C Major
-
-
Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Erwin Schrott (Escamillo), Marina Poplavskaya (Micaëla)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Marc Piollet
-
Mozart: The Lovers' Garden
Teatro alla Scala, April 2016
Roberto Bolle, Nicoletta Manni, Marta Romagna, Claudio Coviello, Mick Zeni, Christian Fagetti
Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala, La Scala String Quartet and Soloists of the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala
-
Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Carlos Álvarez, Diana Damrau, Golda Schultz, Markus Werba, Marianne Crébassa, Anna Maria Chiuri
Teatro alla Scala, Franz Welser-Möst
At first the orchestra sounds a little stiff, but as the night goes on Welser-Möst unbends and the combination of his Austrian grace and the Italian orchestra’s warmth is appealing…Crebassa’s... —
-
These are well-balanced stereo recordings, surprisingly not originally recorded multi-channel. Video is excellent usually focusing on Bernstein. —
-
Special offer. Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Andrew Foster-Williams (Faraone), Mandy Fredrich (Amaltea), Sunnyboy Dladla (Osiride), Clarissa Costanzo (Elcia), Taylan Reinhard (Mambre), Goran Jurić (Mosè), Matteo Macchioni (Aronne), Dara Savinova (Amenofi)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Lotte De Beer
As Osiride, Sunnyboy Dladla is a useful bel canto tenor…and Andrew Foster-Williams is a stern voiced Pharoah. Best of all is the young Italian soprano, Clarissa Costanzo, who rightly stops... — -
Special offer. Handel: Arminio
Max Emanuel Cencic (Arminio), Gaia Petrone (Ramise), Lauren Snouffer (Tusnelda), Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk (Sigismondo), Owen Willetts (Tullio), Pavel Kudinov (Segeste), Juan Sancho (Varo)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou, Max Emanuel Cencic (dir.)
Lauren Snouffer is on sensational vocal form as Arminio’s wife Tusnelda, and Aleksandra Kubas-Kurk has a rounded security of tone as the young hero Sigismondo…Gaia Petrone sings her arias with... —
-
Nijinsky – A Ballet by John Neumeier
Music by Chopin, Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich
Alexandre Riabko, Anne Lauderer, Carsten Jung, Lloyd Riggins, Alexandr Trusch, Carolina Agüero
Hamburg Ballet
-
Herbert von Karajan: Maestro for the Screen
A film by Georg Wübbolt
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
-
Special offer. Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Marie Arnet (Alceste), David Bates (Trasimede), Kirsten Blaise (Antigona), Tim Mead (Admeto), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe) & Andrew Radley (Orindo)
FestspielOrchester Gottingen & Mamu Dance Theatre, Nicholas McGegan (conductor) & Doris Dörrie (stage director)
