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1) Don Pasquale
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Italiano
Description
Ernesto is in love with Norina and refuses to marry a more suitable woman chosen by his uncle, Don Pasquale.
3) Turandot
Series
Language
Italiano
Description
Puccini's Turandot based on an outstanding MET production from 1988 with Eva Marton and Placido Damingo.
4) Rigoletto
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Language
Italiano
Description
This new Met production transfers the opera's tragic events from a decadent 16th-century Italian court to the glitzy, depraved setting of the Las Vegas strip circa 1960.
5) Macbeth
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House in October 2014, the performance of Verdi's Macbeth features star soprano Anna Netrebko as the scheming Lady Macbeth. Netrebko is joined by Joseph Calleja, Zeljko Lucic, and Rene Pape. Fabio Luisi leads the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
6) Aida
Series
Language
Italiano
Description
An Egyptian soldier falls in love with a princess-turned-slave girl.
8) Siegfried
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
The third opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, in which the fearless hero Siegfried makes his entrance.
11) Götterdämmerung
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the fourth and final opera of Wagner's Ring cycle, Brünnhilde redeems the world with her act of self-sacrifice.
12) The tempest
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Story of the sorcerer, Prospero, and his daughter who have been stranded on an island for twelve years.
14) Rusalka
Series
Publisher
Decca
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Antonin Dvorak's opera is an story that also plays as a children's tale, featuring a water nymph named Rusalka who falls in love with a man, and then becomes the subject of a spell created by a witch.
15) Il trovatore
Series
Language
Italiano
Description
Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
16) Prince Igor
Series
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
Tells of the struggle between the Russian Polovtsian nomads, of Prince Igor's capture and escape from his noble opponent, Kon Konchak, and the love between Igor's son, Vladimir, and Konchak's daughter, Konchakovna.
17) Falstaff
Series
Publisher
Decca
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
The comic misadventures of a down-on-his-luck knight looking to earn some money by romancing rich men's wives, a jealous husband, and his wife.
18) Das Rheingold
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, in which the Rhinegold is stolen and made into a ring by the dwarf Alberich, who later curses it when it is taken from him.
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