|
|
ID: KAI0013052 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Chamber Ensemble This is a piece about reality and fiction, about the strength of the imagination and the power of the past, and about love...
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes wrote his short story Aura in Paris in 1961. It belongs to the traditions of magic realism and Latin American ghost stories, even if it actually goes far beyond these. In an essay which is almost as long as the actual story, Fuentes not only explained the autobiographical impetus for the tale, but also described the culture-historical and motivic framework within which this story lives. It ranges from ancient Chinese literature to a Japanese story from the 17th century and on to Luis Buñuel’s Exterminating Angel, Alexandre Dumas’ Lady of the Camellias and Verdi’s La Traviata. For Fuentes, Aura is above all a story of eroticism and necrophilia, taking up the time-honoured tradition of stories about eternal fidelity and couples who are reunited in death. (Rainer Pöllmann)
Includes booklet with text by Rainer Pöllmann, libretto by José M. Sánchez-Verdú |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: DV-LSOJC CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra Region Code: PAL . Region 2 (Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East)
Color mode: Colour
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9 LB
DVD Format: DVD 9
Duration: 172 min. Concert, 49 min. Special Feature
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian
Sound Format: LPCM Stereo / AC 3 Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
A tribute to Verdi with the artist now known as 'the fourth tenor' recorded at The Barbican in London.
Il Travator: "Deserto sulla terra", "Tacea la notte"
Nabucco: "Overture"
Aida: "Pur ti riveggo!"
Il Corsaro: "Ah! Si, ben dite... Tutto parea sorridere" u.a.
Ernani: "Prelude - Mercé, diletti amici... Come rugiada al cespite"
Don Carlos: "Io vengo a domandar", "Prelude", "Tu che le vanità"
La Forza Del Destino: "La vita è inferno all'infelice..." u.a.
Otello: "Già nella notte densa" |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: CC2018 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oboe The 24-page full colour CD booklet has a 6,000 word programme note in English
with full details of each item, setting it in its operatic and historical context.
There are biographies of all the players and many photographs.
Emily Pailthorpe (the youngest winner of the Gillet International oboe competition) joins Elaine Douvas (Principle Oboe of the Met Opera Orch.) to give an oboist’s-eye-view of opera.
Introduction by Emily Pailthorpe:
This is a CD for lovers of opera and lovers of the oboe alike. Indeed it is often the vocal quality of the oboe to which listeners and players are drawn. Whether reaching out from the pit orchestra in accompaniment, or taking centre stage for a chamber work, playing the oboe does feel like singing. Portrayed here are some of the great oboe moments in opera (Fidelio, Meistersinger) as well as many that we always wanted to stand up and sing ourselves! (For example the 'Queen of the Night' aria from Mozart's Magic Flute, the Duo from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.) Both the Diva and the gracious accompanist appear here - often swapping seamlessly from one role to the other.
My own love affair with opera grew when I was a student at The Juilliard School in New York, and my teacher Elaine Douvas gave me standing passes to come and hear the productions at the New York Metropolitan Opera, where she was principal oboe. It is a great pleasure to collaborate on this CD with her and her colleagues from the Met, and also to highlight the opera connection of players from the London CONCHORD Ensemble. Daniel Pailthorpe was principal flute at English National Opera for ten years and Andrea de Flammineis is principal bassoon at the Royal Opera House. I think that in this recording the operatic experience of all these players shines through. |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: PTC5186190 CDs: 1 Type: SACD |
Kolektion: Wind MusicMultichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: OAHD5007D CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentaryInva Mula, Laura Giordano, Aquiles Machado, Fabio Maria Capitanucci, David Menéndez, Felipe Bou, Gonzalo Fernández de Terán, Juan Tomás Martínez, Alfredo Mariotti, Federico Gallar, Francisco Pardo, Mario Villoria
Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Jesús López Cobos
Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid on 20th, 23rd and 25th March 2006.
Note: This HD-DVD is not compatible with standard DVD players.
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, PAL
Language: Italian
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 3 Mar 2008
Run Time: 149 minutes |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: ERP7915 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper Performers
Doctor Faust: Oliver Kuusik
Méphistophélès, satan: Ain Anger (Wiener Staatsoper)
Marguerite: Joanna Freszel (Poland)
Valentin, soldier, Marguerite’s brother: Rauno Elp
Siébel, Faust’s student: Helen Lokuta
Wagner, Valentin’s friend: Mart Laur
Old Faust: Urmas Põldma
Faust’s new girlfriend: Airike Kolk
Dancers in the cabaret: dancers of the Estonian National Ballet
Conductor: Vello Pähn
Stage Director: Dmitri Bertman (Helikon-Opera, Moscow)
AL, 16:9, Region - All, Stereo, subtitles in English and Estonian |
21.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: NMCD146 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra The Opera Group's lively production of Edward Rushton's new opera, described as 'part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller.’
Edward Rushton’s new opera, The Shops is described as ‘part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller’. Its central character, Christoph Schmalhans, is an obsessive stamp collector. He manages to steal prize examples from museums with the aid of his girlfriend Francesca, who distracts attention by causing scenes. His activities eventually attract the interest of the police and psychologists. In between, there is a running commentary on the phenomenon of shopaholics, along with a song-and-dance number from members of a mutual support group.
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano), Paul Reeves (bass) |
22.00 eur Buy |
|
ID: GM1.0072 CDs: 3 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper Wolfgang Windgassen (Lohengrin), Aase Nordmo-Lovberg (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Gustav Neidlinger (Friedrich von Telramund), Theo Adam (König Heinrich), Eberhard Wächter (Der Heerrufer)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bayreuth Festival, Lorin Maazel
Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 1960 |
23.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
|
ID: GM1.0085 CDs: 3 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera LiveRamón Vinay (Tristan), Birgit Nilsson (Isolde), Irene Dalis (Brangaene), Jerome Hines (König Marke), Walter Cassel (Kurwenal), Calvin Marsh (Melot), Paul Franke (Hirt), Luigi Sgarro (Steuerman), Charles Anthony (Seemann)
Live recording, New York, 1960
Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde has always been one of Böhm’s most famous specialties, and he literally owned the work during a decade at the Bayreuth Festival during the Sixties. His Isolde at Bayreuth as well as in this Metropolitan Opera performance from New York is Birgit Nilsson, who made her Met debut just a few weeks prior to this performance to sensational acclaim. Tristan is Ramón Vinay, for many people the greatest Heldentenor in the years after Lauritz Melchior. His Bayreuth Tristans under Karajan and Jochum are well remembered, and this New York performance still finds him at the peak of his powers. |
23.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
|
ID: RRC2060 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Kolektion: Opera CollectionSubkolektion: Oper Jussi Bjorling, Zinka Milanov, Leonard Warren, Fedora Barbieri, Nicola Moscona,
Margaret Roggero, Paul Franke, George Cehanovsky, Nathaniel Sprinzena. |
25.00 eur Buy |
|
|