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Music > Classical & Classical Crossover > Opera & operetta
Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in
this performance of Rossini's opera, recorded live at Sweden's
Schwetzingen Festival in 1989. Performers include Alessandro
Corbelli, Amelia Felle, David Keubler and Alberto Rinaldi.
This performance includes excerpts from Aida, Fidelio, Die Frau
ohne Schatten, Don Giovanni, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and
Der Rosenkavalier. Recorded at the Wiener Staatsoper on November 5,
2005.
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.
The world premiere of Michael Daugherty's opera, inspired by
episodes from the life of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis. Features performances by Fiona McAndrew, Nora Sourouzian,
Simone Alberghini and Paul Carey Jones. Christopher Franklin
conducts.
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.
A visually spectacular interpretation of Wagner's opera, staged by
the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau
de les Arts. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat
Valenciana, with performances by Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo,
Franz-Josef Kapellmann and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.
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.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Franz Schubert's song cycle in this
recording made for the German radio station SFB in 1979. Musical
accompaniment is provided by the renowned Austrian pianist, Alfred
Brendel.
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'.
Marc Albrecht conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in
this 2012 production of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera. Svetlana
Ignatovich stars as Fevroniya, a young peasant who prays that the
city of Kitezh will become invisible so that it will be saved from
the invading Tatars. Though her wish is granted, Svetlana is taken
by the enemy. The rest of the cast includes John Daszak, Vladimir
Vaneev and Maxim Aksenov.
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