Blu-Ray Video, Violeta Urmana (soprano)
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New. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Mika Kares (Hagen), Lauri Vasar (Gunther), Mandy Fredrich (Gutrune), Violeta Urmana (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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Verdi: Macbeth
Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff), Alfredo Nigro (Malcolm)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... — More…
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar), Borja Quiza (Silvano), Miguel Sola (Samuel), Scott Wilde (Tom), Orlando Niz (Judge), César San Martín (Amelia's servant)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real...
[Renato] is given a careful, possibly subtle reading by Marco Vratogna...You won't be short-changed by this DVD — More…
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Jesús López Cobos conducts Mascagni & Leoncavallo
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in February & March 2007.
Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), Vincenzo La Scola (Turiddu), Dragana Jugovic (Lola), Viorica Cortez (Mamma Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio), Vladimir Galouzine (Canio), Maria Bayo (Nedda), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Antonio Gandia (Beppe), Angel Odena (Silvio)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid...
That both these productions work is largely due to Jesús López Cobos's theatrically vital and style-sensitive conducting and two strong casts. — More…
