Marke: John Graham-Hall
Variante: DVD
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PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN Outstanding singers, conductors and directors come together in five diverse but compelling operas by Benjamin Britten. These productions from some of the world's best opera houses offer five masterful performances that are an ideal way to experience the music of Benjamin Britten. Works: Peter Grimes; Rape of Lucretia; Billy Budd; Gloriana; Death in Venice Press Reviews "Elder's unerring sense of theatre puts him absolutely at one with the stage in every episode. He's clearly the guiding spirit of this Billy Budd. The production has been directed with laudable unobtrusiveness by Michael Grandage...Video director Francois Rousillon does exceptional work here, with the precision of HD a constant pleasure. Opus Arte's recorded sound is superb." (International Record Review - Billy Budd) "... the pride and joy of Richard Jones's production, not to be missed, is its unerring grasp of the psychology and tiered relationship of all the characters. ...Ticciati eschews the weighty, rather Germanic approach of older conductors...concentrating (like Goodall or Hickox) on rhythmic and instrumental subtleties." (Gramophone - Peter Grimes) "The pleasure of the piece lies in the music's unexpected flashes of beauty, in its ironical foreshadowings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and above all in the community masque which Lucy Burge's choreography and Ultz's visual wit make both comic and touching. And what performances we get: Susan Bullock is an awe-inspiring Gloriana - imperious, perverse, tormented – while Toby Spence, as Essex, has regained all his pristine vocal lustre. Mark Stone's Mountjoy, Clive Bayley's Raleigh, and Andrew Tortise's Spirit of the Masque are each outstanding. Covent Garden has now shown that Gloriana is, if not a great work, certainly one of the most intriguing in the canon." (The Independent - Gloriana) " ... the cast is so superb and Paul Daniel's conducting so sure-footed. Every element in Britten's score needs to glow with beauty. The 13 ENO instrumentalists deliver gloriously. Christopher Maltman's ferocious, magnetic Tarquinius distils all the charisma and youthful sexuality that the music describes. Sarah Connolly's Lucretia is powerful and robust yet strangely sexless, almost boyish. The opera is a feast of musical moments. The simplicity and directness of McVicar's staging ensures that every detail in text and vocal lines gets attention, and McVicar uses the Coliseum's wide stage space brilliantly." (The Evening Standard - Rape of Lucretia) "Everything else about the performance - Edward Gardner's crystalline orchestra, Andrew Shore in multiple guises, Tim Mead, Marcus Farnsworth, Anna Dennis, Peter van Hulle and the chorus on the periphery - is pitch-perfect in economy and clarity." (The Daily Telegraph - Death in Venice) Cast John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes {Peter Grimes}; Gustav von Aschenbach {Death in Venice}) Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford {Peter Grimes}) Sarah Connolly (Lucretia {The Rape of Lucretia}) Christopher Maltman (Prince Tarquinius {The Rape of Lucretia}) John Mark-Ainsley (Captain Vere {Billy Budd}) Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd {Billy Budd}) Susan Bullock (Elisabeth I {Gloriana}) Toby Spence (Earl of essex {Gloriana}) Catalogue Number: OA1198BD Running Time: 790 minutes Sound: Dolby Digital (PG-DinV) ; LPCN 2.0 (TRoL-BB-Gloriana) Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Subtitles: EN/FR/DE/JP/KO (PG-TRoL-Gloriana); EN/FR/DE/KO (DinV) ; EN/FR/DE/ES (BB) Label: Opus Arte
