These DVD and BLU-RAY boxes include some of the most popular Italian operas as AIDA, MADAMA. BUTTERFLY, TURANDOT, LA TRAVIATA and RIGOLETTO for a very attractive price!
The visually stunning AIDA (an “open-air spectacle of superlatives” Die Zeit) from Bregenz Festival TURANDOT staged by Chen Kaige (film director of Farewell My Concubine and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival)
MADAMA BUTTERFLY from the magnificent open-air neo-classical Arena Sferisterio built in the 1820s ("One cannot help but enjoy the perfection 'à la Pizzi' of the production…" ForumOpera.com)
LA TRAVIATA and RIGOLETTO from Parma (“This is how Verdi should be played.” FAZ)
Great Casts including Zubin Mehta, Yuri Temirkanov, Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Maria Guleghina, Raffaela Angeletti etc.
The operas are famous for their popular hits which everybody knows as Nessun Dorma, Sempre libera,Celeste Aida or La donna è mobile.
Including bonus material: Introductions to the operas La Traviata, Rigoletto. Making of Turandot.
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Fondatione Orchestra Regionale Delle Marche
Daniele Callegari (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (stage director)
Raffaella Angeletti (Butterfly), Massimiliano Pisapia (Pinkerton), Claudio Sgura (Sharpless), Annunziata Vestri (Suzuki), Nino Batatunashvili (Kate Pinkerton), Thomas Morris (Goro), Enrico Cossutta (Principe Yamadori), Enrico Iori (Lo Zio Bonzo), Antonio Maria Golini (Yakusidé)
Puccini: Turandot
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Zubin Mehta (conductor) & Chen Kaige (stage director)
Maria Guleghina (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Alexia Voulgaridou (Liù), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur), Javier Agulló (Altoum), Fabio Previati (Ping), Vincenç Esteve (Pang), Roger Padullés (Pong), Ventseslav Anastasov (Un mandarino)
Verdi: Aida
Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble– Camerata Silesia, Polish Radio Choir Krakow & Bregenz Festival Chorus
Carlo Rizzi (conductor) & Graham Vick (stage director)
Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa)
Verdi: La Traviata
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) & Karl-Ernst Herrmann & Ursel Herrmann (stage directors)
Svetla Vassileva (Violetta), Massimo Giordano (Alfredo), Vladimir Stoyano (Germont), Daniela Pini (Flora), Gianlua Floris (Gastone), Roberto Tagliavini (Dottore Grenvil), Armando Gabba (Barone Douphol), Filippo Polinelli (Marchese d'Obigny)
Teatro Regio Di Parma, 2007
Verdi: Rigoletto
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Massimo Zanetti (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)
Francesco Demuro (Il Duca), Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Nino Machaidze (Gilda), Marco Potti (Sparafucile), Stefanie Iranyi (Maddalena), Katarina Nikolic (Giovanna), Roberto Tagliavini (Monterone), Orazio Mori (Marullo), Mauro Buffoli (Borsa), Ezio Maria Tisi (Il Conte di Ceprano), Scilla Cristiano (La Contessa di Ceprano)
Teatro Regio di Parma, 2008
Total: 11 H, 53 MINS
AIDA: 135 MINS
TURANDOT: 120 MINS
MADAMA BUTTERFLY: 137 MINS
LA TRAVIATA: 133 MINS
RIGOLETTO: 131 MINS
Bonus: 57 MINS
