Stunningly filmed in locations throughout central Germany, JS Bach Life and Works sets a new standard for artful filming of music performance. A rare DVD featuring excellent performances of a variety of Bach works in the context of locations the music was intended for: churches and castles. Inclu...
Rebelling against the increasingly formulaic operas of the time, Christoph Willibald Gluck's "reformist" opera Alceste (1767) was a successful attempt to return to a purer form of musical drama. It is highly appropriate that this 1999 production of the revised 1776 Paris version should ...
Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress occupies two worlds. The story, the ironically moralizing attitudes, and many musical and verbal details are inspired by the 18th century. But it is modern in rhythm and harmony and in its psychology--Freudianism and existentialism in a powdered wig...
HCD 4025 Michele Fertusi, Roberto Serville, Rockwell Blake, Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma, Ottavio Dantone, conductor. Live, 2002, 159 min., Color, Stereo, Subtitles in Italian, English, French, Spanish, All regions.
A selection of highlights from the world's best-loved operas, presented by Peter Ross. These highlights showcase the prodigious talents of Opera Australia and its gifted artists. The Merry Widow This sparkling opera concerns a national crisis in the picture-postcard country of Pontevedro, as the ...