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Sean Panikkar, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis, Tamara Mumford, Karita Mattila, Paul Plishka, Lisette Oropesa, Jennifer Black, Sasha Cooke, Ellen Rabiner, Bernard Fitch, James Courtney, Tony Stevenson & Richard Bernstein The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, James Levine Set and costume designer: Desmond Heeley, Lighting designer: Gil Wechsler & Stage director: Gina Lapinski Karita Mattila gives a career high performance in Puccini’s passionate opera, Manon Lescaut conducted by James Levine – filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in Hi-Definition. Continuing its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera and its Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series, EMI Classics is proud to release the METs classic 28 year old production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut on EMI Classics DVD. This release marks a special moment in the Metropolitan Opera’s history. It is the first time in 18 years since Puccini’s Manon Lescaut was last performed on its great stage. Manon Lescaut, a French tale telling of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury, was Puccini’s first successful opera and the work that thrust him onto the international stage as Italy’s foremost opera composer. Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, as Manon Lescaut, is the star of the performance. Her interpretation of the first of Puccini’s many archetypal heroines is ‘riveting’ – New York Times. Interestingly Mattila waited until her voice had gained maturity and richness before, when she was nearly 40, she first portrayed her Manon Lescaut in 1999. She now returns – enticing James Levine to conduct the work for the first time since 1981. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera, a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today, James Levine leads a fresh and intelligent performance. “…the spectacular Zeffirelli staging, now rather showing its age. It still makes a good frame… for Ramón Vargas's engaging Rodolfo, sung with ardour, and Gheorghiu's fine-toned but rather grand Mimì.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2008 *** “the Met. production is characteristically spectacular, with superb costume to match the sets...Mattila is a beautiful Manon, but we see her age as the opera progresses. She sings very affectingly indeed and is matched by the ardent Des Grieux of Marcello Giordani...Levine conducts with a flowing, passionate lyricism” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Puccini: Manon LescautProduction by Gian Carlo Menotti
“Director Gian Carlo Menotti…gives us a Manon Lescaut of fluid movement, eye-catching invention, sex appeal and above all, a sense of humor” (The Daily News) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Astrid Weber, Heiko Trinsinger, Zurab Zurabishvili & Kouta Räsänen Robert Schumann Philharmonie, Golo Berg (conductor) & Ansgar Weigner (director) Manon Lescaut, Puccini‘s first major success, is a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18th-century novel by Abbé Prévost, depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful, fun-loving Manon. Puccini clothes the story in warmly passionate music that makes a direct appeal to the listener‘s emotions. “Manon”, wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, “is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the public.” This turned out to be a truly prophetic statement since none of Puccini’s other world successes were received on their first nights as rapturously as Manon Lescaut. The popularity of Puccini’s great masterpiece has never waned and the production at the Chemnitz Opera House was hailed as “a magnificent event” and “ moments we go to the opera for.” Conception by Dietrich Hilsdorf “A magnificent event!” Opernglas “A really powerful scene […] just before the end. These are the moments we go to the opera for.” Deutschlandradio Kultur “Astrid Weber as Manon is first class!” Opernwelt Recording Date: 2007
Place of recording: Live from the Chemnitz Opera House
Running Time: 120 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
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Maria Chiara (Manon Lescaut), Nicola Martinucci (Renato des Grieux), Angelo Romero (Lescaut), Alfredo Mariotti (Geronte di Ravoir), Mario Ferrara (Edmondo) Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Torino, Angelo Campori Subtitles in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese. 108 minutes Woody Allen used this production in his film Hannah and her Sisters Recored live on February 1st, 1985 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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“an ideal cast of principals and passionate, idiomatic conducting...the glorious singing of Placido Domingo as Des Grieux comes over heroically, and Kiri te Kanawa as Manon is both girlish and provocative...Thomas Allen is equally characterful and strong as Lescaut...For a realistic presentation it would be hard to find any rival.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Miriam Gauci, Jan Danckaert, Antonio Ordonez, Jules Bastin, Barry Ryan Flemish Opera Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Silvio Varviso, stage direction by Robert Carsen Recording Date: 1991
Place of recording: Flemish Opera
Running Time: 124 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
Subtitle Languages PAL: D, GB, F, I, SP
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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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| |  | Nessun Dorma - Favourite Puccini Operas
Puccini: | La Bohème Live Recording from the San Francisco Opera House 1988 Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti & Gino Quilico Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera, Tiziano Severini Turandot Live Recording from the San Francisco Opera House 1994 Eva Marton, Michael Sylvester & Lucia Mazzaria Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles Manon Lescaut Live Recording from the Flemish Opera 1991
Live Recording from the Flemish Opera 1991 Miriam Gauci, Jan Danckaert & Antonio Ordonez The Flemish Opera Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Silvio Varviso Madama Butterfly Live Recording from Teatro All Scala Milan 1986 Yasuko Hayashi, Hak-Nam Kim & Peter Dvrosky Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel |
Turandot, Region 0 NTSC Madama Butterfly, Region 0 NTSC La Boheme, Region 0 NTSC Manon Lescaut, Region 2, 5 PAL Recording Date: 1994
Running Time: 507 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 2.0
Language: I
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
“[On Manon Lescaut] ...sharp and snappy production….Miriam Gauci is vocally skilled and dramatically inventive, charting the rise and fall of the venal yet lovable heroine with taste and a lavish top register” BBC Music Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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