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Opera Highlights - Opera Highlights - Volume II
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Following swiftly on from the April release of Volume 1, Arthaus Musik is proud to present Volume II of Opera Highlights. This exciting new disc offers us the chance to get an insight into the opinions and motivations of some of the world’s greatest opera singers, and presents new recordings and interviews produced especially for this DVD. Opera Highlights is both a visually exciting introduction for new viewers to opera as well as a unique opportunity to see great singers talking to camera, then performing roles for which they are famous. The opening title sequence has been specially designed by Pat Gavin, who has won countless awards for his innovative electronic graphics.Technical information Sound Format PCM Stereo / Picture Format 43 / 169 / Menu Languages GB, D, F, ES / Subtitle Languages GB, D, F, ES, IT / Running Time 90’ / Format NTSC / Region Code 0
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ANN MURRAY: If you worship the man who has spurned you from Handel’s Xerxes (English National Opera / Charles Mackerras) - Take your pleasure from Handel’s Ariodante (English National Opera / Ivor Bolton) - PHILIP LANGRIDGE: The ‘sea wall’ aria from Britten’s Peter Grimes (English National Opera / David Atherton) - GALINA GORCHAKOVA: Renata’s Confession from Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel (Kirov Opera / Valery Gergiev) - THOMAS ALLEN: They’ll lash me in a hammock from Britten’s Billy Budd (English National Opera / David Atherton) - Great Hymn to the Wonder of Nature from Janá?ek’s Cunning little Vixen (Théâtre du Châtelet / Charles Mackerras) - EVA JENIS & HANNA MINUTILLO: Love duet 2nd Act, from Janá?ek’s Cunning little Vixen (Théâtre du Châtelet / Charles Mackerras) - YVONNE KENNY: Piangero la sorte mia from Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Opera Australia / Richard Hickox) - O weep for me from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (English National Opera / Nicolas Kok) - MICHAEL KÖNIG: Oh golden days of my youth, where have you gone?’ and Enemies, enemies (Duet with Vladimir Glushchak) from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (European Union Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky) - ORLA BOYLAN: No, there could never be another from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (European Union Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky) - VLADIMIR GLUSHCHAK: You wrote to me’ and ‘Can this be the same Tatyana? from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (European Union Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky) - ANNA NETREBKO: Aria of Lyudmila from the 4th Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila (Kirov Opera / Valery Gergiev) - VLADIMIR OGNOVENKO: Finns Ballad from the 2nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila (Kirov Opera / Valery Gergiev) - LARISSA DIADKOVA: as RATMIR in the 2nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila (Kirov Opera / Valery Gergiev)