Bel Air Classiques
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Special offer. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov (Sadko), Aida Garifullina (Volkhova), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Lubava Buslaevna), Yuri Minenko (Nazhata), Stanislav Trofimov (Ocean-Sea, The Sea Tsar), Bolshoi Theatre, Timur Zangiev, Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov is a sturdy Sadko, scarcely ever off the stage...Rightly, the solo for the Varangian Merchant (Dmitry Ulianov) who will accompany Sadko on his voyages stops the show. But... —
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Pas d'École - Demonstrations of the Paris Opera Ballet School; the School of Dreams
Paris Opera Ballet School
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Opéra de Paris: A (very) Special Season (a Film By Priscilla Pizzato)
Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Hugo Marchand, Amandine Albisson, Matthias Heymann, Mathieu Ganio, Léonore Baulac, Germain Louvet, Dorothée Gilbert, Paul Marque, Sae-Eun Park, Aurélie Dupont
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Special offer. Rameau: Platée
Mathias Vidal (Thespis), Nahuel Di Pierro (Un Satyre/Citheron), Marc Mauillon (Momus), Julie Fuchs (Thalie/La Folie), Tamara Bounazou (L'Amour/Clarine), Lawrence Brownlee (Platée), Jean Teitgen (Jupiter), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Mercure), Adrianna Bignani Lesca (Junon), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeurs...
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Special offer. Wagner - Die Walküre
Robert Gambill (Siegmund), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Willard White (Wotan), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Eva Johansson (Brünnhilde), Lilli Paasikivi (Fricka)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Stéphane Braunschweig
Sir Willard White's patriarchal Wotan seems subtler on screen, more smouldering than stiff, and sings richly… Eva Johansson's… makes a fiery, youthful Brünnhilde, more at one with her fellow... —
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Yulia Sokolik (Fyodor), Eri Nakamura (Xenia), Heike Grötzinger (Nurse), Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Andrey), Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen), Sergey Skorokhodov (Grigory), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano, Calixto Bieito
the updating seems neither modish nor forced, and is carried out with economy and intelligence...There's no dip in commitment anywhere in the cast. Tsymbalyuk's Boris, sung in a pleasingly smooth,... —
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Minkus: La Bayadère
Svetlana Zakharova (Bayadère Nikiya), Vladislav Lantratov (Solor), Maria Alexandrova (Gamzatti), Alexey Loparevich (Dugmanta, Rajah), Andrey Sitnikov (The High Brahmin) & Denis Medvedev (The Golden Idol)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Pavel Sorokin
Kitsch even by classical ballet standards, this Bolshoi production of the Marius Petipa-choreographed oriental fantasy wit bland music by Minkus boasts a celebrated Kingdom of Shades sequence. —
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Special offer. Handel: Hercules
Joyce DiDonato (Dejanira), William Shimell (Hercules), Ingela Bohlin (Iole), Toby Spence (Hyllus), Malena Ernman (Lichas) & Simon Kirkbride (Priest of Jupiter)
Les Arts Florissants Chorus & Orchestra, William Christie (conductor) & Luc Bondy (stage director)
