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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedJames Morris (Wotan/Der Wanderer), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge/Siegfried), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka/Waltraute), Gary Lakes (Siegmund), Jessye Norman (Sieglinde), Kurt Moll (Hunding), Matti Salminen (Fafner/Hagen)
Metropolitan Opera...
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Jill Grove (Magdalena), Matthew Polenzani (David), René Pape (Pogner), John Relyea (Nachtwächter)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, James Levine
Thank goodness for no quirky ideas...The singers are all outstanding, led by James Morris's warmly genial Sachs...and by Ben Heppner, who is an equally convincing Walther...Mattila not only looks... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Renée Fleming (Desdemona), James Morris (Iago), Richard Croft (Cassio), Charles Anthony (Rodrigo), Alexander Anisimov (Lodovico), Jane Bunnell (Emilia), Christopher Schaldenbrand (Un Araldo), Ted Lambrinos (Monatano)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James...
It is good to have so telling a reminder on DVD of Placido Domingo's masterly assumption of the role of Otello...[Fleming was] then at her freshest and purest, yet also with power, looking and... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Anna Netrebko (Norina), Matthew Polenzani (Ernesto), John Del Carlo (Don Pasquale), Mariusz Kwiecień (Malatesta)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Donizetti's modest little domestic comedy almost sinks under the weight of such production values. That is stays afloat is a tribute to Netrebko who unleashes some fearsome coloratura; and to... — More…
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Eva Marton, Kiri Te Kanawa, James McCracken, Ruggero Raimondi, Joan Sutherland, Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus, Nicolai Gedda, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubas, Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa, Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry, Katia...
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedAlso contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold
Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia),...
Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Opera Recording
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Marilyn Horne (Isabella), Paolo Montarsolo (Mustafa), Douglas Ahlstedt (Lindoro), Allan Monk (Taddeo), Myra Merritt (Elvira), Diane Kesling (Zulma), Spiro Malas (Haly)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Sparkily conducted by James Levine, Ponnelle's 1986 Met production goes for broad comedy rather than subtlety, but Marilyn Horne knows exactly how to sing Isabella, and receives strong buffo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, DVD of the Month
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Kathleen Battle (Adina), Luciano Pavarotti (Nemorino), Juan Pons (Belcore), Enzo Dara (Dulcamara)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Plácido Domingo (Enée), Tatiana Troyanos (Didon), Jessye Norman (Cassandre), Jocelyne Taillon (Anna), Philip Creech (Hylas), Allan Monk (Chorèbe), Barbara Conrad (Hécube), Douglas Ahlstedt (Iopas), Paul Plishka (Narbal)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Domingo's clarion (though stretched) Aeneas and Norman's passionate Cassandra are most memorable. Troyanos does not match Gardiner's Susan Graham, but Levine is admirably epic and provides the... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Plácido Domingo (Duke), Ileana Cotrubas (Gilda), Justino Díaz (Sparafucile), Isola Jones (Maddalena), Ariel Bybee (Giovanna), John Cheek (Monterone), Robert Goodloe (Marullo), James Atherton (Borsa)
Metropolitan Opera, James Levine
