DVD Video, Lehár (composer)
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Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Anja Harteros (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo)
Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato
The playing of the Badische Staatskapelle is decent – with excellent contributions from a busy principal cellist – and Marco Armiliato keeps everything ticking along well…there’s enough quality... —
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Special offer. Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns
Piotr Beczala (Prince Sou-Chong), Julia Kleiter (Lisa), Rebeca Olvera (Mi), Spencer Lang (Count Gustav von Pottenstein), Cheyne Davidson (Tschang) & Martin Zysset (Chief Eunuch)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
This is a magnificent achievement: a staging that lets the piece speak eloquently for itself, performed with a sense of style that’s faithful without being patronising…Kleiter’s singing has... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Great Opera Arias
A Gala Concert From The Royal Opera House
Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Asher Fisch
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Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe
John Meehan (Count Danilo), Karen Kain (Widow Hanna Glawari), Raymond Smith (Camille), Yoko Ichino (Valencienne)
The National Ballet of Canada, The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Ermanno Florio
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Special offer. Dinara Alieva in Moscow
Dinara Alieva (soprano)
Masters of Choral Singing & Russian National Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian
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Special offer. Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg
Directed by Michael Schottenberg
Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Gabriele Bone, Andreas Conrad, Eva Maria Marold & Steffen Rössler, Libretto by Alfred Maria Willner & Robert Bodanzky in a revised text edition by Michael Schottenberg
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien & Festival-Chor KlangBogen Wien, Alfred...
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Special offer. Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe
Yvonne Kenny (Anna Glawari), Bo Skovhus (Danilo), Angelika Kirchschlager (Valencienne), Gregory Turay (Camille)
San Francisco Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Erich Kunzel
Gregory Turay is a fluent, quite serious Camille, Bo Skovhus a superb Danilo and Angelika Kirchschlager an absolute dream of a Valencienne —
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Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg
Michael Suttner (Rene, Graf von Luxemburg), Gesa Hoppe (Angele Didier), Harald Serafin (Furst Basil Basilowitch), Marika Lichter (Grafin Stasa Kokozow), Marko Kathol (Armand Brissard), Anja-Nina Bahrmann (Juliette Vermont), Stephan Paryla (Sergej Mentschikoff), Franz Lietner (Pawel von Pawlowitch),...
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Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love)
Janet Perry (Zorika), Ion Buzea (Józsi), Adolf Dallapozza (Jonel Bolescu), Colette Lorand (Ilona), Heinz Friedrich (Peter Dragotin), Kurt Großkurth (Mihály/Moschu)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg
This was composed in 1909 and is a worthy equal to the composer’s other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the... —
