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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Lisette Oropesa / Marco Armiliato (cond) [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "I have never heard Alagna sing better, and Gheorghiu is at her sumptuous best. There are comparably beautiful performances by the younger couple, Marius Brenciu and Lisette Oropesa" New York Daily News |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
DonizettI: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien / Marco Armiliato (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "Director Mary Zimmerman's…offers a Victorian gloss on the drama… which adds a fresh and fascinating resonance. This is reinforced by the filming, often steeply angled from front stage, and enjoys uncommonly strong choral and orchestral support." BBC |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera filmed In The Settings And At The Times Of Tosca) Catherine Malfitano (soprano), Placido Domingo (tenor), Ruggero Raimondi (bass) / Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of Rai, Zubin Mehta [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Contemporary Rome is the setting for this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini's Tosca, performed in the Roman locations - and at the same times of day - as Puccini had written into his score. |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (complete opera recorded in 2012) Le Concert d'Astrée / Sonya Yoncheva (Poppée), Max Emanuel Cencic (Néron), Ann Hallenberg (Octavie), Tim Mead (Othon), Paul Whelan / Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 14/Jun/2013 ] "[Haim leads with] a fine sensitivity towards the urgent, tensile springiness of the melodic lines; and a superb handling of the instrumental forces" (BBC Music) |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 2008) Dresden Opera / Zeljko Lucic, Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Florez, Georg Zeppenfeld / Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Musically, the show is spectacular...Juan Diego Flórez is wonderfully sure of himself in every way...[Damrau] is no soubrette; the voice has body and power, her breath control is superb" (International record Review) |
ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel (complete opera filmed in 1981) Edita Gruberova, Brigitte Fassbaender, Hermann Prey, Helga Dernesch, Sena Jurinac, Norma Burrowes / Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 14/Nov/2005 ] This production, filmed in 1981, is released on DVD for the first time. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Alcina (complete opera recorded in 2015) Festival Aix-en-Provence / Patricia Petibon, Philippe Jaroussky, Anna Prohaska, Katarina Bradic / Andrea Marcon (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] "Petibon is sensational throughout: supremely confident in the pathos and neurotic pyrotechnics of Alcina's music and character. In the pit, Andrea Marcon directs the Freiburger Barockorchester smartly, with a shiver of sul ponticello bowing" (BBC) |
ROSSINI
Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Le Comte Ory / La Cenerentola (complete operas recorded 1982-1997) Glyndebourne Opera / Robert Dean / Kathleen Kuhlmann / Ludovic Tezier / Maria Ewing / Stella Woodman / Marc Laho / Various conductors [ Warner Classics / NVC Arts DVD / 3 DVD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "The London Philharmonic are in crack form and they have a conductor to take full advantage of their fizzing expertise" The Times on La Cenerentola |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Rolando Villazon, Maria Bayo, Jean-Luc Chaignaud / Daniele Callegari (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism." (BBC Music) |
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JULES MASSENET
Massenet: Cendrillon [Cinderella] (the complete opera, recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote, Eglise Gutierrez, Ewa Podles / Bertrand de Billy (conductor) [ Virgin Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/May/2012 ] "Bertrand de Billy leads a highly sympathetic reading of the score...revelling in the pomposity of the court dances while conjuring magic in the duets." (International Record Review) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 2013) Metropolitan Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Elza van den Heever, Matthew Polenzani / Maurizio Benini (cond) [ Erato DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Apr/2014 ] "The two main protagonists brilliantly capture all the opera's drama and passion; DiDonato is magnificent and moving." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice August 2014 |
![Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment [Daughter of the Regiment] & Don Pasqual (recorded 2005/2006) cover](https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10580/10580872.jpg)
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment [Daughter of the Regiment] & Don Pasqual (recorded 2005/2006) Juan Diego Florez, Patricia Ciofi, Isabel Rey, Ruggero Raimondi, etc [ Decca Music Group DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 12/Dec/2019 ] Juan Diego Flórez proves he's the new King Of The High C's in one of his greatest stage roles. He gives a sensational performance of Tonio's aria 'Ah! mes amis...' - with 9 top Cs sung not once, but twice! |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Prince Igor (complete opera recorded in 1998) The Kirov Opera / Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Evgeny Akimov, Sergey Aleksashkin / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Philips DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/May/2005 ] GValery Gergiev directs the Kirov Opera and Ballet in this magnificent 1998 production of Borodin's epic Prince Igor, presented in a NEW Mariinsky Theatre performing edition and featuring Mikhail Fokine's original choreography. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196 (complete opera sung in Italian recorded in 2014) Le Concert d'Astrée / Carlo Allemano, Erin Morley, Enea Scala, Marie-Adeline Henry / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] The French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm conducts here her music ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée during this performance of Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera at the Opéra de Lille (France) on March 22nd and 25th 2014. This production, directed by David Lescot |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Mozart: Mitridate, rè di Ponto, K87 (complete opera recorded in 2016) Le Concert d'Astrée / Michael Spyres, Patricia Petibon, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Christophe Dumaux / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 25/Nov/2017 ] "This is a really good cast. Patricia Petibon's daunting but brilliant first aria as Aspasia, 'Al destin', is sung with panache and nonchalant control." BBC Music |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a (complete opera recorded in 2016) Le Concert d'Astree / Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, Michael Spyres / Emmanuelle Haim [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Jun/2017 ] Festival d'Aix-en-Provence has firmly established itself as France's preeminent summer festival and is a key fixture on the international festival calendar. |
LEONARDO VINCI
Artaserse (complete opera recorded in 2012) Lorraine National Opera / Philippe Jaroussky, Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus / Diego Fasolis (director) [ Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/May/2014 ] "This magnificent production is a complete and blissful success. Don't miss it." Those were the words of the French website Classique News when Leonardo Vinci's rediscovered Artaserse was staged by Silviu Purcãrete at the Opéra National de Lorraine... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne (Complete opera recorded in 2007) Lyon Opera / Jean-Sebastien Bou, Marc Callahan, Marie Devellerea, Laurent Naouri / Sebastien Rouland (cond) [ Vigin Classics DVD / DVD - released 6/Jan/2009 ] "Pelly, one of the most imaginative of a new generation of French stage directors, has dragged La vie parisienne into our own time. In this stylish production from Lyon Opera." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice (Complete opera recorded in 2000) Theatre Musical de Paris / Magdalena Kozena, Madeline Bender, Patricia Petibon / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] When the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris re-opened after a period of extensive refurbishment, the first two productions mounted in the theatre were Gluck's Alceste and Orphée et Eurydice. |
