Browse: DVD Video, Bizet (composer)
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
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Diana Damrau (Leïla), Matthew Polenzani (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Teste (Nourabad
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda, Penny Woolcock (dir.)
Woolcock finds a double drama in Bizet's opera..., Noseda drawing sumptuous playing from the Met Orchestra...The Met fields a magnificent cast. Matthew Polenzani is a puppyish Nadir...whil Mariusz... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
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Elina Garanča (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Escamillo), Barbara Frittoli (Micaela), Keith Miller (Zuniga), Elizabeth Caballero (Frasquita), Sandra Piques Eddy (Mercedes), Earle Patriarco (Dancaire), Keith Jameson (Remandado), Trevor Scheunemann (Morales)
Metropolitan...
...everyone on stage, from stars to comprimarios and children (authentically underfoot), crackles with individual life, ideal on video... Garanča's clean-cut Baltic mezzo and fresh good looks... — More…
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Offer, Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim from the Teatro Colón
Piano Duos and Concert
Martha Argerich (piano) & Daniel Barenboim (conductor & piano)
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Offer, Grafenegg Sommernachtsgala 2016
Live from the Grafenegg Festival, June 2016
Olga Peretyatko (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Tonkunstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Bizet: Carmen
Christine Rice (Carmen), Bryan Hymel (Don José), Aris Argiris (Escamillo) & Maija Kovalevska (Micaëla)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Constantinos Carydis (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director)
The picture quality is unusually high, and this particular revival has been scrupulously rehearsed; the broadly traditional, picturesque and well-crafted period staging may add in irrelevant... — More…
Summer Night Concert 2016
Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos)
Vienna Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov
Bizet: Carmen
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Andrew Richards (Don Jose), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Micaela), Nicolas Cavallier (Escamillo), Matthew Brook (Zuniga), Riccardo Novaro (Morales)
The Monteverdi Choir, Maitrise Des Hauts De Seine & Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
[Antonacci] dominates the cast entirely - less carnivorous and more complex than on Covent Garden's DVD, singing with a lighter, more nuanced touch...Gardiner's is a crisply intense reading,... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
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Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don Jose), Norah Amsellem (Micaela), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Escamillo), Jacques Imbrailo (Morales), Matthew Rose (Zuniga), Elena Xanthoudakis (Frasquita), Viktoria Vizin (Mercedes), Caroline Lena Olsson (Lillas Pastia), Jean Sebastien Bou (Le Dancaire),...
Pappano in the pit takes the whole thing at a tremendous lick while coaxing some lovely playing from the Royal Opera House Orchestra. For all that, this is opera as spectacle with good tunes... — More…
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New, Serebrier - Live In Beijing
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier
Offer, Susan Graham - French Songs
Recorded at Verbier Festival, July 2009
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
An hour of pure delight...Graham is utterly at home in this repertoire an performs it with élan...Martineau is the perfect partner throughout, perfectly jusging depth of tone, moving as one with... — More…
