Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY

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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY
Bavarian State Opera / Piotr Beczala, George Petean, Anja Harteros, Okka von der Damerau, Sofia Fomina / Zubin Mehta (cond)

[ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Monday 20 March 2017

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"Musically things are more than fine. Beczała pulls off this one hell of a tenor role…with style and confidence. Harteros gives her usual tightly focused emotional performance. With good sound and helpful shot selction the release is strongly recommended." Gramophone Magazine - Blu-ray of the Month - May 2017

Staged by Johannes Erath

Munich's new Ballo in maschera has received much critical acclaim: 'This production shows what a utopia opera can be' (Abendzeitung). Ten years after stepping down as music director of the Bavarian State Opera, Zubin Mehta returned to Munich in March 2016 to celebrate his 80th birthday conducting Verdi's masterpiece for the first time in a staged production. His cast features some of today's finest Verdi singers: soprano Anja Harteros, singing Amelia for the first time and 'filling every note with Verdian intensity', tenor Piotr Beczala as a 'visually and vocally dashing Riccardo' and George Petean as an 'exemplary' Renato (Neue Musikzeitung). In director Johannes Erath's super-sensitive new production, this historically-based tale of illicit love, conspiracy and betrayal unfolds in a surrealistic, shadowy setting transformed by lighting and projections. Special praise was showered by the enthusiastic critics on Maestro Mehta, whom 'creates concentrated musical connections, miraculously guiding his orchestra and unsurpassable voices the way a thermal lifts a paraglider... Musically the performance was a dream' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

SOUND FORMAT: BluRay: PCM 2.0, DTS-HD MA 5.1

PICTURE: 16:9, HD

SUBTITLES: Italian (original language), German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: English, German, French

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 149 mins

"Musically things are more than fine. Beczała pulls off this one hell of a tenor role…with style and confidence. Harteros gives her usual tightly focused emotional performance. With good sound and helpful shot selction the release is strongly recommended." Gramophone Magazine - Blu-ray of the Month - May 2017

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera from Bayerische Staatsoper München