Opus Arte
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Special offer. Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras...
Meyerbeer's vocal writing demands virtuoso singing, and receives that here. Bryan Hymel hurls himself unstintingly at the title role, impossible high notes and all. Marina Poplavskaya suggests... —
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Marianela Nuñez (Odette/Odile), Vadim Muntagirov (Prince Siegfried), Elizabeth McGorian (The Queen), Bennet Gartside (Von Rothbart), Alexander Campbell (Benno), Akane Takada (Prince Siegfried’s Younger Sister), Francesca Hayward (Prince Siegfried’s Younger Sister)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera...
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Special offer. Gounod: Faust
Erwin Schrott (Mephistopheles), Michael Fabiano (Faust), Irina Lungu (Marguerite)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Dan Ettinger, David McVicar
This is a top-flight cast. In a sensitive, intelligent and finely articulated interpretation, Michael Fabiano humanises the doddering old philosopher…Stealing a number of scenes is Erwin Schrott,... —
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Eroica - The day that changed music for ever
Nick Dear's award-winning period drama, starring Ian Hart as Beethoven, brings to life the first performance of the Eroica Symphony, an event that prompted Haydn to remark 'everything is different from today'.
Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Claire Skinner, Jack Davenport, Frank Finlay, Fenella Woolgar, Lucy Akhurst, Leo Bill, Peter Hanson, Robert Glenister, Anton Lesser
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
'June 1804' says the legend at the film's opening.
Denis Matthews (in his Master Musicians volume) thought it was six months later that the Eroica was given a first run-through in the palace... — -
Special offer. Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Bryn Terfel (Don Pasquale), Markus Werba (Malatesta), Olga Peretyatko (Norina), Ioan Hotea (Ernesto), Bryan Secombe (Carlino)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Evelino Pidò
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Special offer. Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore
Nadine Sierra (Adina), Liparit Avetisyan (Nemorino), Bryn Terfel (Dulcamara), Boris Pinkhasovich (Belcore), Sarah Dufresne (Giannetta)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sesto Quatrini
What a joyous night has been captured here – a dual harvest of first fruit and vintage wine...Sierra is in luscious form…[Terfel] returns to the role of Dulcamara with a gusto that’s hard to... —
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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Mariella Devia (Lucia), Vincenzo La Scola (Edgardo), Renato Bruson (Enrico), Marco Berti (Arturo), Carlo Colombara (Raimondo), Floriana Sovilla (Alisa), Ernesto Gavazzi (Normano)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Stefano Ranzani
Pier' Alli, the producer-designer explores a poetically Romanticised view of decaying, mist-ringed Scottish castles which in its consciously old-fashioned way chimes well with the gently singer-supportive... —
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Last Night of the Proms 2000
Hilary Hahn (violin), Jane Eaglen (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
A fulsome farewell to Andrew Davis's 11-year tenure as the Proms conductor par excellence —
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Massenet: Manon
Justine Summers & Steven Heathcote
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra & The Australian Ballet, Noel Smith, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
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Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Judith Howarth (soprano)
St. John’s, Clare and Gonville & Caius Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Christopher Robinson
