Blu-Ray Video, Gregory Kunde (tenor)
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Lianna Haroutounian (Leonora), Gregory Kunde (Manrico), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Vitaliy Bilyy (Luna), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Ferrando)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Richard Farnes, David Bösch
Kunde sings powerfully and reliably but without much seductiveness in his timbre…Haroutounian offers a classy, movingly acted Leonora but is a little short on Verdian authority…The star of the... — More…
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Bellini: Norma
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Gregory Kunde (Pollione), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa), Raymond Aceto (Oroveso), Ana Puche (Clotilde) & Francisco Vas (Flavio)
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Kevin Newbury (stage director)
[Radvanovsky’s] ‘Casta diva’ is dispatched with juicy flair, but it’s in the preceding lines tht the soprano really shows her mettle. Here Radvanovsky astutely establishes Norma’s divided loyalties... — More…
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Puccini: Turandot
Iréne Theorin (Turandot), Gregory Kunde (Calaf), Yolanda Auyanet (Liù), Andrea Mastroni (Timur), Teatro Real, Nicola Luisotti, Robert Wilson
Theorin, noted for her Wagnerian roles, provides the requisite vocal heft as Turandot, and Gregory Kunde is an equally powerful Calaf…The orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real under conductor... — More…
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Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Mariella Devia (Elizabeth), Marco Caria (Nottingham), Silvia Tro Santafe (Sara), Gregory Kunde (Robert Devereux), Juan Antonio Sanabria (Lord William Cecil) & Andrea Mastroni (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Teatro Real de Madrid, Bruno Campanella
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Verdi: Otello
Gregory Kunde (Otello), Carmela Remigio (Desdemona), Lucio Gallo (Iago), Elisabetta Martorana (Emilia)
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Myung-Whun Chung
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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Liudmyla Monastyrska (Manon Lescaut), David Bizic (Lescaut), Gregory Kunde (Des Grieux), Carlos Chausson (Geronte), Mikeldi Atxalandabaso (Edmondo), Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Davide Livermore, Emmanuel Villaume
The Davide Livermore production is the primary appeal of this Manon Lescaut DVD: dramaturgical problems are successfully addressed in an opera that can seem like scenes from the picaresque life... — More…