ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - Gala Performances (1993, 1996).. - OA1229BD

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - Gala Performances (1993, 1996) (2-DVD Box Set) (NTSC)

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Label: Opus Arte

Genre: Ballet DVD; Classical Concert; Opera DVD

Period: 20th Century; Classical; Romantic

Catalogue No: OA1229BD

Barcode: 809478012290

Distribution Note(s):
Available Worldwide

Release Date: 01/2017

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - Gala Performances (1993, 1996) (2-DVD Box Set) (NTSC)

GALA PERFORMANCES AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
(2-DVD Box Set)

OPERA AND BALLET FAVOURITES

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky:
The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: The Dance of the Clowns
The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Waltz of the Snowflakes / Grand pas de deux
Net, tol’ko tot, kto znal
Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), Op. 68: Ya vas lyublyu bezmerno / Akh, istomilas’ ya gorem
Iolanta, Op. 69: Gospod’ moy, yesti greshen ya
1812 Festival Overture, Op. 49
Anastasia: Pas de deux
Eugene Onegin, Op. 24: Kuda, kuda vi udalilis / Larina Ball
The Sleeping Beauty: Pas de deux

Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko: Song of the Varangian Trader / Song of the Venetian Trader

Sergey Rachmaninov: Aleko: Ves tabor spit

Giacomo Puccini: La bohème: Quando me’n vo’ (Musetta’s Aria)

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano
Darcey Bussell, dancer
Irek Mukhamedov, dancer
Plácido Domingo, tenor and conductor

Royal Opera House Orchestra
Edward Downes, conductor
Barry Wordsworth, conductor
Stephen Barlow, conductor

John Cox, stage director

GREAT OPERA ARIAS

Charles-François Gounod: Faust: Prologue / Avant de quitter ces lieux

Jules Massenet: Le Cid, Act III: O souverain

Georges Bizet: Carmen, Act I: Parle-moi de ma mère

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I: Là ci darem la mano

Gaetano Donizetti:
Don Pasquale, Act I: Quel guardo il cavaliere
L’elisir d’amore, Act I: Caro elisir, sei mio

Fromental Halévy: La Juive, Act IV: Rachel, quand du Seigneur

George Grigoriu: Valurile Dunari: Muzica

Ernesto de Curtis: Tu ca nun chiagne

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59, TrV 227, Act II: Mir ist die Ehre wiederfahren (The Presentation of the Rose)

Pietro Mascagni: L’amico Fritz, Act II: Suzel, buon di (Cherry Duet)

Franz Lehár: Gold und Silber, Op. 79

Plácido Domingo, tenor
Roberto Alagna, tenor
Angela Gheorghiu, soprano

Royal Opera House Orchestra
Asher Fisch, conductor

David Edwards, stage director

Recorded live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1 December 1993 (Opera and Ballet Favourites) and 12 December 1996 (Great Opera Arias)

Picture format: NTSC 4:3
Sound format: LPCM 2.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English
Running time: 226 mins
No. of DVDs: 2 (DVD 9)