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Riccardo Muti conducts a sublime cast, headed by Thomas Allen in the title role of the great seducer, in the 1987 La Scala recording of Mozart and Da Ponte’s tale of lust and subversion. PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 179 MINS
SOUND: DOLBY STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN
“A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and Claudio Desderi's Leporello enact a limitlessly fascinating central relationship, and Susanne Mentzer is a delicious Zerlina.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2004 *** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Sub Titles: English, French, German, Spanish “a moving performance, well cast and with sympaethetic conducting from Carlo Rizzi...Shicoff is in splendid voice, phrasing and shaping his big set-pieces sensitively, and Edita Gruberova makes a moving Violetta.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | George London: A Tribute
Beethoven: | O welche Lust! In freier Luft den Atem leicht zu heben! (from Fidelio) Vienna State Opera Chorus, Heinrich Hollreiser | Mozart: | Don Giovanni, K527: Overture Lothar Zagrosek Fin ch'han dal vino (from Don Giovanni) Archival television performance, 1964 George London Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni) Nicolai Gedda Heinrich Hollreiser Deh vieni, non tardar (from Le nozze di Figaro) Lucia Popp Deh, per questo istante solo (from La Clemenza di Tito) Tatiana Troyanos | Mussorgsky: | Dostig Ya Vyshey Vlasti (from Boris Godunov) Archival television performance, 1964 George London | Offenbach: | Les oiseaux dans la charmille (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Edita Gruberova Erich Binder Elle a fui, la tourterelle (from Les Contes d' Hoffmann) Catherine Malfitano Tu ne chanteras plus (from Les Contes d'Hoffman) Catherine Malfitano, Simon Estes, Margaretha Hintermeier Erich Binder | Puccini: | E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Nicolai Gedda | Strauss, R: | Er ist der Richtige nicht für mich … Aber der Richtige, wenn's einen gibt für mich (from Arabella) Lucia Popp, Sona Ghazarian Heinrich Hollreiser | Tchaikovsky: | Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) Francisco Araiza | Wagner: | Mit Gewitter und Sturm (from Der Fliegende Hollander) Thomas Moser Lothar Zagrosek Die Walkure: Act 1 Scene 3 Leonie Rysanek, James King Lothar Zagrosek |
Gala 1984 operatic concert organized by the George London Foundation for Singers. Bonus material includes excerpts from London's Bell Telephone and CBC telecast appearances, as well as excerpts of his role as Scarpia in VAI's Tosca, with Renata Tebaldi. 127 minutes, color, stereo with optional English subtitles. Playable in all regions. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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