Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Verdi (composer)
Offer, Verdi: Otello (Blu-ray)
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Jonas Kaufmann (Otello), Marco Vratogna (Iago), Maria Agresta (Desdemona)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Keith Warner (director)
Though he is in fine voice, he does not come across as the wounded animal that the greatest Otellos – Jon Vickers, Mario del Monaco - so impressively were. Kaufmann is happiest in the more lyrical... — More…
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Verdi: La forza del destino
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Anja Harteros (Leonora), Jonas Kaufmann (Alvaro), Ludovic Tézier (Carlo), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Vitalij Kowaljow (Padre Guardiano), Renato Girolami (Fra Melitone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Asher Fisch (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
A large part of the characterisation comes from the sheer quality of Harteros’s singing, poised and perfectly shaped, with an impeccable sense of style, the voice itself slightly hazy in colour... — More…
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New, Offer, Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Riccardo), George Petean (Renato), Anja Harteros (Amelia), Okka von der Damerau (Ulrica), Sofia Fomina (Oscar)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta, Johannes Erath
Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes
Lianna Haroutounian (Helene), Bryan Hymel (Henri), Erwin Schrott (Procida), Michael Volle (Guy de Montfort), Michelle Daly (Ninetta), Neal Cooper (Thibault), Nico Darmanin (Daniéli), Jung Soo Yun (Mainfroid), Jihoon Kim (Robert), Jean Teitgen (Le Sire de Béthune) & Jeremy White (Le Comte de Vaudemont)
Royal...
Pappano draws some exquisitely supple playing from the strings and woodwind, holding plenty of energy in reserve for the grand confrontations and choruses where the brass blaze with Berlioz-like... — More…
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New, Verdi: Requiem
Dinara Alieva (soprano), Olesya Petrova (mezzo), Francesco Meli (tenor), Dmitry Belosselskiy (bass)
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Bolshoi Theater Chorus, Yuri Temirkanov
New, Offer, Verdi: Macbeth
Roberto Frontali (Macbeth), Anna Pirozzi (Lady Macbeth), Marko Mimica (Banco), Vincenzo Costanzo (Macduff), Manuel Pierattelli (Malcolm), Nicolò Ceriani (Medico), Federica Alfano (Dama), Francesco Cusumano (Duncano), Nunziatina Lo Presti (Fleanzio)
Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di ballo del Teatro...
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Anna Netrebko (Giovanna), Francesco Meli (Carlo VII), Carlos Álvarez (Giacomo), Michele Mauro (Delil) & Dmitry Beloselskiy (Talbot)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production was the 2015-16 season-opener at La Scala…It’s as camp as a row of tents, but visually striking all the same…Netrebko is in magnificent voice, especially... — More…
Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
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Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabetta), Thomas Hampson (Posa), Jose van Dam (Filippo II), Waltraud Meier (Eboli)
Orchestre de Paris & Chœur du Théâtre du Châtelet, Antonio Pappano (conductor), Luc Bondy (director)
in virtually every respect, the Pappano DVD of the original French version is the one to have; there you sense the full value of Verdi’s original and preferable thoughts in an intelligent, finely... — More…
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Summer Night Concert 2018
Sommernachtskonzert 2018
Anna Netrebko (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Valery Gergiev
Pre-order, Offer, Verdi: Stiffelio
Luciano Ganci (Stiffelio), Maria Katzarava (Lina), Francesco Landolfi (Stankar), Giovanni Sebastiano Sala (Raffaele), Emanuele Cordaro (Jorg), Sofia Koberidze (Dorotea), Blagoj Nacoski (Federico)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Guillermo García Calvo, Graham Vick