Blu-Ray Video, Verdi (composer)
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Michael Volle (Falstaff), Alfredo Daza (Ford), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Nadine Sierra (Nannetta), Daniela Barcellona (Mistress Quickly), Francesco Demuro (Fenton), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Mario Martone
Purists should look away now, but I found this production by Mario Martone tremendous fun...Volle inhabits the title role with absolute conviction: he is laugh-out-loud funny, his vocal delivery... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth (French Version: Paris 1865)
Ernesto Petti (Macbeth), Lidia Fridman (Lady Macbeth), Michele Pertusi (Banquo), Luciano Ganci (Macduff)
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Giovanile Della Via Emilia, Coro Del Teatro Regio Di Parma, Roberto Abbado, Pierre Audi
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Elena Stikhina (Aida), Francesco Meli (Radamès), Agnieszka Rehlis (Amneris), Ludovic Tézier (Amonasro), Soloman Howard (Ramfis), Insung Sim (King), Francesca Chiejina (High Priestess), Andrés Presno (Messenger)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano,...
It all adds up to a brave attempt to rethink a work which, for all its popularity, can be notoriously elusive in performance, though ultimately its theatrical and vocal drawbacks don’t make... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Coming soon. Verdi: La forza del destino
Anna Netrebko (Leonora), Brian Jagde (Don Alvaro), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Preziosilla), Alexander Vinogradov (Padre Guardiano), Teatro Alla Scala, Leo Muscato, Riccardo Chailly
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New. Sommernachtskonzert 2026: Schönbrunn
Summer Night Concert 2026
Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorenzo Viotti
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Asmik Grigorian (Lady Macbeth), Vladislav Sulimsky (Macbeth), Tareq Nazmi (Banquo), Jonathan Tetelman (Macduff), Evan LeRoy Johnson (Malcolm), Caterina Piva (Dama)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Philippe Jordan, Krzysztof Warlikowski
The weird, at times ghoulish, production by director Krzysztof Warlikowski…fails to draw the viewer in...Nevertheless, this is a DVD that scores highly in terms of musical performance, with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Special offer. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Christian Gerhaher (Simon Boccanegra), Jennifer Rowley (Amelia Boccanegra), Christof Fischesser (Jacopo Fiesco), Otar Jorjikia (Gabriele Adorno), Nicholas Brownlee (Paolo Albiani), Brent Michael Smith (Pietro)
Philharmonia Zurich, Chor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi, Andreas Homoki
Though not on the face of it an obvious Verdian, Christian Gerhaher gives a winning performance as the eponymous Doge, bringing all the nuance to the text that we would expect from a master... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2021, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Verdi: Stiffelio
Luciano Ganci (Stiffelio), Maria Katzarava (Lina), Francesco Landolfi (Stankar), Giovanni Sebastiano Sala (Raffaele), Emanuele Cordaro (Jorg), Sofia Koberidze (Dorotea), Blagoj Nacoski (Federico)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Guillermo García Calvo, Graham Vick
Graham Vick’s production of Stiffelio is a triumph. The lines between the viewer and the viewed are blurred, challenging the comfortable assumption that music drama is something that happens... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Special offer. Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta), Charles Castronovo (Alfredo), Placido Domingo (Germont)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, Antonella Manacorda, Richard Eyre (director)
[Jaho's] tone is never what one could call ‘lustrous’, but she gets inside the character so thoroughly that one cannot help but suffer with her...and she battles so hard in Act 3 that one harbours... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Castronovo)
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Verdi: Nabucco
Leo Nucci (Nabucco), Maria Guleghina (Abigaille), Miroslav Dvorský (Ismaele), Giacomo Prestia (Zaccaria), Marina Domashenko (Fenena), Renate Pitscheider (Anna), Walter Pauritsch (Abdallo), Goran Simic (Gran Sacerdote)
Wiener Staatsoper, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Günter Krämer (director)
