Opus Arte
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Shakespeare: The Tempest
Simon Russell Beale (Prospero), Joe Dixon (Caliban), Mark Quartley (Ariel), Jenny Rainsford (Miranda), Simon Trinder (Trinculo), Tony Jayawardena (Stephano) & Oscar Pearce (Antonio)
Gregory Doran (director)
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Love's Labour's Lost and Won - Music and Speeches
Sam Alexander (Ferdinand), William Belchambers (Longaville), Tunji Kasim (Dumaine), Edward Bennett (Berowne / Benedick), Michelle Terry (Rosaline / Beatrice), David Horovitch (Leonato)
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Antony and Cleopatra - Music and Speeches
Josette Simon (Cleopatra), Andrew Woodall (Enobarbus) & Antony Byrne (Mark Antony)
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna), Yvonne Naef (Azucena), Verónica Villarroel (Leonora), Tomas Tomasson (Ferrando), Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Ines), Edgaras Montvidas (Ruiz), Thomas Barnard (Old Gypsy)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Conducted by Carlo Rizzi & Directed...
Elijah Moshinsky’s production is surely as lively and moving as Verdi’s intricate masterpiece deserves. Jose Cura sizzles. —
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Special offer. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Olga Busuioc (Cio-Cio San), Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton), Michael Sumuel (Sharpless), Carlo Bosi (Goro), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki)
The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber, Annilese Miskimmon
Miskimmon’s updated concept for Glyndebourne gives new layers of resonance without compromising the original’s spirit…Guerrero is suitably handsome and has both a creamy voice that exudes tenderness... —
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Shakespeare: Coriolanus
Sope Dirisu (Coriolanus), James Corrigan (Aufidius), Paul Jesson (Menenius), Haydn Gwynne (Volumnia), Charles Aitken (Cominius), Ben Hall (Titus Lartius), Martina Laird (Junius Brutus), Hannah Morrish (Virgilia), Katherine Toy (Valeria)
Angus Jackson (director)
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Shakespeare: Coriolanus
Sope Dirisu (Coriolanus), James Corrigan (Aufidius), Paul Jesson (Menenius), Haydn Gwynne (Volumnia), Charles Aitken (Cominius), Ben Hall (Titus Lartius), Martina Laird (Junius Brutus), Hannah Morrish (Virgilia), Katherine Toy (Valeria)
Angus Jackson (director)
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Renée Fleming and Christian Thielemann in Concert
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Roberto Tagliavini (Leporello), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Elvira), Daniel Behle (Don Ottavio), Louise Alder (Zerlina), Petros Magoulas (Commendatore), Leon Košavic (Masetto)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hartmut Haenchen, Kasper Holten
The production mixes and matches the Prague and Vienna versions of the opera in an uncritical way, with Holten’s Giovanni not dragged off to hell and the moral edge of the final ensemble blunted... —
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