Neun der bekanntesten Sängerinnen und Sänger unserer Zeit erzählen mit ihrem ganz persönlichen Charme über Rollen, die sie berühmt machten. Opera Highlights ist beides: Einladung zum tieferen Stöbern für all diejenigen, die zum ersten Mal die Welt der Oper für sich entdecken und für alle anderen ein Wiedersehen mit „ihren“ Stars der Oper – zum Anfassen nah.
Including:
ANN MURRAY
‘If you worship the man who has spurned you’ from Handel’s Xerxes
(from Nicholas Hytner’s English National Opera production, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)
Take your pleasure’ from Handel’s Ariodante
(from David Alden’s English National Opera production, conducted by IVOR BOLTON)
PHILIP LANGRIDGE
The ‘sea wall’ aria from Britten’s Peter Grimes
(from Tim Albery’s English National Opera production, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON)
GALINA GORCHAKOVA
‘Renata’s Confession’ from Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel
(from David Freeman’s Kirov Opera production, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)
THOMAS ALLEN
‘They’ll lash me in a hammock’ from Britten’s Billy Budd
(from Tim Albery’s English National Opera production, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON)
‘Great Hymn to the Wonder of Nature’ from Janácek’s Cunning little Vixen
(from Nicolas Hytner’s production for the Théâtre du Châtelet, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)
EVA JENIS and HANNA MINUTILLO
‘Love duet’ 2nd Act, from Janácek’s Cunning little Vixen
(from Nicolas Hytner’s production for the Théâtre du Châtelet, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)
YVONNE KENNY
‘Piangero la sorte mia’ from Handel’s Giulio Cesare
(from Francisco Negrin’s production for Opera Australia, conducted by RICHARD HICKOX)
‘O weep for me’ from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen
(from David Pountney’s English National Opera production, conducted by NICHOLAS KOK)
MICHAEL KÖNIG
‘Oh golden days of my youth, where have you gone?’ and ‘Enemies, enemies’ (Duet with VLADIMIR GLUSHCHAK) from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
(from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)
ORLA BOYLAN
‘No, there could never be another’ from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
(from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)
VLADIMIR GLUSHCHAK
‘You wrote to me’ and ‘Can this be the same Tatyana?’ from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)
ANNA NETREBKO
‘Aria of Lyudmila’ from the 4th Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila
(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)
KONSTANTIN PLUZHNIKOV
‘Finns Ballad’ from the 2nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila
(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)
VLADIMIR OGNOVENKO
as RUSLAN in the 2nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila
(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)
LARISSA DIADKOVA
as RATMIR in the 2nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila
(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)
Recorded 1999.
Laufzeit: 154 min., Bildformat: 4:3 / 16:9, Soundformat: PCM Stereo, Region Code: 0, Menüsprachen NTSC: D, F, GB, SP, Untertitelsprachen NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
Released 2007.