Opus Arte
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Mozart in Turkey
A film by Elijah Moshinsky and Mick Csáky, of and about Mozart's opera.
Paul Groves, Yelda Kodalli, Désirée Rancatore, Lynton Atkinson, Peter Rose, Oliver Tobias
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Francisco Araiza (Don Ottavio), Claudio Desderi (Leporello), Susanne Mentzer (Zerlina), Natale de Carolis (Masetto), Sergej Koptchak (Il Commendatore)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Riccardo Muti
A rare operatic detour on the part of a great theatre director, Giorgio Strehler, it does bear a distinctive theatrical stamp… Thomas Allen's Giovanni (in splendidly aristocratic form) and... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Illustrated Synopsis & Cast Gallery
Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Heidi Grant Murphy (Susanna), Peter Mattei (Count), Christiane Oelze (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Helene Schneiderman (Marcellina), Roland Bracht (Bartolo), Burkhard Ulrich (Basilio), Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Curzio), Frédéric Caton (Antonio), Cassandre Berthon...
Update is the imperfect noun we use. Christoph Marthaler's production has transposed 18th-century upstairs-downstairs to bridal retail in 2001. We get Mozart's music and Da Ponte's words, subject... — More…
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Prom At The Palace
The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace 2002
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Ashley Wass (piano), Roberto Bolle (Prince Siegfried), Zenaida Yanowsky (Odile), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Adventist Chorale, Band of Her Majesty s Royal...
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Roberto Tagliavini (Leporello), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Elvira), Daniel Behle (Don Ottavio), Louise Alder (Zerlina), Petros Magoulas (Commendatore), Leon Košavic (Masetto)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hartmut Haenchen, Kasper Holten
The production mixes and matches the Prague and Vienna versions of the opera in an uncritical way, with Holten’s Giovanni not dragged off to hell and the moral edge of the final ensemble blunted... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Maria Bengtsson (Fiordiligi), Jurgita Adamonyte (Dorabella), Pavol Breslik (Ferrando), Stéphane Degout (Guglielmo), Rebecca Evans (Despina), Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jonathan Miller
It’s a wry take on the opera, Miller emphasising that the plot is not so much about testing the fiancées’ faithfulness, but an adventure in self-discovery. — More…
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Frederick Ashton: Les Patineurs, Divertissement & Scènes de ballet
Laura Morera, Samantha Raine, Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb, Rupert Pennefather, Christina Arestis, Francesca Filpi, Ryoichi Hirano, Kenta Kura, Liam Scarlett & Andrej Uspenski, Miyako Yoshida, Ivan Putrov, Edward Watson & Lauren Cuthbertson
Paul Murphy, Barry Wordsworth
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The Best of Joan Sutherland
Featuring works by Donizetti, Cilea, Poulenc, Delibes & Lehár
Joan Sutherland
Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra & Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Sally Matthews (Countess), Vito Priante (Figaro), Audun Iversen (Count), Lydia Teuscher (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Alan Oke (Don Basilio)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor)...
Grandage's 2011 Glyndebourne production excels where it matters: in the truthfulness and warmth of these very human characters' interrelationships...Priante is simply the best [Figaro] I've... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera...
Holten shows us Giovanni as a man older than usual, lonely, perhaps trying to stave off his fear of death with each new seduction...Some of the singing would not pass muster on CD. But the acting... — More…
