ARENA DI VERONA (4 DVD Box-Set) (NTSC)

ARENA DI VERONA
(4 DVD Box-Set)

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA

Aida – Maria Chiara
Il Re – Carlo Striuli
Amneris – Dolora Zajick
Radamès – Kristján Jóhannsson
Amonasro – Juan Pons
Ramfis – Nicola Ghiuselev
Una sacerdotessa – Anna Schiatti
Un messaggero – Angelo Casertano

Arena di Verona Ballet
Arena di Verona Orchestra and Chorus
(chorus master: Aldo Danieli)
Nello Santi, conductor

Gianfranco De Bosio, stage director
Rinaldo Olovieri, set designer (after Ettore Fagiuoli)
Auguste Mariette, costume designer
Arnaldo Campolmi, lighting designer
Susanna Egri, choreographer

Recorded live from the Arena di Verona, 1992

Georges Bizet
CARMEN

Carmen – Marina Domashenko
Micaëla – Maya Dashuk
Frasquita – Cristina Pastorello
Mercédès – Milena Josipovic
Don José – Marco Berti
Escamillo – Raymond Aceto
Le Dancaïre – Marco Camastra
Le Remendado – Antonio Feltracco
Zuñiga – Dario Benini
Moralès – Roberto Accurso

Benjamin Britten Children's Choir
Arena di Verona Ballet
Arena di Verona Orchestra and Chorus
Alain Lombard, conductor

Franco Zeffirelli, stage director
Giuseppe de Filippi Venezia, set designer
Anna Anni, costume designer

Recorded live from the Arena di Verona, 2003

Giacomo Puccini
TOSCA

Floria Tosca – Fiorenza Cedolins
Mario Cavaradossi – Marcelo Álvarez
Il barone Scarpia – Ruggero Raimondi
Cesare Angelotti – Marco Spotti
Il sagrestano – Fabio Previati
Spoletta – Enrico Facini
Sciarrone – Giuliano Pelizon
Un carceriere – Angelo Nardinocchi
Un pastorello – Ottavia Dorrucci

Arena di Verona Orchestra and Chorus
(chorus master: Marco Faelli)
Coro di voci bianche “A.Li.Ve”
(conductor: Paolo Facincani)
Daniel Oren, conductor

Hugo de Ana, stage director, set, costume and lighting designer

Recorded live at the Arena di Verona, July 2006

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Picture format: NTSC 16:9 (Carmen, Tosca) / NTSC 4:3 (Aida)
Sound format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 (All Operas) / DTS 5.1 (Carmen, Tosca only)
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish (All Operas), Chinese (Carmen only)
Running time: 6 hours 55 mins
No. of DVDs: 4 (3x DVD 9 + 1x DVD 5)