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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. 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 DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM Stereo Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean “There are two towering performances – in height, at least, for Claudio Sgura as Sharpless and Annunziata Vestri as Suzuki dominate the stage like few others singers. Sharpless is younger than usual, and this is an excellent, sympathetic portrayal...I loved Vestri’s understated Suzuki, a noble assumption, which doesn’t grab the attention, but has a touching sincerity.” Opera Britannia, 30th October 2011 **/*** “a very moving, intelligent show...Pisapia is a good Pinkerton, going from vaguely stupid and callow, to being in love with the idea of love, to sorrow and regret. His voice is hearty and reliable...Claudio Sgura is a wonderful Sharpless.” International Record Review, October 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Puccini CollectionLIMITED EDITION – Available while stocks last
Puccini: | Madama Butterfly Recorded at Festival Puccini Opera Festival, Torre del Lago – May 2004 Daniela Dessì (Cio-Cio San), Fabio Armiliato (Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless), Rossana Rinaldi (Suzuki) Placido Domingo (conductor) & Stefano Monti (director) La Bohème Recorded at the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago in August 2007 Norma Fantini (Mimì), Massimiliano Pisapia (Rodolfo), Donata d’Annunzio Lombardi (Musetta), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Massimiliano Valleggi (Schaunard) Orchestra and Chorus of the Puccini Festival & Children’s Choir of the Puccini Festival, Stewart Robertson (conductor) & Maurizio Scaparro (director) Tosca Recorded at the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, Viareggio, Lucca. August 2007 Antonia Cifrone (Floria Tosca), Stefano Secco (Mario Cavaradossi), Giorgio Surian (Il Barone Scarpia), Riccardo Ferrari (Cesare Angelotti), Massimo La Guardia (Spoletta), Franco Boscolo (Il Sagrestano), Fernando Ciuffo (Sciarrone), Veio Torcigliani (Un Carceriere) & Giovanni Caramanna (Un Pastore) Orchestra and Chorus of Festival Puccini, Valerio Galli (conductor) & Mario Corradi (director) |
Box set comprised of the following popular operas already available in the Dynamic catalogue. Sound format: 16:9 Picture format: LPCM 2.0 Region Code: 0 Running Time: 130 + 118 + 124 mins Booklet notes: Ita / Eng / Fre / Ger Subtitles: Fre, Eng, Ger, Spa, Ita, Jp, Ch AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Glyndebourne: Comedy & Tragedy
Bizet: | Carmen Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don José), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaela) with The Glyndebourne Chorus, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & David McVicar (director) | Donizetti: | L'elisir d'amore Ekaterina Siurina (Adina), Peter Auty (Nemorino), Alfredo Daza (Belcore), Luciano di Pasquale (Dulcamara), Eliana Pretorian (Giannetta) with The Glyndebourne Chorus, Maurizio Benini (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director) | Puccini: | Gianni Schicchi Alessandro Corbelli (Schicchi), Massimo Giordano (Rinuccio), Sally Matthews (Lauretta), Felicity Palmer (Zita), Marie McLaughlin (La Ciesca) Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director) | Rachmaninov: | The Miserly Knight, Op. 24 Sergei Leiferkus (The Baron), Richard Berkeley-Steele (Albert), Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (Moneylender), Albert Schagidullin (The Duke), Maxim Mikhailov (The Servant), Matilda Leyser ("Aerialist") Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director) | Verdi: | Falstaff Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Tassis Christoyannis (Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Dina Kuznetsova (Alice Ford), Jennifer Holloway (Meg Page), Adriana Kucerova (Nanetta), Bulent Bezduz (Fenton), Peter Hall (Dr Caius), Alasdair Elliott (Bardolpho), Paolo Battaglia (Pistol) with The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Richard Jones (director) |
The Glyndebourne Festival is a quintessentially English summer event. The world’s most acclaimed artists, conductors and directors excel in producing top-flight performances every year and this new collection offers the choice of five classic opera productions including Gianni Schicchi, L'elisir d'amore, Falstaff, Carmen and The Miserly Knight. ‘In the pit, Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic hone their reflexes so that the instrumental guffaw, exclamation, explosive flourish leaps out at you. It’s exciting and detailed and rhythmically so alive.’ The Independent Subtitles Gianni Schicchi EN/FR/DE/ES/IT L'elisir d'amore EN/FR/DE/ES/IT Falstaff EN/FR/DE/ES/IT Carmen EN/FR/DE/ES The Miserly Knight EN/FR/DE/ES/IT Region Code All regions Picture format 16:9 Anamorphic Sound format 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS Menu languages EN | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Alois – The Boy and his Voice
Alois Mühlbacher (treble) & Franz Farnberger (piano) Alois Mühlbacher, the St. Florian choirboy has performed on the stage of the Vienna State Opera, impressing all who have heard him. On his debut CD he performs works which hitherto have been beyond the reach of any boy soprano with youthful lightheartedness and vocal genius. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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1. Act I - Che gelida manina (Rodolfo) 2. Act I - Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Mimì/Rodolfo) 3. Act I - Ehi! Rodolfo! ... O soave fanciulla (Schaunard/Colline/Marcello/Rodolfo/Mimì) 4. La Bohème - Act II: Viva Parpignol! 5. Act II - Beviam! ... Ch'io beva del tossico! (Mimì/Rodolfo/Marcello/Schaunard/Colline/ Alcindoro/Musetta) 6. Act II - Quando me'n vo (Musetta/Marcello/Alcindoro/Mimì/Rodolfo/Schaunard/Colline) 7. Act III - Mimì!...Speravo di trovarvi qui (Marcello/Mimì) 8. Act III - Marcello...Finalmente (Rodolfo/Marcello/Mimì) 9. Act III - Addio ... Donde liete usci al tuo grido d'amore (Mimì/Rodolfo) 10. Act III - Dunque è proprio finita! (Rodolofo/Mimì/Marcello/Musetta) 11. Act III - La Bohème: Act IV: In un coupé?... O Mimì, tu più non torni 12. Act IV - Vecchia zimarra, senti! (Colline) 13. Act IV - Act IV: Sono andati?...Madonna benedetta
Enhanced CD with Libretto; studio recording, 1995 “Pappano's CD recording of Boheme is conducted with ever-fresh imagination, bringing out not just subtle emotions alonside high passion, but also the fun of the piece in lightly sprung rhythms” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Jose Cura (tenor), Stefano Antonucci (baritone), Massimo Foschi (spoken vocals) & Nana Gordaze (soprano) Ensemble Slovak Chamber Choir & Italian International Orchestra, Bruno Aprea | |
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This is Jonas Kaufmann’s Tosca debut on DVD. It features him in a key role that he is performing to great critical acclaim all over the world. Mostly Opera Magazine reviewed that he is “the undisputed leading Cavaradossi of our day” and about Emily Magee, his Tosca, “sings the part better than anyone I can imagine today”. The passion and tragedy of Tosca are dramatically highlighted in Robert Carsen’s “theatre-within-theatre” staging of Puccini’s great opera. Emily Magee plays opposite the charismatic Jonas Kaufmann and debonair Thomas Hampson (Scarpia); together they bring a rare intensity to this famous tale of love and revenge from beyond the grave. In the production, filmed in 2009, Paolo Carignani conducts the Orchestra of the Opernhaus Zürich. The star cast and great reviews of the performances make this product highly desirable for any opera lover. “Vocally, the honours here go to Jonas Kaufmann whose Cavaradossi is wonderfully sung...On this sort of form, there isn’t a tenor to touch him in this repertoire at the moment. Emily Magee has a Wagnerian-sized soprano capable of circumnavigating the role of Tosca with ease, although hers is not a particularly distinctive voice...Thomas Hampson makes for a suave and slimy Baron Scarpia” Opera Britannia, 30th June 2011 *** “Jonas Kaufmann is so eloquent that the deficiencies flying around him on stage vanish as soon as he opens his mouth...A modest word of praise, too, for Giuseppe Scorsin as the Sacristan, characterfully bumbling round Anthony Ward’s annoying sets in his pullover with holes...But the music that matters comes from Kaufmann’s throat, mellifluously convincing no matter what the production’s ills.” The Times, 13th May 2011 *** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Great Singers Live: Mirella FreniSelection from three “Sunday Concerts” with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester given in 1971, 1983 and 1987
With her Mimì, she conquered the world. Mirella Freni’s extraordinary career lasted for over 30 years, and she never lost the enchanting youthfulness of her voice. She said farewell to the operatic stage in 2005 as a celebrated soprano in full possession of her vocal skills. Recordings from three Sunday concerts by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester document Mme. Freni in arias that reveal the many different facets of her artistry. The program ranges from her key role, Mimì, all the way to Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Evgeny Onegin. Previously unreleased recordings by Mirella Freni. Documents from the popular Sunday concerts by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester from the 1970s and 80s. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Berlin Opera NightRecorded live at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2003
Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Kent Nagano Major stars of the international opera stage come together with the Chor und Orchester of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, under the baton of the illustrious Kent Nagano, in this opera gala in aid of the German AIDS Foundation. Highlights from operas by Mozart, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Dvorák, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Lehár and Johann Strauss II are performed by world-class musicians from around the globe. Proceeds from the sales of this title go to support the work of the German AIDS Foundation. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 78 mins FSK: 0 “In a rather mixed bag, there are a number of class acts...the highlight performance of the night in respect of bringing a role alive...[is]
Kasarova singing an expressive and beautifully realised Werther!...The audience might have been more thrilled by the tenors at full throttle, but this is the highlight for me - a gold nugget in this collection.” MusicWeb International, June 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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