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Originally released in 2010 on DVD and has since shipped nearly 13.000 units, and is now available on BLURAY. Recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera during one of the fabled theatre’s greatest nights in 2009. Elīna Garanča builds on the success of 2009 album, Bel Canto, incarnating the bel canto title role heroine, Cinderella, in Rossini’s touching and hilarious comic masterpiece, La Cenerentola Extras: The opera is introduced by baritone Thomas Hampson, who also interviews Elīna Garanča deftly and with charm. More interviews with Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, Lawrence Brownlee and John Relyea | 
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“All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate continuo playing (fortepiano, cello, and double-bass), sensible but not excessive stage 'production'” Gramophone Magazine, November 1993 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Rossini: La CenerentolaProduced at the Metropolitan Opera House, 9 May 2009
Production: Cesare Lievi Set & Costume Designer: Maurizio Balò Elina Garanca builds on the success of her previous album, Bel Canto, incarnating the bel canto title role heroine, Cinderella, in Rossini’s touching and hilarious comic masterpiece, La Cenerentola This new DVD was recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera during one of the fabled theatre’s greatest nights last season Maurizio Benini waves a magic wand of a baton, eliciting effervescent, transparent, shining sound from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Piquant visuals and superb acting by the entire cast make this a DVD opera lovers will watch again and again The Philadelphia Inquirer lauded: “Mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca was a sensation at the Metropolitan Opera's spring simulcast of La Cenerentola with her vocal virtuosity, intensely blond glamour, and acting ability…” Extras: Backstage at the Met: Thomas Hampson interviews… -Elina Garanca -Simone Alberghini, Alessandro Corbelli, Lawrence Brownlee and John Relyea Technical Specifications DVD Format: DVD 1: DVD-9, DVD 2: DVD-5 Picture Format: NTSC/Colour/16:9 Region Code: 0 (worldwide) Sound Format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1 Menu Language: English Subtitles: I/G/E/F/S/Chinese Packaging: Flex Box Playing Times: DVD 1: c. 107 min, DVD 2: c. 62 min “And what singing! Wonderful smoky tone, properly mezzo, and dazzling decoration in her closing aria 'Nacqui all'affanno” BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 *** “Garanca is something special. The voice, pure, warm, ample in power and range, she has achieved a mastery in Rossini's florid style, using no quick fixes...Benini's conducting is sure in its feeling for wit and elegance, and the orchestra respond.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Rossini’s sparkling comedy was written at great speed and is one of the composer’s most popular and frequently performed operas. The story differs from Perrault’s fairy-tale in various ways — not least in the transformation of glass slipper into a bracelet — no doubt to placate the censor who would not have allowed an unshod female foot to be seen on stage! Rossini’s opera is brimming over with wonderful arias and ensembles and is a magnificent showcase for a coloratura mezzo-soprano. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Vesselina Kasarova (Cenerentola), Antonino Siragusa (Don Ramiro), Bruno De Simone (Don Magnifico), Maria Laura Martorana (Clorinda), Judith Schmidt (Tisbe), Vladimir Chernov (Dandini), Paolo Pecchioli (Alidoro) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Carlo Rizzi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Bonus Insights feature with Sir Peter Hall and Vladimir Jurowski.
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 187 Mins
SOUND: DTS SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT
“Some found Peter Hall's staging… too dark and serious, but for me it was an invigorating evening. …Vladimir Jurowski… draws highly polished and brilliant playing from the LPO of one of Rossini's greatest scores. …presenting a down-and-out Don Magnifico - dirty to his fingernails - works well when you have such a strong singing-actor as Luciano Di Pasquale. Ruxandra Donose is winning in the title role…” BBC Music Magazine, May 2006 ***** “This is a truly marvellous performance on all counts - staging, conducting and singing. Sir Peter Hall… manages to breathe new life into the routines without ever slipping over into farce, while exploring each character in some depth. The sense of an ensemble on top form is underlined by Vladimir Jurowski's exacting, pellucid and vivid interpretation, so that the music, like the libretto, is presented afresh. The superb cast has no weaknesses and many strengths, Ruxandra Donose may not have the idiomatic Italian timbre of Cecilia Bartoli... but she is the more consistent singer, using her wide range and rich tone to startling effect. Her youthful (24-year-old) partner, Russian tenor Maxim Mironov, proves an ideal Ramiro, fluent in every aspect of his role and delivering its appreciable demands in a light, pliant voice of delicate beauty.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2006 “This is a performance that meets the Glyndebourne gold standard… Hall has decided to keep it real and produced something understated, sensitive and thus deeply pleasurable.” The Telegraph  BBC Music Magazine
DVD Choice - May 2006 |
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Staged and Designed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle “Ponnelle's film of his La Scala staging is so imaginative and musically refined that it triumphs over the dubbing. Von Stade is an achingly beautiful Cinderella, Araiza a romantic Prince.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2006 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Campanella conducts very spiritedly and visually the production could not be more winning; and the camera placing is a great credit to Brian Large.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate continuo playing (fortepiano, cello, and double-bass), sensible but not excessive stage 'production'” Gramophone Magazine, November 1993 “Bartoli makes an inspired Cenerentola. Her tone-colours are not just more sensuous than those of her rivals; her imagination and feeling for detail add enormously to her vivid characterization...Few Rossini opera-sets have such fizz as this, and the recording is one of Decca's most vivid.” Penguin Guide, 2011 edition | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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