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Magic Moments of Opera
( Elektra Purchase from MDT £94.35 With Magic Moments of Opera Arthaus Musik has launched the opera sensation of the year. Stars like PLÁCIDO DOMINGO, JOYCE DIDONATO, JONAS KAUFMANN, LUCIANO PAVAROTTI and ELINA GARANCA offer a coruscating display of singing from the world’s foremost opera houses. Love and passion; wrath and wit; revenge and regret. Legendary recordings of ten operatic masterpieces offer both cognoscenti and the uninitiated an opportunity to experience truly great stage performances. Magic moments of opera. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Live from the Opernhaus Zürich, 2004 Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), László Polgár (Rocco), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino) Alfred Muff (Pizarro), Elizabeth Rae Magnuson (Marzelline), Günther Groissböck (Fernando), Boguslaw Bidzinski (First Prisoner) & Gabriel Bermúdez (Second Prisoner) Chorus & Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
(conductor) & Jürgen Flimm (director) Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1978 Elena Obraztsova (Carmen), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Yuri Mazurok (Escamillo), Isobel Buchanan (Micaëla), Cheryl Kanfoush (Frasquita), Axelle Gall (Mercédès), Kurt Rydl (Zuniga), Hans Helm (Moralès), Heinz Zednik (Remendado) & Paul Wolfrum (Dancaïre) Stage Orchestra, Orchestra and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, The
Vienna Boys’ Choir and Ballet of the Wiener Staatsoper, Carlos
Kleiber (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director) Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 2005 Marcelo Álvarez (Werther), Elina Garanca (Charlotte), Ileana Tonca (Sophie), Adrian Eröd (Albert), Alfred Sramek (Le Bailli), Peter Jelosits (Schmidt), Marcus Pelz (Johann), Clemens Unterreiner (Brühlmann) & Maria Gusenleitner (Käthchen) Orchestra, Stage Orchestra and Chorus der Wiener Staatsoper & Children
of the Opernschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Philippe Jordan (conductor)
& Andrei Serban (director) Live from the Opéra national de Paris, 2001 Piotr Beczala (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Detlef Roth (Papageno), Matti Salminen (Sarastro), Désirée Rancatore (Königin der Nacht), Gaële Le Roi (Papagena), Wolfgang Schöne (Sprecher), Uwe Peper (Monostatos), Cécile Perrin, Helene Schneiderman & Hélène Perraguin (Drei Damen) Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, Iván
Fischer (conductor) & Benno Besson (stage director) Live from the Arena di Verona, 2006 Fiorenza Cedolins (Floria Tosca), Marcelo Alvarez (Mario Cavaradossi) & Ruggero Raimondi (Il Barone Scarpia), Fabio Previati (Sagristano), Marco Spotti (Angelotti), Enrico Facini (Spoletta), Giuliano Pelizon (Sciarrone), Ottavia Dorrucci (Un pastore) & Angelo Nardinocchi (Un carceriere) Arena Di Verona, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director) Live from the Opéra national de Paris Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Roberto Saccà (Graf Almaviva), Dalibor Jenis (Figaro), Carlos Chausson (Bartolo), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Basilio), Nicholas Garrett (Fiorello), Jeannette Fischer (Berta) & Denis Aubry (Polizeioffizier) Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, Bruno Campanella
(conductor) & Coline Serreau (stage director) Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1980 Bernd Weikl (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Lucia Popp (Rosalinde), Erich Kunz (Gefängnisdirektor Frank), Brigitte Fassbaender (Prinz Orlofsky), Josef Hopferwieser (Alfred), Walter Berry (Dr Falke), Anton Wendler (Dr Blind), Edita Gruberova (Adele), Karin Göttling (Ida), Helmut Lohner (Frosch) & Karl Caslavsky (Iwan) Orchestra, Ballet and Chorus of the Wiener Staatsoper, Theodor Guschlbauer
(conductor) & Otto Schenk (director) Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1989 Eva Marton (Elektra), Brigitte Fassbaender (Klytämnestra), Franz Grundheber (Orest), James King (Aegisth), Goran Simic (Attendant of Orest), Waltraud Winsauer (Confidant), Noriko Sasaki (Train Bearer), Wilfried Gahmlich (Young Servant), Claudio Otelli (Old Servant), Gabriele Lechner (Attendant) & Margarita Lilowa, Gabriele Sima, Margareta Hintermeier, Brigitte Poschner-Klebel, Joanna Borowska (Maids) Chorus and Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
& Harry Kupfer (stage director) Live from the Teatro alla Scala 1985 Maria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (The King of Egypt), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramphis), Francesca Garbi (Priestess) & Ernesto Gavazzi (Messenger) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel (conductor)
& Luca Ronconi (stage director) Live from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 2008 Robert Gambill (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Roman Trekel (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Stephen Milling (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen), Marcel Reijans (Walther von der Vogelweide), Tom Fox (Biterolf), Andreas Hörl (Reimar von Zweter), Florian Hoffmann (Heinrich der Schreiber), Katherina Müller (Ein junger Hirt), Claudia Chmelar, Anna-Katina Tilch, Manuela Leonhartsberger, Martina König (Edelknaben) & Reinier van der Eng (Geist des Tannhäuser) Philharmonia Chor Wien & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,
Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sound Format: various Picture Format: 4:3 /16:9 DVD Format: 11 x DVD 9, NTSC Subtitle Languages: various Running Time: ca. 1500 mins Return to index |
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