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R. Strauss - Salome
Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay
Deutsche Grammophon, 2007
Brilliant Stratas
+ Ideal Salome
+ opera lover
+ Finding a lost performance
+ A Mesmerizing, Definitive Performance
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Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) / Pretre, Domingo, Royal Opera Covent Garden
Plácido Domingo, Luciana Serra
Kultur Video, 2003
intoxicating!
+ Good Performance of Standard Version
+ great production
+ Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) / Pretre, Domingo, Royal Opera Covent Garden
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Jules Massenet: Manon
Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazon
Deutsche Grammophon, 2008
Paris in Hollywood
+ An Excellent Manon
+ If Marilyn Monroe could only Sing!
+ Es maravillosa, pero hay que ver a Gruberova
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Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)
Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette
Emi Classics, 2008
incredible
+ The Met's Peter Grimes is awesome!
+ Runnicles leads an impressive reading of Grimes
+ Very good production
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Strauss - Elektra
Birgit Nilsson (II), Leonie Rysanek
Deutsche Grammophon, 2006
Some corrections to prior postings
+ Flawless and beautiful Elektra
+ GREAT THEATE
I thought I would add some corrections:
1. this performance was not Nilsson's return to the MET after a five year absence. Her first Elektra in 1980 was on February 1 and this recording is from February 16.
2. this performance was not "cut" due to her vocal condition but observes the standard ...
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Handel - Giulio Cesare / Kenny, Pushee, Dalton, Campbell, Gunn, Bennett, Hickox, Sydney Opera
Graham Pushee, Yvonne Kenny
Kultur Video, 2004
Beautiful and original production
+ Respectable Though Dated Treatment of Handel's Great Opera
This piece was written as a typical opera seria. The director, Francisco Negrin does a great job in emphasizing the tragic moments, like Caesar lamenting aria Alma del gran Pompeo, or the sorrowful arias of Pompeo's widow - Cornelia. But Negrin is equally effective in finding the more amusing ...
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R. Strauss - Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Luana DeVol
TDK, 2007
Good performance of a difficult opera
+ love the look, hate the cuts
+ Oh my god
+ Doing justice to a masterpiece
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Richard Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos / Levine, Norman, Battle, Troyanos, Metropolitan Opera
Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle
Deutsche Grammophon, 2002
Another great Met performance!
+ Wonderful music, beautiful!
+ Very enjoyable
+ For once, both acts done right!
+ I love this DVD!!
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Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Philip Langridge, Jessye Norman
Philips, 2005
simply superb!
+ Rich visual and audio experience - highly recommended
+ Converging Patterns of Significance
+ At a loss for words
+ The Very Best!
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Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Bryn Terfel
BBC / Opus Arte, 2001
Verdi without fear
+ The funniest of all Falstaff'
+ A Comparative Critique
+ When you're in the right mood...
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Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]
Renee Fleming, Ramon Vargas
Decca, 2007
The best DVD version of Eugene Onegin
+ Ideal Cast
+ Eugene Onegin - Opera on DVD
+ "Magnificently conceived, staged and sung"
+ Exquisite Performance
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Prokofiev - War and Peace / Bertini, Gunn, Kit, Mamsirova, Gouriakova, Brubaker, Paris Opera
Olga Gouriakova, Nathan Gunn (III)
Tdk DVD Video, 2003
Great opera. Wonderful production.
+ Rivetting!!!
+ W Well done, but not the best of operas
+ Sensational!!
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Christoph Williabald Gluck - Iphigenie en Tauride / Galstian, Gilfry, van der Walt, Christie, Guth (Opernhaus ...
William Christie, Juliette Galstian
Kultur Video, 2006
Superior production, quality
+ Get the ArtHaus Version Instead
+ Intense Production of Great Opera
Most of the reviews concerning this "abstract" production are from opera fans who never saw this opera. I did, in a similar "abstract" production at Lyric Opera of Chicago, and it turned out to be one of the most remarkable operas I and my friends had ever seen. Trust me, you would not enjoy this ...
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Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)/ Bartoli, G. Quilico, Kuebler, Feller, R. Lloyd; ...
Cecilia Bartoli, Carlos Feller
Arthaus Musik, 2003
A Must Own Five Star 'Barber'
+ Spirited and charming
+ Bartoli in "Il Barbiere"
+ A Wonderful Introduction to Opera
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Verdi - Il Trovatore / Cura, Hovorostovsky, Villarroel, Naef, Rizzi, Covent Garden
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
BBC / Opus Arte, 2002
Powerful!
+ Brief Review
+ It almost got 5 - but for...
+ A passionate production of this wild opera
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