The Marriage of Figaro - Aix-en-Provence Festival
Jun 30, 2021co-production with the Teatro Real (Madrid).
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Maurizio Muraro
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Tosca
Sep 01, 2001Le film acclamé de Benoit Jacquot sur l'opéra de Puccini, réalisé en 2002, met en vedette Angela Gheorghiu dans le premier rôle, avec Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi et le chœur et l'orchestre du Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, sous la direction d'Antonio Pappano.
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Puccini Manon Lescaut
Jan 01, 2015The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
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Royal Opera House : Les noces de Figaro
Apr 27, 2023Le metteur en scène David McVicar fait ressortir les éléments révolutionnaires présents dans le grand opéra-bouffe de Mozart, où se mêlent intrigues, malentendus et pardon.
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La Vedova Scaltra
Feb 15, 2007Wolf-Ferrari’s comic opera La vedova scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in its witty if sceptical look at the mechanisms governing the interplay of human relations. Four hopeful suitors, English, French, Spanish and Italian, vie for the hand of Rosaura, the cunning widow of the title, who disguises herself to meet each wooer, eventually choosing the only one who can demonstrate his sincerity. This production, filmed live at the Teatro La Fenice in February 2007 in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Goldoni in Venice in 1707, is the first to appear on DVD.
Le Nozze di Figaro
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Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon
Dec 10, 2003
Manon Lescaut
Sep 04, 2014La jeune et plantureuse Manon arrive à Paris accompagnée du naïf des Grieux, éperdument amoureux d’elle. Elle y découvre une nouvelle vie de luxure et de richesse à laquelle elle ne peut résister. Des Grieux tente désespérément de reconquérir le cœur de Manon...
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Le nozze di Figaro
Dec 01, 2006Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart opera conducted by Gerard Korsten and directed by Giorgio Strehler.
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Jan 01, 2010Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouillon. David McVicar s hit production the first performance of the opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for more than a century presents the life of the French actress as a blurring of the distinction between fantasy and reality. The action revolves around a life-size Baroque Theatre, taking us from the bustle and colour of the first act backstage at the playhouse, to the bare final scenes as the drama reaches its fatal climax.
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Così Fan Tutte [The Metropolitan Opera]
Apr 26, 2014Le chef du Met, James Levine, dirige un casting de jeunes stars dans la comédie sophistiquée de Mozart sur la mise à l'épreuve des liens de l'amour. Susanna Phillips et Isabel Leonard sont les sœurs Fiordiligi et Dorabella, qui sont amenées à croire que leurs fiancés sont partis à la guerre. Matthew Polenzani et Rodion Pogossov sont Ferrando et Guglielmo, les amants qui reviennent déguisés pour tester la fidélité de leurs filles. Danielle de Niese chante la servante intrigante Despina et Maurizio Muraro est Don Alfonso, le philosophe et cerveau qui tire les ficelles.
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The Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Nov 22, 2014A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and man-about-town of the title. The lovely Isabel Leonard is Rosina, the clever young woman at the center of the story, and Lawrence Brownlee sings Count Almaviva, the man who loves her and—with Figaro’s help—rescues her from the house of her elderly and smitten guardian, Bartolo, played by Maurizio Muraro. Paata Burchuladze is the bumbling music master Basilio, and rising conductor and bel canto specialist Michele Mariotti leads the Met’s musical forces in Bartlett Sher’s lively production.
The Marriage of Figaro - ROH
Jul 09, 2019A count has designs on his personal valet's fiancée and is determined to stop their wedding taking place. Meanwhile, the countess tries to regain her husband's love by any means necessary. Mozart's great comic opera is a tale of intrigue, misunderstanding and forgiveness. Christian Gerhaher plays the clever Figaro and Simon Keenlyside his aristocratic master in this revival of David McVicar's much-loved production at the Royal Opera House.
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Benvenuto Cellini
Jan 01, 2015With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and personal freedom, Hector Berlioz went straight for the grand gesture with his first completed opera. Returning to it years after initial production debacles, Berlioz stated that he would 'never again find such verve and Cellinian impetuosity, nor such a variety of ideas.' The plot revolves around Cellini's wooing of Teresa, a match frustrated at every opportunity by his rival, the cowardly Fieramosca. Benvenuto Cellini is a pithy work combining romance, excitement, violence, comedy and spectacle; the perfect stage for Terry Gilliam's stylishly colorful and larger than life directing.
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
Mar 02, 2019Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.
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La Fille du régiment - Royal Opera House
Jan 01, 1970Marie was found on a battlefield as a baby, and raised by the entire 21st Regiment as their 'daughter'. Her foster-father Sulpice has decreed that she should marry a soldier from the Regiment. When Marie falls for the Tyrolean Tonio, it looks as though she may have to choose between her family and true love.
Don Pasquale - San Francisco Opera
Sep 28, 2016A young student, Ernesto, who lives with his old bachelor uncle, Don Pasquale, has refused to wed the woman of his uncle’s choosing because he is in love with a young widow, Norina. Pasquale has decided to punish Ernesto by getting married and fathering an heir, thereby cutting off his nephew without a penny. Dr. Malatesta, a friend of Pasquale as well as Ernesto and Norina, has devised a plan to both save Pasquale from his folly and help the young couple.
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Verdi : I Due Foscari (The Royal Opera House)
Apr 30, 2015In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his duty to a corrupt city. Jacopo Foscari, son of a 15th-century Doge of Venice, is convicted of murder and treason on a trumped-up charge. His wife Lucrezia is sure of his innocence. But the Doge, trapped by the machinations of the city, is forced to make a terrible decision.
