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Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Thomas Hampson (Ford), Adrianne Pieczonka (Alice Ford), Danill Shtoda (Fenton), Dorothea Röschmann (Nannetta), Larissa Diadkova (Mistress Quickly), Stella Doufexis (Meg Page), Anthony Mee (Bardolfo), Enrico Facini (Dr Cajus), Anatoly Kotcherga (Pistola) Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Claudio Abbado “Terfel gives a vital, three-dimensional reading as one might expect...the final fugue at a very fast tempo is thrillingly precise, thansk to a team of leading singers who respond brilliantly to Abbado's strong, thoughtful direction...the sensitive detail in [Hampson's] characterization is magnetic. For most collectors this will now be the primary recommendation.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Anna Bonitatibus, Maurizio Comencini, Allesandro Cosentino, Enrico Facini, Julia Faulkner, Franco de Grandis, Anna Maria di Micco, Robetrto Servile, Domenico Trimarchi Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Will Humburg | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Teatro Farnese/Verdi Festival Parma, October 2011
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Ford), Antonio Gandia (Fenton), Svetla Vassileva (Alice Ford), Romina Tomasoni (Mistress Quickly), Daniela Pini (Meg Page), Barbara Bargnesi (Nannetta), Luca Casalin (Dr. Cajus), Patrizio Saudelli (Bardolfo), Mattia Denti (Pistole) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni Staged by Stephen Medcalf C Major approaches the end of its Tutto Verdi project with a production of Verdi’s Falstaff. The cast includes Ambrogio Maestri – a recent performer at Teatro all a Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Opera de Paris, Covent Garden and Vienna State Opera - alongside Svetla Vassileva and Luca Salsi. PICTURE: 16:9, HD BD: DTS-HD MA 5.1, PCM 2.0 RUNNING TIME: TOTAL: 142 MINUTES (OPERA: 131 MINUTES, BONUS: 11 MINUTES) SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN, JAPANESE BONUS: ENGLISH, ITALIAN AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE | 
| | | Scheduled for release on 1 July 2013. Order it now and we will deliver it as soon as it is available. |
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| |  | Teatro Farnese/Verdi Festival Parma, October 2011
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Ford), Antonio Gandia (Fenton), Svetla Vassileva (Alice Ford), Romina Tomasoni (Mistress Quickly), Daniela Pini (Meg Page), Barbara Bargnesi (Nannetta), Luca Casalin (Dr. Cajus), Patrizio Saudelli (Bardolfo), Mattia Denti (Pistole) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni Staged by Stephen Medcalf C Major approaches the end of its Tutto Verdi project with a production of Verdi’s Falstaff. The cast includes Ambrogio Maestri – a recent performer at Teatro all a Scala, Metropolitan Opera New York, Opera de Paris, Covent Garden and Vienna State Opera - alongside Svetla Vassileva and Luca Salsi. PICTURE: 16:9, HD SOUND: DVD: DTS 5.1, PCM STEREO RUNNING TIME: TOTAL: 142 MINUTES (OPERA: 131 MINUTES, BONUS: 11 MINUTES) SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN, JAPANESE BONUS: ENGLISH, ITALIAN AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE |
| | | Scheduled for release on 1 July 2013. Order it now and we will deliver it as soon as it is available. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1976
This legendary Glyndebourne-production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle from 1976 stars the outstanding baritone Donald Gramm, who had few equals among bass-baritones and who perfectly embodies the likeable loser Falstaff. He is wonderfully supported by a cast of luminaries in the form of Benjamin Luxon, Elizabeth Gale and Kay Griffel. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by John Pritchard. Verdi’s final work is a tribute to one of Shakespeare’s comic characters, the roguish hero Falstaff. In order to avoid his bankruptcy, the old knight Falstaff courts Alice Ford and Meg Page, rich townsmen’s wives. The two amused ladies as well as Falstaff’s former old cronies (Pistola and Bardolfo) and Alice’s jealous husband resolve to play a joke on the complacent and clumsy drunkard. But in the end the mocked Falstaff turns the tables and exposes everything as a game. The moral of this opera: “Tutte nel mondo é burla... Ma ride ben chi ride la risata final” (The whole world is but a joke and he laughs best who laughs last). Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES Running Time: 118 mins FSK: 0 |
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Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Ronaldo Panerai (Ford), Francisco Araiza (Fenton), Piero De Palma (Dr Caius), Heinz Zednik (Bardolfo), Federico Davià (Pistola), Raina Kabaivanska (Alice Ford), Janet Perry (Nannetta), Trudeliese Schmidt (Meg Page), Christa Ludwig (Mistress Quickly) Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | from Zurich Opera House
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Meg Page (Judith Schmid), Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef), Massimo Cavalletti (Ford), Eva Liebau (Nannetta), Javier Camarena (Fenton), Peter Straka (Dr. Cajus), Martin Zysset (Bardolfo), Davide Fersini (Pistola) Orchester der Oper Zürich & Chor der Oper Zürich, Daniele Gatti Staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf Daniele Gatti, currently Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and Zurich Opera will conduct Verdi’s Falstaff at the Royal Opera House in May with Ambrogio Maestri in the leading rôle. Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdi’s commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called “musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.” Only one more Falstaff Blu-ray available on the market. Running Time Total: 126 minutes BD: DTS-HD MA 5.0, PCM Stereo Subtitles Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean “the conductor starts apparently quite steadily. But this lack of a certain flick and bounce is compensated for by the focus of Daniele Gatti...places on Verdi's radically forward-looking orchestration...The cast, led by a secure Maestri, can boast a lovable Nannetta in Liebau and further clever variations on Quickly's eccentricity from Naef.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 “As usual in a good Falstaff, the heroes are the conductor and the protagonist. Daniele Gatti never lets pacing drag, he's alive to every nuance onstage...and the bounciness of his reading is never too heavily or obviously applied...Maestri's voice ideally suits the role - an attractively timbred, well-focused, wide-ranging baritone, with sufficient power and variety of colour. He works the text in detail, frequently risking a genuinely intimate delivery.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Meg Page (Judith Schmid), Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef), Massimo Cavalletti (Ford), Eva Liebau (Nannetta), Javier Camarena (Fenton), Peter Straka (Dr. Cajus), Martin Zysset (Bardolfo), Davide Fersini (Pistola) Orchester der Oper Zürich & Chor der Oper Zürich, Daniele Gatti Staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf Daniele Gatti, currently Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and Zurich Opera will conduct Verdi’s Falstaff at the Royal Opera House in May with Ambrogio Maestri in the leading rôle. Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdi’s commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called “musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.” Running Time Total: 126 minutes DVD: DTS 5.0, PCM Stereo Subtitles Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean “the conductor starts apparently quite steadily. But this lack of a certain flick and bounce is compensated for by the focus of Daniele Gatti...places on Verdi's radically forward-looking orchestration...The cast, led by a secure Maestri, can boast a lovable Nannetta in Liebau and further clever variations on Quickly's eccentricity from Naef.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 “As usual in a good Falstaff, the heroes are the conductor and the protagonist. Daniele Gatti never lets pacing drag, he's alive to every nuance onstage...and the bounciness of his reading is never too heavily or obviously applied...Maestri's voice ideally suits the role - an attractively timbred, well-focused, wide-ranging baritone, with sufficient power and variety of colour. He works the text in detail, frequently risking a genuinely intimate delivery.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | 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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Glyndebourne’s association with Falstaff commenced in 1955 for a production staged at the Edinburgh Festival, directed by Carl Ebert, designed by Osbert Lancaster and conducted by the great Carlo Maria Giulini. Falstaff quickly proved to be a favourite and enjoyed 5 revivals in quick succession. This recording comes from Glyndebourne Festivals’ 1960 season, conducted by Vittorio Gui, in what was Geraint Evan’s third outing as Falstaff. Evans sung in the 1957 and 1958 Glyndebourne restagings, in a role that was to go on and have a role in defining him as a singer, performing Falstaff in numerous productions including Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera, and on record under Georg Solti. On this recording, Geraint Evans is joined by Sesto Bruscantini as Ford, Juan Oncina as Fenton, Ilva Ligabue as Alice Ford, a role she is most remembered for having recorded it twice: under George Solti and Leonard Bernstein, this (new/archive) recording predating both these. The remaining classic cast member is the Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod as Dr Caius, his glorious sense of the role's comedy beautifully portrayed here. Hugues Cuénod passed away in December 2010 at the age of 108, having a career that spanned 66 years. He was something of an institution at Glyndebourne, walking the Glyndebourne stage for over 30 years and involved in some 470 performances. At the age of 82 he appeared in Glyndebourne’s production of Le nozze di Figaro and in 1990, at the age of 87, was offered the role of Monsieur Taupe in Capriccio, a role he had sung previously at Glyndebourne, but declined. “Nothing surpasses the joy of hearing a decent performance of this incomparable opera. The cast, including the divine Ilva Ligabue as Alice, clearly relish the delight of performing the work. Sesto Bruscantini gives a vivid account of Ford’s mighty monologue and Hugues Cuenod’s Dr Caius is a neat cameo.” Sunday Times, 6th November 2011 “Gui's skills in earlier-19th-century scores suit him well to the pace and contrasts of Falstaff...Glyndebourne's remastering is clear and the sound, if boxy next to more modern treatments, is certainly evocative of the house's small, original auditorium...[Evans] is less manneredly comic than he became...Overall here is not just a reminder of Gui's and Evans's achievement but a genuine contribution to the Falstaff discography - a relaxed, genial reading” Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 “[Evans is] dark-voiced and riotously lustful in the title role, opposite the beautiful, supremely self-assured Mistress Ford of Ilva Ligabue...Among the distinct pluses are Oralia Dominguez's very suggestive Mistress Quickly and the unusually sympathetic, yet dangerous Ford of Sesto Bruscantini, one of finest performances of the role on disc.” The Guardian, 10th November 2011 **** “Geraint Evans’s larger-than-life Falstaff is just as endearing as his studio version, and the ladies make a genteel showing: this is not so much a first choice, more a period piece.” Financial Times, 10th December 2011 *** “this is as fine a performance of Verdi's last opera as I have ever heard, thanks primarily to the conducting of the veteran Vittorio Gui...He brings a Rossinian lightness and elan to Falstaff, while savouring the extraordinary orchestral textures...Not that the cast is less than distinguished...They had clearly been rehearsed so that even in this almost incessantly rapid score they play off one another to magical effect.” BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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