time Opera: 150 minutes Picture 16:9, HD BD: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM Stereo Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Elmira Veda (Cio Cio San), Annmaria Popescu (Suzuki), Sally Wilson (Kate Pinkerton), Carlo Barricelli (F.B: Pinkerton), Luca Salsi (Sharpless), Emanuele Giannino (Goro), Manrico Signorini (Zio Bonzo), Giovanni Guagliardo (Il principe Yamadori / Il commissario imperiale) Orchestra & Chorus Festival Puccini, Laurence Gilgore (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (director) This Blu-ray production was staged at the 2007 Puccini Festival in Italy’s Torre del Lago, Puccini’s home town. This version is only available as Blu-ray. Sung in Italian Sound Format: PCM 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.1/ DTS HD 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Region Code 0 Subtitles: It, Eng, Ger, Fr, Sp Booklet Notes: It, Eng, Ger, Fr Available Worldwide | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Blu-Ray Sampler Complete Opera Recording + Exclusive Bonus Feature: Over 140 minutes of highlights from 47 critically acclaimed Opera, Ballet & Documentary productions on Blu-ray Disc! + Arthaus Musik Blu-ray Catalogue Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Blu-ray Disc: 50 GB (Dual Layer) Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES, JP Running Time: 119 mins + 140 mins (Bonus) FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Fiorenza Cedolins (Floria Tosca), Marcelo Alvarez (Mario Cavaradossi) & Ruggero Raimondi (Il Barone Scarpia), Fabio Previati (Sagristano), Marco Spotti (Angelotti), Enrico Facini (Spoletta), Giuliano Pelizon (Sciarrone), Ottavia Dorrucci (Un pastore) & Angelo Nardinocchi (Un carceriere) Arena Di Verona, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director) Set Design by Hugo De Ana A superlative staging of Puccini’s Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! The popular tragedy is sung by a dream team cast of excellent singer-actors and conducted by long-established Arena di Verona conductor Daniel Oren. The recording captures one of those special Verona summer evenings, when the audience fi lls the historic circle in expectation of the enjoyment of an open-air opera performance. Verona’s amphitheatre, known as the ‘arena’, provides an atmospheric setting for the summer festival. To view an opera in the former amphitheatre, the second largest of its kind after the Colosseum in Rome, can truly be regarded as an impressive experience. The DVD, however, provides a closer look at the stage and the singers and brings this dramatic opera directly to the home viewer. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Subtitle: FR, GB, DE, ES, IT, JP Running Time: 119 mins Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Daniela Dessì (Tosca), Fabio Armiliato (Mario Cavaradossi) & Claudio Sgura (Scarpia) Teatro Carlo Felice, Marco Boemi (conductor) & Renzo Giacchieri (stage director) Set Design by ADOLF HOHENSTEIN This production from the historic Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Italy, stars the opera world’s power couple, Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, as lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi. A tragic tale of doomed love interlaced with the age-old themes of jealousy, lust and intrigue, has ensured Tosca its place in the top ten of opera favourites. The task of putting Tosca on the stage in a way that is credible and timeless is both straightforward and difficult. For the three main roles – the unscrupulous police chief Vitellio Scarpia and the painter Mario Cavaradossi, who provide a framework for Floria Tosca, “a famous singer” (both on stage and in real life), all you need is star performers of the required virtuosity, although they do need to display a certain enjoyment in performing – something one has never been able to take for granted in music theatre. It should be made clear from the outset that the 2010 production at the Teatro Carlo Felice zu Genua, with its stage set based on Adolf Hohenstein’s original design for the work’s premiere, ticks all the boxes. Probably the best contemporary soprano-tenor combination (a couple in real life, too) – Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato – are ranged against a worthy opponent in the form of Claudio Sgura as Baron Scarpia. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Resolution: 1080i FULL HD Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES, JP, Korean Running Time: 140 mins Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 “This is a good, conventionally designed Tosca, well sung and played and with a satisfying theatrical flair.” MusicWeb International, August 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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It is no exaggeration to say that the two performances of Tosca at the Royal Opera House in July 2011 - with Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel as the leads - were opera history in the making and by far the hottest tickets in town. For the majority of us who weren’t lucky enough to be there, it has been captured on this DVD, exclusively released by EMI. Subtitles in Italian, English, German, Japanese, French & Spanish “Gheorghiu makes a credible character out of Tosca...her voice keeps its beauty at all but the most high-pressure moments...Kaufmann scores a complete success as Cavaradossi...What he lacks in Italianate open tone, he makes up in brooding, dark colours...Neither of them would be likely to get the better of Bryn Terfel's bully of a Scarpia...The other dominant personality is Antonio Pappano, whose Puccini has never sounded better” Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 “Pappano's mastery of Puccinian pace and phrasing intensifies this turbulent score's onward surge, but he's also noticeable attentive to his singers...[Kaufmann's] cries of 'Vittoria!' are thrilling...and his acting never slackens...Tosca's mercurial character seems to resonate with [Gheorghiu] naturally...There are some decent Toscas on DVD already, but I'd start here.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 ***** | | | EMI - 4040649 (Blu-ray) Normally: $26.00 Special: $23.40 |
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| |  | In The Settings And At The Times Of Tosca
Conceived and Produced by ANDREA ANDERMANN Director GIUSEPPE PATRONI GRIFFI Cinematography VITTORIO STORARO Directed for video by BRIAN LARGE Recorded live in July 1992 - REMASTERED IN HIGH DEFINITION FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPE. Contemporary Rome is the setting for this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini’s Tosca, performed in the Roman locations – and at the same times of day – as Puccini had written into his score. Thus the action opens in the beautiful 16th-century church of Sant’Andrea della Valle at noon, where Cavaradossi (Domingo) meets the fugitive Angelotti, moves to the Farnese Palace that evening where Tosca (Catherine Malfitano) dramatically makes a pact with the lustful Scarpia (Ruggero Raimondi), and finally to the battlements of the Castel Sant’Angelo at dawn the following day where the final drama is played out. COLOUR REGION CODE: ALL REGIONS NTSC 4:3 • 114 MINS • L-PCM STEREO SUBTITLES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / GERMAN /ITALIAN | 
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Maria Guleghina (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Alexia Voulgaridou (Liù), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur), Javier Agulló (Altoum), Fabio Previati (Ping), Vicente Esteve (Pang), Roger Padullés (Pong), Venteslav Anastasov (Un mandarino), Ossama Badreddine (Il Principe di Persia) Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta Stage / Video Director - Chen Kaige This 2008 production is staged by Chen Kaige, the film director of Farewell My Concubine and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Shot in full HD, including Bonus material behind the scenes. Maria Guleghina is one of the most celebrated and acclaimed sopranos of the world. The leading international tenor Marco Berti is recognised as one of the most important artists from Italy. from Valencia's spectacular Calatrava opera house "Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía", 2008, with its phenomenal acoustics and breathtaking architecture. Bonus - Making of Turandot (36 min.) 156 min. (120´ Opera + 36´ Bonus) 16:9, HD DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo German, French., English, Spanish, Italian (original language) “Turandot has always been one of Zubin Mehta's calling cards, and he rarely disappoints here in Valencia. The sweep of this great score is admirably balanced by a proper attention to orchestral and instrumental detail.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 **** “Drawing on his intimate knowledge of traditional Chinese theatre and spectacle, Chen and his designers, Liu King and Chen Tong Xun, give us a Turandot in extravagant colours and choreography, true to the spirit of fable and legend… Maria Guleghina must surely not be the Turandot of our time. The role seems to hold no terrors for her... Zubin Mehta's...direction of the Valenciana Orchestra brims with drama and affection.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Franco Zeffirelli’s magnificent staging of Puccini's final opera — a fairy tale set in a mythical China — is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut. “Zeffirelli's classic 1990s Met production, unashamedly glitzy, crowded and spectacular comes up remarkably fresh in this second video incarnation...Guleghina's ice-princess is intensely feminine...Giordano cuts a charismatic stage figure, and 'Nessun dorma' stops the show...What really makes this production is the vividness with which it's communicated, both in the exceptional high-definition picture and spacious sound.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2011 ***** “Zeffirelli's ultra-lavish traditional production hovers between gorgeously extravagant and amusingly overdone. It's kept in check by three terrific performers in the main roles. Maria Guleghina soars effortlessly through the cruelly demanding title role...Poplavskaya is wonderfully affecting both dramatically and vocally as the innocent young Liu...[Nelsons] provides some surprising subtlety among the necessary broad brush-strokes” Classic FM Magazine, October 2011 **** “the production's brain-flooding panorama of ancient China...matches the sumptuousness of Puccini's score...[Guleghina and Giordani are] both fairly new to their roles and singing them with a sense of new discovery...In the secondary roles, Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey are certainly A-team talents...Nelsons finds layers of sound and meaning unlike anything I've heard since Karajan's audio recording on DG” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 “the 22-year-old extravaganza has lost none of its razzle-dazzle...in the opera house one can't take it all in...Perhaps home viewing is the best route - when soloists sing, the camera hones in on them...The stars of the evening are conductor and second soprano...[Poplavskaya] acts convincingly, looks wonderful and sings with great warmth and sure technique..,[Nelsons] rises to each occasion, but he also pays heed to Puccini's delicate colorations” International Record Review, November 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Maria Guleghina (Turandot), Carlo Bosi (L’ Imperatore Altoum), Luiz-Octavio Faria (Timur), Salvatore Licitra (Calaf), Tamar Iveri (Liù), Leonardo Lopez Linares (Ping), Gianluca Bocchino (Pong), Saverio Fiore (Pang), Giuliano Pelizon (Mandarino) & Angel Harkatz Kaufman (Il Principe di Persia) Orchestra, Chorus & Corps de ballet of the Arena di Verona, Giuliano Carella Turandot from the Verona Arena: Franco Zeffirelli’s epic production of Puccini’s masterpiece. In its 88th year, the prestigious Verona Arena Festival honoured the legendary Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli. Zeffirelli delivered an opulent staging af the fairy-tale story of the Chinese Princess Turandot, who will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles. The Russian soprano Maria Guleghina proved a brilliant Turandot, whilst tenor Salvatore Licitra’s trump card is his imposingly radiant voice of which he remains in sovereign control even in the role’s muchfeared tessitura. The soprano Tamar Iveri is a beautiful and sensitive Liù. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Verona Arena are conducted by Maestro Giuliano Carella. Sound: PCM Stereo, 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, Subtitles : Fr, Eng, Ger, It, Sp, Jap 2h 8min Filmed in HD, August 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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