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Rigoletto (Verdi) - Wiener Staatsoper
Dec 20, 2014
Gounod Faust
Aug 01, 2016Salzburg Festival’s first-ever performance of Charles Gounod´s most famous and most performed opera! Internationally-acclaimed tenor Piotr Beczala triumphs in the title role as soul-selling philosopher Faust: “Piotr Beczala is a world-Faust” (Kurier) and “The well-deserved crown goes to a perfectly-cast Piotr Beczala” (Abendzeitung). Ildar Abdrazakov was “celebrated” (Broadway World) for his signature role as seductive and demonic Méphistophélès. Maria Agresta as convincingly innocent Marguerite struggling to resist temptation and to gain salvation: “She is fabulous!” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). “Spectacular and photogenic” staging (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) by award winning stage director and designer Reinhard von der Thannen. The Philharmonia Chor Wien and the Wiener Philharmoniker are performing under the baton of young Argentinian conductor Alejo Pérez.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
Jan 29, 2022One of opera’s grimmest tragedies received a powerful new production during the 2021–22 season when director Bartlett Sher unveiled his Weimar-era staging of Verdi’s Rigoletto. In this performance, recorded as part of the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions, commanding American baritone Quinn Kelsey gives a searing portrayal of the title character, a deformed court jester determined to protect the virtue of his daughter, Gilda, sung by radiant soprano Rosa Feola. His debauched employer, the Duke of Mantua, is tenor Piotr Beczała, with dynamic young maestro Daniele Rustioni on the podium to lead a cast that also features bass Andrea Mastroni as the assassin Sparafucile and mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan as Maddalena.
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Christmas in Vienna – Glanzlichter
Dec 24, 2021
Puccini: Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper Live)
Feb 22, 2019Performance of Puccini's opera performed/streamed from Vienna on the 22nd February 2019
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Royal Opera House 2023/24: Carmen
Jan 01, 1970Carmen declares that any man she loves should beware. However, even she is unprepared for what will happen when she decides to seduce Don José, an army corporal who initially appears uninterested in her charms. Don José soon abandons his sweetheart Micaëla and his army job for Carmen, and joins her and her smuggler friends in the mountains. But Carmen quickly wearies of Don José's possessiveness. When she turns her attentions to the dashing toreador Escamillo, Don José's jealousy erupts into violence.
Fedora (Metropolitan Opera)
Jan 14, 2023Après l'assassinat de son fiancé à Saint-Pétersbourg, la princesse Fedora se rend à Paris pour y retrouver le comte Loris Ipanov, suspect numéro un. Il lui confesse son amour mais aussi son crime, qu'elle s'empresse de dénoncer aux autorités russes. Les sentiments de Fedora changent lorsqu'elle apprend le mobile légitime du crime de Loris, sauf que son aveu à la police a provoqué des événements aux conséquences irréversibles... Le drame exaltant d'Umberto Giordano, tiré de la pièce éponyme de Victorien Sardou de 1882, revient sur la scène du Met pour la première fois depuis 25 ans. La mise en scène sophistiquée révèle les cadres idylliques dans lesquels se déploie l'action : un palais de Saint-Pétersbourg, un salon parisien à la mode et une villa pittoresque suisse.
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Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizetti’s hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in this production by Mary Zimmerman that updates the events to the 19th century. Rising young tenor sensation Piotr Beczała is Edgardo and Mariusz Kwiecien plays Lucia’s brother Enrico whose brutal authority forces her to deny her heart and marry for the sake of her family. The famous mad scene brilliantly depicts the cascading fragments of Lucia’s disintegrating mind.
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Carmen: Wiener Staatsoper
Jan 01, 1970After more than 40 years, the Vienna State Opera is bringing a new production of Carmen - in Calixto Bieito's brilliant and gripping staging - to the stage. Since the originally planned performances could not take place in front of an audience - we provide a recording of an extraordinary introductory matinee.
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Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera)
Mar 13, 2023Elsa de Brabant est accusée d'avoir tué son frère par Frédéric de Telramund. Ce dernier revendique le duché de Brabant, encouragé par sa femme Ortrude, sorcière venue du Nord. Un mystérieux chevalier arrive du fleuve escorté par un cygne et se propose de défendre l'honneur d'Elsa à une condition : qu’elle ne lui demande jamais de révéler son identité. Le québécois François Girard offre à Lohengrin une atmosphère sidérale évoquant le caractère prodigieux du héros, incarné par le ténor Piotr Beczała. Cet opéra essentiel du répertoire wagnérien puise son inspiration dans la littérature médiévale allemande, mais fait également écho à la tragédie grecque de par l'importante présence du chœur.
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Die Zauberflöte
May 04, 2000
Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing - Paris
Sep 18, 2022Filmé pour IMAX. La France et Paris bénéficient d'une riche histoire d'opéra, d'architecture, de mode, d'art, de cuisine… et d'une tradition musicale s'étalant sur des siècles. Dans l'historique Théâtre du Châtelet, la très célèbre soprano américaine Renée Fleming est rejointe sur scène par d’autres invités de marque comme le ténor Piotr Beczala, la soprano Axelle Fanyo et le baryton Alexander Duhamel, afin d’interpréter de fameux morceaux d’opéra en lien avec la France. À l’occasion d’une visite de célèbres lieux Parisiens, Fleming nous emmène à travers la capitale vers des lieux d’influence pour l’art et la culture, et particulièrement ceux ayant un lien personnel avec elle. Cette expérience immersive, filmée exclusivement pour IMAX, est unique en son genre. Bien plus qu'un concert, c'est une lettre d'amour à la culture Française et à la musique qu’elle a fait naître.
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Mozart: Die Zauberflote (SF Opera)
Oct 17, 2007Opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
Jan 27, 2024Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Oct 05, 2013The imperious Onegin rejects naive Tatiana's proposal of love and also incites a duel with his best friend turned rival Lenski (Piotr Beczala). This sets the scene for a dramatic story of love, loyalty and betrayal. Acclaimed theatre director Deborah Warner presents this lavish new interpretation of the timeless tale. Set in the 19th century and moving episodically from farmhouse to ballroom, the production culminates in an unforgettable finale set during a snowstorm.
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Sep 01, 2016This Beethoven Symphony No. 9 from the outstanding Beethoven 9 Project of Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker, first time recorded in HD and 5.0 surround sound, is accompanied by a one hour-long documentary featuring Christian Thielemann and Germany´s most eminent music critic, Prof. Joachim Kaiser. From insights into Beethoven´s musical thinking to interpretational comparisons, including excerpts from performances by Karajan, Bernstein, Järvi, to historical perspectives – no aspect of Beethoven´s Symphony No. 9 will remain untreated!
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Rigoletto
Dec 01, 2006Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo.
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Don Giovanni
Aug 15, 2006Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him in danger as the women he's betrayed -- and their suitors -- begin to seek revenge. A modern-day setting proves the timeless nature of Mozart's popular opera, performed with the Vienna Philharmonic as part of an epic presentation of all 22 of the composer's stage works at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, in honor of his 250th birthday.
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Don Giovanni - Zurich
May 07, 2006Live performance Zürich, May and July 2006. Modern dress performance which generated mixed reactions.
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La Bohème
Aug 20, 2012Live performance of Puccini's opera at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Piotr Beczala stars as Rodolfo with Anna Netrebko as Mimi, Massimo Cavalletti as Marcello and Nino Machaidze as Musetta. Daniele Gatti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir.
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Die lustige Witwe
Jan 01, 2005Zurich Opera House production of Franz Léhar's operetta, with Dagmar Schellenberger, Rodney Gilfry, and Ute Gfrerer in lead roles. Baron Zeta is desperate that the fabulously wealthy widow Hanna Glavari marry a Pontevedrian man so that her fortune remains in the country. He attempts to match her and his handsome attaché, Danilo. It turns out that Danilo and Hanna had had a love affair in years past. Nevertheless, Danilo now refuses to love her because he doesn't want to appear like he is only interested in her money...
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Der Rosenkavalier
Aug 06, 2004This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg. It stars Adrianne Pieczonka as Feldmarschallin, Franz Hawlata as Baron Ochs, Angelika Kirchschlager as Octavian and Franz Grundheber as Faninal. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor and the Wiener Philharmoniker lend added musical support, with Rupert Huber serving as chorus master of the former and Semyon Bychkov conducting the latter.
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Rusalka [The Metropolitan Opera]
Feb 08, 2014La production féérique d’Otto Schenk capture parfaitement le monde suprêmement romantique de l’opéra de Dvořák. La soprano vedette Renée Fleming, dans l'un de ses portraits les plus acclamés, endosse le rôle-titre de la nymphe des eaux qui aspire à être humaine, aux côtés de Piotr Beczała dans le rôle du prince, l'objet de son affection. John Relyea est le gnome de l'eau, Dolora Zajick chante la sorcière Ježibaba et Emily Magee est la princesse étrangère. Yannick Nézet-Séguin dirige.
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Иоланта/Замок герцога «Синяя борода»
Feb 14, 2015Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to see. Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko are Judith and Bluebeard in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller about a woman discovering her new husband’s murderous past.
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Verdi La Traviata
Feb 04, 2005This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welser-Möst has many things to recommend it -- the young tenor Piotr Beczala as Alfredo, the marvelous Thomas Hampson as Giorgio Germont, the playing of the Zurich Opera orchestra, the simple but effective sets by by Erich Wonder, the uncluttered stage direction by Jürgen Flimm. It also has some flaws: strangely variable volume level of the recorded sound sometimes coming on so loud as to make one reach for the volume control, and the uneven performance of the Violetta, Eva Mei who, for all her merits, gives a dramatically effective performance marred by occasional difficulties with vocal production. Still, overall I felt this was a moving production, one that I would recommend, although perhaps not as an only DVD of one of Verdi's most popular operas.
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies
Dec 21, 2010Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven Symphonies 1-9
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Massenet: Manon
Apr 17, 2012Star soprano Anna Netrebko scored a triumph in Laurent Pelly’s acclaimed 2012 production, singing the title heroine for the first time at the Met. Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music, and this performance brings out all of its colors, as seen through Massenet’s masterful score, from the comedic beginning to the heart-wrenching finale. Piotr Bezcala is des Grieux, Manon’s lover, who decides to become a priest when she leaves him, but ultimately is reunited with her, only to lose her again. Paulo Szot sings Lescaut, and Fabio Luisi conducts the Met Orchestra and Chorus.
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Faust - Salzburg Festival
Jan 01, 2016The Salzburg Festival presents one of Charles Gounod's most well-loved opera: Faust, in a new production staged by Reinhard von der Thannen, conducted by Alejo Pérez and starring Piotr Beczala.
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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin
May 22, 2016A dream came true at Dresden's Semperoper in May 2016 when opera superstars Piotr Beczala and Anna Netrebko made their Wagner debuts as Lohengrin and Elsa, inspired to take on their new roles by Christian Thielmann, the Dresden Staatskapelle's principal conductor and one of the leading Wagner conductors of our day. Die Welt described the performance captured here as "musically one of the finest Lohengrins of all time". Contributing to the triumph are Evelyn Herlitzius's Ortrud. Tomasz Konieczny's Telramund, Georg Zeppenfeld's King Henry and the Dresden State Opera Chorus.
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Un Ballo in Maschera - Barcelona
Oct 24, 2017Envy and conspiracy, but also passionate loves, jealousy, revenge and final forgiveness come together in the masterpiece of Verdi, which aroused the anger and prohibitions of censors of the time until the composer and librettist was compelled to make changes in it: from the original Sweden to far away Boston. The great Polish tenor Piotr Beczala returns to the Liceu with one of his opening credits, accompanied by the soprano Keri Alkema. Vincent Boussard’s sets reinforce the dark and mysterious atmosphere surrounding the piece, which features costumes by Christian Lacroix and Vincent Lemaire’s sober staging, which allows one to focus their attention on the dramatic core of the score. The cast, directed by a true specialist like Renato Palumbo, also presents a leader in Verdian song: Dolora Zajick.
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Adriana Lecouvreur [The Metropolitan Opera]
Jan 12, 2019La soprano Anna Netrebko rejoint les rangs de Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé et Renata Scotto, incarnant pour la première fois au Met le rôle-titre de l'actrice française qui a ébloui le public du XVIIIe siècle avec son talent sur scène et dans les coulisses. passion. La soprano est accompagnée du ténor Piotr Beczała dans le rôle de Maurizio, l'amant d'Adriana. Le casting principal comprend également la mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili et le baryton Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda dirige. La mise en scène de Sir David McVicar, qui situe l'action dans une réplique fonctionnelle d'un théâtre baroque, a été créée au Royal Opera House de Londres, où le Guardian a salué "une production élégante, somptueusement conçue... Le spectacle garantit une bonne soirée".
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Lohengrin
Jul 05, 2019After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is the fourth installment of the exclusive, multiyear partnership between Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival, in which the Yellow Label is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the mythical Wagner festival, releasing each edition's new production on Blu-ray.
This year, we are proud to release on Blu-ray the celebrated production of Lohengrin which was premiered on 25 July 2018, featuring an illustrious cast including Piotr Beczala and Anja Harteros in their house debuts, as well as the acclaimed return of Waltraud Meier to the Bayreuth Festival.
The New York Times praised Piotr Beczala’s Lohengrin as “outstanding”, Anja Harteros [making] her impressive Bayreuth debut” as Elsa, and Ortrud “played with dominant presence by the incomparable Waltraud Meier”.
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La Flûte enchantée - Opéra national de Paris
Jan 01, 2001Parcours initiatique du prince Tamino et de l'oiseleur Papageno dans le monde enchanté de la manipulatrice Reine de la nuit, du bienveillant Sarastro, de la belle Pamina et de la charmante Papagena.
Das Land des Lächelns
Jun 01, 2017Music
Metropolitan Opera At Home Gala
Apr 25, 2020In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company presented an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world.
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Luisa Miller [The Metropolitan Opera]
Apr 14, 2018Créée juste avant les chefs-d'œuvre durables Rigoletto, Il Trovatore et La Traviata, Luisa Miller incorpore la vitalité juvénile qui avait fait de Verdi une sensation internationale tout en attendant avec impatience la discipline dramaturgique et la sophistication de ces œuvres ultérieures. Dans ce spectacle Live in HD, la soprano Sonya Yoncheva endosse le rôle titre captivant, clôturant une saison au cours de laquelle elle a joué dans trois transmissions cinématographiques. En tant que père, Miller, le légendaire Plácido Domingo ajoute un autre rôle de baryton à son vaste répertoire. Le ténor Piotr Beczała dans le rôle de Rodolfo, Alexander Vinogradov dans le rôle du comte Walter et Dmitry Belosselskiy dans le rôle de Wurm complètent l'illustre casting, sous la direction de Bertrand de Billy.
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Rigoletto [The Metropolitan Opera]
Feb 16, 2013La production acclamée de Michael Mayer, présentée pour la première fois au cours de la saison 2012-2013, situe l’action du chef-d’œuvre de Verdi en 1960 à Las Vegas, un monde éclairé au néon dirigé par l’argent et des hommes puissants et impitoyables. Piotr Beczała est le duc, un artiste populaire et propriétaire de casino qui ne recule devant rien pour obtenir ce qu'il veut. Željko Lučić chante Rigoletto, son acolyte et comédien, et Diana Damrau est la fille innocente de Rigoletto, Gilda. Lorsqu'elle est séduite par le duc, Rigoletto se lance dans une tragique vengeance meurtrière. Štefan Kocán est l'assassin dirigé par Sparafucile et Michele Mariotti.
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Johann Strauss: Simplicius
Feb 21, 2003Operetta in three acts / Sung in German Five years after Wagner's "Parsifal," Johann Strauss II presented "Simplicius" in the Theater an der Wien. Neither an opera nor an operetta, it was a work that did not fit into any of the pre-defined categories. On the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 1999, the Zurich opera house presented a new production, the work's Swiss premiere. This production picked up on various impulses from the history of the work’s origin, using them to create a unique version of the piece. Here, for example, is the "Donauweibchen" incorporated shortly before the end. The Austrian-born chief conductor of the Zurich opera house, Franz Welser-Möst, has left his mark as a native speaker on this "Simplicius" production both here and elsewhere.
Verdi - Messa da Requiem
Jan 01, 1970Sacred composition (1984) dedicated to Alessandro Manzoni - with Maria Agresta, Daniela Barcellona, Piotr Beczala, Ildar Abdrazakov - Verbier Festival Orchestra, choir Teatro Regio di Torino - dir. Gianandrea Noseda (2013).
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DENK mit KULTUR
Mar 18, 2021Talk
Orte der Kindheit
Aug 06, 2023Documentary
