Browse: DVD Video, Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Verdi: La Traviata
Edita Gruberova (Violetta), Neil Shicoff (Alfredo), Giorgio Zancanaro (Giorgio Germont), Mariana Pentcheva (Flora), Antonella Trevisan (Annina)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Carlo Rizzi
a moving performance, well cast and with sympaethetic conducting from Carlo Rizzi...Shicoff is in splendid voice, phrasing and shaping his big set-pieces sensitively, and Edita Gruberova makes... — More…
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Kurt Moll, Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Lucia Popp & Wolfgang Brendel
Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
This charming production features Lucia Popp's still glorious Pamina and Moll's resonant Sarastro heading a first-rate cast. Brendel's Papageno lightens the recommendation. — More…
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Francisco Araiza (Belmonte), Edita Gruberova (Konstanze), Reri Grist (Blonde), Norbert Orth (Pedrillo), Thomas Holtzmann (Bassa Selim), Martti Talvela (Osmin)
Chor und Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Karl Böhm
One of Böhm's last operatic assignments, he accompanies his fine cast with huge wisdom. Gruberova and Talvela are outstanding. August Everding's production, adventurous for 1980, is now a delight... — More…
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Edita Gruberova (Gretel), Brigitte Fassbaender (Hänsel), Hermann Prey (Peter), Helga Dernesch (Gertrud), Sena Jurinac (Die Knusperhexe), Norma Burrowes (Sandmännchen), Elfriede Hobarth (Taumännchen)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
Massenet: Manon
Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza, Pierre Thau, Hand Helm, Wilfried Gahmlich & Geory Tichy
Chor de Wiener Staatsper & Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Adam Fischer
A pretty-picture version of this ingratiating opera, with a strong performance from Francisco Araiza, but Edita Gruberova as Manon looks far too doll-like and sings in piping tones. Just charm,... — More…
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Edita Gruberova, Teresa Stratas, Luis Lima & Ferruccio Furlanetto
Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Gundula Janowitz, René Kollo, Edita Gruberova & Walter Berry
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
Strauss, R: Arabella
Gundula Janowitz (Arabella), Edita Gruberova (Fiakermilli), Bernd Weikl (Mandryka), Rene Kollo (Matteo), Goran Fransson (Elemer), Hans Helm (Dominik), Kurt Rydl (Lamoral), Martha Mödl (Kartenaufschlägerin)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
Schenk's direction is stodgy, but authentic settings and a superb cast, with Janowitz in angelic voice and Solti at his Straussian finest make this the best Arabella in any medium. Michael Scott... — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Francisco Araiza (Don Ottavio), Claudio Desderi (Leporello), Susanne Mentzer (Zerlina), Natale de Carolis (Masetto), Sergej Koptchak (Il Commendatore)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Riccardo Muti
A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and Claudio... — More…
Bellini: Norma
Edita Gruberova (Norma), Zoran Todorovich (Pollione), Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Oroveso), Markus Herzog (Flavio), Directed by Brian Large
Das Bayerische Staatsorchester, Friedrich Haider
Edita Gruberová waited until 2006 to sing Norma on stage for the first time. In this production from Munich she is revealed as the greatest Norma of today. Her singing and acting bring out the... — More…