Browse: DVD Video, Thomas Allen (baritone)
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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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Forbes Robinson (Geronte), Robin Leggate (Edmondo), Anna Cooper (Madrigal Singer)
The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
an ideal cast of principals and passionate, idiomatic conducting...the glorious singing of Placido Domingo as Des Grieux comes over heroically, and Kiri te Kanawa as Manon is both girlish and... — More…
Offer, The Mozart Glyndebourne Collection
Helena Dose (Fiordiligi), Sylvia Lindenstrand (Dorabella), Daniele Perriers (Despina), Anson Austin (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Frantz Petri (Don Alfonso), Benjamin Luxon (Don Giovanni), Stafford Dean (Leporello), Horiana Branisteanu (Donna Anna), Rachel Yakar (Donna Elvira), Leo Goeke (Don...
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro captures Peter Hall’s delightful and wonderfully vivid production. Cast from strength, it is presided over with great sympathy by conductor John Pritchard — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Carolyn James (Donna Anna), Carol Vaness (Donna Elvira), Ferrucio Furlanetto (Leporello), Andrea Rost (Zerlina) & Matthias Hölle (Comtur)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director)
This Michael Hampe production is a traditional staging, the costumes likewise...Furlanetto is outstanding in vocal and acted characterization with consummate beauty of tone in his native language...the... — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Carolyn James, Kjell Magnus Sandve, Reinhard Dorn, Carol Vaness, Andrea Rost, Matthias Hölle
Gürzenich Orchester Köln, James Conlon
Puccini: La Bohème
Ileana Cotrubas, Neil Shicoff, Marilyn Zschau, Thomas Allen (III), Gwynne Howell
Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... — More…
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Offer, Love, Passion & Deceit
Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola), Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Simone Alberghini (Dandini), Luciano di Pasquale (Don Magnifico), Raquela Sheeran (Clorinda), Lucia Cirillo (Tisbe), Nathan Berg (Alidoro), Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando),...
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...
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Angelika Kirchschlager (Hänsel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrude), Thomas Allen (Peter), Anja Silja (Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (Sandman), Anita Watson (Dew-Fairy)
Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Children’s Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis (conductor)...
Humperdinck's adorable opera here receives treatment so affectionate that the two children are more likely to be killed with kindness than by the Witch. The cast is strong, with Angelika Kirchschlager... — More…