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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Live Recording from The Teatro Comunale, Florence, 2006
Ruggero Raimondi (Sir John Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Mrs. Alice Ford), Laura Polverelli (Mrs. Meg Page), Elena Zilio (Mistress Quickly), Mariola Cantarero (Nannetta), Manuel Lanza (Ford), Daniil Shtoda (Fenton), Carlo Bosi (Dr Cajus), Luigi Roni (Pistola), Gianluca Floris (Bardolfo) Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & Luca Ronconi (stage director) The Maggio Musicale in Florence is the oldest and one of the most famous music festivals in Italy. When it’s director, Zubin Mehta, celebrated his 70th birthday, the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff was part of the festivities. The opera was conducted by Zubin Mehta himself and directed by Luca Ronconi. Adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff was Verdi’s last opera and one of his few comedies. It was also the third of Verdi’s operas to be based on a Shakespearean play, and like his first adaptation of the English playwright, Macbeth, it concludes with a fugue, the famous “Tutto nel mondo è burla” (“All the world’s a joke”). The successful first performance took place at La Scala in Milan in 1893. While not as immensely popular as the works that immediately preceded it (Aida and Otello) Falstaff’s refinement and melodic invention have made it a long-term favourite with both artists and audience. Luca Ronconi’s production for the 2006 Maggio Musicale Fiorentino finds ready equivalents for Shakespeare’s Windsor in both the social context and imagery of modern Britain – an enjoyable comedy and a musical feast for home-viewing. The main characters are sung by leading exponents of their respective roles, including Barbara Frittoli as Alice and Ruggero Raimondi as Sir John Falstaff. Raimondi values the part for the way Falstaff takes part in the action both comically and dramatically, and perhaps this is the real strength and beauty of the role. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES Running Time: 128 mins FSK: 0 | 
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| |  | Plácido Domingo - My Greatest Roles Volume 1 (Puccini)This first boxed set of Plácido Domingo’s greatest roles features operas by Puccini
Puccini: | La fanciulla del West Puccini's penultimate opera is set at the height of the California gold rush. In this Royal Opera recording, filmed in 1983, Carol Neblett sings the role of Minnie, ‘The Girl of the Golden West’, and Placido Domingo is as ignitable as ever in the role of Dick Johnson, alias the bandit, Ramirez. The much-admired production, still in repertory at The Royal Opera, is by Piero Faggioni, and the conductor is Nello Santi. Carol Neblett & Placido Domingo Nello Santi Manon Lescaut This famous production from The Royal Opera, filmed in 1983, features Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role and Plácido Domingo, whose performance of Des Grieux is considered to be unsurpassed. The role of Des Grieux is one of the most taxing in the tenor repertoire, and Domingo’s passionate portrayal is one of his greatest achievements. Lescaut is sung by Thomas Allen, and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli. Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo & Thomas Allen Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Giuseppe Sinopoli Tosca For the first time, the long-awaited ‘live’, real-time Tosca, filmed in Rome in 1992, is available on DVD. For this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini’s Tosca., the acts were staggered so that they were broadcast at the very same times of day as Puccini had written into his score, and were broadcast live by satellite around the world. Tosca was also performed in the exact settings –: in the 16th-century church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, the nearby
Palazzo Farnese and finally at Castel Sant’Angelo. Plácido Domingo, Catherine Malfitano & Ruggero Raimondi Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Rome RAI, Zubin Mehta |
Picture format: NTSC 4:3 FF Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo TOSCA: Duration: 114 mins Subtitles: Eng / Fr / Ger / It MANON LESCAUT: Duration:130mins Subtitles: Eng / Fr / Ger / Sp / It / Jp LA FAN. DEL W.: Duration: 140 mins Subtitles: Eng / Ger / Sp “Domingo stars in three roles, all filmed when his talents were at their peak. The Covent Garden Fanciulla is exceptional, Manon Lescaut generally good and the real-time Roman Tosca more than a technical feat.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Beethoven: | Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b | Debussy: | L'annee en vain...Cependent les soirs (from L'enfant Prodigue) Ileana Cotrubas | Donizetti: | Chi mi frena in tal momento? (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Nicolai Gedda | Giordano, U: | Vicino a te (from Andrea Chénier) Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballé | Gounod: | Va! je t'ai pardonné (from Roméo et Juliette) Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus Alerte, alerte! (from Faust) Katia Ricciarelli, William Lewis, Nicolai Ghiaurov | Mascagni: | Son io! Son io la Vita! (from Iris) | Mozart: | E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Kiri Te Kanawa | Puccini: | In questa reggia (from Turandot) Eva Marton Viene la sera (from Madama Butterfly) Giuliano Ciannella, Leona Mitchell | Rossini: | La calunnia è un venticello (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Ruggero Raimondi Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide) Joan Sutherland Pria di dividerci da voi, signore (from L'italiana in Algeri) | Saint-Saëns: | Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) Marilyn Horne | Smetana: | The Bartered Bride Overture | Strauss, R: | Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (from Der Rosenkavalier) Marie Theres'! ... Hab mir's gelobt (from Der Rosenkavalier) | trad.: | Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var Birgit Nilsson | Verdi: | Dio, mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali (from Otello) James McCracken Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani) Anna Tomowa-Sintow Giá nella notte densa (from Otello) Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni Donna chi sei? (from Nabucco) Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry Teco io sto (from Un ballo in maschera) Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price | Wagner: | Wie lachend sie mir Lieder singen (from Tristan und Isolde) Birgit Nilsson |
Here are the greatest moments from the “ultimate in galas” (Opera), a “roof-rattling vocal display and the kind of cheering and free-flowing, heartfelt emotion on both sides of the footlights that opera evinces more than any other art form” - New York Times The gala celebration immediately catches the attention with spectacular performances by stars such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Mirella Freni, Marilyn Horne, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus and many others “The world's most famous opera singers [in] a dazzling sequence of performances” - New York Times “It's always a privilege to sing at the Met, but this is something very special. I don't think there's ever been anything this grand in the history of opera” - Luciano Pavarotti This product features an awesome roster of international star conducters: from James Levine, Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Fulton to Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge 2 DVDs LIVE from the Met from October 22, 1983 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Opera buffa in 2 actsStage direction - Patrice Chéreau New production from the Aix-en-Provence festival, 2005
Subtitles in French, Italian, German, Spanish and English. “Patrice Chéreau's production is full of strokes of near-genius from old (Chéreau, his regular set designer Richard Peduzzi, his photogenic Don Alfonso, Ruggero Raimondi), not so old (Barbara Bonney's unhackneyed Despina) and new (Daniel Harding – a thrilling Mozart conductor on the wing – Elina Garanca's Dorabella, and the men) but, at least as filmed here, is often less than the sum of its parts.
In Act 1 Chéreau and Peduzzi rely too often on clichés. The fact that they're their own clichés – an aesthetic that they invented – may only worry those who know their stagings well.
They design an empty theatrical space with 18th-century Noh theatre actors as providers of props and furniture and a huge (and distracting) 'No Smoking' instruction on the back wall, perhaps a reference to their first Mozart success in early-1970s Spoleto. Blocking tics from the Bayreuth Ring and other shows abound – the chain of people going nowhere just before the boys leave for supposed military service, the painters' scaffold that takes them there, the endless running around and singing in the 'wrong' directions. All the while, there's a very serious intent here and a studiedly conscious recreation of 18th-century patterns in both costumes (Caroline de Vivaise) and movement that compels admiration.
After the interval Chereau, always a compelling observer of sexual love, comes into his element.
The comic/erotic balance of the boys' success with the others' girls is brilliantly detailed. The 18th-century quotes seem more integrated. The last scene – helped by Bonney's well-acted shock and breakdown when Despina realises she's been duped too – is dark but, significantly, not twisted out of shape to fit an intellectual conceit. All end up in a kind of exhausted, nervous embrace.
Musically, things are also mixed. The best of Harding's Così is as earthily thrilling (and pungent) as his Giovanni and recent Zauberflöte; elsewhere this is work-in-progress, but his Klemperer-on-original-instruments approach is appealing. Erin Wall is stretched by both Fiordiligi's big set-pieces but acts them with conviction. Raimondi compensates for an inevitable lack of pure voice by charismatic phrasing and acting. The men are good – a nice combination of character and virtuosity; Garanca and Bonney are exceptional.
Mixed down by Arte TV channel from four live performances (and filmed rather bumpily), the soundtrack does not always sync with what you see, but it's a distraction you soon forget.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Ruggero Raimondi (Selim), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Fiorilla), Paolo Rumetz (Don Geronio), Reinaldo Macias (Don Narciso), Oliver Widmer (Prosdocimo), Judith Schmid (Zaida), Valery Tsarev (Albazar) Chorus, Orchestra and Supernumerary Association of the Opera House Zurich, Franz Welser-Möst Recording Date: 2002
Place of recording: Live from the Zurich Opera House
Running Time: 140 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, JP, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, JP, SP
“Bartoli finds pathos as well as broad comedy in Fiorella, the wife with the roving eye in Il turco, and character and voice are magnificently matched. Cesare Lievi and Daniela Schiavone's production - clownish costumes and comic strip furniture - may weary the eye, but turning Rossini and Romani's poet in search of a libretto into the rarely off-stage producer of the show is imaginative and practical. And it's a stroke of near genius to have the prompter on stage as his alter ego wagging an exasperated finger when the principal characters stray from the score. Franz Welser-Möst keeps this wonderful score fizzing along and there's fine playing from the strings and the principal horn and oboe.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2005 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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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| |  | My Favourite Opera: Ruggero Raimondi
My Favourite Opera – a new series of EuroArts: Here we study the results of involvement with a specific role. We witness musical and stage rehearsals in 1992, listen to what the artists have to say about the work in progress and share in private moments. World famous bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi returns to his birthplace of Bologna to perform the title role in Mozart's masterwork "Don Giovanni" at the historic Teatro Comunale - a role he has performed over 400 times world-wide. He worked alongside conductor Riccardo Chailly and stage director Luca Ronconi as well as a distinguished cast of fellow singers. As the production develops he takes time out to reflect on his career with his family in the beautiful Italian countryside, coaches students at the Bologna Conservatory who are themselves studying Don Giovanni, and reflects on the character of another great operatic Don, Massenet’s Don Quichotte, inspired by Cervantes’ immortal Don Quixote. This intimate portrait of a great opera singer also reveals how an opera production is created at the highest level. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sound formats DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 Languages: English, Italian Subtitles: German, French Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 58 mins “Whilst the process of getting an opera onto the stage is interesting, even more so are the insights the film gives into Raimondi himself...As such I think it should interest all opera-lovers as well as Ruggero Raimondi admirers, and at a reasonable price.” MusicWeb International, April 2013 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Arena di Verona: Opera EditionLive Recordings from The Arena di Verona
Bizet: | Carmen Arena di Verona 2003 Marina Domashenko (Carmen), Maya Dashuk (Micaëla), Marco Berti (Don José), Raymond Aceto (Escamillo), Cristina Pastorello (Frasquita), Milena Josipovich (Mercedes), Marco Camastra (Le Dancaïre), Antonio Feltraco (Le Remendado), Roberto Accurso (Moralès), Dario Benini (Zuniga) Alain Lombard (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director) | Puccini: | Tosca Arena di Verona 2006 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) Daniel Oren (conductor) & Hugo De Ana (stage director) | Verdi: | Aida Arena di Verona 1992 Maria Chiara (Aida), Dolora Zajick (Amneris), Kristján Jóhannsson (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Nicola Ghiuselev (Ramfi) & Carlo Striuli (Il Re) Nello Santi (conductor) & Gianfranco de Bosio (stage director) |
Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona Arthaus Musik presents three legendary outstanding operas from the Arena di Verona Festival featuring star conductors as Nello Santi and Daniel Oren. Zeffirelli’s interpretation of Carmen shows us the masterpiece of the French composer. The Aida staging by Gianfranco De Bosio was seen and loved by thousands of opera lovers throughout the world. Star singers as the Italian soprano Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Álvarez, Ruggero Raimondi or Maria Chiara show us the highest performance quality of Italian and French opera during the last decades. Sound Format: PCM Stereo , DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 (Carmen, Tosca) / PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 (Aida) Picture Format: 16:9 (4:3 only Aida) DVD Format: 3 x DVD 9 & 1 x DVD 5, NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES (Aida, Tosca) IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, CN (Carmen) Running Time: over 415 mins FSK: 6 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Verdi: La Forza Del Destino & FalstaffLIMITED EDITION – Available while stocks last
Verdi: | La forza del destino Recorded at the Teatro Comunale, Modena 2006. Director and Costume designer Pier Francesco Maestrini Susanna Branchini (Leonora), Renzo Zulian (Alvaro), Marco Di Felice (Carlo), Tiziana Carraro (Preziosilla), Paolo Battaglia (Padre Guardiano), Paolo Rumetz (Fra Melitone), Silvia Balistrieri (Curra) Orchestra Filarmonica Veneta ”G. F. Malipiero”, Lukas Karytinos Falstaff Recorded at Opera Royal de Wallonie, Liege 2009 Ruggero Raimondi (Sir John Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Mr. Ford), Virginia Tola (Mrs. Alice Ford), Sabina Puértolas (Nannetta), Tiberio Simu (Fenton), Cinzia De Mola (Mistress Quickly), Liliana Mattei (Mrs. Meg Page), Gregory Bonfatti (Dr. Caius), Pietro Picone (Bardolfo) & Luciano Montanaro (Pistola) Orchestra & Chorus de l’Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) & Stefano Poda (director) |
Box set comprising the following popular operas already available in the Dynamic catalogue. Sung in Italian Sound Format: PCM 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.1 Picture Format: 16:9 Region Code 0 Subtitles: It, Eng, Ger, Fr, Sp Running Time: 181+129 min Booklet Notes: It, Eng, Ger, Fr Available Worldwide “This is one of the musically enchanting Falstaffs I've ever encountered.” International Record Review (on 33649) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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