C Major
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Grieg: Peer Gynt
Jakob Feyferlik, Alice Firenze, Wiener Staatsballett, Wiener Staatsoper, Simon Hewett
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Special offer. Verdi: La Traviata
Svetla Vassileva (Violetta), Massimo Giordano (Alfredo), Vladimir Stoyano (Germont), Daniela Pini (Flora), Gianlua Floris (Gastone), Roberto Tagliavini (Dottore Grenvil), Armando Gabba (Barone Douphol), Filippo Polinelli (Marchese d'Obigny)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov
a thank you to the Stage Directors Karl-Ernst and Ursel Herrmann who have given us the opera in a form Verdi would have recognised...Vassileva makes for a young, beautiful and appropriately... —
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The Glass Menagerie - A Ballet By John Neumeier
Alina Cojocaru (dancer), Alessandro Frola, Patricia Friza, Edvin Revazov, Christopher Evans, Hamburg Ballet (ballet company), John Neumeier (choreographer), Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Luciano Di Martino
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Special offer. Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... —
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Jonas Kaufmann - The Sound of Movies
The Prague Concert
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Jochen Rieder
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Handel: Admeto, Re di Tessaglia HWV22
Tim Mead (Admeto), Marie Arnet (Alceste), William Berger (Ercole), Andrew Radley (Orindo), David Bates (Trasimede), Kirsten Blaise (Antigona), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (Meraspe)
Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
McGegan conducts the Festival Orchestra with a sure sense of style and no exaggerated stylisation...[Dörrie] has succeeded in creating a distinctive setting, satisfying the eye and yet allowing... —
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Pappano says illuminating things about Callas’s voice and what she did with it…Kristine Opolais is interesting about her acting…Tito Gobbi is his expansive self…The performance itself remains... —
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Kit Armstrong plays Wagner, Liszt and Mozart
Live from the Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth
Kit Armstrong (piano)
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Grieg: Peer Gynt
A ballet by Edward Clug
Jakob Feyferlik, Alice Firenze, Wiener Staatsballett, Wiener Staatsoper, Simon Hewett
