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DVD Video, English National Opera (opera company)
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Britten: Death in Venice
RecommendedJohn Graham-Hall (Gustav von Aschenbach), Andrew Shore (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Gondolier/Barber/ Hotel Manager Player/Dionysus), Tim Mead (Apollo), Sam Zaldivar (Tadzio), Laura Caldow (The Polish Mother), Mia Angelina Mather/Xhuliana Shehu (Her Two Daughters), Joyce Henderson (The Governess), Marcio...
It's not often one can say a production is improved by viewing on a small screen but, for me, this one was...Graham-Hall is a real stage-animal, convincing us utterly of his descent into obsession...Above... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
Yvonne Kenny (Titania), Thomas Randle (Oberon), Simon Rice (Puck) & Richard Van Allan (King Theseus)
Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, Nicholas Kok (conductor) & David Pountney (director)
Pountney's 1995 ENO production cuts the spoken text of Purcell's semi-opera and plays the rest for laughs —
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Sarah Connolly (Lucretia), Christopher Maltman (Tarquinius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca), Mary Nelson (Lucia), Leigh Melrose (Junius), Clive Bayley (Collatinus), Orla Boylan (Female Chorus) & John Mark Ainsley (Male Chorus)
English National Opera, Paul Daniel (conductor) & David McVicar...
The main cast delivers a superlative response from start to finish, headed by baritone Christopher Maltman's bull-like Tarquinius and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly's harrowingly intense Lucretia...Top-flight... —
Awards:
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Opera, April 2014, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
Olga Esina, Vladimir Shishov, Eno Peci, Dagmar Kronberger
Wiener Staatsballett & Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Alexander Ingram
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Male Chorus), Kathryn Harries (Female Chorus), Russell Smythe (Tarquinius), Richard van Allan (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Anne-Marie Owens (Bianca), Cathryn Pope (Lucia)
English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend, stage direction by Graham...
Strong performances from cast members - notably Rigby's Lucretia and Opie's Junius - grace an impressive realisation of Vick's 1987 ENO production. —
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Special offer. Britten: Gloriana
Sarah Walker (Elizabeth I), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Essex), Jean Rigby (Lady Essex), Richard van Allan (Raleigh), Elizabeth Vaughan (Lady Rich), Alan Opie (Cecil), Neil Howlett (Mountjoy), Malcolm Donnelly (Henry Cuffe)
English National Opera, Mark Elder, Colin Graham
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
Philip Langridge (Grimes), Janice Cairns (Ellen), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ann Howard (Auntie), Andrew Greenan (Swallow), Susan Gorton (Mrs Sedley)
Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, David Atherton
Tim Albery's ENO production… conducted with drive by David Atherton, gets to the heart of the opera. I challenge anyone not to be moved by it. —
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Special offer. Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114
Eilene Hannan (Rusalka), Ann Howard (Jezibaba), John Treleaven (Prinz), Phyllis Cannan (Foreign Princess), Rodney Macann (Water Goblin), Edward Byles (Gamekeeper), Fiona Kimm (Kitchen-Boy), Christopher Booth-Jones (Hunter)
English National Opera, Mark Elder (conductor) & David Pountney...
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Special offer. Handel: Ariodante
Ann Murray (Ariodante), Joan Rodgers (Ginevra), Lesley Garrett (Dalinda), Gwynne Howell (The King of Scotland), Christopher Robson (Polinesso), Paul Nilon (Lurcanio), Mark Le Brocq (Odoardo)
English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (stage director)
a moving, visually striking show, musically impressive. —
