C Major
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Nijinsky – A Ballet by John Neumeier
Music by Chopin, Schumann, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich
Alexandre Riabko, Anne Lauderer, Carsten Jung, Lloyd Riggins, Alexandr Trusch, Carolina Agüero
Hamburg Ballet
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
Ingela Brimberg (Elektra), Susanna Levonen (Chrysothemis), Ingrid Tobiasson (Klytaemnestra), Thomas Lander (Orestes), Magnus Kyhle (Aegisthus)
Norrlands Operan's Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
This is more than the souvenir of a showy occasion…and its sheer hallucinatory power holds the watcher —
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Special offer. Bernstein at 100
The Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Nadine Sierra (soprano), Kian Soltani (cello), Isabel Leonard (Maria), Jessica Vosk (Anita), Tony Yazbeck (Tony), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Jessica Zhou (harp), Susan Graham (mezzo), Audra McDonald (soprano)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons,...
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus raise the roof, with help from soloists Nadine Sierra and Susan Graham…The love for Lenny really comes through in these performances…The production is served well... —
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Special offer. Auerbach: The Little Mermaid
Yuan Yuan Tan (The Little Mermaid), Lloyd Riggins (The Poet), Tiit Helimnets (The Prince), Sarah van Patten (The Princess), Davit Karapetyan (The Sea Witch)
San Francisco Ballet, Martin West
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Special offer. Verdi: Attila
Ildebrando D´Arcangelo, Simone Piazzola, Maria José Siri, Fabio Sartori, Gianluca Floris, Antonio di Matteo
Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti (conductor), Daniele Abbado (director)
Mariotti coaxes suitable delicacy and drama from the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in a consistently assured reading of the score. Daniele Abbado’s 2016 production is vaguely Game... —
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Salzburg Opening Concert 2010
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Dorothea Roschmann (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus State Opera Vienna
there is no doubting the powerful authority that characterizes Barenboim's direction of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto from the keyboard. Perhaps rather unexpectedly, the magic really starts... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera
Piotr Beczala (Riccardo), Keri Alkema (Amelia), Carlos Álvarez (Renato), Dolora Zajick (Ulrica), Katerina Tretyakova (Oscar)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Vincent Boussard, Renato Palumbo
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2011
Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto) & Johan Botha (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus State Opera Vienna, Pierre Boulez
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Special offer. Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann
John Osborn (Hoffmann), Irene Roberts (Muse/Nicklausse), Nina Minasyan (Olympia), Christine Rice (Giulietta), Ermonela Jaho (Antonia), Erwin Schrott (Lindorf, Coppélius, Miracle, Dapertutto)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi
It’s one of those ideas that might actually work better on video than in the theatre, and the video director Misjel Vermeiren handles it confidently ...It won’t be for everyone; but if you’re... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (The Wanderer), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Erda)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
highly recommended, a refreshing antidote to leaden Teutonic representations. Wagner responds best to Romantic imagery, but this gives it a vividly original twist. —
