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Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), David Kuebler (Il Conte Almaviva), Gino Quilico (Figaro), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Robert Lloyd (Don Basilio), Edith Kertesz-Gabry (Berta) Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Choir of Cologne City Opera, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director) Rossini was 24 years old when in 1816 he wrote his seventeenth and most famous opera The Barber of Seville in an astonishing three weeks. Michael Hampe’s humorous direction of his 1988 live performance at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival stands out with its fast tempo that makes for a highly exuberant production. Ezio Firgerio’s appealing stage and Mauro Pagano’s colourful costumes heighten the comic effect. The musical direction of conductor Gabriele Ferro strikes a beautiful balance between a vibrant orchestral performance and a superb ensemble of singers. The irresistible Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina leads a cast that also includes David Kuebler, Gino Quilico and Carlos Feller. “This is an effective, straightforward traditional performance under Gabriele Ferro, with Cecilia Bartoli in excellent voice, making this an irresistible production which should be in every collection.” Classical London Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), DE, GB, FR, ES, JP Running time: 185 minutes | 
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| |  | The Wagner Collection: Opera Edition
Wagner: | Lohengrin Live Recording from The Wiener Staatsoper, 1990 Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Robert Lloyd (Heinrich der Vogler), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), Dunja Vejzovic (Ortrud), Hartmut Welker (Telramund) & Georg Tichy (Der Heerrufer des königs) Wiener Staatsoper, Claudio Abbado (conductor) & Wolfgang Weber (stage director) Tannhäuser Live Recording from The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 2008 Robert Gambill (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Roman Trekel (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Stephen Milling (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen), Marcel Reijans (Walther von der Vogelweide), Tom Fox (Biterolf), Andreas Hörl (Reimar von Zweter), Florian Hoffmann (Heinrich der Schreiber), Katherina Müller (Ein junger Hirt), Claudia Chmelar, Anna-Katina Tilch, Manuela Leonhartsberger, Martina König (Edelknaben) & Reinier van der Eng (Geist des Tannhäuser) Philharmonia Chor Wien & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (director) Rienzi Version in two parts by Philipp Stölzl and Christian Baier. Live Recording from The Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2010 Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Kate Aldrich (Adriano) & Camilla Nylund (Irene) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor) & Philipp Stölzl (stage director) |
Richard Wagner’s oeuvre is impressive. Even during his lifetime it was clear that his visions for music theatre were ground-breaking and unique. 2013 sees Wagner’s 200th birthday – an important occasion for Arthaus Musik to recognize and honour him. The catalogue contains three outstanding opera productions which will now be released together in this exclusive Wagner Collection DVD Box. Besides the legendary Lohengrin from Vienna with Plácido Domingo in the title role, you will find the sensual production of Tannhäuser by Nikolaus Lehnhoff from Baden-Baden as well as the recent spectacular and provocative staging of Rienzi at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Sound Format: PPCM Stereo (Lohengrin) + DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 (Tannhäuser, Rienzi) Picture Format: 16:9 / 4:3 (only Lohengrin) DVD Format: 5 x DVD 9 & 1 x DVD 5, NTSC Subtitle Languages: DE (Original Language) IT, GB, FR, ES Running Time: 580 mins + 84 mins (bonus) FSK: 12 |
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| |  | The Wagner Edition
Wagner: | Der fliegende Holländer Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann) Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director) Der Ring des Nibelungen Das Rheingold: Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner), Jeffrey Dowd (Froh), Francisco Vas (Mime), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Christina Obregón (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde)
Die Walküre: Richard Berkeley-Steele (Siegmund), Linda Watson (Sieglinde), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), Helen Traubel (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Sabine Brohm (Gerhilde), Anneger Stumphius (Ortlinde), Marisa Altmann-Althausen (Waltraute), Andrea Bönig (Schwertleite), Heike Gierhardt (Helmwige), Mireia Pintó (Siegrune), Corinne Romijn (Grimgerde), Francisca Beaumont (Rossweisse)
Siegfried: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregón (Waldvogel)
Götterdämmerung: John Treleaven (Siegfried), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Falk Struckmann (Gunther), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Julia Juon (Waltraute), Cristina Obregón (Woglinde), María Rodríguez (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Julia Juon (1. Norn), Leandra Overmann (2. Norn), Elisabete Matos (3. Norn) Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy (conductor); Harry Kupfer (director) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Gerald Finley (Hans Sachs), Anna Gabler (Eva), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Sixtus Beckmesser), Marco Jentzsch (Walther von Stolzing), Topi Lehtipuu (David), Michaela Selinger (Magdalene), Alastair Miles (Veit Pogner), Henry Waddington (Fritz Kothner), Mats Almgren (Nightwatchman), Colin Judson (Kunz Vogelgesang), Andrew Slater (Konrad Nachtigall), Alasdair Elliott (Balthasar Zorn), Adrian Thompson (Ulrich Eisslinger), Daniel Norman (Augustin Moser), Robert Poulton (Hermann Ortel), Maxim Mikailov (Hans Schwarz), Graeme Broadbent (Hans Foltz) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director) Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Solveig Kringelborn (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tom Fox (Telramund), Hans-Peter König (King Heinrich), Roman Trekel (Herald) EuropaChorAkademie Mainz, Chorus of the Opéra national de Lyon & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Parsifal Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Festspielchor Baden-Baden,, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) Tannhäuser Stig Andersen (Tannhäuser), Tina Keberg (Elisabeth), Susanne Resmark (Venus), Tommi Hakala (Wolfram), Stephen Milling (Hermann) Royal Danish Opera, Friedemann Layer (conductor), Kasper Holten (stage director) Tristan und Isolde Robert Gambill (Tristan), Nina Stemme (Isolde), Katarina Karnéus (Brangäne), Bo Skovhus (Kurwenal), René Pape (König Marke), Stephen Gadd (Melot), Timothy Robinson (Hirt/Junger Seemann), Richard Mosley-Evans (Steuermann) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Jirí Belohlávek (conductor), Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) |
This set presents all of Wagner’s mature operas from seven leading European opera houses recorded during the last decade, featuring many of the most acclaimed Wagner singers of our age, in productions which exult in the force of Ezra Pound’s dictum, ‘Great art is news that stays news’. The directors Harry Kupfer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, David McVicar and others heed Wagner’s own persuasive plea, ‘Children, make it new’, in stagings employing sophisticated modern technology within grand designs which face up to the breadth of Wagner’s dramatic genius and the social and political implications of his work for us today. Special Wagner anniversary DVD collection presented in luxury packaging. Released at a highly competitive price. Running time: 40 hours approx. Subtitles: Der Fliegende Holländer: EN/FR/DE/ES/NE Der Ring Des Nibelungen: EN/FR/ DE/ES/CA/IT Lohengrin: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tannhäuser: EN/FR/ DE/ES/DA/CH Parsifal: EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Tristan und Isolde – EN/FR/ DE/ES/IT Sound format: LPCM Stereo & 5.1 DTS (except Der Fliegende Holländer: Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1 DTS) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ludovic Tézier (Il Conte di Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (La Contessa di Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo), Robin Leggate (Don Basilio), Antoine Normand (Don Curzio), Christian Tréguier (Antonio) & Maria Virginia Savastano (Barbarina) Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Philippe Jordan Stage direction and lighting design: Giorgio Strehler The legendary production by Giorgio Strehler filmed at the Paris Opera with a cast that unites the finest Mozartians of our time. A revival of Strehler's 'Marriage of Figaro' is always an event. In 2010, 37 years after its creation, it rose again in triumph at the Opera Bastille with a new generation of performers: Ludovic Tézier (Count Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (Countess), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro) and Karine Deshayes (Cherubino). Conductor, Philippe Jordan directs the Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris Opera. Also in this bonus edition, there is an interview with Humbert Camerlo who has worked extensively with Giorgio Strehler and achieved this staging for the revival, which continues from September 15 to October 25, 2012 at the Opera Bastille for 14 special performances. “This Franco-Italian-Russian-Irish-English combo plays well together … this cast sings well too...Jordan's conducting sound large-scale and Romantic to our period ears...this new set plays as a comfortable, conventional theatrical experience with much art onstage from cast and scenery.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 “Unlike many Figaro productions these days, the physicality is never vulgar, and there are constant small touches that add character...[Pisaroni] displays the ideal bass-baritone instrument for this role, and his person is just as alive to every nuance as his singing...[Siurina] is marvellous when angry...no one on DVD has brought greater tonal shine and firmer technique to Susanna's music...[Frittoli] offers an absolutely complete characterization.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Plácido DomingoLive Recordings from The Wiener Staatsoper
Bizet: | Carmen Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1978 Elena Obraztsova (Carmen), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Yuri Mazurok (Escamillo), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Cheryl Kanfoush (Frasquita), Axelle Gall (Mercédès), Kurt Rydl (Zuniga), Hans Helm (Moralès), Heinz Zednik (Remendado) & Paul Wolfrum (Dancaïre) Carlos Kleiber (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director) | Verdi: | Il Trovatore Raina Kabaivanska (Leonora), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Plácido Domingo (Manrico), Piero Cappuccilli (Il Conte di Luna), José Van Dam (Ferrando), Maria Venuti (Ines), Heinz Zednik (Ruiz) Herbert von Karajan (conductor & stage director) | Wagner: | Lohengrin Plácido Domingo (Lohengrin), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), Dunja Vejzovic (Ortrud), Hartmut Welker (Friedrich von Telramund), Robert Lloyd (König Heinrich), Georg Tichy (Der Heerrufer) Claudio Abbado (conductor) & Wolfgang Weber (stage director) |
Arthaus presents a Hommage to one of the most outstanding and charismatic operatic artists in the last 50 years: Plácido Domingo. Box Set Plácido Domingo including legendary documents available now. Sound Format: PCM Stereo (Carmen, Lohengrin) / PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 (Il trovatore) Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: 1 x DVD 5, 3 x DVD 9 / PAL (Carmen, Lohengrin) / NTSC (Il trovatore) Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, IT, ES / GB, DE, FR, IT (Lohengrin) Running Time: about 500 mins FSK: 12 “the orchestral playing [in Trovatore] is absolutely superb - positively incendiary in places...Domingo's ardent and gloriously sung Don Jose is a marvel...[He] is absorbing in the title-role [of Lohengrin]...This box of four discs costs little more than one full-price opera on DVD: it's an amazing bargain.” International Record Review, October 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Plácido Domingo - My Greatest Roles Volume 3 (French Opera)
CARMEN This famous staging of Carmen from Vienna State Opera in 1978 was by the great Franco Zeffirelli, who not only directed the production but also the television broadcast. It is also a rare chance to witness the musical genius of conductor Carlos Kleiber, who made very few video recordings. Together they created a thrilling and dramatic production, which Domingo says was “very special”, and “will live in my mind forever.” Plácido Domingo was in his prime at the time of this performance. He considers the role of Don José to be very close to his heart because his mother, like Don José, was from the Basque country, and this empathy shows in his stunning portrayal. He is joined by Elena Obraztsova as a strong, but wonderfully natural Carmen, Isobel Buchanan as Micaëla, and Yuri Mazurok as Escamillo. SAMSON ET DALILA Plácido Domingo and Shirley Verrett star in the title roles in this live recording of the 1981/82 Season premiere from the San Francisco Opera, with Wolfgang Brendel as the High Priest of Dagon. The colourful and evocative sets and costumes reflect Saint-Säens’ melodic and sensual score, here conducted by Julius Rudel. Samson is one of Domingo’s favourite roles, partly for the profound beauty of the music, but also because of the character’s battle between duty to his people and his love of Dalila. “Plácido Domingo and Shirley Verrett…incomparable in the title roles” SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE THE TALES OF HOFFMANN This stunning 1980 Royal Opera production is by film director John Schlesinger and conducted by Georges Prêtre. The spectacular designs by Maria Björnson and William Dudley vividly bring Hoffmann’s nightmare world to life. Plácido Domingo sings the role of Hoffmann, in one of his towering portrayals. The all-star cast also includes Luciana Serra as Olympia, Agnes Baltsa as Giulietta, Ileana Cotrubas as Antonia, Robert Lloyd as Lindorf, Geraint Evans as Coppélius, Nicola Ghiuselev as Dr Miracle, and Siegmund Nimsgern as Dappertutto. Domingo very much enjoyed singing this most ‘complete’ of roles with the huge range of characterisation required. “Plácido Domingo, surely the most compelling Hoffmann of his generation. The most stylish vocally, too” BBC Music Magazine CARMEN: Picture format: NTSC 4:3 FF Audio: Dolby 2.0 Stereo Duration: 153 mins Subtitles: Eng / Fr / Ger / It / Sp SAMSON ET DALILA: Picture format: NTSC 4:3 FF Audio: L-PCM Stereo Duration: 116 mins Subtitles: Eng / Fr / Ger / It / Sp THE TALES OF HOFFMANN: Picture format: NTSC 4:3 FF Audio: Dolby 2.0 Stereo Duration: 150 mins Subtitles: Eng / Fr / Ger / It / Sp / Jp Bonus interviews: Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Audio: L-PCM 2.0 Stereo Duration: 59 mins Colour Subtitles: None Region Code: 2-6
NVC Arts/Warner Classics is delighted to announce the release of the third volume of DVD boxed sets showcasing some of the greatest recordings of Plácido Domingo’s career on stage. This volume features full-length performances of French operas, including Carmen from Vienna State Opera, Samson and Delilah from San Francisco Opera, and The Tales of Hoffmann from The Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Bonus: This volume is complemented by a 1-hour bonus DVD in which Plácido Domingo speaks at length, with passion and fervour, about each of the roles he sings in these three operas. “Domingo stops the show in Carmen, in a performance wonderfully conducted by Carlos Kleiber. The Samson and Hoffmann (both 1981) are seriously good.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2011 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliette), Sarah Walker (Gertrude), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurence), Peter Sidhom (Capulet), Paul Charles Clarke (Tybalt), David Wilson-Johnson (Le Prince), Jeremy White (Gregorio), François Le Roux (Mercutio), Anne Maria Panzarella (Stéphano), Richard Halton (Pâris) The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Nicolas Joël (stage director) Sir Charles Mackerras teases the romantic beauty from Gounod’s score, which has been much admired and performed since its first performance, at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, in 1867. In this 1994 recording, the youthful Roberto Alagna as Roméo, and Leontina Vaduva as the unattainable Juliette, lead an excellent cast in a touching portrayal of this story of impossible love, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 15th & 17th November 1994.
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 176 Mins
SOUND: 2.0 DOLBY DIGITAL
SUBTITLES: EN
“Leontina Vaduva is a touching Juliette… There's real passion in her Tomb aria… Roméo is the role that catapulted tenor Roberto Alagna into a celebrity. Best of all is Charles Mackerras conducting in the pit.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2008 **** “They are a Romeo and Juliet who look as if they were born to play their roles” Financial Times “Alagna is the fascinating, never failing, special, real tenor thing - the heir apparent to the two. He delivers the goods.” The Guardian | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 27th June & 1st July 1994Stage Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager) The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Edward Downes Cheryl Studer, in the title role, leads an excellent cast in Elijah Moshinsky's 1994 production of Verdi's extravagant and magnificent Egyptian opera. Aida was acclaimed at its first performance in 1871 and has grown in stature ever since to become one of the best-loved and most-performed grand operas of all time. PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 151 Mins
SOUND: PCM 2.0
SUBTITLES: EN
“This DVD of a distinguished account of Verdi's grand opera from 1994 has a great deal to recommend it, yet in the end I'm not sure that it manages to avoid cliché of the sense that the work has gone slightly stale, for all its fine moments.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 **** “[Sir Edward Downes’] command of the score's structure, its curious blend of delicacy and bombast, of classical propriety and romantic excess, is complete and he drew superbly disciplined playing from the pit and lusty singing from the augmented chorus.” The Times | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Robert Lloyd (Boris), Olga Borodina (Marina), Alexei Steblianko (Girgory/False Dmitry), Sergei Leiferkus (Rangoni), Larissa Diadkova (Fyodor), Evgeni Boitsov (Shuisky), Alexander Morozov (Pimen), Vladimir Ognovienko (Varlaam), Olga Kondina (Xenia), Ludmila Filatova (Hostess), Vladimir Solodovnikov (Simpleton), Mikail Kit (Tchelkalov), Evgenia Perlasova (Nurse), Evgeny Fedotov (Nikitich), Grigory Karasev (Mityukha) Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev “Film director Andrei Tarkovsky, famous for science- fiction classics Solaris and Stalker and the historical epic Andrei Rublev, was a master of symbolic effect – the gigantic pendulum, the grotesquely faceless Idiot, living statuary, the angelic murdered child amid falling snow. But against such stylisation the action, vividly captured by video director Humphrey Burton, comes correspondingly alive, no stiff Bolshoi pageant; chorus and soloists act their hearts out.
Borodina is an ideal Marina, beautiful and burnished of tone but chillingly self-absorbed; perhaps rightly, she strikes more sparks with Leiferkus's vampiric, honey-toned Rangoni than with Steblianko's stolid but lyrical Pretender. Ognovenko's Varlaam is somewhat young and baritonal, but foreshadows stardom, as does Dyadkova's superbly touching, plangent Feodor. Boitsov's Shuisky, Morosov's noble Pimen and Solodovnikov's Idiot are less outstanding but still excellent. The only outsider is at the centre. Robert Lloyd's Boris first appears (reflecting contemporary portraits) moustached but beardless; the customary hedge appears in later acts, neatly marking the passing years. His finely shaded bassocantante has been criticised for being too light, but such doubts fade before his idiomatic-sounding Russian and magnificent characterisation, culminating in a truly harrowing death scene.
Gergiev's reading is less brilliant than his dual recording, often rather soft-centred; but he still brings out the sheer anguished beauty of the score.
The excellent stereo soundtrack has also been remastered into DTS surround-sound, and very airy and ambient this sounds, from the opening wave of applause sweeping across the auditorium.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “an outstanding film...admirably conducted by Valery Gergiev, joined by Robert Lloyd as Boris, one of his greatest performances, and a superb supporting cast.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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