Opus Arte
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Minkus: Don Quixote
Marianela Nuñez (Kitri), Carlos Acosta (Basilio), Christopher Saunders (Don Quixote), Philip Mosley (Sancho Panza), Gary Avis (Lorenzo), Bennet Gartside (Gamache), Ryoichi Hirano (Espada), Laura Morera (Mercedes)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Martin Yates (conductor) & Carlos Acosta...
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
John Mark Ainsley, Brigitte Balleys, Michael Chance, David Cordier, Mario Luperi, Russell Smythe
Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino, Stephen Stubbs (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
Simply the most compelling account of L'Orfeo yet produced...John Mark Ainsley is simply superb as Orfeo… —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
John Keyes (Siegmund), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), John Bröcheler (Wotan), Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde), Kurt Rydl (Hunding), Reinhild Runkel (Fricka)
De Nederlandse Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen, Pierre Audi
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Ashton Celebration: The Royal Ballet Dances Frederick Ashton
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, February 2013
Artists of The Royal Ballet & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Emmanuel Plasson
Variable offerings from choreographer Frederick Ashton...all impeccably executed. Worth seeing for stars including Tamara Rojo. —
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Special offer. Glass, P: The Perfect American
Christopher Purves (Walt Disney), David Pittsinger (Roy), Donald Kaasch (Dantine), Janis Kelly (Hazel George), Marie McLaughlin (Lillian Disney), Sarah Tynan (Sharon), Nazan Fikret (Diane) & Rosie Lomas (Lucy / Josh)
The Improbable Skills Ensemble & Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro...
Purves fully engages with the lead role, injecting energy into a score that (perhaps unusually for a style based on such propulsive repetition) often lacks momentum. —
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Special offer. Glass, P: The Perfect American
Christopher Purves (Walt Disney), David Pittsinger (Roy), Donald Kaasch (Dantine), Janis Kelly (Hazel George), Marie McLaughlin (Lillian Disney), Sarah Tynan (Sharon), Nazan Fikret (Diane) & Rosie Lomas (Lucy / Josh)
The Improbable Skills Ensemble & Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro...
Purves fully engages with the lead role, injecting energy into a score that (perhaps unusually for a style based on such propulsive repetition) often lacks momentum. —
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Special offer. 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... —
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Special offer. Verdi: I Due Foscari
Plácido Domingo (Francesco Foscari), Francesco Meli (Jacopo Foscari) & Maria Agresta (Lucrezia Contarini), Maurizio Muraro (Jacopo Loredano), Samuel Sakker (Barbarigo), Rachel Kelly (Pisana), Lee Hickenbottom (Fante), Dominic Barrand (Servant)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal...
Domingo’s vital engagement in a role in which signs of his vocal age work to his advantage makes his central contribution a considerable achievement —
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Belarbi: La Reine Morte
The Dead Queen
Davit Galstyan (Don Pedro), Maria Gutierrez (Dona Ines De Castro) & Artjom Maksakov (Roi Ferrante)
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Ballet du Capitole, Koen Kessels
Intriguing subject matter and fine performances from an accomplished choreographer and his company —
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Belarbi: La Reine Morte
The Dead Queen
Davit Galstyan (Don Pedro), Maria Gutierrez (Dona Ines De Castro) & Artjom Maksakov (Roi Ferrante)
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Ballet du Capitole, Koen Kessels
