Browse: DVD Video, Teatro alla Scala (opera company)
Puccini: Turandot
Nina Stemme (Turandot), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Calaf), Maria Agresta (Liù), Alexander Tsymbaluk (Timur), Angelo Veccia (Ping), Roberto Covatta (Pang), Blagoj Nacoski (Pong), Carlo Bosi (Altoum), Gianluca Breda (Mandarino)
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly
it is a measure of Lehnhoff's authority that you never question his choices...Chailly digs deep into Puccini's score...And the La Scala orchestra plays as if their life depended on it...Stemme... — More…
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Pre-order, Offer, Gluck: Orphée et Euridice
Juan Diego Flórez (Orphée), Christiane Karg (Euridice), Fatma Said (Amor); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Michele Mariotti
Pre-order, Offer, Puccini: Madama Butterfly
María José Siri (Butterfly), Bryan Hymel (Pinkerton), Carlos Álvarez (Sharpless), Annalisa Stroppa (Suzuki)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Anna Netrebko (Giovanna), Francesco Meli (Carlo VII), Carlos Álvarez (Giacomo), Michele Mauro (Delil) & Dmitry Beloselskiy (Talbot)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
The interpretation makes sense, but rather diminishes the grand scale of the drama…Musically, though, this is breathtaking. Chailly’s attention to detail scrubs up an iffy opera into something... — More…
Salieri: L'europa Riconosciuta
Diana Damrau (Europa), Desirée Rancatore (Semele), Genia Kühmeier (Asterio), Daniela Barcellona (Isseo), Giuseppe Sabatini (Egisto), Alessandra Ferri, Roberto Bolle (dancers)
Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Luca Ronconi (dir.)
This performance is so striking that any serious opera-lover will want to add it to their collection — More…
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Live recording from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2013
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hagen), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Gerd Grochowski (Gunther), Waltraud Meier (Waltraute/Zweite Norn); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
These DVDs of La Scala performances...are most notable for showcasing this conductor's supreme command of the epic lyricism that goes to the heart of the Wagner style...while Cassiers achieves... — More…
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Carlos Álvarez, Diana Damrau, Golda Schultz, Markus Werba, Marianne Crébassa, Anna Maria Chiuri
Teatro alla Scala, Franz Welser-Möst
At first the orchestra sounds a little stiff, but as the night goes on Welser-Möst unbends and the combination of his Austrian grace and the Italian orchestra’s warmth is appealing…Crebassa’s... — More…
Verdi: Nabucco
Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova, Paata Burchuladze
Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Riccardo Muti
Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act Italian version
Luciano Pavarotti (Don Carlo), Samuel Ramey (Filippo II), Paolo Coni (Rodrigo), Daniela Dessi (Elisabetta), Luciana D’intino (Eboli), Alexander Anisimov (Il Grande Inquisitore), Marilena Laurenza (Tebaldo), Nuccia Focile (Una voce dal cielo)
Teatro alla Scala Milan, Riccardo Muti
If you want the edition of the work revised in Italian by Verdi, first performed in 1884, this is your only choice to date on DVD – and it proves, as it did on VHS, a satisfying experience.
The... — More…