Browse: DVD Video, Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Verdi: La forza del destino
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Anja Harteros (Leonora), Jonas Kaufmann (Alvaro), Ludovic Tézier (Carlo), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Vitalij Kowaljow (Padre Guardiano), Renato Girolami (Fra Melitone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Asher Fisch (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
A large part of the characterisation comes from the sheer quality of Harteros’s singing, poised and perfectly shaped, with an impeccable sense of style, the voice itself slightly hazy in colour... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
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Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Oren Gradus (Colline), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro), Meredith Derr (Parpignol), Robert Maher (Sergente dei doganieri), Richard Pearson (Un doganiere)
The Metropolitan...
…the spectacular Zeffirelli staging, now rather showing its age. It still makes a good frame… for Ramón Vargas's engaging Rodolfo, sung with ardour, and Gheorghiu's fine-toned but rather grand... — More…
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New, Orff: Carmina Burana - Live from the Forbidden City
Mari Samuelson (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Long Yu
Gluck: Alceste
Anne Sofie von Otter (Alceste), Paul Groves (Admète), Dietrich Henschel (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon/Hercule), Yann Beuron (Evandre), Ludovic Tézier (Un Héraut/Apollon)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Brian Large
Gardiner turns the full beam of his historically informed performance knowledge to the score, illuminating its subtle colours and harmonic inflections with a pace and power that never threaten... — More…
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico), Taylor Stayton (Arturo), Kwangchul Youn (Raimondo), Rachael Lloyd (Alisa), Peter Hoare (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, Katie Mitchell (dir.)
The staging is over-stuffed but it is not stupid or careless…Minute alterations in the textures of Donizetti’s orchestration are brilliantly clear. Were you not already persuaded that the opera... — More…
Becoming Traviata
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A film by Philippe Béziat from Verdi's Opera
Natalie Dessay (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Ludovic Tézier (Germont), Jean-François Sivadier (director)
London Symphony Orchestra, Louis Langrée
the film is as much about how our relationship to this most famous opera changes with each encounter as it is about the process by which [Dessay] assumes the central role...Some will accuse Béziat... — More…
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Offer, Puccini: Tosca
Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier
Salzburger Bachchor & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Verdi: Don Carlo
Four-act Italian version
Ramon Vargas (Don Carlo), Svetlana Kasyan (Elizabeth), Ildar Abdrazakov (Filippo II), Ludovic Tezier (Rodrigo), Daniela Barcellona (Princess Eboli) & Marco Spott (Grand Inquisitor)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Regio, Torino, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (director)
The most distinguished performances come from Svetlana Kasyan as Elisabetta, fine in appearance and with a command of the grand line; and Ilda Abdrazakov, an unusually warm portrayal of a torn... — More…
Russian Opera Classics Box Set
Orlin Anastassov (Boris), Alessandra Marianelli (Xenia), Pavel Zubov (Fyodor), Ian Storey (Grigory), Vladimir Vaneev (Pimen), Peter Bronder (Prince Shuisky), Vasily Ladjuk (Andrey Shchelkalov), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam), Luca Casalin (Missail), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Innkeeper), Evgeny Akimov (Holy Fool),...
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ludovic Tézier, Barbara Frittoli, Luca Pisaroni, Isabel Rey
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Jesus Lopez Coboz