Opus Arte
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Carlos Acosta Dances: Royal Ballet Classics
Carlos Acosta (Colas), Marianela Nuñez (Lise), William Tuckett (Widow Simone) & Jonathan Howells (Alain), Marianela Nuñez (Kitri), Carlos Acosta (Basilio), Christopher Saunders (Don Quixote), Philip Mosley (Sancho Panza), Gary Avis (Lorenzo), Bennet Gartside (Gamache), Ryoichi Hirano (Espada),...
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Great Authors: Charles Dickens
Anton Lesser, Prunella Scales, Timothy West, Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Zoë Wanamaker and Nicholas Lyndhurst
Anton Lesser is the greatest Dickens interpreter around, unafraid to show the darkness in a writer too often seen as relentlessly jolly. —
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Tchaikovsky: The Ballets
Natalia Osipova (Odette/Odile), Matthew Golding (Prince Siegfried), Elizabeth McGorian (The Princess), Gary Avis (An Evil Spirit), Alastair Marriott (The Tutor), Valeri Hristov (Benno), Marianela Nuñez (Princess Aurora), Prince Florimund (Vadim Muntagirov), Kristen McNally (Carabosse), Christopher...
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail & Le nozze di Figaro
Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso), Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo)...
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William Shakespeare: Henry VI Parts 1-3
Mark Quartley, Christopher Middleton, Minnie Gale, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Gregory Doran, Owen Horsley
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Special offer. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
John Treleaven, Deborah Polaski, Erik Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Lioba Braun, Wolfgang Rauch
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Alfred Kirchner
…welcome this Barcelona version, featuring several stars from its middling but enjoyable Ring, and a very similar production - starkly modernistic, a car-ferry's bow and a surreal garden, but... —
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A Christmas Celebration (Box Set)
Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Angelika Kirchschlager (Hansel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrud), Thomas Allen (Peter) & Anja Silja (Witch)
The Royal...
The dancing of the two young principals, Iohna Loots and Ricardo Cervera as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker, is characterful and enchanting...this is a generally conventional production [of... —
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Ballet Spectacular
Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nuñez & Martin Harvey, Leanne Benjamin, Luke Heydon, Leana Palmer, Carlos Acosta (Colas), Marianela Nuñez (Lise), William Tuckett (Widow Simone) & Jonathan Howells (Alain)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & The Royal Ballet, Boris Gruzin...
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Tchaikovsky: The Classic Ballets Box Set
Marianela Núñez, Thiago Soares, Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Alina Cojocaru, Elizabeth McGorian, Federico Bonelli & Christopher Saunders
Orchestra of...
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Special offer. Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Heinz Kruse, Wolfgang Schöne, Henk Smit, Kurt Rydl, Jeannine Altmeyer, Eva-Maria Bundschuh, Anne Gjevang, Hebe Dijkstra, Irmgard Vifsmaier, Kirsi Tiihonen, Gabriele Fontana, Hanna Schaer & Catherine Keen
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen
Pierre Audi's production remains boldly modern, but more respectful of Wagner's conception than most these days. Haenchen's conducting, inspired by the latest research is still briskly dramatic…... —
