Naxos Releases opera DVDs – Cyrano de Bergerac starring Plácido Domingo, and Benvenuto Cellini conducted by Valery Gergiev November 12, 2009
In November 2009, Naxos releases two outstanding opera DVDs, each a swashbuckling adventure, one about a lovelorn poet, the other about a passionate sculptor:
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ALFANO Cyrano de Bergerac
(Palau de les Arts “Reina Sofia”, 2007)
2.110270
When Plácido Domingo and Sondra Radvanovsky sang Cyrano and Roxane at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Andante magazine wrote: ‘Incredibly, Cyrano is his 121st role. And it suits him splendidly…Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky was luminous as Roxane, her passionate outbursts showing off her powerful upper register to good effect’. |
See preview on YouTube.
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BERLIOZ Benvenuto Cellini
(Salzburg Festival, 2007)
2.110271
‘A mix of futurism à la Metropolis, fantasy à la Batman and quotes from Piranesi’s Carceri, juxtaposed in the form of photo montages, enhanced with…robots, a helicopter, a shark and the winged vehicle of a pop star Pope’, was how the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described this astonishing Salzburg Festival production of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini conducted by Valery Gergiev. |
Coming in December 2009 on Naxos
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