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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Mozart: The Da Ponte Operas
Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Christiane Oelze (Susanna), Huub Claessens (Figaro), Werner van Mechelen (Il Conte Almaviva), Patrizia Biccire (La Contessa Almaviva), Monica Groop (Cherubino), Béatrice Cramoix (Marcellina), Harry van der Kamp (Bartolo), Yves Saelens (Basilio), Philip Defrancq (Curzio), Guy Devienne (Antonio), Marie Kuijken (Barbarina) Don Giovanni, K527 Werner van Mechelen (Don Giovanni), Elena Vink (Donna Anna), Christina Högman (Donna Elvira), Huub Claessens (Leporello), Christina Högman (Donna Elvira), Markus Schäfer (Don Ottavio), Nancy Argenta (Zerlina), Harry van der Kamp (Il Commendatore), Nanco de Vries (Masetto) Così fan tutte, K588 Soile Isokoski (Fiordiligi), Monica Groop (Dorabella), Nancy Argenta (Despina), Markus Schäfer (Ferrando), Per Vollestad (Guglielmo), Huub Claessens (Don Alfonso) |
These live recordings of Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosÏ fan tutte are a fine tribute to celebrate 40 years of La Petite Bande. They have released an Anniversary Series to mark the oustanding achievement of this highly regarded Belgium-based ensemble. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: The Da Ponte Operas
Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Recorded 2001 Kwangchui Youn (Figaro), Brigid Steinberger (Susanna), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Il Conte Almaviva), Regina Schörg (La Contessa Almaviva), Ruxandra Donose (Cherubino), Heidi Brunner (Marcellina), Maurizio Muraro (Bartolo), Jeffrey Francis (Basilio), Dietmar Kerschbaum (Curzio), Boaz Daniel (Antonio), Ileana Tonca (Barbarina) Così fan tutte, K588 Recorded 2000 Regina Schörg (Fiordiligi), Heidi Brunner (Dorabella), Brigid Steinberger (Despina), Jeffrey Francis (Ferrando), Martin Gantner (Guglielmo), Kwangchui Youn (Don Alfonso) Don Giovanni, K527 Recorded 2002 Kwangchui Youn (Don Giovanni), Regina Schörg (Donna Anna), Jeffrey Francis (Don Ottavio), Heidi Brunner (Donna Elvira), Maurizio Muraro (Leporello), Reinhard Hagen (Il Commendatore), Reinhard Mayr (Masetto), Brigid Steinberger (Zerlina) |
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| |  | Mozart - Operas I
Mozart: | Così fan tutte, K588 Lella Cuberli (Fiordiligi), Cecilia Bartoli (Dorabella), Joan Rodgers (Despina), Kurt Streit (Ferrando), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Guglielmo), John Tomlinson (Don Alfonso) Don Giovanni, K527 Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Giovanni), Lella Cuberli (Donna Anna), Uwe Heilmann (Don Ottavio), Waltraud Meier (Donna Elvira), John Tomlinson (Leporello), Michele Pertusi (Masetto), Joan Rodgers (Zerlina), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore) Le nozze di Figaro, K492 John Tomlinson (Figaro), Joan Rodgers (Susanna), Andreas Schmidt (Il Conte Almaviva), Lella Cuberli (La Contessa Almaviva), Luisa Bartoletti (Cherubino), Phyllis Pancella (Marcellina), Günter von Kannen (Bartolo), Graham Clark (Basilio), Richard Brunner (Curzio), Peter Rose (Antonio), Hilde Leidland (Barbarina) |
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| |  | Cult Opera of the 1970sThe Box Set In The Style Of The 70s
Richard Cassilly, Cristina Deutekom, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gottlob Frick, Nicolai Gedda, Franz Grundheber, Sena Jurinac, Theo Lingen, Edith Mathis, Inge Meysel, Bernhard Minetti, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Liselotte Pulver, Anja Silja, Hans Sotin & Tatiana Troyanos Hamburg State Opera, Marek Janowski, Leopold Ludwig, Sir Charles Mackerras, Bruno Maderna & Horst Stein Directed by Rolf Liebermann, Leopold Lindtberg & Sir Peter Ustinov Recording Date: 2008
Place of recording: THE HAMBURG STATE OPERA
Running Time: ca. 1.320 min
Picture Format: 4:3 Color
Sound Format: Mono
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
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| |  | Mozart: Four Operas
Mozart: | Don Giovanni, K527 Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Suzanne Danco (Donna Anna), Lisa Della Casa (Donna Elvira), Anton Dermota (Don Ottavio), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Kurt Böhme (Il Commendatore), Walter Berry (Masetto), Hilde Güden (Zerlina) Josef Krips Così fan tutte, K588 Lisa Della Casa (Fiordiligi), Christa Ludwig (Dorabella), Emmy Loose (Despina), Anton Dermota (Ferrando), Erich Kunz (Guglielmo), Paul Schöffler (Don Alfonso) Karl Böhm Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Hilde Güden (Susanna), Alfred Poell (Il Conte Almaviva), Lisa Della Casa (La Contessa Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino), Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Marcellina), Fernando Corena (Bartolo), Murray Dickie (Basilio), Hugo Meyer-Welfing (Curzio), Harald Pröglhoff (Antonio), Anny Felbermayer (Barbarina) Erich Kleiber Die Zauberflöte, K620 Ernst Haeflinger (Tamino), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Papageno), Maria Stader (Pamina), Rita Streich (Königin der Nacht), Josef Greindl (Sarastro), Lisa Otto (Papagena), Martin Vantin (Monostatos), Kim Borg (Sprecher/Zweite Geharnischter), Howard Vandenburg (Erste Geharnischter), Marianne Schech, Liselotte Losch, Margarete Klose (Drei Damen), Margot Guillaume, Maria Reith, Diana Eustrati (Drei Knaben) Ferenc Fricsay |
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| |  | The Mozart Operas
Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 recorded January 1970 Gabriel Bacquier (Count Almaviva), Elisabeth Söderström (Countess Almaviva), Reri Grist (Susanna), Geraint Evans (Figaro), Teresa Berganza (Cherubino), Annelies Burmeister (Marcellina), Werner Hollweg (Don Basilio), Willi Brokmeier (Don Curzio), Michael Langdon (Bartolo), Clifford Grant (Antonio), Margaret Price (Barbarina), Teresa Cahill, Kiri Te Kanawa (Two Girls) New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir Don Giovanni, K527 recroded June/July 1966 Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Giovanni), Franz Crass (Commendatore), Claire Watson (Donna Anna), Nicolai Gedda (Don Ottavio), Christa Ludwig (Donna Elvira), Walter Berry (Leporello), Mirella Freni (Zerlina), Paolo Montarsolo (Masetto)" New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Così fan tutte, K588 recorded February 1971 Margaret Price (Fiordiligi), Yvonne Minton (Dorabella), Luigi Alva (Ferrando), Geraint Evans (Guglielmo), Lucia Popp (Despina), Hans Sotin (Don Alfonso) New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir Die Zauberflöte, K620 recorded March/April 1964 Nicolai Gedda (Tamino), Gundula Janowitz (Pamina), Walter Berry (Papageno), Lucia Popp (Queen Of Night), Gottlob Frick (Sarastro), Franz Crass (Speaker), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (First Lady), Christa Ludwig (Second Lady), Marga Höffgen (Third Lady), Ruth-Margret Pütz (Papagena), Gerhard Unger (Monostatos), Karl Liebl (First Armed Man), Franz Crass (Second Armed Man), Gerhard Unger (First Priest), Franz Crass (Second Priest), Agnes Giebel (First Boy), Anna Reynolds (Second Boy), Josephine Veasey (Third Boy) Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus |
This collection showcases four of Mozart’s most celebrated operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and Die Zauberflöte, with the inimitable Otto Klemperer at the helm. Featuring a host of star performers, including Lucia Popp as Despina, Elisabeth Söderström as Countess Almaviva and Nicolai Gedda as Tamino, these classic recordings demonstrate Klemperer’s supreme understanding of Mozart’s operas. It was one of the bonuses of Klemperer’s indian Summer in the recording studio that he was able to record all three Mozart/Da Ponte operas, as well as Die Zauberflöte, a work for which he had a particularly deep affection. Die Zauberflöte was, he believed, a ‘perfect’ composition, albeit an inexhaustible one which no single production could ever hope to encompass. Sadly productions which he conducted in Berlin in 1929, Milan in 1950 and London in 1962 were all unsatisfactory in one way or another. Perhaps, in the end, it required what André Malraux called the ‘musée imaginaire’ of the gramophone to realise Klemperer’s dream of this ‘perfect’ work. Klemperer’s 1964 recording of Die Zauberflöte came close to an ideal, despite the abridgements he imposed. Away from the theatre, he argued, no one wants to sit through the work’s lengthy spoken dialogue. Producer Walter Legge tried to persuade him otherwise but having made two previous dialogue-free recordings of the opera – with Beecham in Berlin in 1938 and Karajan in Vienna in 1950 – he was on shaky ground. The fact that the earlier recordings were made in the era of 78 rpm recording when time and space were at a premium cut no ice with Klemperer. For the recording, Klemperer was working with a hand-picked cast which Legge confidently declared to be ‘as perfect as the world’s resource could yield’. A producer who casts the principal roles from strength and then has Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig, and Marga Höffgen in reserve for the Three Ladies is entitled to make such a claim. The set was, and remains, a glorious achievement and, though Legge would leave EMI later that same year, the stage was set for Klemperer to continue to record the three Da Ponte operas. The first was Don Giovanni, an opera with which the demonically driven Klemperer had been closely associated throughout his career. Legge had engaged him to record the work with an outstanding cast in the autumn of 1959 but three days into the sessions Klemperer had been forced to withdraw with a severe attack of pericarditis. Carlo Maria Giulini took over the direction of what would become one of the most celebrated of all Mozart opera recordings. EMI continued to provide stellar casts for their Mozart recordings, none more so than that for Così fan tutte, a project which brought Klemperer’s career as a Mozart conductor full circle. The concert performance of Così fan tutte which he conducted in London on 21 February 1971 was to be his final operatic offering: a fitting end to a journey that had begun in a different age, and a very different world over half a century earlier. | 
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| |  | Walter Felsenstein Edition - 12DVD boxset
Beethoven: | Fidelio, Op. 72 Alfred Pöll, Heinz Rehfuss, Richard Holm, Claude Nollier & Magda László Wiener Symphoniker, Fritz Lehmann | Janacek: | The Cunning Little Vixen Irmgard Arnold, Manfred Hopp, Werner Enders & Ruth Schob-Lipka Orchestra and Chorus Of The Komische Oper Berlin, Václav Neumann | Mozart: | Don Giovanni, K527 György Melis, Klara Barlow, John Moulson & Herbert Rössler Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Zdenek Košler Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Uwe Kreyssig, Magdalena Falewicz, Ursula Reinhardt-Kiss & József Dene Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Geza Oberfrank, Geza Oberfrank (conductor) & Alter Felsenstein (stage director) | Offenbach: | Les Contes d'Hoffmann Hanns Nocker, Melitta Muszely, Rudolf Asmus & Werner Enders Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Karl-Fritz Voigtmann Barbe-bleue Sung in German as 'Ritter Blaubart' Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Karl-Fritz Voigtmann | Verdi: | Otello Hanns Nocker, Christa Noack, Vladimír Bauer & Hanna Schmoock Orchestra and Chorus of The Komische Oper Berlin, Kurt Masur |
Das schlaue Füchslein 1 DVD / 104 Min + 18 Min extras Don Giovanni DVD 1 89 Min DVD 2 76 Min + 40 Min rehearsal film Othello 2 DVDs / 121 Min + 20 Min extras Hoffmanns Erzählungen 2 DVDs / 131 Min + 32 Min bonus film Ritter Blaubart 2 DVDs / 139 Min + 30 Min extras Die Hochzeit des Figaro DVD 1 93 Min DVD 2 73 Min + 50 Min bonus footage
Walter Felsenstein (1901–1975), founder and general director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, was one of the twentieth century’s greatest creative theatre directors, who played a hugely important role in the revival of opera as a theatrical art form. A brilliant artist who directed over 190 productions during the course of his career, he was equally committed to the works, their creators, the ensemble and the audience. This unique edition brings together 7 opera films in a rare documentation that offers an insight into the theatrical work of a man whose legendary productions fascinated international audiences for decades. The fi lms can now be experienced for the first time in carefully restored digital form. Felsenstein’s consistent development of the musical/visual language of opera film remains a source of inspiration even today. Opera on fi lm – opera as fi lm – however one describes them, his productions continue to astonish with their clarity and intensity. They will remain an invaluable artistic legacy for generations to come! SPECIAL FEATURES ON DVD’S Original manuscripts of Walter Felsenstein Original staging piano reductions with audio examples Drafts of the stage design, figurines, sketches & drawings Historical audio material with speeches & interviews with Walter Felsenstein Rehearsal film “Don Giovanni“ & newsreel footage ”The Tales of Hoffmann” Footage of Felsenstein stagings 1945–1961 Script excerpts, conceptual scripts & picture galleries Recording Date: 1976
Place of recording: Studioproduktion (Berlin, Potsdam-Babelsberg), Komische Oper Berlin, Wien
Running Time: 1016 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
Subtitle Languages NTSC: F, GB, SP
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| |  | Mozart: The Greatest OperasFive Complete Operas
Mozart: | Idomeneo, K366 25th March, 1971 Nicolai Gedda (Idomeneo), Jessye Norman (Idamante), Heather Harper (Ilia) RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Salzburg, 1974 José van Dam (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Tom Krause (Count Almaviva) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan Don Giovanni, K527 Rome, 12th May 1970 Nicolai Ghiaurov (Don Giovanni), Gundula Janowitz (Donna Anna), Alfredo Kraus (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira) RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini Così fan tutte, K588 Milan, 27th January 1956 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Fiordiligi), Nan Merriman (Dorabella), Luigi Alva (Ferrando), Rolando Panerai (Guglilmo), Graziella Sciutti (Despina), Franco Calabrese (Don Alfonso) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Guido Cantelli Die Zauberflöte, K620 Salzburg, 27th July 1949 Irmgard Seefried (Pamina), Josef Greindl (Sarastro), Wilma Lipp (Queen of the Night), Walter Ludwig (Tamino) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler |
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| |  | A Night at the OperaSix Complete Operas
Bizet: | Carmen London, 1973 Shirley Verrett (Carmen), Placido Domingo (Don Jose), Jose van Dam (Escamillo), Kiri te Kanawa (Micaela) Covent Garden Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Georg Solti | Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Salzburg, 31st July 1974 Jose van Dam (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Tom Krause (Count Almaviva) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan | Puccini: | La Bohème Rome, 17th July 1969 Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Mirella Freni (Mimi), Sesto Bruscantini (Marcello), Rita Talarico (Musetta) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Rome, Thomas Schippers Madama Butterfly Turin, 12th September 1967 Renato Scotto (Butterfly), Renato Cioni (Pinkterton), Albert Rinaldi (Sharpless), Franca Mattiucci (Suzuki) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Turin, Arturo Basile | Verdi: | La Traviata Tokyo, 18th September 1973 Renata Scotto (Violetta), Jose Carreras (Alfredo), Sesto Bruscantini (Germont), Anna Pedrotti (Annina) Nino Verchi Aida Munich, 18th September 1973 Martina Arroyo (Aida), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Amneris), Nicola Ghiaurov (Ramfis) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Claudio Abbado |
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| |  | Mirella Freni
Bellini: | I Puritani Modena, 26th December 1962 Mirella Freni (Elvira), Alfredo Kraus (Arturo), Attilio D'Orazi (Riccardo), Raffaele Arie (Giorgio) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Communale, Modena, Nino Verchi | Donizetti: | La Figlia del Reggimento Milan, 11th February 1969 Mirella Freni (Maria), Luciano Pavarotti (Tonio), Vladimiro Ganzarolli (Sulpizio), Anna di Stasio (Marchesa di Birkenfeld) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Nino Sanzogno | Gounod: | Faust Milan, 16th February 1967 Gianni Raimondi (Faust), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Mephistopheles), Mirella Freni (Marguerite), Luigi Alva (Siebel) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, George Prêtre | Handel: | Serse Milan, 19th July 1962 Luigi Alva (Serse), Mirella Freni (Romilda), Rolando Panerai (Arsamene), Fiorenza Cossotto (Atalanta) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Piero Bellugi | Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Salzburg, 31st July 1974 ose van Dam (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Tom Krause (Count Almaviva) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan | Puccini: | La Bohème Rome, 17th July 1969 Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Mirella Freni (Mimi), Sesto Bruscantini (Marcello), Rita Talarico (Musetta) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Thomas Schippers |
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