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DVD Video, Violeta Urmana (soprano)
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Special offer. The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFour-act version
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly, stage direction...
Decker's direction of the principals provides both intelligent insights into relationships along with many bêtises that surely go against the composer's intentions. …he certainly manages to... —
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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Prokofiev: The Gambler
Asmik Grigorian (Polina), Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka), Juan Francisco Gatell (The Marquis)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Timur Zangiev, Peter Sellars
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Prokofiev: War and Peace
Olga Kulchynska (Natasha), Andrei Zhilikhovsky (Andrei), Arsen Soghomonyan (Pierre), Violeta Urmana (Marya Dmitriyevna Akhrosimova), Olga Guryakova (Peronskaya), Bekhzod Davronov (Anatole), Christina Bock (Marya Bolkonskaya)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The video is definitely worth seeing. If you have a good knowledge of the opera already from a more standard version, you’ll appreciate the in-jokes, such as the decision to take Prokofiev’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Video (Opera)
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar), Borja Quiza (Silvano), Miguel Sola (Samuel), Scott Wilde (Tom), Orlando Niz (Judge), César San Martín (Amelia's servant)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real...
[Renato] is given a careful, possibly subtle reading by Marco Vratogna...You won't be short-changed by this DVD —
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Verdi: Macbeth
Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... —
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Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), Vincenzo La Scola (Turiddu), Dragana Jugovic (Lola), Viorica Cortez (Mamma Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio), Vladimir Galouzine (Canio), María Bayo (Nedda), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Antonio Gandía (Beppe), Ángel Ódena (Silvio)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid...
That both these productions work is largely due to Jesús López Cobos's theatrically vital and style-sensitive conducting and two strong casts. —
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Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Mika Kares (Hagen), Lauri Vasar (Gunther), Mandy Fredrich (Gutrune), Violeta Urmana (Waltraute), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Christian Thielemann, Dmitri Tcherniakov
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Verdi Boxed Set: Aida, Traviata & Macbeth
Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo), Zeljko Lucic (Germont), Nina Stemme (Aida), Luciana d'Intino (Amneris), Salvatore Licitra (Radames), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis) & Günther Groissböck (King), Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco),...
