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What opera are you currently listening to / watching? CD/DVD

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Share your current cd or dvds here.......................
 
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All below on DVD (blown away by all three):

Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin

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Aribert Reimann's Medea

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Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur

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Hi trosado.

I share your enthusiasm for the first and the third.

Have you seen Written on Skin? It's not available on DVD but you can catch it on arte TV and it is also a "Blow you away" contemporary opera. But hurry, only twelve more days at time of writing!
 
#46 ·
Oh you are going for some strange operas there.

At the moment i am listening to the Billy Budd with Daniel Harding conducting. Nathan Gunn is Billy and Ian Bostridge is Vere. Has mixed opinions in reviews. Not sure i like Ian Bostridge's Vere -seems too sweet and sickly sung for my liking. Not gripped by it like i was Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Vere.

The other one is La Sonnambula with Natalie Dessay and Francesco Meli. Only part way into this. But i did enjoy the Met DVD of this opera with Dessay and Florez.
 
#50 ·
Just watched the new Berg Wozzeck DVD from the Bolshoi. It is excellent. Dmitri Tcherniakov is the stage director and you get a very 'human' and normal Wozzeck. It is frightening, gripping and terribly effective. The violence in Wozzecks music really came through and it made me want to watch/listen to my other recordings on CD and DVD.

Very impressed. Maybe not everyone will like the concept. The Wozzeck Georg Nigl is light voiced but acts brilliantly. I also like the Marie- Mardi Byers. I have never heard of her before but she was terrific. Both the Doctor and the Captain were great- especially the captain.

Teodor Currentzis is a young and very talented conductor and he gets beautiful playing from the orchestra.

Highly recommended for all Berg fans out there.
 
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I'll be listening this soon:

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That one's fun! And ever so slightly depressing. Have you seen Guth's Don Giovanni? This production makes a bit more sense if you have, especially the second act.
Although it would seem most of the singers were having an off night (except Bo Skovhus whose nights are always off). But Patricia Petibon's Despina is really cool.
 
#65 ·
Making my way through the Met Lepage Ring cycle on DVD. Making slow progress as i never seem to get enough time!

Have Klaus Florian Vogts Lohengrin (the rat one) waiting to watch more of too.

Feel in the mood for some Don Giovanni. Will probably watch the Amsterdam one with Ingo Metzmacher conducting. A strange production released a few years back as a nice Trilogy of Cosi, Le nozze and Don Giovanni. Always good fun to watch!

Also on CD just got Cecilia Bartoli's new disc "mission". Not my usual type of music, too early period but might be soothing in the car.
 
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The wonderful new Bergs Wozzeck from the Bolshoi with Teodor Currentzis conducting and production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. I had previously watched it on a long flight on my laptop but watching on a big tv is amazing. I have many cd versions of this opera and a few DVDs but i had forgotten how violent and disturbing an opera it is. Wonderful production and really good singing. The Wozzeck (Georg Nigl) is lighter in voice than some others but acts the part very well.

That and some Rigoletto i think -in that kind of mood!
 
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Maderna's Satyricon. The Montaigne/naïve version is much better.
 
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This is a case of "caveat emptor." The performance is wonderful -- the first two acts of it, anyway. I'd really like to watch the third act, which is evidently contained on a second disk that was not included in the recording I purchased. It wasn't simply a matter of the second disk having been inadvertently left out; the box has no holder for a second disk. And, despite the fact that the disk I do have is labeled "DVD 1," and that the recording purchased by mamascarlatti did, indeed, come with two disks, Decca's own web site indicates that the entire opera is contained on a single DVD. If one wishes to contact them, one must do so via snail mail; their email isn't working, and hasn't been working for a couple of weeks.

So, if you're thinking about purchasing this video, you may want to verify with the seller beforehand that the set includes two disks.
 
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I do remember watching the Don Carlos from Amsterdam released on DVD many years back with Villazon and i thought that was terrific. However, i always remember a stunning VHS (think it is on DVD too now) French version with a young Roberto Alagna and was wowed big time.
 
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