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Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore / Eschwe, Netrebko, Villazon, Wiener Staatsoper
(more) »rank: 12188starring: Rolando Villazon, Anna Netrebko, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Leo Nucci, Alfred Eschwe
directed by: Otto Schenk
: :Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag Adina, the flirtatious heroine. She's a tease who takes up with Belcore, an army sergeant, to make Nemorino jealous. After numerous (and humorous) plot twists that include a phony love potion, it all ends happily. Adina and Nemorino declare their love for each other, Belcore is dumped, and the fraudulent Dulcamara does a landslide business in love potions. It's all a fast-moving bundle of fun, especially with the star-filled cast of this 2005 Vienna State Opera performance. The leads ...
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Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera / Levine, Pavarotti, Nucci, Metropolitan Opera
(more) »rank: 26981starring: Aprile Millo, Luciano Pavarotti, Florence Quivar, Harolyn Blackwell, Leo Nucci
directed by: Brian Large
: :Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag Adina, the flirtatious heroine. She's a tease who takes up with Belcore, an army sergeant, to make Nemorino jealous. After numerous (and humorous) plot twists that include a phony love potion, it all ends happily. Adina and Nemorino declare their love for each other, Belcore is dumped, and the fraudulent Dulcamara does a landslide business in love potions. It's all a fast-moving bundle of fun, especially with the star-filled cast of this 2005 Vienna State Opera performance. The leads ...
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Verdi - La Traviata / Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, Solti, Covent Garden (Special Edition with Highlights CD)
(more) »rank: 30310starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci, Leah-Marian Jones, Gillian Knight
directed by: Humphrey Burton, Peter Maniura
: :Angela Gheorghiu is the definitive Violetta of her generation, the standard-setter against whom all other exponents of this role must be judged for the foreseeable future. Her affinity for Verdi's fragile, gentle-hearted courtesan is rooted in a fine balance of acting and singing skills. She looks right, her body language is eloquent without overstatement, and her voice is limpid, expressive, open to a variety of subtle shadings and used gracefully and intelligently. For this, her first Traviata, Covent Garden put together a production in 1994 that is solid and straightforward but otherwise unspectacular--a fairly subdued background against which her performance stands out all ...
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Verdi - Macbeth
(more) »rank: 35957starring: Leo Nucci, Sylvie Valayre, Enrico Iori, Roberto Iuliano, Nicola Pascoli
directed by: Liliana Cavani
: :Angela Gheorghiu is the definitive Violetta of her generation, the standard-setter against whom all other exponents of this role must be judged for the foreseeable future. Her affinity for Verdi's fragile, gentle-hearted courtesan is rooted in a fine balance of acting and singing skills. She looks right, her body language is eloquent without overstatement, and her voice is limpid, expressive, open to a variety of subtle shadings and used gracefully and intelligently. For this, her first Traviata, Covent Garden put together a production in 1994 that is solid and straightforward but otherwise unspectacular--a fairly subdued background against which her performance stands out all ...
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Giuseppe Verdi - Macbeth / Nucci, Verrett, Riccardo Chailly, Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1987 film)
(more) »rank: 24690starring: Leo Nucci, Shirley Verrett, Samuel Ramey, Johan Leysen, Veriano Luchetti
directed by: Riccardo Chailly, Claude d'Anna
: : Claude D'Anna's film of Verdi's Macbeth is a gloomy affair, stressing the descent into madness of the principal villains. It's acted by the singers of the Decca recording of the opera (with two substitutions of actors standing in for singers) and the lip-synching is generally unobtrusive. The musical performance is superb, conducted by Riccardo Chailly with admirable fire, and sung by some of the leading lights of the opera stages of the 1980s. Shirley Verrett virtually owned the role of Lady Macbeth at the time, and she delivers a terrific performance, the voice equal to the role's wide register leaps and it's ...
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Verdi - La Forza del Destino (remastered)
(more) »rank: 58595starring: Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, Isola Jones, Bonaldo Giaiotti
directed by: John Dexter
: :For much of the late 20th century, Leontyne Price was the leading exponent of Verdi's heroic soprano roles--among the most demanding vocal and dramatic categories in opera. One of her specialties was Leonora, the tormented heroine in La forza del destino (The Power of Fate). Her classic performance, combined with some of Verdi's most soaring and energetic music, did much to justify this flawed but compelling masterpiece--a thud-and-blunder melodrama about war, duels, violent death, guilt, vengeance, and concealed identities in which, following a tried and true operatic formula, nearly everybody dies at the end. There are also comic scenes. A Metropolitan Opera production ...
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Verdi - La Traviata / Richard Eyre, Solti, Gheorghiu, Lopardo, Nucci, ROH Covent Garden
(more) »rank: 43909starring: Humphrey Burton, Peter Maniura, Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci
directed by: Roderick Earle, Mark Beesley (II)
: :Angela Gheorghiu is the definitive Violetta of her generation, the standard-setter against whom all other exponents of this role must be judged for the foreseeable future. Her affinity for Verdi's fragile, gentle-hearted courtesan is rooted in a fine balance of acting and singing skills. She looks right, her body language is eloquent without overstatement, and her voice is limpid, expressive, open to a variety of subtle shadings and used gracefully and intelligently. For this, her first Traviata, Covent Garden put together a production in 1994 that is solid and straightforward but otherwise unspectacular--a fairly subdued background against which her performance stands out all ...
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Verdi - Falstaff
(more) »rank: 55367starring: Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, Barbara Hendricks, Lucia Valentini-Terrani
directed by: Ronald Eyre
:Description:Opera in three acts The Royal Opera Covent Garden Music GIUSEPPE VERDILibretto ARRIGO BOITOProducer: RONALD EYRESet Designer: HAYDEN GRIFFINCostume Designer: MICHAEL STENNETTSir John Falstaff: RENATO BRUSONPistol: WILLIAM WILDERMANNBardolph: FRANCIS EGERTONHost of the Garter Inn: GEORGE HERSONDoctor Caius: JOHN DOBSONMistress Meg Page: BRENDA BOOZERMistress Alice Ford: KATIA RICCIARELLINannetta: BARBARA HENDRICKSMistress Quickly:LUCIA VALENTINI-TERRANIFord : LEO NUCCIFenton: DALMACIO GONZALEZThe Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseConductor CARLO MARIA GIULINIWhen Carlo Maria Giulini returned to conducting public performances of opera after an absence of fourteen years, he chose for the occasion one of the enduring comic masterpieces – Verdi’s Falstaff. The composer was ...
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Verdi - I due Foscari / Nello Santi - Nucci, La Scola, Pendatchanska - Teatro di San Carlo Napoli
(more) »rank: 88846starring: Leo Nucci, Vincenzo La Scola
directed by: Danilo Rigosa
:Description:Opera in three acts The Royal Opera Covent Garden Music GIUSEPPE VERDILibretto ARRIGO BOITOProducer: RONALD EYRESet Designer: HAYDEN GRIFFINCostume Designer: MICHAEL STENNETTSir John Falstaff: RENATO BRUSONPistol: WILLIAM WILDERMANNBardolph: FRANCIS EGERTONHost of the Garter Inn: GEORGE HERSONDoctor Caius: JOHN DOBSONMistress Meg Page: BRENDA BOOZERMistress Alice Ford: KATIA RICCIARELLINannetta: BARBARA HENDRICKSMistress Quickly:LUCIA VALENTINI-TERRANIFord : LEO NUCCIFenton: DALMACIO GONZALEZThe Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseConductor CARLO MARIA GIULINIWhen Carlo Maria Giulini returned to conducting public performances of opera after an absence of fourteen years, he chose for the occasion one of the enduring comic masterpieces – Verdi’s Falstaff. The composer was ...
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Verdi - La forza del destino / James Levine, The Metropolitan Opera
(more) »rank: 53371starring: Richard Vernon (IV), Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, Isola Jones
directed by: Kirk Browning
:Description:La Forza del Destino in Verdi's panoramic tragedy of honor and vengeance in 18th Century Spain an dIntaly. Its characters, ranging from aristocrats to camp followers, from soldiers to monks. Leotyne Price's memorable performance as leonora 'can still bring tears to the eyes.' 'James Levine's conducting is full of drive and fire,'and 'the grandeur of the magnificent score come through' New York Times This presentation of La Forza del Destino includes optional English subtitles and was taped during the March 24, 1984 performance at the Metropolitan Opera. No material was taken from rehearsals, other performances or remake recording sessions. Optional English Subtitles 'a ...
