popular music: metropolitan

popular music: metropolitan

popular music:

Metropolitan

Finley, Rivera

Bbc / Opus, 2008

Finley alone worth watching
This is an excellant production. If you don't like modern, dissonent opera, then this might not be for you. The production is powerfully done and the singing and symphonic quality top notch.

Bizet - Carmen / Levine, Baltsa, Carreras, Metropolitan Opera

Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

Carreras and Baltsa are stealing the show
At first I have to say that a lot of operas often happen to have a wonderful tenor and a really bad soprano or vice versa. This is absolutely not the case here. Both mezzo soprano Agnes Baltsa and tenor José Carreras are doing a brilliant job with both their singing ...

Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]

Renee Fleming, Ramon Vargas

Decca, 2007

A Russian opera superbly performed
All of the roles in this performance at the Metropolitan Opera were nearly perfectly done.

Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera

Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

Excelent DVD
Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera Outstanding video. The acting and singing are very good and convincing. Otello's troubled personality which goes from love to jealousy, anger and finally to murder and suicide is ...

Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera

Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarott

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

Perfection
I found every detail of this production to be unimprovable. True, the film is old and grainy and sometimes slightly blurry. But it doesn't matter. The casting and vocals are unbeatable. I'm so glad to have seen Pavarotti in this role and in his prime, when he fully ...

Band of Brothers

Michael Kamen

Sony, 2001

Great
If you are a fan of Band of Brothers...you'll love this. It has a good selection....it has something for everyone.

Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle)

Hildegard Behrens, James Morris

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Best 'authentic' Wagner 'Ring'
This is the best 'authentic' Wagner 'Ring' on DVD. It follows, very closely, Wagner's own staging instructions and is a wonderful representation of the Norse gods mythology. It definitely is the first 'Ring' for everyone to own--after all, the set of 4 operas is ...

Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera

Aprile Millo, Plácido Domingo

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

Needs Remastering
With the Metropolitan Museum of Art not far from the Metropolitan Opera House, this production exudes authenticity. One thing to watch for: does the high priest have a beard or not? He is the first person to sing onstage, and he should NOT have a beard. Egyptians ...

The Italian Opera Collection

Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera

Decca, 2008

Heart Warming The Italian Opera Collection
The Italian Opera Collection Sometimes I rush & don't get what I intend to. I read the reviews before purchasing this DVD. Not only was it favorable but it kept me from making a mistake on a gift for my Husband. The night of my husbands "B" Day he watched part of the ...

Puccini: La Boheme (Live from the Met)

Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta

EMI Classics, 2008

A BOHEME to treasure !! Is it Rodolfo's or Mimi's Boheme ?
Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) This DVD is a recording of the performance of La Boheme at the Met on April 5/2008 which was transmitted in HD worldwide. The first night was on 3/29th with the same cast, and the reviews in NY papers ...

Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, Paul Plishka, Richard ...

Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus

Deutsche Grammophon, 2006

Bel canto diva shines
Perhaps this is not the definitive production of Lucia di Lammermoor, nor is it Sutherland's most sensational performance of the role. But it merits 5 stars simply because it is Sutherland in her signature part, an amazingly rare document considering the astonishing ...

Puccini - Manon Lescaut (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)

Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani

Emi Classics, 2008

More than just great opera
For me, there has just always been something about Manon Lescaut that moves me deeply. So I admit that I am hard to disappoint when it comes to performances of Puccini's first big hit. Still, I consider myself to be pretty critical and picky, even if I get a little ...

Verdi - Macbeth (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)

Zeljko Lucic, Maria Guleghina

Emi Classics, 2008

Lensopinion
I found this DVD of Verdi's Macbeth entertaining and look forward to replaying and enjoying this version of Macbeth many timws !

Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)

Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette

Emi Classics, 2008

Runnicles leads an impressive reading of Grimes
The Met's HD production of "Peter Grimes" packs a lot of power and brings the brooding musicality of Benjamin Britten's 1945 operatic masterwork to life. The cast is uniformly fine vocally and dramatically, though people who remember Jon Vickers in his full-voiced ...

Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera

Kathleen Battle, Francisco Araiza

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

Unbelievable!!!
AMAZING. The SETS: excellent - schematic, evocative and inventive - you actually SEE Tamino and Pamina going through fire and water, for example. The CAST: extraordinary - a really funny Papageno, a wonderful Pamina (Kathleen Battle is utterly credible - which is ...