Opus Arte
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Ashton: Rhapsody & The Two Pigeons
Lauren Cuthbertson (The young girl), Vadim Muntagirov (The young man), Fumi Kaneko (A gypsy girl) & Ryoichi Hirano (Her lover), Natalia Osipova & Steven Mcrae
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67
Sergei Polunin (The Wolf), Will Kemp (Grandfather), Kilian Smith (Peter), Charlotte Edmonds (Duck), Laurine Muccioli (Bird) & Chisato Katsura (Cat)
The Royal Ballet School & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy
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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…
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Britten: Gloriana
Susan Bullock (Queen Elizabeth I), Toby Spence (Earl of Essex), Patricia Bardon (Countess of Essex), Mark Stone (Lord Mountjoy), Kate Royal (Lady Rich), Jeremy Carpenter (Sir Robert Cecil), Clive Bayley (Sir Walter Raleigh) & Brindley Sherratt (Ballad Singer)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra...
Bullock works assiduously to encompass all the moods of this singularly complex character study, but her vibrato sometimes acquires an edge. Other parts...are finely done, and Paul Daniel paces... — More…
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Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
Alain Vernhes, Martial Defontaine, François Le Roux, Serghei Khomov, Sandrine Piau, Anna Shafajinskaja & Sir Willard White
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Stéphane Denève (musical director) & Laurent Pelly (stage director)
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Jesús López Cobos conducts Mascagni & Leoncavallo
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in February & March 2007.
Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), Vincenzo La Scola (Turiddu), Dragana Jugovic (Lola), Viorica Cortez (Mamma Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio), Vladimir Galouzine (Canio), Maria Bayo (Nedda), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Antonio Gandia (Beppe), Angel Odena (Silvio)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid...
That both these productions work is largely due to Jesús López Cobos's theatrically vital and style-sensitive conducting and two strong casts. — More…
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Berg: Lulu
Agneta Eichenholz (Lulu), Michael Volle (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Klaus Florian Vogt (Alwa), Jennifer Larmore (Countess Geschwitz), Philip Langridge (Prince/Manservant/Marquis), Heather Shipp (Dresser/Schoolboy/Groom), Will Hartmann (Painter/Policeman/Negro), Jeremy White (Banker/Professor)
Orchestra...
Pappano has a firm grip of every nuance of the music, from the gossamer-like delicacy after the dialogue at the end of Act II to the various moments of wrenching, disturbing power. — More…
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Cheryl Barker, Martin Thompson, Catherine Keen, Richard Stilwell, Anneleen Bijnen, Peter Blanchet
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Edo de Waart, stage direction by Robert Wilson
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Berg: Wozzeck
Franz Hawlata (Wozzeck), Angela Denoke (Marie), Reiner Goldberg (Drum Major), Vivian Tierney (Marget), Johann Tilli (Doctor), Hubert Delamboye (Captain), David Kuebler (Andres)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu & Vivaldi Chorus – IPSI – Petits Cantors de Catalunya,...
The quite sensational Chorus and Orchestra, revealed a worldclass theatre company, with a conductor London should book soon. Sebastian Weigle read the score with suavity, so that it seemed as... — More…
