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C Major is now releasing HDVDs:
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Giacomo Puccini Turandot opera to libretto
by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Directed by Tiziano Mancini
in 2008 at the Calatrava opera house Palau de las Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia. Stars Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou,
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Fabio Previati, Vincenç Esteve, Roger Padullés,
Javier Agulló Ventseslav Anastasov, and Ossama Badreddine.
Zubin Mehta directs the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Cor de
la Generalitat Valenciana (Chorus Master: Francesc Perales), and the Escolania
de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats (Chorus Master; Luis Garrido).
Staged by Chen Kaige; sets by Liu King; costumes by Chen Tong Xun; lighting by Albert Faura.
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Richard Wagner Das Rheingold opera to libretto
by the composer. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus
in 2007 at the Calatrava opera house Palau de las Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia. Stars Juha Uusitalo, Ilya Bannik, Germán Villar, John Daszak, Matti Salminen,
Stephen Milling, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Gerhardt Siegel, Anna Larsson, Sabina von Walther,
Christa Mayer, Silvia Vázquez, Ann-Katrin Naidu, and Hannah Esther Minutillo.
Zubin Mehta conducs the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Sets by Roland Olbeter; lighting by Peter van Praet; costumes by Chu Uroz.
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[The L'Opera Dou jury recently viewed this Rheingold and gave it the grade of "B+".
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Richard Wagner Die Walküre opera to libretto
by the composer. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus
in 2008 at the Calatrava opera house Palau de las Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia. Stars Peter Seiffert, Matti Salminen, Juha Uusitalo, Peter Maria Schnitzer, Jennifer Wilson,
Anna Larsson, Bernadette Flaitz, Helen Huse Ralston, Pilar Vázquez, Christa Mayer,
Eugenia Bethencourt, Heike Grötzinger, Manuela Bress, and Hannah Esther Minutillo.
Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana. Video creator---Franc Aleu;
staging and acting coordination by Valentina Carrasco;
sets by Roland Olbeter; costumes by Chu Uroz; lighting by Peter Van Praet; video
directors---Tiziano Mancini & Davide Mancini. This disc is available now from Amazon in these countries:
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Richard Wagner Siegfried opera to libretto
by the composer. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus
in 2008 at the Palau de las Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia. Stars Lance Ryan, Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo, Gerhard Siegel, Franz-Josef Kapellmann,
Catherine Wyn-Rodgers, Stephen Milling, and Marina Zyatkova.
Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Sets by Roland Olbeter; costumes by Chu Uroz; lighting by Peter Van Praet; video projections by Franc Aleu.
This title comes with dts-HD Master Audio 7.1.
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Richard Wagner Götterdämmerung opera to libretto
by the composer. Directed by Carlos Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus
in 2009 at the Palau de las Arts Reina Sofía in
Valencia. Stars Lance Ryan, Jennifer Wilson, Matti Salminen, Elisabete Matos,
Ralf Lukas, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Catherine Wyn-Rodgers, Daniela Denschlag, Pilar Vázquez,
Eugenia Bethencourt, Silvia Vázquez, Ann-Katrin Naidu, and Marina Prudenskaya.
Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Sets by Roland Olbeter; costumes by Chu Uroz; lighting by Peter Van Praet; video projections by Franc Aleu.
This title comes with dts-HD Master Audio 7.1.
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Prokofiev The Gambler opera to libretto
by the composer. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov at the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden in 2008.
Stars Vladimir Ognovenko, Kristine Opolais, Misha Didyk, Stefania Toczyska, Stephan Rügamer, Viktor Rud,
Silvia De La Muela, Gian-Luca Pasolini, Alessandro Paliaga, Plamen Kumpikov, Gleb Nikolsky, Gregory Bonfatti,
Robert Hebenstreit, Alexander Teliga, Gianfranco Montresor, Enas Massalha, Alisa Zinovjeva, Elizabeth Laurence,
Constance Heller, Borjana Mateewa, Ki Hyun Kim, Otakar Klein, Ilya Kuzmin, Juri Bogdanov, Dmitri Plotnikov,
Jens-Eric Schulze, Andreas Neher, Bernd Grabowski, and Peter Krumow.
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin
and the Staatsopernchor with Chorus Master Eberhard Friedrich
Sets by Dmitri Tcherniakov; costumes by Dmitri Tcherniakov and Elena Zaitseva;
lighting by Gleb Filshtinksy; video direction by Karina Fibich. Released in
2010, this title has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio surround sound.
This disc is available now in the UK,
Germany, and
France.
[Dostoevsky, the great writer and thinker, also had dire problems with women, business management, and compulsive gambling.
All these troubles show up in his novella The Gambler, which is perhaps the most important literary
treatment of the vice of gaming. Under draconian deadline pressure, Dostoevsky wrote the novella in 1867 in one month with
the help of a schoolgirl who was a champion at shorthand. He then married her. Prokofiev wrote the opera version in
5 and 1/2 months in 1916. The music is not considered to be particularly great. But it's more than adequate to support the
drama presented on the stage, which has few dull moments. As with any adaptation between media, the
opera changes much from the book and leaves much out. Anyone expecting the subtlety of the novella might be disappointed with how much
weaker the story is in opera form. But then again, the point of the opera is less about the story and more about the music and singing, so the
changes can be forgiven. If you don't know The Gambler story, we recommend you watch this cold.
It's might be different from what you expect. Henry C McFadyen Jr. and Henry McFadyen III June 2010]
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Handel Admeto opera to libretto
by Nicola Haym or Paolo Antonio Rolli. Directed by Doris Dörrie.
Recorded live at the Internationale Handel-Festspiele Göttingen, Deutsches Theatre in 2009.
Stars Tim Mead, Marie Arnet, William Berger, Andrew Radley, David Bates, Kirsten Blaise, and Wolf Matthias Friedrich.
Nicholas McGegan conducts the Göttingen Festival Orchestra.
Set and costume design by Bernd Lepel; lighting by Linus Fellbom; video direction by Agnes Méth;
choreography by Tadashi Endo. Released in 2010, this title comes with 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio surround sound.
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Giuseppe Verdi Otello opera to libretto by Arrigo Boito.
Directed by Stephen Langridge at the Salzburg Festival in 2008. Stars Aleksandrs Antonenko,
Barbara Di Castri, Carlos Álvarez, Marina Poplavskaya, Stephen Costello, Antonello Ceron,
Mikhail Petrenko, Simone Del Savio, and Andrea Porta. Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker
and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor with chorus master Thomas Lang.
Sets by George Souglides; costumes by Emma Ryott; lighting by Giuseppe Di Iorio;
video direction by Peter Schönhofer. Released in 2010,
this disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound.
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Giuseppe Verdi Aida opera to libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
Directed by Graham Vick at the Bregenz Festival. Stars Kevin Short, Iano Tamar, Tatiana Serjan, Tigran Martirossian,
and Rubens Pelizzari.
Carlo Rizzi conducts the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the Katowice City Singers' Ensemble, the
Polish Radio Choir Krakow, and the Bregenz Festival Choir. Set designs by Paul Brown.
This disc has 5.1 PCM sound.
It is available now in the
UK.
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Handel Messiah oratorio to libretto by Charles Jennens.
Recorded live at the Theater an der Wien, 2009. Directed by Claus Guth.
Stars Susan Gritton, Cornelia Horak, Bejun Mehta, Richard Croft, and Florian Boesch.
Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir.
To be released on August 31, 2010.
It is available for pre-order in the
UK.
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