Opus Arte
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Delibes: Sylvia
Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Thiago Soares, Martin Harvey & Mara Galeazzi
The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Graham Bond
This DVD… shows the Royal Ballet at the top of its…form. …makes an imperious huntress and a commanding Bacchante —
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Special offer. Dove: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Victoria Simmonds (Pinocchio), Jonathan Summers (Geppetto), Mary Plazas (Blue Fairy), Rebecca Bottone (Cricket/Parrot), Graeme Broadbent (Puppeteer/Ape-Judge/Ringmaster), Allan Clayton (Lampwick), Mark Wilde (Cat), James Laing (Fox/Coachman), Carole Wilson (Pigeon/Snail)
The Orchestra and Chorus...
curiosity is aroused for adult and child alike from the first notes of Jonathan Dove's lavish and fantastical new opera genuinely for all age-groups. The scary moments are balanced by the joie... —
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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: Nabucco
Bruce Martin (Zaccaria), Rosemary Gunn (Fenena), Jeannie Kelso (Anna), Anson Austin (Ismaele), Elizabeth Connell (Abigaille), Jonathan Summers (Nabucco), John Brunato (Gran Sacerdote), Christopher Dawes (Abdallo)
The Australian Opera Chorus & State Orchestra of Victoria, Carlo Felice Cillario
Jonathan Summers…was in wonderful voice and gave a performance of rich intensity and dramatic power. —
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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
Hasmik Papian (Norma), Irini Tsirakidis (Adalgisa), Hugh Smith (Pollione), Giorgio Giuseppini (Oroveso), Anna Steiger (Clotilde), Carlo Bosi (Flavio)
Nederlands Kamerorkest, Julian Reynolds (musical director) & Guy Joosten (stage director)
Joosten’s staging is quirky and fun, and offers plenty of scope for campery… first rate singing from Hasmik Papian and Irini Tsirakidis as Norma and Adalgisa, and conducting as exciting as it... —
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Kenneth Macmillan Three Ballets
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, March 2010
Marianela Nuñez, Yuhui Choe & Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb, Valeri Hristov & Steven McRae, Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin & Edward Watson
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Dominic Grier, Robert Clark, Barry Wordsworth
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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. Janáček: Jenufa
Mette Ejsing (Grandmother Buryja), Miroslav Dvorský (Laca Klemen), Nikolai Schukoff (Števa Buryja), Deborah Polaski (Kostelnicka Buryja), Amanda Roocroft (Jenufa), Károly Szemerédy (Foreman), Miguel Sola (Mayor), Marta Ubieta (Karolka)
Teatro Real, Ivor Bolton, Stéphane Braunschweig
Something in the composer's writing brings out the best in [Roocroft's] creamy voice and committed acting, and here she's superb as a young woman who forgives her stepmother for committing a... —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Olga Savova (Madame Larina), Krassimira Stoyanova (Tatjana), Elena Maximova (Olga), Nina Romanova (Filipjevna), Bo Skovhus (Jevgeni Onjegin), Andrej Dunaev (Vladimir Ljenski), Mikhail Petrenko (Vorst Gremin), Peter Arink (Petrovitsj), Roger Smeets (Zaretski), Guy de Mey (Monsieur Triquet) & Richard...
Forget any sense of intimacy in Tchaikovsky's lyrical scenes in this Eugene Onegin; director Stefan Herheim's approach is one of kaleidoscopic excess...No doubt about it, though, this is musically... —
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Shakespeare: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2
Recorded live at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, May 2014
Antony Sher (Falstaff), Alex Hassell (Prince Hal), Jasper Britton (King Henry)
Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)
