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Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2005/1980)

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Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2005/1980)

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2005/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.42 Gb+7.86 Gb (2xDVD9) | 248 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

In 1976 French director Patrice Chéreau's cenentenary staging of Wagner's "Ring"-Cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but, by the end of its last performance in 1980, this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause. "Götterdämmerung presents a world in which no values exist any more. The only refuge is in the past" (Chateau). "The videotaped Bayreuth Ring succeed triumphantly."

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Siegfried (2005/1980)

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Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Siegfried (2005/1980)

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Siegfried (2005/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.78 Gb+6.36 Gb (2xDVD9) | 228 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

"The central part of the "Ring" tetralogy is precisely this: a hero has been created who would actually have had all the attributes of freedom, but nobody remembered to tell him…" (Patrice Chéreau). "One can only marvel at how enthrallingly Chéreau has made visible every ramification of this malignant idyll and bitter comedy. In its faithful service to this fabulously polished staging Brian Large's video direction is a model" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Die Walküre (2005/1980)

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Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Die Walküre (2005/1980)

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Die Walküre (2005/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.05 Gb+6.04 Gb (2xDVD9) | 215 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

The second part of Patrice Chéreau's epoch-making Bayreuth "Ring" is a radical re-imaging of "Die Walküre", unprecedented in its psychological penetration. "This Wagnerian drama", says Chéreau, "which is at once classical theatre and domestic comedy, enables us to interpret the myths in terms that are both anecdotical and sublime … With Wagner one is dealing with a drama tuned virtually white-hot by the music." "Nothing ever seen before on television has given a better insight into Wagner's genius." (The New York Times)

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2005/1980)

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Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2005/1980)

Pierre Boulez, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele - Wagner: Das Rheingold (2005/1980)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.58 Gb (DVD9) | 143 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

In Patrice Chéreau's illuminating, violent Bayreuth production of Das Rheingold, Wotan wears the brocade coat of feudal times while the Rhine seems to be a reservoir with a modern power station - but, as Chéreau states, it "could also be many other things… a menacing construction, a theatrical machine to produce a river, an allegorical shape that today generates energy: perhaps a mythological presence, the mythology of our time… The gods' ascent to Valhalla (is) a defiant flight into the future."

Andrea Andermann, Zubin Mehta, Symphony Orchestra of Rome RAI - Puccini: Tosca (2013/1992) [BDRip]

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Andrea Andermann, Zubin Mehta, Symphony Orchestra of Rome RAI - Puccini: Tosca (2013/1992) [BDRip]

Andrea Andermann, Zubin Mehta, Symphony Orchestra of Rome RAI, Malfitano, Domingo, Raimondi - Puccini: Tosca (2013/1992) [BDRip]
Classical | BluRay-rip 1 | MKV 1920x1080 / 5000 kbps / 29,970 fps | 114 min | 7,70 Gb
Classical | BluRay-rip 2 | MKV 1280x720 / 2000 kbps / 29,970 fps | 114 min | 5,30 Gb
Audio: Italiano / PCM / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 16 bits
Classical | Warner Classics | Sub: English, French, German, Italian

Contemporary Rome is the setting for this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini’s Tosca, performed in the Roman locations – and at the same times of day – as Puccini had written into his score. Thus the action opens in the beautiful 16th-century church of Sant’Andrea della Valle at noon, where Cavaradossi (Domingo) meets the fugitive Angelotti, moves to the Farnese Palace that evening where Tosca (Catherine Malfitano) dramatically makes a pact with the lustful Scarpia (Ruggero Raimondi), and finally to the battlements of the Castel Sant’Angelo at dawn the following day where the final drama is played out.

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (2012)

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William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (2012)

William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (2012)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 4.83+6.12 Gb (2xDVD9) | 180 min
Classical | Virgin | Sub: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

The culmination of a three-year Monteverdi project led by conductor William Christie and director Pier Luigi Pizzi at Madrid's Teatro Réal, L'incoronazione di Poppea brings a potent blend of sex and politics, high drama and comedy. Leading the cast are Danielle de Niese, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic and Anna Bonitatibus.

Pierre Jourdan, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne - Georges Bizet & Fromental Halévy: Noé (2005)

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Pierre Jourdan, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne - Georges Bizet & Fromental Halévy: Noé (2005)

Pierre Jourdan, Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne - Georges Bizet & Fromental Halévy: Noé (2005)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | Français | Dolby AC3, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 5 ch | 7.77 Gb (DVD9) | 140 min
Classical | Kultur | Sub.: Français, English

Halevy's Noé is another one of those operas that is rather obscure, but doesn't deserve to be. One may criticise it for the story stretching slightly longer than it needed to be, and occasionally one can tell that it was left incomplete, and the music not having any memorable arias (similar problems with Clari), but the story itself is quite good, after all it is based on the biblical story of Noah and the music is beautiful, it is unmistakably Halevy but Bizet's (who was responsible for completing the opera) style does come through in the orchestration.

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

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Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 173 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira.

Vjekoslav Sutej, Orchestra of the Arena di Verona - Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (2006)

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Vjekoslav Sutej, Orchestra of the Arena di Verona - Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (2006)

Vjekoslav Šutej, Orchestra of the Arena di Verona - Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (2006/2002)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 5.27 Gb (DVD9) | 80 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub.: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol

Voici une représentation filmée au Teatro Filarmonico de Vérone en février 2002 dans une mise en scène de la famille Alagna. Paillasse (en italien Pagliacci, qui signifie « Les clowns ») est un opéra en deux actes écrit et composé par Ruggero Leoncavallo, créé le 21 mai 1892 au Teatro Dal Verme à Milan. L’opéra évoque, à travers la vie d'une troupe de commedia dell'arte, la condition des comédiens de théâtre qui doivent en toute circonstance faire bonne figure en scène, quelles que soient les difficultés de leur vie privée.

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

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Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)

Herbert von Karajan, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Verdi: Il Trovatore (2010/1978)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.53 Gb (DVD9) | 151 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano, Chinese

Il Trovatore was always one of Herbert von Karajan‘s favourite operas. He conducted it at the very beginning of his career and his first studio recording in 1956 was made in Milan with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, but „his“ Trovatore really made its mark in the legendary performances given at the Salzburg Festival in 1962, which formed the basis for this successful revival in Vienna. He once declared in an interview that what he loved about this opera was its archetypal human passions, its compression of highly dramatic situations into the smallest conceivable space and Verdi‘s genius for translating such situations into music.

Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2016/1999) [BDRip]

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Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2016/1999) [BDRip]

Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin & Staatsopernchor - Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (2016/1999) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip1 | MKV 1920x1080 / 4972 kbps / 29,97 fps | 190 min | 11,7 Gb
BluRay-rip2 | MKV 1280x720 / 2000 kbps / 29,97 fps | 190 min | 7,78 Gb
Audio: Italiano / PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits | DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

This memorable recording from the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin was Arthaus Musik’s first official release in 2000. It features one of the most popular Mozart operas, „Le Nozze di Figaro“, a witty satire on the authority of the reigning noble class and infidelity in love relationships. Starring a great cast of singers with Dorothea Röschmann, René Pape, Emily Magee and Peter Schreier – to name but a few – this performance is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, chief conductor of the Berlin State Orchestra since 1992 named conductor for life by the orchestra in 2000.

Riccardo Frizza, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Rossini: Tancredi (2007)

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Riccardo Frizza, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Rossini: Tancredi (2007)

Riccardo Frizza, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - Rossini: Tancredi (2007)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 7.78 Gb (DVD9) | 155 min
Classical | TDK | Sub.: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano

This DVD documents a production of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, which over the last 25 years has developed into one of the most important institutions of Italian musical life. This wonderful 1999 "Tancredi" production was on the repertoire there before traveling to Rome and finally to Florence, where it was recorded in 2005. Her concentrated classical pictures are characterized by an almost overwhelming architectural look with columns, reliefs and an altar. Director Pier Luigi Pizzi plays with a black and white contrast, which symbolizes the parties of Syracuse and which he added the color red - a symbol of the retreating hero.

Maurizio Arena, Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera House - Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele (2003/1989)

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Maurizio Arena, Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera House - Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele (2003/1989)

Maurizio Arena, Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera House - Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele (2003/1989)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.37 Gb (DVD9) | 160 min
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: Italiano, Français, English, Deutsch, Español

Arrigo Boito's treatment of the Faust legend is imaginative yet also faithful to Goethe's original conception, and the score is memorable for its rich orchestral sounds, beautifully punctuated with lyrical passages and choral interludes. Robert Carsen's sumptuous, post-modern production of Mefistofele is a gloriously decadent and theatrically stunning realisation, and the San Francisco Opera's performance has been unanimously acclaimed in both Paris and San Francisco. Samuel Ramey, in the title role, has won both critical and overwhelming popular approval.

Andre Previn, San Francisco Opera Orchestra - Previn: A Streetcar named Desire (1998)

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Andre Previn, San Francisco Opera Orchestra - Previn: A Streetcar named Desire (1998)

André Previn, San Francisco Opera Orchestra - Previn: A Streetcar named Desire (1998)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | English (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 7.41 Gb (DVD9) | 167 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub.: Deutsch, Francais

André Previn turned seventy in 1999. From Berlin refugee to multi-Oscar-winning film score composer, from great jazz pianist to chief conductor of both the London Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, through four marriages including Mia Farrow and present wife Heather, with an honorary knighthood for his services to British music, his story is extraordinary. Previn's remarkable career reached a climax in September 1998 with the premier of his first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire. He also conducted the production at the San Francisco Opera, with Renée Fleming as Blanche.

Marco Guidarini, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac (2005/2003)

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Marco Guidarini, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac (2005/2003)

Marco Guidarini, Orchestre National de Montpellier - Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac (2005/2003)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.06 Gb (DVD9) | 133 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub.: Français, English, Deutsch, Italiano, Español

This is, by operatic standards of fidelity, a very faithful musical treatment of Edmond Rostand's classic drama about the swashbuckling poet and swordsman with the big nose. The music is competent but not spectacular; that quality is found in the libretto. The title role is expertly filled by Roberto Alagna, who not only has the best tenor voice in France but also turns out to be an accomplished actor in a demanding role. He is well-supported by a cast that clearly loves the story, its various characters and its often brilliant dialogue.