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Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Hans-Peter König (Hunding), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Kelly Cae Hogan (Gerhilde), Molly Fillmore (Helmwige), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Ortlinde), Eve Gigliotti, Mary Ann McCormick (Grimgerde), Lindsay Ammann (Rossweisse) Marjorie Elinor Dix (Waltraute), Mary Phillips (Schwertleite) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine Production by Robert Lepage “Terfel is twice the Wotan he seemed at Covent Garden, displaying commanding tone and rough-hewn sensitivity. Deborah Voigt's Brunnhilde is attractively lyrical...Jonas Kaufmann and Eva-Maria Westbroek are superb Volsungs, in need of livelier direction.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 **** | 
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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 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | An Evening With The Royal Opera
Bringing together a collection of arias and choruses from some of the world’s favourite operas, this disc showcases the outstanding artists and productions from the stage of the Royal Opera House. The perfect gift for anyone who loves opera. A unique collection from one of the world’s finest opera houses, showcasing the international opera stars and famous Royal Opera House productions. The comprehensive packaging will include a synopsis of each opera, suggestions for further exploration of the catalogue and full subtitles. International stars featured in the collection include: Jonas Kaufmann, Renee Fleming, Simon Keenlyside, Gerald Finley and Miah Persson. Running time: 80 minutes Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/ES Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS “all musically exceptional” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Also contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia), Adam Diegel (Froh), Dwayne Croft (Donner), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Gerhard Siegel (Mime) Die Walküre Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund, Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Hans-Peter König (Hunding), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Kelly Cae Hogan (Gerhilde), Molly Fillmore (Helmwige), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Ortlinde), Eve Gigliotti, Mary Ann McCormick (Grimgerde), Lindsay Ammann (Rossweisse) Marjorie Elinor Dix (Waltraute), Mary Phillips (Schwertleite) Siegfried Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Bryn Terfel (Wanderer), Eric Owens (Alberich), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Mojca Erdmann (Waldvogel) Götterdämmerung Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Hans-Peter König (Hagen), Eric Owens (Alberich), Iain Paterson (Gunther), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Gutrune), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute), Maria Radner (Erste Norn), Elizabeth Bishop (Zweite Norn), Heidi Melton (Dritte Norn), Erin Morley (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine (Das Rheingold & Die Walküre), Fabio Luisi (Siegfried & Götterdämmerung) The most famous, the most performed, the most thrilling, and the most recorded opera cycle in music history. A unique and exclusive package, on multi-set DVD and Blu-Ray, of the most successful Ring Cycle production of the 21th century. Filmed at the world-famous Metropolitan Opera House in New York, in high definition – the award winning Robert Lepage production. Featuring Bryn Terfel as Wotan – universally recognized as the finest bass-baritone – and Wotan – of his generation. Also starring Deborah Voigt as Brunnhilde, and star tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Siegmund. This award-winning and ground-breaking production has been seen by over 150,000 people at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and subsequently by a remarkable 800,000 people in cinemas and movie-theatres around the globe Features some of the most remarkable and memorable music of all time – including “The Ride of the Valkyries” and “Siegfried’s Funeral March”, as heard in countless Hollywood blockbusters and global TV commercials over the last forty years. Subtitles in English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese “Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's masterclass of a Waltraute...Elsewhere there is solid singing from the 'baddie' basses...and much evidently enjoyed hard work from Deborah Voigt's Brünnhilde” Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Bryn Terfel (Figaro), Alison Hagley (Susanna), Rodney Gilfry (Count), Hillevi Martinpelto (Countess), Pamela Helen Stephen (Cherubino), Susan McCulloch (Marcellina), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Francis Egerton (Basilio/Curzio), Julian Clarkson (Antonio), Constanze Backes (Barbarina) Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese “the set is well worth acquiring...for a cast with no weak links and an inspiring conductor” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Claudio Abbado: A Life Dedicated to MusicJubilee Box
Bach, J S: | Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051 (complete) Recorded live at Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, 21 April 2007 Orchestra Mozart | Beethoven: | Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Concention Centre Lucerne, 10–12 August 2005 Alfred Brendel (piano) Lucerne Festival Orchestra Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Recorded live at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, February 2001 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Recorded live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 1 May 2000 Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (alto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (bass) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir | Brahms: | Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Recorded live at the Musikverein, Vienna, April 1997 Barbara Bonney (soprano), Bryn Terfel (baritone) Swedish Radio Choir, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Bruckner: | Symphony No. 7 in E Major Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Concention Centre Lucerne, 10–12 August 2005 Lucerne Festival Orchestra | Mahler: | Symphony No. 9 in D major Recorded live at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 14 April 2004 Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra | Mussorgsky: | A Night on the Bare Mountain Recorded live from the Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 1994 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Stravinsky: | The Firebird Suite Recorded live from the Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 1994 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Tchaikovsky: | Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Recorded live from the Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 1994 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
plus: DVD 3: A Verdi Gala from Berlin Verdi Arias from: Un ballo in maschera / Don Carlos / Rigoletto / La traviata / Falstaff Andrea Rost, Ramón Vargas, Alan Titus, Lucio Gallo and other soloists Berliner Philharmoniker Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 30–31 December 2000 DVD 5: Hearing the Silence with Bruno Ganz, Daniel Harding, Albrecht Mayer, Wolfram Christ, Kolja Blacher Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
This DVD Box will be released in honour of Claudio Abbado’s 80th anniversary on June 26th. It contains an extensive collection of concert recordings and the documentary Hearing the Silence, capturing the outstanding work and repertoire of this formidable conductor on 8 DVDs. Claudio Abbado, musical director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1968-1986) and the Berliner Philharmoniker (1989-2002) has always been supportive to the younger music generation and hence founded excellent orchestras such as the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, European Union Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra Mozart. His musical career took him all over the world to the most prestigious opera and concert houses from Milan, London, Chicago to Berlin, Vienna and Bologna. A tremendous achievement which is captured in this Box. These 8 DVDs contain marvellous recordings of Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Stravinksky, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Verdi, Mahler and Bach performed by excellent Orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, accompanied by exceptional soloists like Alfred Brendel , Andrea Rost, Karita Mattila, Barbara Bonney all conducted by one of the greatest conductors of our time. Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound formats: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 DVD 2 & 5 PCM Stereo Region code: All (worldwide) Booklet Notes: English, German, French Running Time: Disc 1: 97 mins, Disc 2: 79 mins, Disc 3: 94 mins, Disc 4: 122 mins, Disc 5: 67 mins, Disc 6: 84 mins, Disc 7: 106 mins, Disc 8: 100 mins (total 749 mins) |
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| |  | The Verdi Edition: The 12 Great Operas
Verdi: | Rigoletto Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Graciela Araya (Maddalena), Elizabeth Sikora (Giovanna), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Monterone), Quentin Hayes (Marullo), Peter Auty (Borsa) Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Edward Downes (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director) Il Trovatore Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 3rd May 2002 José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna), Yvonne Naef (Azucena), Verónica Villarroel (Leonora), Tomas Tomasson (Ferrando), Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Ines), Edgaras Montvidas (Ruiz) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Carlo Rizzi (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (stage director) La Traviata Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, London, June & July 2009 Renée Fleming (Violetta), Joseph Calleja (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont), Eddie Wade (Baron Douphol) & Richard Wiegold (Doctor Grenvil) The Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Richard Eyre (director) Les vêpres siciliennes Recorded live at the Amsterdam Music Theatre, 23 & 29 September, 2010
French version Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Lívia Ághová (Ninetta), Burkhard Fritz (Henri), Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de Montfort), Balint Szabo (Jean Procida), Hubert Francis (Thibault), Fabrice Farina (Danieli), Rudi de Vries (Mainfroid), Roger Smeets (Robert), Jeremy White (Le Sire de Béthune) & Christophe Fel (Le Comte de Vaudemont) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Koor van De Nederlandse Opera, Paolo Carignani (conductor) & Christof Loy (director) Un ballo in maschera Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, on the 25th & 28th September 2008 Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar), Borja Quiza (Silvano), Miguel Sola (Samuel), Scott Wilde (Tom), Orlando Niz (Judge), César San Martín (Amelia's servant) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Chorus), Jesús López Cobos (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director) La forza del destino Live Recording from The Mariinsky Theatre, 1998 Galina Gorchakova (Leonora), Nikolai Putilin (Don Carlo), Gegam Grigorian (Don Alvaro), Marianna Tarasova (Preziosilla), Grigory Karasev (Marchese di Calatrava) & Sergei Alexashkin (Padre Guardiano) The Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, Valéry Gergiev (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (stage director) Macbeth Recorded live at The Royal Opera House, 13 June, 2011 Simon Keenlyside (Macbeth), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Aceto (Banquo), Dmitri Pittas (Macduff), Nigel Cliffe (Servant), Steven Ebel (Malcolm), Elisabeth Meister (Lady-in-Waiting) & Lukas Jakobski (Doctor) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Phyllida Lloyd (stage director) Don Carlo Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly (conductor) & Willy Decker (stage director) Aida Daniela Dessì (Aida), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Amneris), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Ramfis), Stefano Palatchi (Il Re), Josep Fadó (Messaggiero), Ana Nebot (Sacerdotessa) Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez Simon Boccanegra Recorded: 2010 live from the Royal Opera House Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano Otello Recorded live at the Gran teatre del Liceu, Barcelona on 21st & 24th February 2006 José Cura (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Lado Ataneli (Iago), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Emilia), Vicenç Esteve Madrid (Rodrigo), Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), Francisco Santiago (Montano), Roberto Accurso (Un Araldo) Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor) & Willy Decker (stage director) Falstaff Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton) Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink (conductor), Graham Vick (stage director) |
Celebrating the work of Italy’s greatest musical dramatist, this set of 12 operas includes definitive performances from some of the finest Verdi singers of our age, in productions which reflect the contemporary richness of our perspective of the composer as both a man of his time, inspired to reflect the familial tensions and revolutionary fervour of his homeland, and also a man of theatrical genius as timeless as his adored Shakespeare, whose anti-heroes Macbeth and Falstaff stand as the poles of tragedy and comedy in this survey of modern stagings. Running time: 34 hours 10 minutes approx Subtitles: RIGOLETTO / IL TROVATORE / FALSTAFF: EN LA TRAVIATA / UN BALLO IN MASCHERA / MACBETH SIMON BOCCANEGRA: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES: EN/FR/DE/ES LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: EN/FR/DE/ES/DU DON CARLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/DU AIDA: EN/FR/DE/ES/CA OTELLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CA Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS |
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Production by Robert Lepage “Deborah Voigt's Brunnhilde is attractively lyrical. Jay Hunter Morris's stand-in Siegfried is a discovery, a handsome, extrovert giant.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2013 **** |
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Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia), Adam Diegel (Froh), Dwayne Croft (Donner), Patricia Bardon (Erda), Gerhard Siegel (Mime) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine Production by Robert Lepage |
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