Russell Braun

The sensational hit of Salzburg's 2008 festival season arrives on DVD! Starring tenor Rolando Villazón in a stunning performance, this was the must have ticket of the season. Soprano Nino Machaidze, only 25 years old, burst upon the Salzburg stage with an emotionally vulnerable and vocally spectacular performance. With movie star good looks and a large, warm voice, Machaidze wowed the press and audiences alike. Tony Award winner (South Pacific) Bartlett Sher directs this production of Gounod's classic opera. With sets by Michael Yeargan and costumes by Catherine Zuber, the visually vibrant production is sure to become the benchmark. Bonus materials includes "Salzburg Impressions--Behind the Scenes of Roméo et Juliette," "Love and Death in Verona" and Villazón giving an introduction to the opera.

Alexandre Tarta's production of Berlioz's opera, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 2000. Sylvain Cambreling conducts, with performances by Jon Villars, Russell Braun and Tigran Martirossian.

Le ténor Jonas Kaufmann est fascinant en tant que personnage principal de l'opéra populaire de Gounod, vu dans cette présentation en direct en HD de la production passionnante de Des McAnuff de 2011 qui place l'histoire mythique et intemporelle dans un décor du début du XXe siècle. René Pape dans le rôle de Méphistophélès est à la fois menaçant et élégant, et Marina Poplavskaya livre un portrait d'une intensité saisissante de l'innocente Marguerite. Russell Braun dans le rôle de son frère, Valentin, brille dans son air de l'Acte II. Sur le podium, Yannick Nézet-Séguin fait ressortir tout le lyrisme et la dramaturgie de la partition de Gounod.

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.

Renée Fleming est la comtesse Madeleine, la belle femme énigmatique au centre de la sophistiquée « Pièce de conversation pour la musique » de Strauss. Elle est courtisée par deux hommes : Joseph Kaiser chante le compositeur Flamand, et Russell Braun incarne Olivier, le poète. Le casting de stars comprend également Peter Rose dans le rôle du metteur en scène du théâtre La Roche, Sarah Connolly dans le rôle de l'actrice Clairon et Morten Frank Larsen dans le rôle du frère de la comtesse. L’élégante production de John Cox situe l’action dans les années 1920. Andrew Davis dirige.

The conflict between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the King of Thebes, Pentheus, and unbridled human passion, represented by the god Dionysus.

A decade before the French Revolution, in a country riven with bitter polemics, Gluck throws the history of opera into confusion by raising it to an unheard-of peak of tragic intensity. Experiencing his two Iphigenias in a single evening goes beyond the norms of operatic life: it is to enter the very heart of the curse on the family of King Atreus of Mycenae, to follow a logical destiny through a cycle of endless violence. How does the victim of Aulis become the murderess of Tauris? That is the burning question that Dmitri Tcherniakov must adress, plunging the spectator into the midst of a household haunted by the dead and setting in train an implacable process of dehumanization, with parallels to our world today. Conducting Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm drives this dual tragedy to the summit of its expressive power, leaving humanity to be translated through arias of the utmost poignancy.