Opus Arte
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Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Sarah Connolly (Dido), Lucas Meachem (Aeneas), Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sara Fulgoni (Sorceress), Anita Watson (Second Woman), Eri Nakamura (First Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (Second Witch), Iestyn Davies (Spirit), Ji-Min Park (Sailor)
Dancers of The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera Extra Chorus &...
The wide open spaces and minimalist designs contrive a vast universe against which a very intimate human tragedy can be teased out, presented with an almost classical purity and restraint.... —
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Like Water For Chocolate
Francesca Hayward, Marcelino Sambe, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Christopher Wheeldon, Alondra de La Parra
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Special offer. Pergolesi: Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Alessandro Corbelli (Marcaniello), Nuccia Focile (Ascanio), Amelia Felle (Nena), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Nina), Luciana d'Intino (Luggrezia), Ezio di Cesare (Carlo), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (Vannella), Nicoletta Curiel (Cardella), Bruno de Simone (Don Pietro), Luca Bonini (Lo schermidore)
Orchestra...
…delivered with a polish that makes almost every moment a delight. …the comic brilliance of the baritones Alessandro Corbelli and Bruno De Simone, the lustrous voices of the sopranos Nuccia... —
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Shakespeare: King Lear
Kevin R McNally (Lear), Anjana Vasan (Cordelia), Ralph Davis (Edmund), Joshua James (Edgar), Burt Caesar (Gloucester), Saskia Reeves (Kent), Sirine Saba (Regan), Emily Bruni (Goneril), Loren O’Dair (Fool)
Nancy Meckler
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Special offer. Bellini: I Puritani
Daniel Borowski (Lord Gualtiero Valton), Mariola Cantarero (Elvira), Riccardo Zanellato (Sir Giorgio), John Osborn (Lord Arturo Talbot), Scott Hendricks (Sir Riccardo Forth), Gregorio Gonzalez (Sir Bruno Roberton), Fredrika Brillembourg (Enrichetta di Francia)
Chorus of the Netherlands Opera...
Negrin gets some excellent performances from his cast, who are able to express emotion without being either hammy or cheesy. Scott Hendricks as the rejected lover sings nobly after a gusty start...Osborn... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Miah Persson (Poppea), Sarah Connolly (Nerone), Jordi Domènech (Ottone), Franz-Josef Selig (Seneca), Maite Beaumont (Ottavia), Dominique Visse (Nutrice/Arnalta), Ruth Rosique (Drusilla), Guy de Mey (Lucano), William Berger (Valletto), Marisa Martins (La Fortuna/Pallas Athene/Venus), Judith van Wanroij...
this Barcelona interpretation by [Alden] is almost Brechtian in the spare objectivity of its stage set, and Expressionist in its use of the shadowy, zombie-like figure of Time that shuffles... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festspiele, July 2014
Torsten Kerl (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Michelle Breedt (Venus), Markus Eiche (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Kwangchul Youn (Landgraf Hermann), Lothar Odinius (Walther von der Vogelweide), Thomas Jesatko (Biterolf), Stefan Heibach (Heinrich der Schreiber), Rainer Zaun (Reinmar von Zweter)
Bayreuth...
Tannhäuser, not the easiest opera in the repertoire to cast, is handsomely sung here...Torsten Kerl puts his Rienzi experience to good use as the frustrated minstrel...His women are powerful...and... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Will Hartmann (Tamino), Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Ailish Tynan (Papagena)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Colin Davis, David McVicar...
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Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
David Troughton (Titus), Nia Gwynne (Tamora), Stefan Adegbola (Aaron), Hannah Morrish (Lavinia), Patrick Drury (Marcus Andronicus), Martin Hutson (Saturninus), Dharmesh Patel (Bassianus), Tom McCall (Lucius), Luke MacGregor (Chiron), Sean Hart (Demetrius), Jon Tarcy (Alarbus)
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William Shakespeare: the Winter's Tale
Andrew French, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Joseph Kloska, Georgia Landers, Anne Odeke, Assad Zaman, Colm Gormley, Amanda Hadingue, Zoe Lambert, Ben Caplan, Erica Whyman
