Opus Arte
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William Shakespeare: Henry VI Parts 1-3
Mark Quartley, Christopher Middleton, Minnie Gale, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Gregory Doran, Owen Horsley
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
John Treleaven, Deborah Polaski, Erik Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Lioba Braun, Wolfgang Rauch
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Alfred Kirchner
…welcome this Barcelona version, featuring several stars from its middling but enjoyable Ring, and a very similar production - starkly modernistic, a car-ferry's bow and a surreal garden, but... — More…
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Shakespeare: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy
Brendon Hughes (Duke Frederick), Jack Laskey (Orlando), Trevor Martin (Adam), Jamie Parker (Oliver), Naomi Frederick (Rosalind), Laura Rogers (Celia), Dominic Rowan (Touchstone), Gregory Gudgeon (Le Beau), Sean Kearns (Charles/Cori), Philip Bird (Duke Senior), Peter Gale (Amiens), Michael Benz (Silvius),...
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William Shakespeare: Three Tragedies
Antony Sher (King Lear), Kelly Williams (Regan), Nia Gwynee (Goneril), Natalie Simpson (Cordelia), Paapa Essiedu (Edmund), Oliver Johnstone (Edgar), David Troughton (Gloucester), James Clyde (Cornwall), Antony Byrne (Kent), Byron Mondahl (Oswald), Clarence Smith (Albany), Graham Turner (Fool), Paapa...
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Puccini Box Set
Teodor Ilincai (Rodolfo), Hibla Gerzmava (Mimì), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Inna Dukach (Musetta), Kostas Smoriginas (Colline), Jacques Imbrailo (Schaunard), Jeremy White (Benoit), Donald Maxwell (Alcindoro), Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca), Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi), Bryn Terfel (Scarpia), Lukas Jakobski...
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Handel: Tamerlano
Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Monica Bacelli (Tamerlano), Ingela Bohlin (Asteria), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) & Jennifer Holloway (Irene)
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real, Paul McCreesh (conductor) & Graham Vick (stage director)
The grandly tragic figure of the enslaved Turkish sultan Bajazet… is a recent departure for Plácido Domingo, and one that could be supposed to lie outside his comfort zone. So it says much... — More…
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A Christmas Celebration (Box Set)
Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Angelika Kirchschlager (Hansel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrud), Thomas Allen (Peter) & Anja Silja (Witch)
The Royal...
The dancing of the two young principals, Iohna Loots and Ricardo Cervera as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker, is characterful and enchanting...this is a generally conventional production [of... — More…
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Wagner: Parsifal
Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Festspielchor Baden-Baden, Kent Nagano
…a provocative but effective interpretation, in which the Knights of the Grail are struggling to hang on to life in a post-apocalyptic world (a symbolic meteorite dominates the set in Act I).... — More…
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Wagner: Siegfried
John Treleaven (Siegfried), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Cristina Obregón (Woodbird)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy
…Harry Kupfer's modernistic but clear-sighted staging… confirms Barcelona's Ring as the best recent cycle on DVD. Its darkly gleaming hi-tech settings centre around the massive limbs of the... — More…
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Verdi Box Set
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore, José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il...
[On Rigoletto] With Christine Schäfer as a matchless Gilda and Edward Downes, the finest Verdian of the age, conducting, it’s a production that rages at the cruelty of the world. — More…
