DVD Video, Sir Edward Downes (conductor)
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager), Stage Director: Elijah Moshinsky
The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal...
This DVD of a distinguished account of Verdi's grand opera from 1994 has a great deal to recommend it, yet in the end I'm not sure that it manages to avoid cliché of the sense that the work... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Graciela Araya (Maddalena), Elizabeth Sikora (Giovanna), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Monterone), Quentin Hayes (Marullo), Peter Auty (Borsa)
Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera...
...a remarkable Rigoletto...a DVD that has to be in your collection. —
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Gala Performances Box Set
Maria Deller-Takemura, Philip Mosley, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Darcey Bussell, Zoltán Solymosi, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leanne Benjamin, Tetsuya Kumakawa, Elizabeth McGorian, Adam Cooper, Iohna Loots, Viviana Durante, Bruce Sansom, Robert Lloyd, Dwayne...
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Opera & Ballet Favourites
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1st December 1993.
Plácido Domingo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Kiri Te Kanawa, Darcey Bussell & Irek Mukhamedov
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Edward Downes, Barry Wordsworth, Stephen Barlow & Plácido Domingo
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Special offer. Verdi: Stiffelio
José Carreras, Catherine Malfitano, Gwynne Howell & Gregory Yurisich
The Royal Opera & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Edward Downes
Elijah Moshinsky's handsome Stiffelio was one of Covent Garden's greatest triumphs under a previous regime. José Carreras and Catherine Malfitano lead a fine cast. —
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Special offer. Verdi Box Set
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore, José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il...
[On Rigoletto] With Christine Schäfer as a matchless Gilda and Edward Downes, the finest Verdian of the age, conducting, it’s a production that rages at the cruelty of the world. —
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Special offer. Verdi Operas: Aida, Traviata, Rigoletto
Daniela Dessì (Aida), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Amneris), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Ramfis), Stefano Palatchi (Il Re), Josep Fadó (Messaggiero), Ana Nebot (Sacerdotessa), Norah Amsellem, José Bros, Renato Bruson, Itxaro Mentxaka, Maria Espada, Emilio Sánchez,...
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Special offer. The Royal Opera: A Collection
Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager), Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate...
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Special offer. The Essential Opera Collection (19 DVD)
Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Paris Opera, Glyndebourne and The Netherlands Opera
