Browse: DVD Video, Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)
Offer, Celebrating Verdi
Verdi’s Legendary Interpreters
Tito Gobbi (baritone)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Charles Mackerras
Martinů: The Greek Passion
John Mitchinson, Helen Field, John Tomlinson & Catherine Savory
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Kühn Children´s Chorus & Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
The vocal performances are without exception magnificent: John Mitchinson as Manolios and Helen Field as Katerina, respectively Christ and Mary Magdalen, deliver near definitive readings of their... — More…
God Rot Tunbridge Wells
The Life of Georg Frederic Handel
Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Elizabeth Harwood, Simon Preston, Judith Howarth, Valerie Masterson, Anthony Rolf Johnson & Andrei Gavrilov
The English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
An Evening with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera
Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah...
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliette), Sarah Walker (Gertrude), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurence), Peter Sidhom (Capulet), Paul Charles Clarke (Tybalt), David Wilson-Johnson (Le Prince), Jeremy White (Gregorio), François Le Roux (Mercutio), Anne Maria Panzarella (Stéphano), Richard Halton...
Leontina Vaduva is a touching Juliette… There's real passion in her Tomb aria… Roméo is the role that catapulted tenor Roberto Alagna into a celebrity. Best of all is Charles Mackerras conducting... — More…
Offer, Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Charles Mackerras
Perlman is in his prime in the Prokofiev First and the Elgar Concerto, and the steady camerawork doesn't stray far from him or Rozhdestvensky. Both are fiery live performances, as is the even... — More…
Offer, Mozart Operas Box Set
Will Hartmann (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Diana Damrau (Königin der Nacht), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Thomas Allen (Sprecher), Gillian Webster, Christine Rice, Yvonne Howard (Drei Damen), Alan Oke, Graeme...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Donald Mcintyre (Hans Sachs), Paul Frey (Walther von Stolzing), Helena Döse (Eva), John Pringle (Beckmesser), Christopher Doig (David), Rosemary Gunn (Magdalene), Donald Shanks (Pogner), Robert Allman (Kothner)
Australian Opera Chorus, The Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras,...
this Australian Opera production brilliantly overcomes the limitations of a theatre and the electricity and vitality of Sir Charles Mackerras's conducting makes one readily forget any shortcomings...thanks... — More…
Mozart in Turkey
A film by Elijah Moshinsky and Mick Csáky, of and about Mozart's opera.
Paul Groves, Yelda Kodalli, Désirée Rancatore, Lynton Atkinson, Peter Rose, Oliver Tobias
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass and Taras Bulba
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
What is in fact performed here is the rarely heard original version… at its most striking in the Credo: its dramatic portrayal of the earthquake and storm unleashed at Jesus's death is realised... — More…