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Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

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Jeremie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)

Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie - Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie [Version 1826] (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 641 Mb | Total time: 58:24+76:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bru Zane | # BZ1035 | Recorded: 2016

According to Berlioz, Spontini was – after Gluck – the greatest genius of French music to pave the way for the Romantic era. And it may well be that the little-known Olympie, premiered in 1819 and subsequently revived in 1826 under the modified title Olimpie, had a greater influence than we have hitherto imagined on the massive upheaval that was to set French opera on the path of the modern ‘grand opéra’. From start to finish, this finely polished score, with its astonishing orchestration, is full of spectacular effects that clearly look forward to Les Troyens of Berlioz.

Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)

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Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)

Alain Guingal, Orchestre du Teatro Regio di Torino, Roberto Alagna, Kate Aldrich - Massenet: Werther (2014/2005)
PAL 16:9 (720x576) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7.51 Gb (DVD9) | 135 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Français, English

World-renowned tenor Roberto Alagna stars in the most passionate of French operas, conveying the young poet’s journey from naïve hope to the agony of the much-loved aria ‘Pourquoi me réveiller?’ and the shattering final tragedy.
Massenet’s glorious opera, based on a novel by Goethe, is regularly performed all over the world and its central role is one in which Roberto Alagna has been celebrated for more than a decade. The role of Werther’s beloved Charlotte is sung by American mezzo Kate Aldrich (an acclaimed Carmen at ‘The Met’), who has sung the role to critical acclaim in Europe and Japan. Filmed live at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the powerful stage production is the work of another member of the Alagna family – the tenor’s younger brother, David.

Alessandro De Marchi. Academia Montis Regalis - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2016)

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Alessandro De Marchi. Academia Montis Regalis - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2016)

Alessandro De Marchi. Academia Montis Regalis - Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 751 Mb | Total time: 142:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 870-2 | Recorded: 2013

During the early nineteenth century the new 1804 Viennese version of La Clemenza di Tito, was Mozart's most popular opera in Europe. However, in keeping with the practice during that period, it was performed in versions adapted to the times and the taste of the opera public and this is precisely the starting point for our recording's conductor Alessandro De Marchi. He would like to present Tito in the form in which it was staged and acclaimed in great houses from the Vienna Court Opera to the Milan Scala and from Dresden and Hamburg to Paris during the early years of the nineteenth century. Our recording is based on the acclaimed production at the Innsbruck Festival Weeks 2013 with the Academia Montis Regalis performing on historical instruments.

Roberto Abbado, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna - Rossini: Zelmira (2012) [Blu-Ray]

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Roberto Abbado, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna - Rossini: Zelmira (2012) [Blu-Ray]

Roberto Abbado, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna - Rossini: Zelmira (2012) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 192 min | 41,9 Gb
Audio1: Italiano / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 192 min | 10,4 Gb
Audio: Italiano / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bit
Classical | DECCA | Sub: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Juan Diego Flórez stars in the only available blu-ray version of Zelmira, filmed at the celebrated Rossini Festival in the composer s home town of Pesaro. The final opera Rossini wrote for Naples is a dramatic and musical tour de force and a magnificent showcase for the bel canto superstar of our time. Recorded in high definition at the 2009 Festival, Giorgio Barberio Corsettis production places the classical tale, set during the Trojan Wars, in modern times and modern dress. Joining Juan Diego Flórez are a major international cast, described as near miraculous by Opera Today and led by American mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich in the virtuosic title role. The evening remained another distinguished triumph for Juan Diego Flórez as Prince Ilo, whose arrival in his homeland, to rescue Zelmira, was marked by a dazzling tenorial display which evoked a nearly twenty-minute ovation (Opera Today) .

Laurent Campellone, Orchestre symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire - Massenet: Le Mage (2013)

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Laurent Campellone, Orchestre symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire - Massenet: Le Mage (2013)

Laurent Campellone, Orchestre symphonique Saint-Étienne Loire - Massenet: Le Mage (2013)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,7 Gb | Total time: 60:10+78:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ediciones Singulares | ES 1013 | Recorded: 2012

Just at the zenith of the French “Wagnerisme” Jules Massenet surprised the French opera audience in 1891 with a genuine French Grand Opéra, which apparently did not seem to care about current musical events. With its exotic setting (Persia), supernatural elements of action and a religiously veiled love story, it ties in with works such as "Hérodiade" and "Le Roi de Lahore". Production at Ediciones Singulares makes it clear that a revival was long overdue.

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin - Wagner: Rienzi (2010) [Blu-Ray]

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Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin - Wagner: Rienzi (2010) [Blu-Ray]

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin - Wagner: Rienzi (2010) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23963 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 154 min | 40,5 Gb
Audio1: Deutsch / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3301 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 154 min | 8,38 Gb
Audio: Deutsch / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese

Richard Wagner’s early opera “Rienzi” is stylistically closer to Meyerbeer and bel canto than to Wagner’s later masterworks. Yet even this early work – especially as presented in this recording – is “so fantastically beautiful that it takes one’s breath away” (Berliner Zeitung). And in this staging by Philipp Stölzl, who condensed the five-act opera into a little over two hours, “Rienzi” becomes a startlingly powerful and timeless parable of power and abuse. Though the story of the rise and fall of a charismatic leader and his totalitarian regime takes place in 14th-century Rome, Stölzl sets it somewhere in the recent past.

Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (2011) [Blu-Ray]

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Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (2011) [Blu-Ray]

Valery Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra - Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini (2011) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24967 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 35,2 Gb
Audio1: Français / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 16-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 2141 kbps / 16-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,970 fps | 163 min | 8,83 Gb
Audio: Français / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 16 bits
Classical | Naxos | Sub.: English, French, German,Spanish

‘A mix of futurism à la Metropolis, fantasy à la Batman and quotes from Piranesi’s Carceri, juxtaposed in the form of photo montages, enhanced with…robots, a helicopter, a shark and the winged vehicle of a pop star Pope’, was how the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described this astonishing Salzburg Festival production of Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini. The high-calibre cast, headed by Burkhard Fritz as the temperamental Renaissance artist and the 26-year-old Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska as Teresa, the woman with whom he tries to elope, is conducted by Valery Gergiev who ‘pulled out all the stops. He whips the Vienna Philharmonic into a delirium similar to that which possibly took hold of the composer’. (Der Standard) This is French grand opera at its fast-paced and spectacularly-staged best.

Antonello Allemandi, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse - Donizetti: La Favorite (2015) [Blu-Ray]

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Antonello Allemandi, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse - Donizetti: La Favorite (2015) [Blu-Ray]

Antonello Allemandi, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse - Donizetti: La Favorite (2015) [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24920 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 152 min | 35,2 Gb
Audio1: French / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4049 kbps / 24-bit
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Classical | BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29,97 fps | 152 min | 8,26 Gb
Audio: French / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean

One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Donizetti's La favorita in its original French form - a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th century grand opera.