Belcanto Amore Italian Operas [5 Blu-rays]
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ELCANTO D’AMORE (5-Blu-ray Disc Box Set)
Disc 1
Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA
Il Re - Kevin Short
Amneris - Iano Tamar
Aida - Tatiana Serjan
Radamès - Rubens Pelizzari
Ramfis - Tigran Martirossian
Amonasro - Iain Paterson
Un messaggero - Ronald Samm
Una sacerdotessa - Elisabetta Martorana
Camerata Silesia
Polish Radio Choir
Bregenz Festival Chorus
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Carlo Rizzi, conductor
Graham Vick, stage director
Paul Brown, stage and costume designer
Wolfgang Göbbel, lighting designer
Ron Howell, choreographer
Recorded live from the Bregenz Festival, 22 and 24 July 2009
Disc 2
Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Cio-Cio-San / Butterfly - Raffaella Angeletti
F.B. Pinkerton - Massimiliano Pisapia
Suzuki - Annunziata Vestri
Sharpless - Claudio Sgura
Goro - Thomas Morris
Il Bonzo - Enrico Iori
Kate Pinkerton - Nino Batatunashvili
Il principe Yamadori - Enrico Cossutta
Coro Lirico Marchigiano V. Bellini
Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Callegari, conductor
Pier Luigi Pizzi, stage director, set and costume designer
Recorded live from Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, Italy, 2009
Disc 3
Giacomo Puccini
TURANDOT
Turandot - Maria Guleghina
Altoum - Javier Agulló
Timur - Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Calaf - Marco Berti
Liù - Alexia Voulgaridou
Ping - Fabio Previati
Pang - Vincenç Esteve
Pong - Roger Padullés
Un mandarino - Ventseslav Anastasov
Valencia Regional Government Choir
Valencian Community Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Chen Kai-ge, stage director
Recorded live from the Palau de les arts “Reina Sofía”, Valencia, 2008
Disc 4
Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA
Violetta Valéry - Svetla Vassileva
Flora Bervoix - Daniela Pini
Annina - Antonella Trevisan
Alfredo Germont - Massimo Giordano
Giorgio Germont - Vladimir Stoyanov
Gastone - Gianluca Floris
Barone Douphol - Armando Gabba
Marchese d’Obigny - Filippo Polinelli
Dottore Grenvil - Roberto Tagliavini
Giuseppe - Iorio Zennaro
Un domestico di Flora - Roberto Scandura
Un commissionario - Matteo Mazzoli
Parma Teatro Regio Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Martino Faggiani)
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Karl-Ernst Herrmann, stage director, set, costume, and lighting designer
Ursel Hermann, stage director
Recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma, 9, 13, 15 October 2007
Disc 5
Giuseppe Verdi
RIGOLETTO
Il duca di Mantova - Francesco Demuro
Rigoletto - Leo Nucci
Gilda - Nino Machaidze
Sparafucile - Marco Spotti
Maddalenna - Stefanie Irányi
Giovanna - Katarina Nikolic
Il conte di Monterone - Roberto Tagliavini
Marullo - Orazio Mori
Matteo Borsa - Mauro Buffoli
Il conte di Ceprano - Ezio Maria Tisi
La contessa di Ceprano / Un paggio della duchessa - Scilla Cristiano Un usciere di corte - Alessandro Bianchini
Parma Teatro Regio Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Martino Faggiani)
Massimo Zanetti, conductor
Stefano Vizioli, stage director
Alessandro Ciammarughi, set and costume designer (after Pierluigi Samaritani)
Franco Marri, lighting designer
Recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma, 16, 20, and 22 October 2008
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Bonus:
- Introduction to the operas La Traviata and Rigoletto
- Making of Turandot
Picture format: 1080i High Definition
Sound format: PCM 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish (all) + Chinese, Korean (Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Rigoletto) + Japanese (La Traviata, Rigoletto)
Running time: 11 hrs 53 mins
No. of Discs: 5 (BD 50)
Product Description:
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Catalog Number: 719804
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UPC: 814337011987
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Label: C Major
Composer: Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi, Daniele Callegari, Massimo Zanetti, Yuri Temirkanov, Zubin Mehta
Orchestra/Ensemble: Bregenz Festival Chorus, Camerata Silesia Singers, Cracow Polish Radio/TV Chorus, Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Marchigiana Vincenzo Bellini Lyric Chorus, Parma Teatro Regio Chorus, Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, Valencia Community Orchestra, Valencia Regional Government Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Alessandro Bianchini, Alexia Voulgaridou, Annunziata Vestri, Antonella Trevisan, Armando Gabba, Claudio Sgura, Daniela Pini, Enrico Cossutta, Enrico Giuseppe Iori, Ezio Maria Tisi, Fabio Previati, Filippo Polinelli, Francesco Demuro, Gianluca Floris, Iano Tamar, Katarina Nikolic, Kevin Short, Leo Nucci, Marco Berti, Marco Spotti, Maria Guleghina, Massimiliano Pisapia, Massimo Giordano, Mauro Buffoli, Nino Batatunashvili, Nino Machaidze, Orazio Mori, Raffaella Angeletti, Roberto Tagliavini, Rubens Pelizzari, Stefanie Irányi, Svetla Vassileva, Tatiana Serjan, Thomas Morris, Tigran Martirossian, Vincenç Esteve, Vladimir Stoyanov
Works:
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Aida
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Ensemble: Bregenz Festival Chorus, Camerata Silesia Singers, Cracow Polish Radio/TV Chorus, Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Tigran Martirossian (Bass), Rubens Pelizzari (Tenor), Tatiana Serjan (Soprano), Kevin Short (Bass Baritone), Iano Tamar (Soprano)
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
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Madama Butterfly
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Ensemble: Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Marchigiana Vincenzo Bellini Lyric Chorus
Performer: Raffaella Angeletti (Soprano), Nino Batatunashvili (Mezzo Soprano), Enrico Cossutta (Tenor), Enrico Giuseppe Iori (Bass), Thomas Morris (Tenor), Massimiliano Pisapia (Tenor), Claudio Sgura (Baritone), Annunziata Vestri (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
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Turandot
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Ensemble: Valencia Community Orchestra, Valencia Regional Government Choir
Performer: Marco Berti (Tenor), Vincenç Esteve (Tenor), Maria Guleghina (Soprano), Fabio Previati (Baritone), Alexia Voulgaridou (Soprano)
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
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La traviata
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Chorus, Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra
Performer: Gianluca Floris (Tenor), Armando Gabba (Baritone), Massimo Giordano (Tenor), Daniela Pini (Soprano), Filippo Polinelli (Bass), Vladimir Stoyanov (Baritone), Antonella Trevisan (Mezzo Soprano), Svetla Vassileva (Soprano)
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
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Rigoletto
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Ensemble: Parma Teatro Regio Chorus, Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra
Performer: Alessandro Bianchini (Bass), Mauro Buffoli (Tenor), Francesco Demuro (Tenor), Stefanie Irányi (Mezzo Soprano), Nino Machaidze (Soprano), Orazio Mori (Bass), Katarina Nikolic (Mezzo Soprano), Leo Nucci (Baritone), Marco Spotti (Bass), Roberto Tagliavini (Bass), Ezio Maria Tisi (Bass)
Conductor: Massimo Zanetti