Opus Arte
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Simon Keenlyside (Macbeth), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Aceto (Banquo), Dmitri Pittas (Macduff), Nigel Cliffe (Servant), Steven Ebel (Malcolm), Elisabeth Meister (Lady-in-Waiting) & Lukas Jakobski (Doctor)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio...
Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination... —
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Special offer. Turnage: Anna Nicole
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole), Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall), Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern), Susan Bickley (Virgie), Jeremy White (Daddy Hogan), Loré Lixenberg (Cousin Shelley), Peter Hoare (Larry King)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
a slick satire on the superficiality of American popular culture...Eva-Maria Westbroek gives a gutsy central performance —
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Delibes: Coppelia
Dorothée Gilbert (Swanilda), Mathias Heymann (Frantz), José Martinez (Coppélius) & Fabrice Bourgeois (Spalanzani)
The Paris Opera Corps de Ballet & Orchestre Colonne
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Adam: Giselle
Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nuñez & Martin Harvey
The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Boris Gruzin
The Royal Ballet's recent triumphs continue with this exquisite Giselle. Beguiling actress-dancer Alina Cojocaru embraces both Act I's sweet rural girl and the tragic ghost of Act II. —
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Special offer. The Blu-ray Experience - Opera & Ballet Highlights
Bryn Terfel, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Jose Cura, Simon Keenlyside & Agnes Letestu, Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel
Royal Opera House, Paris Opera Ballet, Teatro Real, Glyndebourne, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Drottningholm Theatre, De Nederlandse Opera
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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea
Danielle de Niese (Galatea), Charles Workman (Acis), Matthew Rose (Polyphemus), Paul Agnew (Damon), Ji-Min Park (Corydon), Lauren Cuthbertson (Galatea - dancer), Edward Watson (Acis - dancer), Steven McRae (Damon - dancer), Eric Underwood (Polyphemus - dancer), Paul Kay (Coridon - dancer)
Dancers...
Vocally, the star of the show is Matthew Rose, whose pitch-perfect Polyphemus conveys the bruised vulnerability of the inarticulate and ugly...The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment play... —
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Liszt: Mayerling
Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Iohna Loots, William Tuckett, Cindy Jourdain, Sarah Lamb & Elizabeth McGorian
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth
A contorted Edward Watson as death-obsessed Austrian royalty leads a brilliant Royal Ensemble in Opus Arte's second DVD of Kenneth Macmillan's stunner. —
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William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost
Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, in October 2009.
Philip Cumbus (King of Navarre), Trystan Gravelle (Berowne), William Mannering (Longaville), Jack Farthing (Dumaine), Michelle Terry (Princess of France), Thomasin Rand (Rosaline), Jade Anouka (Maria), Siân Robins-Grace (Katharine), Tom Stuart (Boyet), Paul Ready (Don Armado), Seroca Davis (Moth),...
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Special offer. Mozart in Turkey
A film by Elijah Moshinsky and Mick Csáky, of and about Mozart's opera.
Paul Groves (Belmonte), Yelda Kodalli (Konstanze), Désirée Rancatore (Blonde), Lynton Atkinson (Pedrillo), Peter Rose (Osmin), Oliver Tobias (Bassa Selim)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
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