Browse: DVD Video, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (orchestra)
Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
Recommended
Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams...
Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... — More…
Awards:
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Recommended
Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie...
David McVicar's 2005 staging, revived the following summer, provoked a deal of contrasting views among the critical fraternity but was adored by the Glyndebourne public. Chief cause of their... — More…
Awards:
Handel: Saul
Recommended
Christopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... — More…
Awards:
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Ivan Fischer
When I saw this production at Glyndebourne last May, I thought that it was one of the three perfect operatic performances that I have ever been to. That view is only strengthened by seeing this... — More…
Awards:
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Recommended
Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Kate Royal (Donna Elvira), Anna Samuil (Donna Anna), William Burden (Ottavio), Anna Virovlansky (Zerlina), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto)
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, Jonathan Kent
this Don, played by Gerald Finley, is a master of self-control: hands in tailored pockets and operating with a steely indifference to all...And Finley give this vision vocal assurance matching... — More…
Awards:
Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
Frode Olsen (Valens), David Daniels (Didymus), Richard Croft (Septimius), Dawn Upshaw (Theodora), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Irene), Michael Hart-Davis (Messenger)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The Glyndebourne Chorus, William Christie (conductor) & Peter Sellars (director)
Offer, Jurowski conducts Beethoven
Recorded live at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 4 February 2010
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski
The sound is magnificent...The performances are well-crafted, and the camerawork shows just enough for Jurowski fans of his well-choreographed conducting...it is worth hearing just for the wonderfully... — More…
Handel: Rodelinda
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Rodelina), Andreas Scholl (Bertarido), Louise Winter (Eduige), Kurt Streit (Grimoaldo), Umberto Chiummo (Garibaldo), Tom Siese (Flavio)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Richard Croft (Tito), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Alice Coote (Vitellia), Michèle Losier (Annio), Joélle Harvey (Servilia), Clive Bayley (Publio); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Robin Ticciati, Claus Guth
Croft’s mature acting and ardent singing vividly bring to life Tito’s torn emotions…The cruel manipulation by Alice Coote’s psychotic Vitellia of Anna Stéphany’s puppyish Sextus is painful to... — More…
The Handel Collection
3 Full Length Programmes
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Rodelina), Andreas Scholl (Bertarido), Louise Winter (Eduige), Kurt Streit (Grimoaldo), Dawn Upshaw (Theodora), David Daniels (Didymus), Frode Olsen (Valens), Richard Croft (Septimius), Lorraine Hunt (Irene)
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,...