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Verdi: Requiem
Dimitra Theodossiou (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Francesco Meli (tenor), Riccardo Zanellato (bass)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Yuri Temirkanov
The soloists are all very satisfactory but the performance, whilst precise, is not urgent and indeed seems a bit slow. —
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Salzburg Festival Opening Concert 2009 with Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Salzburg Opening Concert 2008 with Boulez & Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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in the glorious surroundings of the Semper Oper and with this staggering orchestra, the brass playing of which has been celebrated by everyone since Wagner, there is both tension and relaxation...The... —
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Best of Verdi Arias
Staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi
Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Francesco Meli, Dimitra Theodossiou & Giacomo Prestia
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma
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Carlos Kleiber: I am Lost to the World
features Ileana Cotrubas, Michael Gielen, Riccardo Muti, Otto Schenk, Ioan Holender, Sir Peter Jonas and many more interviews
as well as several musical excerpts conducted by Carlos Kleiber
Painstaking and rigorous, freewheeling and visionary, the legendary conductor's mixed characteristics clearly emerge in this gripping documentary. No complete performances included, but the... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Capriccio
Renée Fleming (Countess), Bo Skovhus (Count), Michael Schade (Flamand), Markus Eiche (Olivier), Angelika Kirchschlager (Clairon), Kurt Rydl (La Roche)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Christoph Eschenbach
Kurt Rydl crowns a fine stage career with a gloriously eccentric impersonation of La Roche...The singing honours belong entirely to Angelika Kirchschlager as Clairon. —
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Verdi & Wagner: The Odeonsplatz Concert
Rolando Villazón (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Special offer. Verdi: Falstaff
Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff), Luca Salsi (Ford), Antonio Gandia (Fenton), Svetla Vassileva (Alice Ford), Romina Tomasoni (Mistress Quickly), Daniela Pini (Meg Page), Barbara Bargnesi (Nannetta)
Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni
Medcalf's Falstaff...makes use of Ambrogio Maestri's Falstaff (terrific diction)...Svetla Vassileva's Alice (as glamorous as she is witty) or Romina Tomasoni's amusingly British Quickly. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Wiener Symphoniker, Patrick Summers
For visual effectiveness this new DVD and Blu-ray has no competition among a rich field of Magic Flutes...Musically, too, it is never less than good, and the Tamino of Norman Reinhardt and the... —
