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Music > Classical & Classical Crossover > Opera & operetta
Carl St. Clair conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in this
performance from Wagner's ring cycle. With set design from Dirk
Becker, the performance features Johnny Van Hall, Frieder Aurich,
Tomas Mowes and Mario Hoff.
Kent Nagano leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Dmitri
Tcherniakov's production of Mussorgsky's opera, recorded live at
the Nationaltheater, Munich in 2007. Doris Soffel stars as Marfa,
with Anatoly Kotscherga as the religious leader Dosifei, Klaus
Florian Vogt as Andrey, and Paata Burchuladze as the charismatic
Prince Ivan Khovansky.
Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, along with pianist Charles Spencer,
performs pieces by Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Hugo Wolf, and
Leonard Bernstein in this remarkable concert recital.
Franz Liszt is generally remembered as the great Hungarian
19th-century piano virtuoso, but he considered himself a composer
first. His orchestra scores represent a significant stylistic link
between the innovations of Berlioz and Wagner and the late Romantic
composers of both Eastern and Western Europe. Written in 1854 and
dedicated to Berlioz, Liszt's Eine Faust-Symphonie, which Grove's
Dictionary of Music and Musicians calls "his orchestral
masterpiece" but is very rarely performed, was a favorite of
Leonard Bernstein, who spoke in his televised lectures about the
work's bold harmonic language that anticipates the serialism of the
Second Viennese School. In the 1960s Bernstein had to fight
recalcitrant Columbia executives for the right to record the
symphony with the New York Philharmonic; the resulting LP sold
poorly. Nevertheless, Deutsche Grammophon gave him a second chance
to sell the public on this work with this live recording of a
performance at Symphony Hall, Boston, on July 26, 1976. While
Bernstein never did succeed in creating for this symphony the kind
of cult following he helped foster for the works of Mahler, critics
generally agree that the present performance is superior to the New
York version and represents the best way to experience Liszt's
unique contribution to the Faust literature.
Gypsy Carmen inflames Spanish officer Don Jose and the toreador
Escamillo in this version of the opera.
Set in Dresden's open-air Theatre Square, GREAT STARS OF OPERA
assembles some of the world's greatest opera singers for one
amazing night filled with vocal talent. Performing to a crowd of
over 15,000 people, singers such as Neil Shicoff, Cincenzo La
Scola, Agnes Baltsa, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow present classic scenes
from operas including La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, and
Carmen.
A mixture of modern music combining rock, blues, jazz and modern
composition music, created by Anders Nordentoft and brought to life
on stage by Martin Tulinius using video, computer graphics, sound
and light.
Handel's timeless opera TAMERLANO, whose model is NIcholas Pradon's
Tamerlan ou La Mort de Bajazet, is brought to life in this live
recording from the 50th Handel-Festipiele 2001 at the world famous
Halle on the Saale. Conducted by Trevor Pinnock and with exquisite
direction by Jonathan Miller, Tamerlano stands as one of Handel's
masterworks.
Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Lyubov Petrova, Malena Ernman and
Hakan Hagegard are the soloists in this performance of Strauss'
comic operetta from the Glyndebourne Opera House, with the
Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is
having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison
sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is
expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows
himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke,
and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes
him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.
Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro
Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera, recorded live
in 2011. The cast members include Dimitra Theodossiou, Vladimir
Stoyanov, Aquiles Machado, Mariana Pentcheva and Roberto
Scandiuzzi.
Rolando Villazón and Anna Netrebko bring their vocal talents to
Gaetano Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE. This performance of the
comedic opera was recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2005.
Benjamin Britten's opera, composed to celebrate the Coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He took as his starting point Lytton
Strachey's 'Elizabeth and Essex'. Sarah Walker and Anthony Rolfe
Johnson star.
Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She
performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet
and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over
the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine
Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand
Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro
Regio Torino in this performance of Verdi's tragic opera.
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