Bel Air Classiques
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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. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Jacques Imbrailo (Pelléas), Corinne Winters (Mélisande), Kyle Ketelsen (Golaud), Brindley Sherratt (Arkel), Yvonne Naef (Geneviève), Damien Göritz (Yniold)
Philharmonia Zürich, Alain Altinglu, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The score is beautifully played by the Zurich orchestra. Offering delicacy and intensity at the same time, Alain Altinoglu’s sensitive conducting is notable for its constant search for detail...Every... —
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Special offer. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
Nino Machaidze (Juliette), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Stephano), Cristina Melis (Gertrude), Stefano Secco (Roméo), Jean-François Borras (Tybalt), Paolo Antognetti (Benvolio), Artur Rucinski (Mercutio), Nicolo Ceriani (Paris)
Arena di Verona, Fabio Mastrangelo, Francesco Micheli
[Machaidze] seems to be the Juliette of choice today and this video makes clear why that's the case: lovely singing and a demeanour that manages to be sensual and innocent at once. Secco's voice... —
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NY EXPORT : Opus Jazz
"A ballet in sneakers: Jerome Robbins and Opus Jazz", "Jerome Robbins: Ballets U.S.A"
New York City Ballet: Robert Fairchild, Tiler Peck, Georgina Paczoguin, Rachel Rutherford, Craig Hall, Antonio Carmena, Adam Hendrickson, Rebecca Krohn, Troy Schumacher, Ashley Laracey, Amar Ramasar, Andrew Veyette, Brittany Pollack, Gretchen Smith, Austin Laurent, Glenn Keenan, Giovanni Villalobos...
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Lots of bravura but little subtlety from Matsuev. Symphony No. 4 gets more compelling as it progresses but the opaque long-distance shots of the orchestra are distracting. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Ann Petersen (Elisabeth), Peter Mattei (Wolfram von Eschenbach), René Pape (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Musically, here is work from the conductor and orchestra on the level of their 2013 London Proms Ring...A well-chosen cast make much of the sympathetic acoustic of the Staatsoper's temporary... —
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta - The Nutcracker
Sonya Yoncheva, Arnold Rutkowski, Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)
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Special offer. Wagner: Tannhäuser
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Ann Petersen (Elisabeth), Peter Mattei (Wolfram von Eschenbach), René Pape (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim conducts his excellent forces as if he really does believe in the work, and the result…is that, though the work may not completely convince, there is far too much powerful music... —
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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)
