Mozart - The complete Operas [LE] [33 DVDs] (DVD)

"Le Nozze Di Figaro" "Werke" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro "Interpreten" Figaro - Ildebrando D'Arcangelo Susanna - Anna Netrebko Il Conte Di Almaviva - Bo Skovhus La Contessa - Dorothea Röschmann Cherubino - Christine Schäfer Marcellina - Marie McLaughlin Bartolo - Franz-Josef Selig Basilio - Patrick Henckens Don Curzio - Oliver Ringelhahn Antonio - Florian Boesch Barbarina - Eva Liebau Cherub - Uli Kirsch "Musik" Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt "Le Nozze di Figaro" This new excitingly original production of Mozart's most popular opera was the sensation of the 2006 Salzburg Festival. "What young director Claus Guth has made of Figaro - with Harnoncourt's active callaboration - is genius - The stellar cast performed with power and precision... This Figaro is as dangerous as the midday sun in one's eyes" (Le Monde). "A triumph for Mozart... Netrebko's golden radiance and dark velvet are ideal" (Salzburger Nachrichten). "Shattering, unforgettable" (The Guardian). Laufzeit: 202 Minuten Regie: Brian Large "Don Giovanni" "Interpreten" Don Giovanni - Thomas Hampson Leporello - Ildebrando D. Arcangelo Commendatore - Robert Lloyd Donna Anna - Christine Schäfer Don Ottavio - Piotr Beczala Donna Elvira - Melanie Diener Zerlina - Isabel Bayrakdarian Masetto - Luca Pisaroni "Musik" Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Daniel Harding "Regie" Karina Fibich Part of the epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, Martin Kusej's production presents Mozart's greatest and darkest drama as a twentieth-century morality tale, set in a world where images of female sexuality constantly surround us. Far from the traditional romantic lothario, "we despire Don Giovanni" for his cynical denial of the feeling of his fellow human beings, and welcome his demise at the hands of his alter ego, Leporello. The great American baritone Thomas Hampson takes the title role, heading a distinguished cast of international soloists. Laufzeit: 180 Minuten Regie: Karina Fibich "Cosi Fan Tutte" "Interpreters" Fiordigli - Ana Maria Martinez Dorabella - Sophie Koch Guglielmo - Stephane Degout Ferrando - Shawn Mathey Despina - Helen Donath Don Alfonso - Sir Thomas Allen Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Manfred Honeck Part of the epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, "Cosi fan tutte" is the once scandalous "School for Lovers", whose surpassingly beautiful score only rescued the opera's fortunes in the last half century. The young Ferrando and Guglielmo bet their avuncular but synical friend Don Alfonso that their respective fiancées Dorabella and Fiordiligi will always be faithful. But Alfonso's ingenious game is to prove otherwiese. Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann's production adds an extra dimension, as the ladies overhear the plotting and so enter the drama with their eyes fully open. But the result only demonstrates that love is an eternal but also an eternally dangerous game. Laufzeit: 182 Minuten Regie: Thomas Grimm "Die Zauberflöte" "Interpreters" Papageno - Christian Gerhaher Pamina - Genia Kühmeier Tamino - Paul Groves Queen Of The Night - Diana Damrau Sarastro - René Pape Papagena - Irena Bespalovaite Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoper Wiener Philharmoniker Conductor: Riccardo Muti "Die Zauberflöte" Part of the epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, Pierre Audi's production of this blithe fable suggests an operatic Garden of Eden, enhanced by the primary-coloured, storybook desighns of Karel Appel. The tale of two young men undergoing a rite of passage to win their perfect spouse inspired Mozart's most tuneful yet sublime score - superbly brought to life by Riccardo Muti and a distinguished cast of international soloists. Laufzeit: 176 Minuten Regie: Brian Large "La Clemenza Di Tito" "La Finta Giardiniera" "Interpreters" Don Anchise - John Graham-Hall Violante Onesti - Alexandra Reinprecht Belfiore - John Mark Ainsley Arminda - Véronique Gens Ramiro - Ruxandrea Donose Serpetta - Adriana Kucerová Roberto - Markus Werba Members of the Salzburger Landestheater Dance Company & Supporting Ensemble Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg Conductor: Ivor Bolton Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year-old composer's first mature opera buffa. Hilarity mingles with passionate emotions when Belfiore believes he has killed his lover in a fit of jealousy but then encounters her disguised as gardener Sandrine. Famed filmmaker Doris Dörrie directs a superb young cast in this tale of love, hate and intrigue across class barriers, all vividly depicted by Mozart's astonishingly rich and varied music. Laufzeit: 161 Minuten Regie: Agnes Meth "Lo Sposo Deluso/L'oca Del Cairo" "Interpreten" Ann Murray Marianne Hamre Graham Smith Josef Wagner Marisa Martins Jeremy Ovenden Matthias Klink Silvia Moi Miljenko Turk Malin Hartelius "Musik" Chor der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele Conductor: Michael Hofstetter "Regie" Anais Spiro, Olivier Spiro The second "odyssey" in Salzburg's Irrfahrten trilogy is a journey to Mozart's inner soul, interweaving text and film with instrumental, vocal and symphonic pieces. "One could become addicted to these ethereal sounds" (Salzburger Nachrichten). The last "odyssey" juxtaposes two unfinished comic operas, L'oca del Cairo and Lo sposo delusa, with the overwhelming Requiem Mozart died before completing. "A considerable music-dramatic achievement... A tremendous success for the ensemble" (Kronen Zeitung). Laufzeit: 196 Minuten Regie: Anais Spiro, Oliver Spiro "Zaide/Adama" "Interpreten" Zaide - Mojca Erdmann Gomatz - Topi Lehtipuu Allazim - Johan Reuter Sultan Soliman - John Mark Ainsley Osmin - Renato Girolami Frau - Noa Frenkel Mann - Yaron Windmüller Vater - Andreas Fischer Tänzer - Paul Lorenger Schauspieler - Bernd Grawert "Musik" Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg Conductor: Ivor Bolton Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke "Regie" Andreas Morell In one of the 2006 Salzburg Festival's boldest inspirations, Israeli composer Chaya Czeinowin's Adama weaves a parallel but modern story into Mozart's unfinished singspiel, taking up Zaide's themes to depict the doomed love of a Palestinina man for an Isreali woman in a violent world. "Claus Guth's production unites the two disparate worlds as though they had always been one... Ivor Bolton drew fresh, immediate playing from the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra... an excellent cast" (Financial Times) Laufzeit: 130 Minuten "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" "Interpreteure" Konstanze - Laura Aikini Blonde - Valentina Farcas Belmonte - Charles Castronovo Pedrillo - Dietmar Kerschbaum Osmin - Franz Hawlata Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg Conductor: Ivor Bolton Laufzeit: 156 Minuten Regie: Tomas Simerda "Apollo Et Hyacinthus/Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots" APOLLO ET HYACINTHUS "Interpreten" Oebalus - Maximilian Kiener Melia - Christiane Karg Hyacinthus - Jekaterina Tretjakova Apollo - Anja Schlosser Zephyrus - Astrid Monika Hofer Priester - Norbert Steidl "Musik" Sinfonieorchester der Universität Mozarteum Conductor: Josef Wallnig "Regie" Christian Kurt Weiss DIE SCHULDIGKEIT DES ERSTEN GEBOTS "Interpreten" Gerechtigkeit - Michiko Watanabe Barmherzigkeit - Cordula Schuster Weltgeist - Christiane Karg Christgeist - Bernhard Berchtold Christ - Peter Sonn "Musik" Sinfonieorchester der Universität Mozarteum Conductor: Josef Wallnig "Regie" Christian Kurt Weiss Mozart's first two dramatic works are seen here in the Great Hall of Salzburg University where they were first performed in 1767. This delightful Salzburg Mozarteum presentation was hailed by critics: "Behind the unabashedly popular theatrical burlesque were the cleanly articulated, clearly produced voices and pearling coloratura of young alumni and students of the university, who already could easily take on greater competition.. How gratifying to find such talent" (Salzburger Nachrichten) Laufzeit: 164 Minuten "Der Schauspieldirektor/Bastien und Bastienne" "Interpreters" Frank - Alfred Kleinheinz Buff / Colas - Radu Cojocariu Monsieur Vogelsang / Bastien - Bernhard Berchtold Mademoiselle Silberklang / Bastienne - Evmorfia Metaxaki Madame Herz / Bastienne 2 - Aleksandra Zamojska Junge Philharmonie Salzburg Conductor: Elisabeth Fuchs In this ingenious amalgamation of two charming singspiels - combining live singers with the puppets of Salzburg's world-famous Marionette Theatre - the blustery impresario must choose between rival divas for the role of Bastienne. Laufzeit: 109 Minuten Regie: Stefan Aglassinger "La Finta Semplice" "Interpreters" Rosina - Marlin Hartelius Don Cassandro - Josef Wagner Don Polidoro - Matthias Klink Giacinta - Marina Monparato Ninetta - Silvia Moi Fracasso - Jeremy Ovenden Simone - Miljenko Turk Auctoritas - Marianne Hamre Dark Rosina - Anna Tenta Camerata Salzburg Conductor: Michael Hofstetter "La finta semplice" is a comedy of love overcoming obstacles through deceit, with roots in commedia dell'arte. Mozart was 12 when he composed this "odyssey" (Irrfahrt) about people all yearning for martial bliss - except the eccentric Cassandro. But heroine Rosina wins his heart with feigned simplicity (hence the opera's title). "Marlin Hartelius is outstanding as enchanting Rosina... as is Matthias Klink as bungling Polidoro... The Salzburg Camerata under Michael Hofstetter make a fresh Mozart sound" (Kronen Zeitung). Laufzeit: 130 Minuten Regie: Anais Spiro, Oliver Spiro "Mitridate Re Di Ponto" "Betulia Liberata" "Interpreters" Ozia - Jeremy Ovenden Giuditta - Marijana Mijanovic Amital - Julia Kleiter Achior - Franz-Josef Selig Cabri - Irena Bespalovaite Carmi - Jennifer Johnston Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Chorus Master: Andreas Schüller Münchener Kammerorchester Conductor: Christoph Poppen Is the assassination of a tyrant legitimate? That is the theme of "Betulia liberata", based on the murder of Nebuchadnezzar's commander Holofernes by the Jewish widow Judith. Mozart had high regard for this seldom heard early work. In this "constantly riveting" (Münchner Merkur) Salzburg presentation, Judith's arias are sung by Marijana Mijanovic "with glowing ccontralto timbre ... Technically flawless, soprano Julia Kleiter put body and soul into every note" (Salzburger Volkszeitung) Laufzeit: 130 Minuten Regie: Stefan Aglassinger "Ascanio In Alba" "Interpreters" Venere - Iris Kupke Ascanio - Sonia Prina Silvia - Marie-Belle Sandis Aceste - Charles Reid Fauno - Diana Damrau Voyager I - Christian Banzhaf Voyager II - Katharina Vötter Chor und Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim Conductor: Adam Fischer This fascinating production takes the 15-years-old Mozart's opera composed for a Habsburg wedding as the starting point for a bold experiment in music theatre. "Reviving the 2004 Mannheim staging was a brilliant stroke by this year's Salzburg Festival ... an ironically reflected and directed play about love, desire, dreams and politics." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Laufzeit: 104 Minuten Regie: Stefan Aglassinger "Il Sogno Di Scipione" "Interpreten" Scipione - Blagoj Nacoski La Costanza - Louise Fribo La Fortuna - Bernarda Bobro Publio - Iain Paton Emilio - Robert Sellier Solo Nella Licenza - Anna Kovalko "Musik" Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt Conductor: Robin Ticciati "Regie" Paul Fenkart In Mozart's rarely staged music drama, the goddesses of virtue and earthly happiness appear to Roman commander Scipio in a dream and demand the choose between them. This 2006 Salzburg Festival presentation was acclaimed as "wonderfully refreshing theatre" (Der Standard). "The flights and self-confidence of a young composer making his break-through are apparent throughout... That also applies to the name-part, mastered by tenor Blogoj Nacoski with astonishing brilliance" (Frankfurter Rundschau). Laufzeit: 109 Minuten "Lucio Silla" "Interpreters" Lucio Silla - Roberto Saccà Giunia - Annick Massis Cecilip - Monica Bacelli Lucio Cinna - Veronica Cangemi Celia - Julia Kleiter Aufidio - Stefano Ferrari Orchestra e coro del Teatro La Fenice Conductor: Tomás Netopil Composed in 1772 for Milan, this opera seria about the Roman dictator Lucius Silla is excepionally rich musically, with strong characters and ravashing arias - the culmination of young Wolfgang's long Italian visits. In this strikingly original production, "Julia Kleiter's singing of her arias is pitch-perfect, with bell-like clarity and palpable involvement. And Roberto Saccà as Lucio Silla lets us sense the tyrant's dangerouus unpredictability with every fidget" (Die Presse, Vienna). Laufzeit: 149 Minuten Regie: Hannes Rossacher