Browse: DVD Video, Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
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Natalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Natalie Dessay (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Ludovic Tézier (Germont), Adelina Scarabelli (Annina), Silvia de la Muela (Flora Bervoix), Manuel Nunez Camelino (Gastone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Louis Langrée, Jean-François Sivadier
This is one of the most truthful and moving realisations of Verdi's La Traviata I could ever imagine...such is its intelligence in focusing on the essentials of the characters and the action... — More…
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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Natalie Dessay (Cleopatra), Lawrence Zazzo (Cesare), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Cornelia), Isabel Leonard (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Nathan Berg (Achille), Dominique Visse (Nireno), Aimery Lefèvre (Curio)
Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurent Pelly
finely managed and skilfully delivered by a strong team of singing actors. None more so than Natalie Dessay's Cleopatra, maybe past her first flush of vocal youth but still looking glamorous... — More…
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
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Michael Spyres (Hoffmann), Kathleen Kim (Olympia), Natalie Dessay (Antonia), Tatiana Pavlovskaya (Giulietta), Michèle Losier (La muse, Nicklausse), Laurent Naouri (Lindorf, Coppélius, Docteur Miracle, Dapertutto)
Gran Teatre del Liceu, Stéphane Denève, Laurent Pelly
The production belongs to Laurent Naouri who finds something truly distinctive in each of his portraits...Dessay is remarkable as Antonia...If Michael Spyres's Hoffmann isn't quite the centre... — More…
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Massenet: Manon
Natalie Dessay (Manon), Rolando Villazon (Le Chevalier des Grieux), Samuel Ramey (Le Comte des Grieux), Manuel Lanza (Lescaut)
Orquesta Sinfónica e coro del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Victor Pablo Pérez
David Caviar's production of Massenet's masterpiece is strong on period flavour… It's strong, too, in the delineation and interaction of the two protagonists… Dessay's Manon shines, not only... — More…
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Stravinsky: The Nightingale
Natalie Dessay (Le Rossignol), Marie McLaughlin (La cuisinière), Violeta Urmana (La Mort), Laurent Naouri (Le chambellan), Albert Schagigullin (L'empereur), Maxime Mikhailov (Le bonze), Hugo Simric (L'enfant)
Orchestre Et Chœur De L’opera National De Paris, James Conlon
…Stravinsky… would surely have been intrigued, occasionally irritated and ultimately spellbound by Christian Chaudet's vision. Using singers from the original 1999 recording, Chaudet has drawn... — More…
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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
Becoming Traviata
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A film by Philippe Béziat from Verdi's Opera
Natalie Dessay (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Ludovic Tézier (Germont), Jean-François Sivadier (director)
London Symphony Orchestra, Louis Langrée
the film is as much about how our relationship to this most famous opera changes with each encounter as it is about the process by which [Dessay] assumes the central role...Some will accuse Béziat... — More…
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
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Deborah Voigt (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Natalie Dessay (Zerbinetta), Susanne Mentzer (The Composer), Richard Margison (Bacchus/The Tenor), Wolfgang Brendel (The Music Master), Waldemar Kmentt (The Major-Domo)
The Metropolitan Opera, James Levine, Laurie Feldman
...two prima donnas [Voigt and Mentzer] at the peaks of their careers having fun with the liveliest Elijah Moshinsky production I've seen...Dessay slips between complex human truth and the commedia... — More…
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Legrand: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
Marie Oppert (Geneviève Emery), Natalie Dessay (Madame Emery), Vincent Niclo (Guy Foucher), Laurent Naouri (Roland Cassard), Louise Leterme (Madeleine)
Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France, Michel Legrand (conductor) & Vincent Vittoz (stage director)
Retro - convincing and moving — More…