The Verdi Edition: 12 Complete Operas
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Edition: 12 Complete Operas
Renee Fleming / Joseph Calleja / Thomas Hampson / Simon Keenlyside / Christine Schafer / Daniela Dessi / Jose Cura / Placido Domingo / Rolando Villazo
[ Opus Arte DVD / 17 DVD Box Set ]
Release Date: Wednesday 30 December 2015
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Celebrating the work of Italy's greatest musical dramatist, this set of 12 operas includes definitive performances from some of the finest Verdi singers of our age, in productions which reflect the contemporary richness of our perspective of the composer as both a man of his time, inspired to reflect the familial tensions and revolutionary fervour of his homeland, and also a man of theatrical genius as timeless as his adored Shakespeare, whose anti-heroes Macbeth and Falstaff stand as the poles of tragedy and comedy in this survey of modern stagings.
Running time: 34 hours 10 minutes approx
Subtitles:
RIGOLETTO / IL TROVATORE / FALSTAFF: EN
LA TRAVIATA / UN BALLO IN MASCHERA / MACBETH
SIMON BOCCANEGRA: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT
LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES: EN/FR/DE/ES
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: EN/FR/DE/ES/DU
DON CARLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/DU
AIDA: EN/FR/DE/ES/CA
OTELLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CA
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS
Rigoletto
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile)
Il Trovatore
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 3rd May 2002
José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il Conte di Luna), Yvonne Naef (Azucena), Verónica Villarroel (Leonora)
La Traviata
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, London, June & July 2009
Renée Fleming (Violetta), Joseph Calleja (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont)
Les vêpres siciliennes
Recorded live at the Amsterdam Music Theatre, 23 & 29 September, 2010 French version
Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Lívia Ághová (Ninetta), Burkhard Fritz (Henri), Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de Montfort)
Un ballo in maschera
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, on the 25th & 28th September 2008
Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar)
La forza del destino
Live Recording from The Mariinsky Theatre, 1998
Galina Gorchakova (Leonora), Nikolai Putilin (Don Carlo), Gegam Grigorian (Don Alvaro), Marianna Tarasova (Preziosilla)
Macbeth
Recorded live at The Royal Opera House, 13 June, 2011
Simon Keenlyside (Macbeth), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Aceto (Banquo)
Don Carlo
Netherlands Opera
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa)
Aida
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Daniela Dessì (Aida), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Amneris), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro)
Simon Boccanegra
Recorded: 2010 live from the Royal Opera House
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno)
Otello
Recorded live at the Gran teatre del Liceu, Barcelona on 21st & 24th February 2006
José Cura (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Lado Ataneli (Iago), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Emilia)
Falstaff
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
"this is a sensible, believable, attractive presentation that is more in line with Verdi than with the idiocies of Regietheater...Vocally, [Fleming] is on good form at almost every turn... Calleja must sound authentic enough as an Italianate tenor for anyone...I always have the impression that [Pappano] works with the singers rather than challenging them to a duel. The chorus and orchestra respond fittingly to his direction." (International Record Review on La traviata)
