DVD: Peter Straka     DVD:     Peter Straka      Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007) Olaf Bär, Peter Straka Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 A searing and memorable final production from Boulez and Chereau Janacek's final opera, composed in 1927-28 and given its posthumous premiere two years later, is based on the Dostoyevsky novel written in 1861-62 in which the author renders his own prison experiences. The story as seen in the opera is not presented in a linear ...             Berg - Lulu / Aikin, Kallisch, Keller, Straka, Davislim, Muff, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera Laura Aikin, Peter Straka Tdk DVD Video, 2004 Done right by thoes who did it first Yes, this is the two act version, but if any opera house has the right to pull it off, it is in Zurich where the work was actually premiered. We must remember that as lovers of the classical arts, we need not be concerned by the trivial judgments about which ...             Mozart - Mitridate, Re di Ponto Gösta Winbergh, Yvonne Kenny Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 More than just a curiosity Watching this film was my first exposure to this work by the adolescent Mozart, so I'm going to start with my impressions of the opera itself. Like early Verdi, Mitridate conforms to the structural conventions of the time. In Mozart's case, this means the rigid format ...          products you might be interested in   search for DVDs aix-en-provence, davislim, kallisch, mitridate, provence, welser-most      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Monetary Policy in Interdependent Economies: A Game-Theoretic Approach