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Glazunov: Raymonda / Novikova, Vogel, Zeni, Teatro Alla Scala [Blu-ray]

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The last great work from the glorious era of the Imperial ballets has never before been performed by the La Scala ballet. Its La Scala premiere marks the most faithful version of Raymonda yet to the original, which met with triumphant success in St. Petersburg in 1898. Based on a medieval legend, with ladies, knights, crusaders and Saracens, cathedrals and castles, the libretto had all the ingredients needed to spark the imagination of the young Alexander Glazunov in his first ballet score, and the infinite wisdom of Marius Petipa, who complemented it with an enormously rich and endless succession of dances, classical variations, exotic dances and character dances, with a grandiose finale, pantomime, lyrical pas de deux and a heavily featured corps de ballet. Drawing on notation from the Harvard archives, original designs housed in the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Theatre Library, La Scala presents the last great work from the glory days of the Imperial Ballet.

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Donizetti: Don Pasquale / Muti, Furlanetto, Gallo, Kunde, Teatro Alla Scala [DVD]

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This DVD presents a sophisticated staging of Donizetti’s wittiest opera, Don Pasquale. This production was performed at the worldfamous Scala in Milan. It was directed by Stefano Vizioli, who was praised for stripping the piece of any clichés acquired over a century-and-a-half of performing tradition, and making the characters truly live and breathe. The approach emphasised the unaffected brightness and gaiety of the opera, especially as the director was brilliantly supported by a preeminent international cast of singer-actors. From the uproarious orchestral guffaw that opens the piece onwards, Riccardo Muti’s reading reveals a flexibility and poise that matches the overall intention to take the opera’s humour seriously.

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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani / Merritt, Studer, Furlanetto, Zancanaro, Musinu, Banditelli, Gavazzi, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Verdi’s 1855 Paris opera which followed Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La Traviata is treated to a performance of blazing energy and intimate refinement with a superb cast which includes Cheryl Studer and Chris Merritt. The rarely-seen third act ballet is included complete, with the internationally-acclaimed dancers Carla Fracci and Wayne Eagling.

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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra / Domingo, Furlanetto, Barenboim [Blu-ray]

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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra / Domingo, Furlanetto, Barenboim [Blu-ray]
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim | Composer(s): Giuseppe Verdi | Performer(s): Fabio Sartori (Tenor), Massimo Cavalletti (Baritone), Placido Domingo (Tenor), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Bass), Ernesto Panariello (Baritone), Anja Harteros (Soprano), Antonello Ceron (Tenor) | Orchestra/Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus | Label: Arthaus Musik | Blu-ray | Picture format: 1080i Full-HD | Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 / DTS 5.1 | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev files | Run time: 149 mins | 22.4 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Korean
Recorded live from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2010

Placido Domingo‘s triumphant “return” to his baritone roots (his first debut with the Mexican National Opera, in 1959, was as a baritone), is captured in this stunning DVD of the Teatro alla Scala’s 2010 production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra. Domingo is joined by Anja Harteros, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Fabio Sartori in this Daniel Barenboim conducted performance, directed by Federico Tiezzi. Plácido Domingo’s intention had been to bring down the curtain on his career in the (baritone) role of Simon Boccanegra. One can only hope – for our sake as well as his – that this truly great tenor of the modern era reneges on his promise and remains a unique vocal and dramatic presence on the opera stage long after the 70th birthdaycelebrations that were held in his honour on 21 January 2011.

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Verdi: I Due Foscari / Bruson, Roark-Strummer, Cupido, Roni, Gavazzeni, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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I due Foscari (The Two Foscari) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on a historical play, The Two Foscari by Lord Byron. Renato Bruson, Alberto Cupido, Linda Roark-Strummer, Luigi Roni, Renato Cazzaniga, Monica Tagliasacchi, Aldo Bottion, and Aldo Bramante star in this 1988 La Scala performance of the Verdi opera with Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting.

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Mozart - Don Giovanni / Allen, Gruberova, Murray, Araiza, Desderi, Mentzer, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Don Giovanni is about a libertine and murderer who refuses to repent when given the chance. He is taken alive to Hell. The story was originally a folktale. Plays, operas, and even a ballet were produced on the theme by the time Mozart and da Ponte started work on their opera. Don Giovanni was performed across Europe after its success in Prague. This 1987 performance of Don Giovanni is director Giorgio Strehler's interpretation of this opera, which presents the characters from a psychological standpoint, has been lauded as one of the most important Mozart productions yet. The British baritone Thomas Allen stars as the famous rapscallion.

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Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte / Dessi, Ziegler, Corbelli, Scarabelli, Kundlak, Desderi; Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte / Dessi, Ziegler, Corbelli, Scarabelli, Kundlak, Desderi; Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]
Conductor: Riccardo Muti | Composer(s): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Performer(s): Jozef Kundlák (Tenor), Alessandro Corbelli (Baritone), Daniela Dessi (Soprano), Delores Ziegler (Mezzo Soprano), Claudio Desderi (Baritone), Adelina Scarabelli (Soprano) | Orchestra/Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus | Label: Opus Arte | DVD | Picture format: 4:3 | Sound format: Dolby Stereo | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file |
Run time: 186 mins | 8.39 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): English

Daniela Dessi and Delores Ziegler lead the cast in Mozart's brilliant and witty opera, as the two women whose faithfulness in the face of romantic love is ruthlessly tested in Da Ponte's comic tale. Mozart lavishes some of the finest music ever written on the unfolding story of the two sisters' chaotic and fickle love affairs with their two Italian army officers.

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Verdi: Attila / Ramey, Studer, Zancanaro, Kaludov, Gavazzi, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast in the powerful and atmospheric 1991 production of Verdi’s ninth opera, whose story of the heroic tussle between Ezio, a Roman general, and Attila, the Nordic invader was written for the 1846 Teatro la Fenice season and premiered there to huge acclaim.

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Rossini: Guglielmo Tell / Zancanaro, Merritt, Studer, Surjan, d'Intino, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast led by Giorgio Zancanaro in the title role of Rossini’s towering and opulent last opera with the Corps de Ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala. This performance uses a new Italian translation, taken from the uncut critical edition of William Tell.

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Puccini: La Fanciulla del West / Zampieri, Domingo, Pons, Bertocchi, Maazel, La Scala Opera [DVD]

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Giacomo Puccini's Wild West opera has the California gold rush as its dramatic backdrop for a story in which Minnie, the only woman in a mining camp, gambles on her one chance of happiness. Lorin Maazel conducts a fine cast in Jonathan Miller's 1991 production of the compelling and evocative opera, which Puccini himself considered his best work.

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Marenco: Excelsior / La Scala Ballet [DVD]

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In 1881, La Scala Milan staged a magnificent ballet spectacle. The aim was to present by means of a ballet all the great discoveries and achievements which had illuminated the late 19th century. The result was ‘a choreographic, historic, allegoric, phantastic plot in two parts and eleven scenes’, i.e. this was not a ballet in the classical sense. Excelsior is a kind of choreographic composition, which sings the praises of progress in science and accomplishments, in keeping with the era of supreme optimism. The steam engine, the Brooklyn Bridge, electricity, telegraph, the Suez Canal and the tunnel between Italy and France are all technical achievements, which are shown on stage. Despite its seemingly dreary subject matter it was a huge success when first performed, and enjoyed a run of 103 performances during that year alone. This production from 2002 at the Teatro alla Scala brings a riot of colour to Manzotti‘s work. With 100 dancers on stage at a time, references to the golden MGM film era and Busby Berkeley-style dancing, it is guaranteed to intrigue and charm!

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Glazunov: Raymonda / Novikova, Vogel, Zeni, Teatro Alla Scala [Blu-ray]

Donizetti: Don Pasquale / Muti, Furlanetto, Gallo, Kunde, Teatro Alla Scala [DVD]

Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani / Merritt, Studer, Furlanetto, Zancanaro, Musinu, Banditelli, Gavazzi, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra / Domingo, Furlanetto, Barenboim [Blu-ray]

Verdi: I Due Foscari / Bruson, Roark-Strummer, Cupido, Roni, Gavazzeni, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Allen, Gruberova, Murray, Araiza, Desderi, Mentzer, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Mozart: Cosi fan Tutte / Dessi, Ziegler, Corbelli, Scarabelli, Kundlak, Desderi; Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Verdi: Attila / Ramey, Studer, Zancanaro, Kaludov, Gavazzi, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Rossini: Guglielmo Tell / Zancanaro, Merritt, Studer, Surjan, d'Intino, Muti, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Puccini: La Fanciulla del West / Zampieri, Domingo, Pons, Bertocchi, Maazel, La Scala Opera [DVD]

Marenco: Excelsior / La Scala Ballet [DVD]