Browse: DVD Video, Mirella Freni (soprano)
Plácido Domingo - My Greatest Roles Volume 2 (Verdi)
Plácido Domingo (Ernani), Mirella Freni (Elvira), Renato Bruson (Carlo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Silva), Gianfranco Manganotti (Riccardo), Alfredo Giacomotti (Iago), Jolanda Michieli (Giovanna), Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon...
Domingo's much-admired Otello is captured here around its peak (1992). The rare La Scala Ernani is a strong souvenir, but the Trovatore under Karajan with a top-notch cast is even more special. — More…
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hermann Prey (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Maria Ewing (Cherubino), Paolo Montarsolo (Bartolo), Heather Begg (Marcellina), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Willy Caron (Curzio), Hans Krämer (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina)
Wiener...
a visual treat, but having some solos delivered as interior monologues is distracting — More…
Verdi: Otello
Jon Vickers (Otello), Mirella Freni (Desdemona), Peter Glossop (Iago), José van Dam & Stefania Malagú (Emilia), Aldo Bottion (Cassio), José van Dam (Lodovico), Michel Sénéchal (Rodrigo), Mario Macchi (Montano/Un Araldo)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Vickers sings gloriously in the title-role, a heroic tenor who sings cleanly and accurately and with great passion, totally unstrained. Though Mirella Freni's soprano might seem a little lightweight... — More…
Verdi: Don Carlo
Recommended
Five-act version
Plácido Domingo (Don Carlo), Mirella Freni (Elisabetta), Grace Bumbry (Eboli), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Louis Quilico (Rodrigo) & Ferruccio Furlanetto (Il Grand Inquisitor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
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Puccini: La Bohème
Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino, Gianni Maffeo & Ivo Vinco
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Herbert von Karajan
Zeffirelli's is an old-fashioned Bohème populated by short fat Peter Pans - except for the young Mirella Freni, delectable and deeply touching, and Adriana Martino's up-front Musetta. But the... — More…
Giordano, U: Fedora
Mirella Freni (Fedora), Ainhoa Arteta (La Contessa Olga), Plácido Domingo (Ipanoff), Dwayne Croft (De Siriex), Vernon Hartman (Lorek), Denis Sedov (Nicola), James Courtney (Boroff), Stephen West (Gretch)
Metropolitan Opera, Roberto Abbado
Offer, Sherrill Milnes: All-Star Gala
Sherrill Milnes, Julia Migenes and Sherrill Milnes, Peter Schreier, Jon Spong (piano), Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo
London Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Anton Guadagno, Günter Joseck, Siegfried Kurz
Teatro alla Scala: The Golden Years Vol.1
Enzo Biagi interviews Maria Callas, Mario Del Monaco, Mirella Freni, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Romano Gandolfi, Antonino Votto, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Abbado & Giulietta Simionato
Teatro alla Scala: The Golden Years Vol. 3
Enzo Biagi, Claudio Abbado, Placido Domingo, Piero Cappuccilli & Mirella Freni
Bizet: Carmen
Grace Bumbry (Carmen), Jon Vickers (Don José), Mirella Freni (Micaëla), Justino Diaz (Escamillo), Nadine Sautereau (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Gérard Dunan (Le Dancaïre), Milen Paunov (Le Remendado)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan