Having mistakenly been sent as an apprentice to pirates young Frederic is happy to leave his indentures on his 21st birthday. Falling in love with the beautiful Mabel one of the many daughters of Major-General Stanley he decides to marry. However the pirates are all to keen to marry the rest of Stanley's daughters! A spectacular interpretation of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic!
A sailor falls for the captain's daughter. They become thwarted in their attempt to keep their love alive but a strange twist in the tale offers these lovers another chance... A thrilling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera.
A lavish 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera in which Nanki-Poo the son of the Mikado escaping a distasteful marriage arrives in the town of Titipu disguised as a musician...
The great British contralto Dame Janet Baker gave her very last stage appearance in Peter Hall's acclaimed production of Orfeo ed Euridice for Glyndebourne Festival Opera filmed in 1982. This is one her most famous roles and she gives a most moving portrayel of Orfeo the grieving musician of Greek myth who tries to bring his wife back form the depths of Hades. Elisabeth Speiser is Euridice and Elizabeth Gale is Amor with first-rate singing from the Glyndebourne Chorus. The Londo
Gilbert And Sullivan's Pirates Of Penzance: Having mistakenly been sent as an apprentice to pirates young Frederic is happy to leave his indentures on his 21st birthday. Falling in love with the beautiful Mabel one of the many daughters of Major-General Stanley he decides to marry. However the pirates are all to keen to marry the rest of Stanley's daughters! A spectacular interpretation of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic! Gilbert And Sullivan's Mikado: A lavish 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera in which Nanki-Poo the son of the Mikado escaping a distasteful marriage arrives in the town of Titipu disguised as a musician... Gilbert And Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: A sailor falls for the captain's daughter. They become thwarted in their attempt to keep their love alive but a strange twist in the tale offers these lovers another chance... A thrilling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera.
Mozart: Kremer Plays Mozart
Hector Berlioz's (1803-1869) legende dramatique about a man named Faust who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in 1989. Georg Solti conducts.
The Tchaikovsky Cycle, performed by The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Mikhail Pletnev.
Live concert from the Theatre Musical de Paris - Chatelet.
From the Theatre Musical de Paris - Chatelet.Grace Bumbry was born i St. Louis Missouri in 1937. At the age of eleven she joined the Union Memorial Methodist Church's Choir. She studied singing at colleges in Boston and Evanston and became one of Lotte Lehmann's students at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara California in 1955. She still pursues her concert career and is also active in the international civil rights movement and charity organisations having been appointed as UNESCO's Goodwill Ambassador in 1991.Meeting Lotte Lehmann (1888 - 1976) changed Grace Bumbry's life. In 1955 the 18-year-old Bumbry came to learn from the exceptional Strauss interpreter and passionate singer at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Lehmann respectfully addressed by her students as 'Madame Lehmann' took the young mezzo-soprano under her wings for three years and was very active in promoting Bumbry's career. Bumbry arranged her Paris recital in memory of her teacher. It included songs which she had studied with Lotte Lehmann and songs that Lehmann enjoyed hearing her sing.
Hailed by the press as the definitive video production of Tchaikovsky's music, The Tchaikovsky Cycle features an exceptional concert series, recorded live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt. Fedoseyev's perceptive reading of the works of his fellow countryman., the masterly playing of the orchestra and guest soloists combine to produce performances which are revelatory in their execution and understanding of Tchaikovsky's music and the Russian heritage.
Anne Sofie von Otter from the theatre Musical De Paris in the suburb of Chatelet. 1. A Tribute to Korngold - Erich Wolfgang Korngold 2. Suite for Two Violins Cello and Piano (Left Hand) Op. 23. 3. Piano Quintet in E Major Op. 15 4. Songs to Words by William Shakespeare Op. 31
From the Theatre Musical de Paris, Chatelet.
'Night And Day', the new programme from Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson, contains 24 songs from 24 different composers for the 24 hours of the day. Overall, the programme follows the course of the day from daybreak to daybreak - but in an approximate, poetic style.
From the Theatre Musical de Paris Chatelet. ""Night And Day"" the new programme from Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson contains 24 songs from 24 different composers for the 24 hours of the day. Overall the programme follows the course of the day from daybreak to daybreak - but in an approximate poetic style.
Kurt Masur conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in performances of Strauss''s final work Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) with Julia Varady (soprano) as the soloist and Metamorphosen - a composition for 23 strings written by Strauss during the closing months of the Second World War to mourn the bombing of the Munich Opera House. Bonus: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche - Kurt Masur conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Strauss''s famous symphonic poem recounting the exploits and demise of the legendary practical joker Till Eulenspiegel. Recorded live at the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Schubert's 'Tragic' Symphony and Mozart's 'Paris' Symphony are performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker under the baton of Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Wiener Musikvereinsaal in 1984. Harnoncourt goes back to Schubert's original manuscripts to perform the music in its purest form - the result is music that is full of heightened drama and dynamics. Harnoncourt joined forces with The Chamber Orchestra of Europe for Mozart's last symphonies (Nos. 39-41) performed at the Wiener Musikvereinssaal in 1991. Known throughout the world for his highly original approach to classical music conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt reveres Mozart as 'the most romantic composer of all'.
This is a live recording of Puccini's popular opera Turandot from the Vienna State Opera in 1983.
Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1991.Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 in C minor OP. 17 Little Russian, plus excerpts from the opera Eugene Onegin.
Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt 1993The works of the quintessentially Czech composer Antonin Dvorak are, above all, enjoyable and perennial favourites of the Romantic repertoire. This six-part series of concerts is performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the Prague Philharmonic Choir, with three leading Czech conductors on the podium.
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