Browse: DVD Video, Bertrand de Billy (conductor)
Massenet: Cendrillon
Recommended
Joyce DiDonato (Cendrillon), Alice Coote (Prince Charming), Eglise Gutiérrez (Fairy Godmother), Ewa Podles (Madame de la Haltère), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Pandolfe), Madeleine Pierard (Noémie), Kai Rüütel (Dorothée), Jeremy White (Le Roi)
The Royal Opera House, Bertrand de Billy, Laurent Pelly
Pelly's production has a style all of its own...DiDonato is winning in Cinderella's smiles and tears, though vocally a little edgy. But she's well ballasted by...Alice Coote, who is intense and... — More…
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New, Mozart: Da Ponte Operas
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus, Christopher Maltman, Erwin Schrott, Annette Dasch, Matthew Polenzani, Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Florian Boesch, Topi Lehtipuu, Patricia Petibon; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bertrand de Billy, Ádám Fischer, Wiener Philharmoniker
Thomas, Ambroise: Hamlet
Natalie Dessay, soprano (Ophelia), Simon Keenlyside, baritone (Hamlet), Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Alain Vernhes
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del liceu, Bertrand de Billy
Natalie Dessay - The Miracle of the Voice
Greatest Moments on Stage
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra National de Paris, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, London Philharmonic Orchestra,...
Ms. Dessay treats opera like a form of theatre in which acting and singing are one — More…
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Natalie Dessay (Mélisande), Stéphane Degout (Pelléas), Laurent Naouri (Golaud), Philip Ens (Arkel), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève), Tim Mirfin (Physician/Shepherd), Beate Ritter (Yniold)
Radio-SymphonieOrchester Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Bertrand De Billy, Laurent Pelly
a stellar cast featuring Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout and Laurent Naouri lead a performance in which the subtle psychological and emotional strangeness of the opera is enhanced by Laurent... — More…
Puccini: La Bohème
Anna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), George van Bergen (Marcello), Adrian Eröd (Schaunard), Vitaly Kovalyov (Colline), Tiziano Brazzo (Benoît)
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand de Billy
…Bohème has attracted filmmakers since silent days, but never as convincingly as this. …Oscar-nominated director Robert Dornhelm lends the story a darker glow, with Bertrand de Billy's soft-centred... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold
Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner), Jeffrey Dowd (Froh), Francisco Vas (Mime), Andrea Bönig (Erda),...
the best small screen realization of a Ring opera I have seen — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Annette Dasch (Donna Anna), Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Ekaterina Siurina (Zerlina), Anatoly Kocherga (Il Commendatore), Alex Esposito (Masetto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bertrand de Billy
Christian Schmidt designs a crepuscular forest for Claus Guth's dark contemporary take on the opera...It's very much the women who have got a grip here. The rhythmic rigour of Dorothea Roschmann's... — More…
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregon (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner),...
Harry Kupfer's Bayreuth staging was Teutonically technological and ugly, but despite some dramatic silliness it actually heeded Wagner's stage directions. So does this one, created originally... — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Wojtek Drabowicz (Don Giovanni), Kwanchul Youn (Leporello), Regina Schörg (Donna Anna), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio), Marisa Martins (Zerlina), Felipe Bou (Masetto), Anatoly Kocherga (Commendatore)
Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Chamber Choir...
Calixto Bieito's 2002 production is a potent parable not only for our time, but of any society in decadence… everyone is caught in a self-destructive cycle of abuse - from the mutually manipulative... — More…