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Music > Classical & Classical Crossover > Opera & operetta
Simone Young leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in this
production of Pfitzner's opera, directed for the stage by Christian
Stuckl. Performers include Christopher Ventris, Peter Rose, Michael
Volle and Falk Struckmann.
Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan
Botha in the title role and Renée Fleming playing Desdemona. Semyon
Bychkov conducts. The opera was originally filmed as part of the
Met Opera Live series, which saw operas beamed live from New York
to cinema screens around the world.
Performances from Hans Sotin, Bernd Weikl, Robert Schunk, Franz
Mazura, John Pickering, Heinz Feldhoff, Spas Wenkoff, Gwyneth Jones
and the Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele.
Andrea Battistoni leads the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Regio di
Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera recorded live in 2012.
Cast members include Roberto Aronica, Yu Guanqun, Roberto Frontali
and Gabriele Mangione.
The second volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe
Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in
2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction.
The operas included are: 'Macbeth', 'I Masnadieri', 'Il Corsaro',
'La Battaglia di Legnano', 'Luisa Miller', 'Stiffelio',
'Rigoletto', 'Il Trovatore' and 'La Traviata'.
Andrea Bocelli performs live on a floating stage on Lake Las Vegas.
He performs tracks from his album 'Amore', including 'Autumn
Leaves', 'Because We Believe', and 'September Morn'.
A visually spectacular interpretation of Berlioz's opera, staged by
the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau
de les Arts. Valery Gergiev conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat
Valenciana, with performances by Daniela Barcellona, Lance Ryan,
Elisabete Matos and Giorgio Giuseppini.
This performance of Offenbach's LA GRANDE DUCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN
stars the same cast featured in the audio recording released in
October 2005. Filmed in December 2004 at the Parisian venue Theatre
du Chatelet, the operetta resembles the original from 1867.
Alejo Pérez conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in
this performance of Charles Gounod's opera at the 2016 Salzburg
Festival. Piotr Beczala performs the title role with Ildar
Abdrazakov starring as Méphistophélčs and Maria Agresta as
Marguerite.
Mark Elder conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker for David Pountney's
2009 Bregenzer Festspiele production of Karol Szymanowski's 'King
Roger'. Scott Hendricks, Olga Pasichnyk and John Graham-Hall star.
Louis LangrĂŠe conducts the Camerata Salzburg in this performance
of Mozart's opera recorded at 2008's Festival dâAix-en-Provence.
Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Paris National Opera Chorus and
Orchestra in this 2008 performance of LeoĹĄ JanĂĄcek's fantastical
opera. AndrĂŠ Engel directs this production at Paris's Opera
Bastille.
Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus performs a selection of works by Bach,
Mozart, and Schubert on IN RECITAL. Culled from vintage television
performances, this release is an invaluable document of Kraus's
talents.
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this
performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Recorded at the Grosser
Musikvereinssaal in spring 1990, the performance was the esteemed
conductor's last with the orchestra before his death six months
later.
Martin Yates conducts the Paris Opera Orchestra in this performance
of Jules Massenet's ballet, choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan.
Aurélie Dupont stars in the title role with Roberto Bolle, Stephane
Bullion and Alice Renavand completing the cast.
Director Michael Haneke's accaimed production of Mozart's opera,
recorded live at the Teatro Real de Madrid in 2013. The featured
soloists include Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Kerstin Avemo and
Juan Francisco Gatell. Sylvain Cambreling conducts the Teatro Real
Orchestra and Chorus.
The third volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe
Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in
2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction.
The operas included are: 'I Vespri Siciliani', 'Simon Boccanegra',
'Un Ballo in Maschera', 'La Forza del Destino', 'Don Carlo',
'Aida', 'Otello' and 'Falstaff'.
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