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Berg - Lulu / Davis, Schafer, Bailey, Kuebler, Harries, Schone, Bardon, Glyndebourne
(more) »rank: 25519starring: Christine Schäfer, Kathryn Harries, Neil Jenkins, Donald Maxwell, Jonathan Veira
directed by: Graham Vick (II), Humphrey Burton
:Description:Winner of the 1997 Gramaphone Award for Best Video! This production by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stars Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, and Wolfgang Schone. With its intensely beautiful score, this is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. Color, 183 minutes. :Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite, and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's conducting in this classic Glyndebourne production is that we forget all of ...
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(more) »rank: 36632starring: Fiorenza Cedolins, Fernando Portari, Sandra Pastrana, Carlo Rizzi, Emanuele Giannino
directed by: Graham Vick
:Description:Winner of the 1997 Gramaphone Award for Best Video! This production by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stars Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, and Wolfgang Schone. With its intensely beautiful score, this is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. Color, 183 minutes. :Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite, and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's conducting in this classic Glyndebourne production is that we forget all of ...
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(more) »rank: 78564starring: Bryn Terfel
directed by: Humphrey Burton, Graham Vick
:Description:The spectacular opening of London's newly restored Royal Opera House brings a riot of color to Verdi's great Shakespearean masterpiece. Bryn Terfel as Sir John Falstaff and Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford lead a star cast with the orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House under the direction of Bernard Haitink, in a spectacular new production by Graham Vick with vibrant medieval designs by Paul Brown.
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(more) »rank: 54031starring: Marcelo Alvarez, Carlos Alvarez, Inva Mula, Julian Konstantinov, Jesus Lopez Cobos
directed by: Graham Vick
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Puccini - Manon Lescaut
(more) »rank: 128322starring: Adina Nitescu, Patrick Denniston, Roberto de Candia, Paolo Montarsolo, Antonello Palombi
directed by: Graham Vick
:Description:A lyric drama in four actsAfter the play by Abbé PrévostMusic by GIACOMO PUCCINIConductor: JOHN ELIOT GARDINERDirector: GRAHAM VICKDesigner: RICHARD HUDSONLighting Designer: JENNIFER TIPTONEdmondo: ANTONELLO PALOMBIChevalier des Grieux: PATRICK DENNISTONGeronte di Ravoir: PAOLO MONTARSOLOLescaut: ROBERTO DE CANDIAManon Lescaut: ADINA NITESCUThe Innkeeper: RICHARD MOSLEY-EVANSA Musician: SARAH CONNOLLYThe Dancing Master: CHRISTOPHER LEMMINGSA Sergeant of Archers: KEVIN SHARPA Lamplighter: MICHAEL HART-DAVISA Naval Captain: RICHARD MOSLEY-EVANSLondon Philharmonic OrchestraThe Glyndebourne ChorusManon Lescaut, Puccini’s first major success, is a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18th-century novel by Abbé Prévost, depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful, fun-loving Manon. Puccini clothes the story in warmly ...
