Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Bizet (composer)
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
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Diana Damrau (Leïla), Matthew Polenzani (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Teste (Nourabad)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda, Penny Woolcock (dir.)
Woolcock finds a double drama in Bizet's opera..., Noseda drawing sumptuous playing from the Met Orchestra...The Met fields a magnificent cast. Matthew Polenzani is a puppyish Nadir...whil Mariusz... — More…
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The Blu-ray Experience - Opera & Ballet Highlights
Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura, Simon Keenlyside & Agnes Letestu, Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel
Royal Opera House, Paris Opera Ballet, Teatro Real, Glyndebourne, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Drottningholm Theatre, De Nederlandse Opera
Maria Callas at Covent Garden
London 1962 & 1964
Maria Callas (soprano), Tito Gobbi (baritone)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Calro Felice Cillario
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Anja Harteros (soprano)
Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato
The playing of the Badische Staatskapelle is decent – with excellent contributions from a busy principal cellist – and Marco Armiliato keeps everything ticking along well…there’s enough quality... — More…
Bizet: Carmen
Elina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes)
Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
everyone on stage, from stars to comprimarios and children (authentically underfoot), crackles with individual life, ideal on video... Garanča's clean-cut Baltic mezzo and fresh good looks suggest... — More…
Summer Night Concert 2016
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov
Bizet: Carmen
Julia Migenes (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Faith Esham (Micaëla), Ruggero Raimondi (Escamillo), John Paul Bogart (Zuniga), François Le Roux (Moralès), Lillian Watson (Frasquita), Susan Daniel (Mercédès), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Le Dancaïre), Gérard Garino (Le Remendado), Julien Guiomar (Lillas...
Jirí Kylián‘s Car Men
Additional Ballets: Silent Cries & La Cathédrale engloutie
With Sabine Kupferberg, Gioconda Barbuto, David Krügel, Karel Hruška and others
Nederlands Dans Theater
Offer, Martha Argerich live at Verbier Festival
Recorded live at during the Verbier Festival, Switzerland, 22 July 2009 (Beethoven, Scarlatti) and 17 July 2010 (Shostakovich, Bizet).
Martha Argerich (piano), Martha Argerich (piano) & David Guerrier (trumpet)
Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Both directors capture [Argerich's] unique artistry...she sets about the down-to-earth matter of sublime music-making, pulling all her colleagues into her spell...Takacs-Nagy partners Argerich... — More…