Business update: Our website remains open for orders. However, delays in postal and courier services mean that deliveries are currently taking longer than usual
Browse: DVD Video, Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
Return to DVD Video.
Rachmaninov: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24
Recommended
Sergei Leiferkus (The Baron), Richard Berkeley-Steele (Albert), Maxim Mikhailov (The Servant), Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (The Money-lender), Albert Schagidullin (The Duke), Matilda Leyser (Aerialist)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, directed by Annabel Ardenmir
A rather sobering story derived from a play by Pushkin, The Miserly Knight tells the story of a profligate son attempting, by various means both above- and below-board, to extract some money... — More…
Awards:
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Robert Lloyd (Boris), Olga Borodina (Marina), Alexei Steblianko (Girgory/False Dmitry), Sergei Leiferkus (Rangoni), Larissa Diadkova (Fyodor), Evgeni Boitsov (Shuisky), Alexander Morozov (Pimen), Vladimir Ognovienko (Varlaam), Olga Kondina (Xenia), Ludmila Filatova (Hostess), Vladimir Solodovnikov...
Film director Andrei Tarkovsky, famous for science- fiction classics Solaris and Stalker and the historical epic Andrei Rublev, was a master of symbolic effect – the gigantic pendulum, the grotesquely... — More…
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Sergei Leyferkus (Eugene Onegin), Yuri Marusin (Lensky), Tatiana Novikova (Tatiana), Larissa Dyadkova (Olga), Nikolai Okhotnikov (Prince Gremin), Evgenya Gorokovskaya (Madame Larina), Ludmila Filatova (Nursemaid)
Kirov Opera
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Gegam Grigorian (Hermann), Sergei Leiferkus (Tomsky), Ludmila Filatova (Countess), Maria Gulegina (Lisa), Olga Borodina (Pauline), Alexander Gergalov (Yeletsky)
Kirov Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
This production from St Petersburg, and contemporaneous with the Glyndebourne production reviewed above, is a much more conventional but equally valid approach. The staging is always apt, and... — More…
Offer, Rachmaninov: Troika
Kostas Smoriginas (Aleko), Sergey Semishkur (Young gipsy), Alexander Vassiliev (Old gipsy), Anna Nechaeva (Zemfira), Yaroslava Kozina (Gipsy woman), Sergei Leiferkus (Boris), Dmitry Golovnin (Dmitri), Ilya Silchukov (The Duke), Alexander Kravets (Money lender), Alexander Vassiliev (Servant), Dimitris...
Nechaeva [is] an appealingly sensuous Zemfira and Francesca, sturdy Greek baritones as jealous heavies Aleko and Lorenzaccio, and veteran Sergei Leiferkus excellent as the demented knight. Mikhail... — More…
Offer, Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Yuri Marusin (Hermann), Nancy Gustafson (Lisa), Felicity Palmer (Countess), Sergei Leiferkus (Tomsky), Dimitri Kharitonov (Yeletsky), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Pauline), Enid Hartle (Governess)
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis, stage direction by Graham Vick
Graham Vick's 1992 staging is worthy of this extraordinary score. He reflects exactly the highly charged emotions and sense of brooding menace pervading the composer's re-enactment of Pushkin's... — More…
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Lucy Crowe (Vixen), Emma Bell (Fox), Sergei Leiferkus (Forester), William Dazeley (Harasta), Mischa Schelomianski (Badger/Parson), Jean Rigby (Forester's Wife/Owl), Adrian Thompson (Schoolmaster/Mosquito), Colin Judson (Pásek, Innkeeper), Sarah Pring (Innkeeper’s Wife)
London Philharmonic Orchestra,...
Still, with her background in choreography and a very visceral take on children's theatre, is an ideal director. There's nothing cutesy about her treatment of the animal characters...Jurowski... — More…
Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki (The Slippers)
Larissa Diadkova (Solokha), Maxim Mikhailov (The Devil), Vladimir Matorin (Chub), John Upperton (Panas), Olga Guryakova (Oxana), Vsevolod Grivnov (Vakula), Alexander Vassiliev (Pan Golova), Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (The Schoolmaster), Olga Sabadoch (Odark), Changhan Lim (Wood Goblin), Andrew Macnair...
[Mokrov's designs] positively glow with snowy Russian colour and charm...Polianichko makes an affectionate case for the score — More…
Offer, Tribute to Evgeny Svetlanov
Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano), Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor) & Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Yurlov State Academic Chorus & State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Vladimir Jurowski
Apart from its virtues as a brilliant piece of programming…this concert should be snapped up by Prokofiev lovers. It’s been a long time since we’ve had an electric performance of his seismic... — More…
Fairytale Operas
Angelika Kirchschlager (Hänsel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrude), Thomas Allen (Peter), Anja Silja (Die Knusperhexe), Pumeza Matshikiza (Sandmännchen), Anita Watson (Taumännchen), Lucy Crowe (Vixen), Emma Bell (Fox), Sergei Leiferkus (Forester), William Dazeley (Harasta), Mischa...
