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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Jill Grove (Magdalena), Matthew Polenzani (David), René Pape (Pogner), John Relyea (Nachtwächter)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, James Levine
Thank goodness for no quirky ideas...The singers are all outstanding, led by James Morris's warmly genial Sachs...and by Ben Heppner, who is an equally convincing Walther...Mattila not only looks... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Renée Fleming (Desdemona), James Morris (Iago), Richard Croft (Cassio), Charles Anthony (Rodrigo), Alexander Anisimov (Lodovico), Jane Bunnell (Emilia), Christopher Schaldenbrand (Un Araldo), Ted Lambrinos (Monatano)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James...
It is good to have so telling a reminder on DVD of Placido Domingo's masterly assumption of the role of Otello...[Fleming was] then at her freshest and purest, yet also with power, looking and... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bizet: Carmen
Agnes Baltsa (Carmen), José Carreras (Don José), Samuel Ramey (Escamillo), Leona Mitchell (Micaëla), Myra Merritt (Frasquita), Diane Kesling (Mercédès), Bruce Hubbard (Le Dancaïre), Anthony Laciura (Le Remendado), Vernon Hartman (Moralès)
Metropolitan Opera, James Levine
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Wagner: Lohengrin
Peter Hofmann (Lohengrin), John Macurdy (König Heinrich), Eva Marton (Elsa), Leonie Rysanek (Ortrud), Lief Roar (Friedrich von Telramund), Anthony Raffell (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
The Met brought out its best available performers. . . James Levine. . . controls the music superbly and. . . brings out a texture of sound in which Wagnerian sensualists can simply wallow. — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedJames Morris (Wotan/Der Wanderer), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge/Siegfried), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka/Waltraute), Gary Lakes (Siegmund), Jessye Norman (Sieglinde), Kurt Moll (Hunding), Matti Salminen (Fafner/Hagen)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra...
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedTeresa Stratas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Cornell MacNeil (Giorgio Germont)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Severely cut and rearranged, Zeffirelli's famous film suffocates under its own opulence; but Parisian and Provencal locations, Levine's rich conducting, Domingo and Stratas remain rewarding. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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Verdi: Luisa Miller
Renata Scotto (Luisa), Plácido Domingo (Rodolfo), Sherrill Milnes (Miller), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Walter), James Morris (Wurm), Jean Kraft (Federica), Ariel Bybee (Laura), Dale Caldwell (Contadino)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Levine's version of Luisa Miller consistently demonstrates his Verdian mastery, and not just in the best-known masterpieces...Not only in Levine's conducting but also in the sets and costumes... — More…
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33 CDs + 19 DVD Videos
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedAlso contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold
Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia),...
Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Opera Recording
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Plácido Domingo (Enée), Tatiana Troyanos (Didon), Jessye Norman (Cassandre), Jocelyne Taillon (Anna), Philip Creech (Hylas), Allan Monk (Chorèbe), Barbara Conrad (Hécube), Douglas Ahlstedt (Iopas), Paul Plishka (Narbal)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Domingo's clarion (though stretched) Aeneas and Norman's passionate Cassandra are most memorable. Troyanos does not match Gardiner's Susan Graham, but Levine is admirably epic and provides the... — More…
