DVD Video, Warner Classics (label)
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Jose van Dam (Philippe), Waltraud Meier (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Paris Theatre du Chatelet, Antonio Pappano
This performance appeared on VHS back in March 1997. On a new, wide-screen television, it makes a far more arresting effect. The action seems to be happening in the room with you.
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
RecommendedAnthony Dowell & Lesley Collier
Royal Ballet & Royal Opera House, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Minkus: La Bayadère
Isabelle Guérin (Nikiya), Laurent Hilaire (Solor), Élisabeth Platel (Gamzatti), Wilfried Romoli (The Golden Idol), Lionel Delanoë (The Fakir), Jean-Marie Didière (The Rajah), Francis Malovic (The High Brahmin) & Agnès Letestu, Clotilde Vayer, Nathalie Riqué (The Three Shades)
Paris Opera...
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Verdi: Aida
Margaret Price (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radamès), Stefania Toczyska (Amneris), Simon Estes (Amonasro), Kurt Rydl (Ramfis), Kevin Langan (Il Re di Egitto), Susan Quittmeyer (Sacerdotessa), Colenton Freeman (Messaggero)
Orchestra and Chorus of the San Francisco Opera, Luis Antonio García-Navarro
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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
(recorded at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1986)
Susan Dunn (Elena), Leo Nucci (Guido di Montforte), Veriano Luchetti (Arrigo), Bonaldo Giaiotti (Giovanni da Procida), Gianfranco Casarini (Il Sire di Bethume), Sergio Fontana (Il Conte Vaudemont), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Ninetta), Sergio Bertocchi (Danieli), Bruno Lazzaretti (Tebaldo), Giuseppe...
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Benjamin Luxon, Hildegard Heichele (guest appearances by Hinge & Bracket, Charles Aznavour, Merle Park & Wayne Eagling)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Placido Domingo
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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Richard Winsor (The Swan/The Stranger), Dominic North (The Prince), Nina Goldman (The Queen), Madelaine Brennan (The Girlfriend), Steven Kirkham (The Private Secretary), Joseph Vaughan (The Young Prince)
The New London Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, Matthew Bourne (director & choreographer)
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
131 CD's + 3 Blu-ray Videos + 1 DVD Video
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62 CDs + 8 DVDs
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