2012/04/30

Piccinni: La Cecchina ossia La buona figliola (1969 - Napoli)






Mirella Freni - Cecchina
Sesto Bruscantini - Mengotto
Werner Hollweg - il marchese della conchiglia
Rita Talarico - Sandrina
Valeria Mariconda - il cavalliere Armidoro
Gloria Trillo - la marchesa Lucinda
Bianca Maria Casoni - Paoluccia
Ronaldo Panerai - Tagliaferro

Franco Caracciolo - conductor

2012/04/29

Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri (1986 - film)




Mozart - László Márk
Salieri - László Polgár


Conductor: Miklós Erdélyi

Verdi: Rigoletto (1987 - film)




Gilda - Olga Kondina
Duca di Mantova - Yuri Mazurok
Sparafucile - Vladimir Pankratov
Maddalena - Nina Terentyeva
Monterone - Alexander Morozov
Marullo - Valeriy Lebed

Conductor: Alexander Dmitriev

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (2007 - Salzburg)






Peter Mattei (Eugene Onegin)
Anna Samuil (Tatiana)
Ekaterina Gubanova (Olga)
Joseph Kaiser (Lenski)
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Gremin)

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
with the Vienna Philharmonics

2012/04/28

Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (1978 - Wien)




Edita Gruberova (Zerbinetta)
Gundula Janowitz (Ariadne)
Trudeliese Schmidt (the composer)
Heinz Zednik (a dancing master)
Kurt Equiluz (Scaramouche)
René Kollo (Bacchus)
Barry McDaniel (bariton)
Walter Berry (a music master)
Erich Kunz (Domo)

Karl Boehm (conductor)

2012/04/25

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1999 - Scala)




Almaviva : Juan Diego Florez
Rosina : Sonia Ganassi
Bartolo : Alfonso Antoniozzi
Figaro : Roberto Frontali
Basilio : Giorgio Surjan
Berta : Tiziana Tramonti

Dir. : Riccardo Chailly




2012/04/23

Mattheson: Boris Godunov (2007 - Hamburg - St. Petersburg - Moscow)








Soloists:

Fedor Ioanovich, Grand Duke of Moscow - Sergio Forest, Bass (Italy)
Boris Godunov, ruler of Moscow - Shadi Torben, bass (Belgium)
Irina, the Grand Duchess, sister of Boris - Anke Herrmann, soprano (Germany)
Aksinya, daughter of Boris - Anna la Fontaine, soprano (Austria)
Olga, a Russian princess - Maria Selezneva, soprano (Russia)
Fedor, Boyar - Trevor Boua, bass (Canada)
Ivan, Boyar - Boris Stepanov, tenor (Russia)
Gavust, Prince of Sweden - Dmitry Golovin, tenor (Russia)
Yozennah, Danish Prince - Andrew Mackenzie Wicks, tenor (UK)
Bogdan, Boris Servant - Alexander Bordakov, tenor (Russia)
Patriarch - Grigory Kaganov, a mute role (Russia)

Chorus:

Elena Alekhine - soprano
Victor Smirnov - tenor
Alex Buzakin - baritone
Children's Choir:
Alex Nikiforovsky
Peter Sorokin
Alexander Kornilov

The film's director - Dmitry Vologdin, sound - Vladimir Ryabenko
Director and Choreographer - Abromayt Klaus (Germany)
Musical Director - Andrew Reshetin (Russia)
Costume and set designer - Stefan Dietrich (Germany)
Producer - Marc de Moni
Johannes Pausch. "Boris Godunov" by Johann Mattheson (1710).
Andrew Reshetin. Allegory of Baroque opera.
Klaus Abromayt. Dramatic note.
Vyacheslav Kartsovnik. Chronological Table: Boris Godunov in history and on the stage.


2012/04/20

Bartók: Bluebeard's castle / A kékszakállú herceg vára (2005 - film)




Bluebeard / Kékszakállú - István Kovács
Judith / Judit - Klára Kolonits
Bard / regös - Tamás Jordán

Conducter / vezényel: György Selmeczi

2012/04/18

Puccini: Tosca (1956 - film)



or:




Floria Tosca: Franca Duval
Mario Cavaradossi: Franco Corelli
Baron Scarpia: Afro Poli

Il sagrestano: Vitto de Taranto
Spoletta: Fernando Alfieri
Sciarrone: Aldo Relli
Sacristan: Dino Conti

Conductor: Oliviero De Fabritiis
Orchestra Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma

2012/04/13

Bizet: Carmen (1982 - Mockva)




Carmen - Elena Obraztsova
Don Jose - Vladimir Atlantov
Escamillo - Yuri Mazurok
Michaela - Lyudmila Sergienko
Frasquita - Irina Zhurina
Mercedes - Tatiana Tugarinova
Morales - Igor Morozov
Remendado - Andrei Sokolov
Dankayro - Vladislav Pashinsky
Zuniga - Yuri Korolev

Conductor: Mark Ermler

Bellini: Norma (1967 - Berlin)




Norma - Elinor Ross
Adalgisa - Giovanna Vighi
Pollione - Mario Del Monaco
Oroveso - Massimiliano Malaspina
Flavio - Mario Guggia

Conductor - Ettore Gracis

2012/04/06

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (1990 - Salzburg)




Gustavo - Placido Domingo
Renato - Leo Nucci
Amelia - Josephine Barstow
Ulrica - Florence Quivar
Oscar - Sumi Jo

Conductor: Sir Georg Solti

Chorus - Wiener Staatsopera