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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Ravenna Festival / Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell & Laura Giordano / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ] Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the young Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Gaetano Donizetti is. |
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Angelika Kirchschlager / Diana Damrau / Elizabeth Connell / Thomas Allen / Colin Davis, conductor [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Diana Damrau, a plain-Jane Gretel with awkward pigtails, gets along famously with her brother, dancing, playing, being huffy. They work well off one another and their voices blend beautifully. The Sandman and Dew Fairy are lovely." 10/10 ClassicsTod |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson, Gerald Finley / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Here is a Figaro to put with the 1973 Glyndebourne production placed among the top five operatic DVDs. Figaro and Susanna are very much the centre here, and we like them not only because they sing and act well but because they are sympathetic in a... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Les Troyens (complete opera recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Theatre Musical de Paris / Yannis Kokkos, Susan Graham, Gregory Kunde / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The magnificent high-definition recording does it ample sonic and visual justice. For anyone who loves Les Troyens, this is a revelatory and essential performance." (The Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera House / Leo Nucci / Elena Moscu / Piotr Beczala / Nello Santi (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "The emotional energy of the evening is concentrated in Santi's person; he stands for nothing less than incontestable aplomb, and for music-making that, thanks to his sense of timing and style, is above reproach." |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Orlando (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera House / Marijana Mijanovic / Martina Jankova / Katharina Peetz / William Christie (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/May/2009 ] "Jens-Daniel Herzog has produced a sophisticated version of George Frideric Handel's Orlando. William Christie is a fascinating conductor who manages a superb ensemble. Opera that is both cool and cultivated - fantastic!" Aargauer Zeitung |
GOUNOD
Romeo et Juliet (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Nino Machaidze / Rolando Villazon / Russell Braun / Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg / Yannick Nezet-Seguin [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 4/May/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "Villazón expresses all of Romeo's hot-blooded passion, his tender, erotic intimacy, and, finally, his deathly despair" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) |
JOHANN STRAUSS 11
Die Fledermaus (complete operetta recorded in 2003) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Pamela Armstrong / Thomas Allen / Ragnar Ulfung / Hakan Hagegard / Vladimir Jurowski (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Vladimir Jurowski gives the bottle a good shake before popping his first cork with the overture. The London Philharmonic are on their toes… The pace is racy, the articulation brilliant, the Viennesisms deftly in place, the waltz fruity... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' Krassimira Stoyanova / Lioba Braun / Michael Schade / Michael Volle / Chor-und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons [ BR Klassik SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The key to Jansons's reading is its clarity and understated intensity, the stripping away of all extraneous gesture and, in the finale, of any hint of easy triumphalism." (Gramophone) |
PUCCINI
La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Inva Mula / Aquiles Machado / Laura Giordano / Fabio Maria Capitanucci / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Centre-stage is Inva Mula's appealing, vulnerable and intensely sung Mimì…She sings with finely shaped and expressive phrasing.' Gramophone |