DVD Video, Warner Classics (label)
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Gregg Baker (Crown), Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Cynthia Clarey (Serena), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Damon Evans (Sportin' Life)
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle, production direction by Trevor Nunn
In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way...We've a real sense here of Gershwin's community, a feeling of oneness with the piece from singers who've not only lived... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke...
The Countess de Coigny in sumptuous purple satin is sung to great effect by Rosalind Plowright, as is Elena Zilio’s Madelon…never less than compelling on screen, Jonas Kaufmann is a perfect... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2016, Recording of the Month
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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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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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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
131 CD's + 3 Blu-ray Videos + 1 DVD Video
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Raina Kabaivanska, Eleonora Jankovic, Nazzareno Antinori, Lorenzo Saccomani, Maurizio Arena
an unforgettably moving performance from Raina Kabaivanska...From the moment she comes demurely on stage she identifies completely with the role...Antinori sings ardently as a convincingly unthinking... — More…
