Browse: DVD Video, Rossini (composer)
Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Marilyn Horne (Isabella), Paolo Montarsolo (Mustafa), Douglas Ahlstedt (Lindoro), Allan Monk (Taddeo), Myra Merritt (Elvira), Diane Kesling (Zulma), Spiro Malas (Haly)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine
Sparkily conducted by James Levine, Ponnelle's 1986 Met production goes for broad comedy rather than subtlety, but Marilyn Horne knows exactly how to sing Isabella, and receives strong buffo... — More…
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Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims
Anastasia Belyaeva (Madame Cortese), Vladislav Ouspenski (Baron von Trombonok), Larissa Youdina (Contessa di Folleville), Daniil Shtoda (Count Libenskof), Anna Kiknadze (Marchesa Melibea), Alexeï Safiouline (Don Alvaro), Irma Guigolachvili (Corinna), Dmitri Voropaev (Belfiore), Olga Kitchenko (Modestina),...
The director Alain Maratrat transforms the flimsy story - of upper-crust travellers stranded together on their way to the coronation of Charles X - into sparkling entertainment. Bertola's cream-coloured... — More…
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Offer, An Evening with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera
Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah...
Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guglielmo Tell), Cheryl Studer (Matilde), Chris Merritt (Arnoldo), Giorgio Surjan (Gualtiero Farst), Franco de Grandis (Melchthal), Vittorio Terranova (Ruodi), Alberto Noli (Leutoldo), Luigi Roni (Gessler), Ernesto Gavazzi (Rodolfo), Amelia Felle (Jemmy), Ludicana d'Intino (Edwige)
Orchestra,...
Muti conducts with real assurance. Pacing the drama magnificently, it is on performances like these that the controversial Maestro has made his well-deserved musical reputation. Tell emerges... — More…
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Michael Spyres (Aureliano), Jessica Pratt (Zenobia), Lena Belkina (Arsace) & Raffaella Lupinacci (Publia)
Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)
[This production] is excellent and the singing on a very high level. The title role has the least interesting music, but Michael Spyres…makes what he can of it…[the lovers] are sung by Lena Belkina... — More…
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
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Juan Diego Flórez (Comte Ory), Diana Damrau (Comtesse Adèle), Joyce DiDonato (Isolier), Susanne Resmark (Ragonde), Michele Pertusi (Tutor), Stéphane Degout (Raimbaud)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurizio Benini
Sher's production is wise, witty and completely faithful to the spirit of the piece...Damrau is peerless, giving a bravura comic performance made from winks and nudges, heavy theatrical sighing... — More…
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
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Ruxandra Donose (Cenerentola), Maxim Mironov (Don Ramiro), Simone Alberghini (Dandini), Luciano di Pasquale (Don Magnifico), Raquela Sheeran (Clorinda), Lucia Cirillo (Tisbe), Nathan Berg (Alidoro)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, stage direction by...
Some found Peter Hall's staging… too dark and serious, but for me it was an invigorating evening. …Vladimir Jurowski… draws highly polished and brilliant playing from the LPO of one of Rossini's... — More…
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Rossini: La Cenerentola & Il barbiere di Siviglia
Ruxandra Donose, Maxim Mironov, Simone Alberghini, Luciano di Pasquale, Danielle de Niese, Alessandro Corbelli, Björn Bürger, Taylor Stayton
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Peter Hall, Enrique Mazzola, Annabel Arden
Two essential Rossini performances in one doubly-essential package. — More…
Offer, An Evening With The Royal Opera
Renee Fleming (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Miah Persson (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Erwin Schrott (bass-baritone), Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Teodor Illincai (Rodolfo), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Jose Cura (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano), Angelika Kirschlager...
all musically exceptional — More…
Rossini: La donna del lago
Joyce DiDonato (Elena), Juan Diego Florez (Giacomo V), John Osborn (Roderigo), Daniela Barcellona (Malcolm), Oren Gradus (Douglas)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Michele Mariotti, Paul Curran (dir.)
Florez is his usual exuberant self, throwing off top notes casually and deserving his Niagaras of applause...DiDonato as the much sought-after heroine is, as always, in tremendous form, not only... — More…
