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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraTeatro Regio di Parma, 2010
Staged by Giorgio Gallione The next instalment in C Major’s Tutto Verdi project is the Teatro Regio di Parma production of Simon Boccanegra. The cast features top soloists, led by Leo Nucci in the title role. The performance is conducted by Daniele Callegari, who has conducted at some of the biggest opera houses around the world. PICTURE: 16:9, HD SOUND:: DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM STEREO RUNNING TIME: TOTAL: 147 MINUTES (OPERA: 137 MINUTES, BONUS: 10 MINUTES) SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN, JAPANESE AVAILABILITY: WORLDWIDE | 
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| |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraTeatro Regio di Parma, 2010
Staged by Giorgio Gallione The next instalment in C Major’s Tutto Verdi project is the Teatro Regio di Parma production of Simon Boccanegra. The cast features top soloists, led by Leo Nucci in the title role. The performance is conducted by Daniele Callegari, who has conducted at some of the biggest opera houses around the world. PICTURE: 16:9, HD BD: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0 RUNNING TIME: TOTAL: 147 MINUTES (OPERA: 137 MINUTES, BONUS: 10 MINUTES) SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN, JAPANESE AVAILABILITY: WORLDWIDE |
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| |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraHistoric mono recording: Rome, November 11th, 1951
Paolo Silveri (Simon Boccanegra), Antonietta Stella (Maria Boccanegra), Mario Petri (Jacopo Fiesco), Carlo Bergonzi (Gabriele Adorno), Walter Monachesi (Paolo Albiani), Giorgio Giorgetti (Pietro), Walter Collo (Un capitano dei balestrieri) & Bianca Furlai (Un’ancella) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli |
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The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award®-winning series The Met: Live in HD has excited audiences around the globe. Four highly-requested productions from the past two years are now available on DVD for the first time. These four stunning releases contain recordings of recent acclaimed Metropolitan Opera productions, taken from state-of-the-art, high-definition transmissions broadcast live from the stage of the Met, and include backstage interviews with the cast and production crew. TECHNICAL INFO: Sound: PCM Stereo/ DTS Sound Screen Format: 16:9 Region Code: 0 (All regions) Subtitles: French, German, Spanish and English Recording Date: February 6, 2010 Approximate Running Time: 2 Hrs 29 Min “[Domingo's] portrayal is touching and sounds beautiful, particularly in the last act...[Morris] has the majesty and emotion for the part. The reconciliation duet for the two men in the last act is as emotionally moving as one would want...Levine obviously loves this score and he builds the opera to its tragic climax, with the orchestra and chorus playing and singing gloriously.” International Record Review, March 2011 “[Domingo] explores the role emotionally in some depth, and can supply all the notes, regularly sounding like a baritone...Adrianne Pieczonka brings strength and lyricism to an Amelia more purposively acted than usual...Levine upholds the highest Verdian standards in the pit, producing playing of immense refinement and detail imbued with the complex spirit of the score...Almost cinematically realistic, its grand sets are in their way magnificent” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 *** “it is handsomely executed and beautifully filmed. It takes an artist of rare stature to measure up against a staging as big as this. Happily, Domingo is just that. He brings gravitas to the heart-rending recognition scene with his daughter and bestrides the Council Chamber with conviction.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraRecorded: 2010 live from the Royal Opera House
“Crowning glory for triumphant Domingo” The Independent – 5 Stars “In the lowest range of his voice he has always had mahogany where other tenors have chipboard” The Guardian Plácido Domingo’s triumphant “return” to his baritone roots (his first debut with the Mexican National Opera, in 1959, was as a baritone), is captured in this stunning 2-DVD set of the Royal Opera House’s 2010 production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra. Domingo is joined by Marina Poplavskaya, Joseph Calleja, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Jonathan Summers and Lukas Jakobski in this Antonio Pappano conducted performance, directed by Elijah Moshinsky. The Simon Boccanegra release features exclusive bonus material, including a “Back Stage with Plácido Domingo” featurette and an interview with director Moshinsky. There is an additional audio function which features introductions to each of the opera’s scenes (in English with subtitles). Simon Boccanegra is Verdi’s magnificent telling of a humble 14th century Genoan who rises to become Doge of the great city. The plot centres on the political intrigues between Boccanegra (Domingo) and his adversary, the aristocratic Jacopo Fiesco and the discovery of his long-lost daughter, Amelia. This story – though replete with an inevitable tragic conclusion – is ultimately one of hope, as the two great men are able to rise above their power-driven animosities to ensure peace amongst their beloved Genoa’s warring factions and by placing familial and civic love ahead of their own individual desires. This stunning production garnered critical acclaim for Domingo and cast, especially Ferruccio Furlanetto. Features exclusive bonuses: “Back Stage with Plácido Domingo” featurette, A video interview with director Elijah Moshinsky and audio introductions to each of the scenes (the DVD will include and option play with or without the introductions). In a market full of Domingo birthday and anniversary reissue products, this 2-DVD release is a much anticipated new recording and performance. Subtitles in Italian (Sung) English, German, French, Spanish “His fitness for the role is undeniable. That noble face, that charismatic presence and powerful body: how well they suit the Doge’s office...And camera close-ups reveal Domingo the consummate and generous actor...there’s plenty of heat in the gutsy orchestra and Antonio Pappano’s loving conducting. And above all else there’s Domingo: courageous, still eloquent, an artist in a million.” The Times, 3rd December 2010 **** “Domingo fans who enjoyed, or missed, the great tenor-turned-baritone singing the title role of Verdi's tragic hero will covet this live DVD recording of the Royal Opera's lavish Elijah Moshinsky staging. Includes a backstage documentary element fronted by that telly natural, Antonio Pappano.” The Observer, 19th December 2010 “No vocal Tarnhelm has suddenly magicked a different-sounding timbre for this voice: here is, simply, Domingo singing - and evidently enjoying singing - a part that's lower down...the bigger difference between the voices [in the confrontations with Fiesco] permits a greater antagonism of the characters and clarity of text...What we might here cheekily call the supporting cast are strong” Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 “his musicianship, his intelligence and artistry, his commitment, the still-beauty of his voice and the utter lack of strain required for him to sing this role properly are well in evidence...[Calleja] has a true Italianate ring, it is easy at the top, he acts well and his phrasing is both musical and impassioned...Pappano undestands the dark tint of this opera and plays it for all it is worth” International Record Review, January 2011 “his command of [the title-role] is vocally authoritative and dramatically compelling...Pappano's silky and taut conducting is superb, and tenor Joseph Calleja has never sounded better as Adorno.” Classic FM Magazine, March 2011 *** “The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of the venomous Paolo. But the vocal honours go to Joseph Calleja, possessor of one of the loveliest tenor voices around, whose singing as Gabriele Adorno is consistently imaginative and discriminating.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“A superbly sung recording, this was the standard account of until Abbado's great DG recording, which still commands the field. This is let down by soggy conducting, but still shows great singers in their prime.” BBC Music Magazine, April 2009 **** “An enthusiastic welcome to this classic recording...admirably brought back to life by Tony Watts and Hilton Grove...The set preserves two outstanding interpretations, Gobbi's Boccanegra and Christoff's Fiesco...no collectors interested in great recordings of Verdi operas will want to miss this.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraProduction: Tito Capobianco & Video Director: Brian Large
Live from the MET, December 1984 “Supremely "real" is Sherrill Milnes's performance of the title-role. He is a singing actor with natural command of the stage, and what the filming shows to most moving effect in the face, marvellously responsive, especially as the brief moments of happiness are reflected in those deep-set-eyes.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 “not surprisingly, Sherrill Milnes's Boccanegra is totally memorable, sung and acted completely within a believable human characterisation...Add to this the characteristic Met production values, with a superb chorus and more than excellent orchestra under the inimitable and always reliable James Levine...'Live from the Met' usually means something special, and it does here.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“This famous recording has become a classic, a studio performance following a series of performances at La Scala in the Strehler staging. The close, slightly claustrophobic recording exactly mirrors the mood of nefarious activities and intrigues following Boccanegra's rise to be Doge of Genoa, he and his lovely daughter victims of the dark deeds round them. In his plebeian being, clement exercise of authority and warm, fatherly love, Simon Boccanegra is made for Cappuccilli, who, under Abbado's tutelage, sings it not only con amore but with exemplary, delicately tinted tone and unbelievably long-breathed phrasing.
As his daughter Amelia, Freni was just entering her quasi-spinto phase and expands her lyric voice easily into the greater demands of this more dramatic role. Similarly heavier duties hadn't yet tarnished the youthful ardour and sap in the tone of the 30-year-old Carreras. As the implacable Fiesco, Ghiaurov exudes vengeful command, and van Dam evil machinations as the villain Paolo.
Over all presides Abbado in what remains one of his greatest recordings, alert to every facet of the wondrous score, timing every scene, in an opera tricky to pace, to near-perfection, and bringing theatrical drama into the home. This set should be essential to any reputable collection of Verdi.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “one of the most beautiful Verdi sets ever made. The playing of the orchestra is brilliantly incisive as well as refined, so that the drama is underlined by extra sharpness of focus...with electrifying choral singing as well, this is a set to outshine even Abbado's superb Macbeth, and it is superbly transferred to CD.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Recorded 1976 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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