2013/06/20

Verdi: Macbeth (2001 - Zurich)



Macbeth -- Thomas Hampson
Lady Macbeth -- Paoletta Marrocu
Banco -- Roberto Scandiuzzi
Macduff -- Luis Lima
Dama di Lady Macbeth -- Liuba Chuchrova
Malcolm -- Miroslav Christoff
Medico -- Peter Kálmán

Zurich Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Jürg Hämmerli)
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

David Pountney, stage director
Stefanos Lazaridis, set designer
Jürgen Hoffmann, lighting designer
Vivienne Newport, choreographer

Recorded live from the Zurich Opera House, 2001.

2013/06/15

Bizet: Carmen (1959 - Mockva)


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Carmen: Irina Arkhipova
Don José: Mario Del Monaco

Escamillo: Pavel Lisitsian
Frasquita: Galina Belousova-Schevchenko

Mercédès: Nadezhda Lositzina

Dancaïre: Ivan Ionov

Remendado: Nikolai Zaharov

Moralès: Alexei Bolshakov
Zuniga: Philip Fokin

Alexander Melik-Pashaev, conductor
Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre
Alexander Hazanov, Chorus Master
Live performance, June 1959
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow