Eleonora Buratto

This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from a fictitious London to that special care home, the Casa Verdi, a place rich in memories of great days past and impressions of a real-time present. Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style. (New York Times)

There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an insistent Cenobite monk isn't produced very often, because of a demanding lead role and some difficult staging issues. But the music is gorgeous from beginning to end. When you have a great diva at centre stage, the three acts go by in a flash.

Considered by some to be the greatest opera ever written, Don Giovanni was the second product of an incredibly fruitful collaboration between two geniuses: the legendary W.A. Mozart and the talented Italian librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Based on Molière's Don Juan, the two-act dramma giocoso premiered in October 1787 at Prague's state theater to rave reviews. The 2017 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence brought Mozart's fabulously devious work to the stage once more in a production by stage director Jean-François Sivadie. Starring Philippe Sly (Don Giovanni), Nahuel di Pierro (Leporello), and Eleonora Buratto (Donna Anna), the excellent performance featured the acclaimed maestro Jérémie Rhorer at the head of the period instrument ensemble Le Cercle de l'Harmonie.

Au cours des dernières saisons, Christine Goerke a atteint certains des plus grands sommets du répertoire soprano germanique, apparaissant dans le rôle de la femme de Dyer dans Die Frau ohne Schatten, le personnage principal d'Elektra, et de Brünnhilde dans le cycle complet du Ring. Elle a également impressionné le public dans le rôle de Turandot, la princesse glacée au cœur du grand chef-d’œuvre final de Puccini. Dans cette performance de la saison Live in HD 2019-20, Goerke joue aux côtés du ténor Yusif Eyvazov (dans le rôle de Calàf) et de la soprano Eleonora Buratto (dans le rôle de Liù) dans la mise en scène classique de Franco Zeffirelli, qui éblouit par ses visions opulentes de la Chine mythique. Le directeur musical du Met, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, est sur le podium, dessinant une gamme éclatante de couleurs musicales avec l'incomparable Met Orchestra et Chorus.