GREAT STARS OF OPERA (NTSC)

Favorite Arias and Scenes by Rossini, Mozart, Bizet, J. Strauss II, Puccini, Cilea, Verdi & Lehar

Agnes Baltsa · Neil Shicoff · Lucia Aliberti
Anna Tomowa-Sintow · Kurt Rydl · Deborah Sasson
Gunther Emmerlich · Sandra Schwarzhaupt
Daniela Barcellona · Vincenzo La Scola

Recorded live at the Theatre Square, Dresden

Picture Format: NTSC · 16:9 anamorphic
Sound Formats: PCM Stereo · Dolby Digital 5.1 · DTS 5.1
Region Code: 0
Subtitles: English, German, French
Booklet Notes: English German, French
Running Time: 103 mins
FSK: oA.
Cat No.: 2054028

• A gathering of some of the most important and popular opera singers of our time
• The program presents favourite scenes and arias from Tosca (Puccini), La Traviata (Puccini), Carmen (Bizet), Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss II), etc.
• The highlight appearances include Agnes Baltsa and Neil Shicoff singing the final scene from Carmen (both artists can be heard in solo arias as well) and Anna Tomowa-Sintow singing Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur
• Vast open-air event from the Theatre Square in Dresden with over 15,000 in attendance.
• 5.1 surround sound in Dolby Digital and DTS
• Widescreen 16:9 ratio
  
  

"Agnes Baltsa is the most exciting mezzo of our day. As with fellow Greek, Maria Callas, she has tremendous energy and a simply gorgeous voice." -- www.musicweb.uk.net, 2003
"Shicoff is essentially a communicative artist … the expressiveness of his singing is, to him, all-important. It's quite right: he gives himself fully and generously to everything he sings." -- Gramophone Magazine, 2003