DVD: kanawa

DVD: kanawa

DVD:

Kanawa

Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier / Te Kanawa, Howells, Haugland, Bonney, Solti, Schlesinger (The Royal ...

Kiri Te Kanawa, Aage Haugland

Kultur Video, 2004

Delightful
I thoroughly enjoyed this performance. Both the singing and the acting were superb. I really cannot imagine that Te Kanawa's Marschallin can be bettered and Anne Howell's Oktavian was an eye-opener for me. If you want a moving and well acted performance you can't do ...

Metropolitan Opera Gala - James Levine's 25th Anniversary

Renee Fleming, Deborah Voigt

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

A Must-own for any opera fan
I first watched this gala a decade ago when it first aired on PBS. I was smart enough to tape the whole thing then, and those tapes got watched many many times over the next few years. I was in highschool then, and, after leaving home for college, have not had many ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

better than I could ever have hoped
I am not a great opera fan, but I love Mozart and really wanted to hear the whole Marriage of Figaro beyond the too-familiar overture. I read the reviews on this one and it seemed more like a movie than a Brunhilda endurathon. BOY DID I FIND A GOOD ONE! If ratings ...

Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Domingo, Te Kanawa, Prey, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey

Warner Music Group Germany, 2003

Die Fledermaus
Although the performance dates from the 1980s the DVD is visually and technically quite satisfactory. The DVD I ordered suffered from two or three brief interruptions. It was a gift to a relative and I wasn't able to determine whether the problem was with the disc or ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Te Kanawa, Cotrubas, von Stade, Luxon, Skram, Fryatt; Pritchard, Glyndebourne ...

Kiri te Kanawa, Ileana Cotrubas

Arthaus Musik, 2004

Brilliant!
This DVD is a treasure. Perhaps one of the best productions ever. Terrific cast, great direction, wonderful music interpretation, great acting and singing. I am personally quite taken with some of the Met productions I've seen, but this is right up there with them, and ...

Mozart - Don Giovanni / Maazel, Raimondi, Te Kanawa, Paris Opera

Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy

Sony Pictures, 2002

Good Opera!!
Taking in consideration that it was done in the 70's it is a reasonable recording. Music is great!! Good to have one.

The Making of West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Learning with the Master
The absolute genious of L. Bernstein drives us constantly to tears of emotional joy. Paraphrasing Dame Kiri te Kanawa "...it's like having Mozart in front of you..." I've always been learning music with Bernstein especially when, as young piano student back in the ...

Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Levine, Te Kanawa, Metropolitan Opera

Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Tutti Brava
Simon Boccanegra is greatly underappreciated. For the patient listener, it is an inestimable treasure. The opera may not be ecspecially tuneful, but its epic plot and moving composition, place it at the top of Verdi's Operas. This production has no weak points, it ...

Puccini - Manon Lescaut / Sinopoli, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Allen, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo

Kultur Video, 2003

Great Opera
Manon Lescaut is one of those operas that has all the elements to be a classic. Beautiful music, poignant story and a tragic end. And of course, it is Puccini's! true that it is not his best one. But not because he was not done his best but because he was still walking ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Royal Albert Hall Celebration

Tina Arena, Michael Ball

Universal Studios, 2001

Andrew Lloyd Webber- The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
The Andrew Lloyd Webber- The Royal Albert Hall Celebration was just wonderful. I highly recommend this if you did not get to see some of these performers on Broadway. The music and performers are just great and you will be so entertained you will think you are there ...

Opera Stories: An In-Depth Look at Ten of the World's Favorite Operas / Charlton Heston
Kiri Te Kanawa; Ileana Cotrubas; PLacido Domingo; Renato Bruson

KULTUR VIDEO, 2007

Opera Stories provides a perfect introduction to the drama, characters and spectacle of opera. Each of its ten programs tells the story of a single opera, bringing the drama and emotion of the plot vividly to life. Charlton Heston narrates each program from, as nearly as possible, the original location stipulated by the composer: the story of La ...

Verdi - Otello / Solti, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa

Kultur Video, 2001

An OTELLO for the Ages
I have known and loved this OTELLO for nearly ten years now, having first watched it on videotape. The Elijah Moshinsky production for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, taped live in 1992, features what could be Placido Domingo's definitive version of a role he began ...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra [DVD Video]

Decca, 2007

Te Kanawa at her peak
This lavish production from the ROHCG beautifully preserves the Amelia of Kiri Te Kanawa from her long best period. As usual, she is stunning to look at but that shouldn't detract from one of the most beautiful voices of the recent years. The entire cast is superb. ...

Meeting Venus [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]

Warner

"Meeting Venus" aims high--and hits the bullseye
Until we get a U.S. DVD release of this movie, this foreign version is the best we can do. I'd like to think that at some point in the future, "Meeting Venus" will be known to the wider public (and not just the 10 or so of us that have seen it) as one of the very best ...

Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky / Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Irek Mukhamedov, Darcey Bussell, Royal Opera ...

Darcey Bussell, Placido Domingo

KULTUR VIDEO, 2008

Entertaining concert with some odd program choices-
Since this 1993 concert recording is only now being released in the US & Canada, there must have been copyright/contract problems for one or more of the artists involved. To mark the disparity in length of career, singers Te Kanawa, Domingo, Hvorostovsky & others are ...