Bel Air Classiques
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Tchaikovsky Gala
Polina Semionova, Roberto Bolle, Maurizio Licitra, Gianni Ghisleni & Flavia Vallone, Marta Romagna, Antonino Sutera & Daniela Cavalleri, Nadja Saidakova & Ronald Savkovic
Corpo di Ballo ed Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Susan B. Anthony, David Coleman
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Auber: Marco Spada
David Hallberg (Marco Spada), Evguenia Obraztsova (Angela), Olga Smirnova (Marquesa Sampietri), Semion Chudin (Prince Frederici), Igor Tsvirko (Count Pepinelli), Alexeï Loparevitch (Brother Borromée)
The Bolshoi Ballet & The Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Alexey Bogorad
This release is a superb achievement … Alexei Bogorad and the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra play the score as if they had been familiar with it for years … a real treat. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Macbeth
Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Aida
Hui He (Aida), Fabio Sartori (Radamès), Giovanna Casolla (Amneris), Ambrogio Maestri (Amonasro), Adrian Sampetrean (Ramfis), Roberto Tagliavini (The King)
Orchestra, chorus, ballet of the Verona Arena, Omer Meir Wellber
Ramfis and the King boom away convincingly. The orchestra and chorus sound good and, technically speaking, BelAir have done a brilliant job of capturing the surround sound, using all six speakers... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
Misha Didyk (Manrico), Marina Poplavskaya (Leonora), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Azucena), Scott Hendricks (Il Conte di Luna), Giovanni Furlanetto (Ferrando)
Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, Choeurs de la Monnaie, Marc Minkowski
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Special offer. Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
Mariella Devia (Elizabeth), Marco Caria (Nottingham), Silvia Tro Santafe (Sara), Gregory Kunde (Robert Devereux), Juan Antonio Sanabria (Lord William Cecil) & Andrea Mastroni (Sir Walter Raleigh)
Teatro Real de Madrid, Bruno Campanella
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Iana Salenko (Clara & the Sugar Plum Fairy), Marian Walter (Nutcracker & Prince Coqueluche), Michael Banzhaf (Drosselmayer), Arshak Ghalumyan (Mouse King), Elena Iseki (Young Clara) & Linus Schmidt (Fritz)
Staatsballett Berlin, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Robert Reimer
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Special offer. Berg: Lulu
Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Daniela Sindram (Gräfin Geschwitz), Rainer Trost (Der Maler/Ein Neger), Bo Skovhus (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Martin Winkler (Ein Tierbändiger/Ein Athlet), Pavlo Hunka (Schigolch)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov
[Petersen’s Lulu] is neither determined rebel nor passive victim, but self-endangered by her desperation to be loved…For all Lulu’s teasing come-ons, the production lacks erotic charge…Yet all... —
