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Subcollection: OpéraA chamber opera profiling the life and art of Paul Gauguin. The work, conceived and achieved by Fabrizio Carlone, appears truly intriguing, based as it is on original texts by Gauguin himself and in some cases of his famous contemporaries. This extraordinarily intense opera is sung and acted entirely in French. |
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ID: PTC5186365
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Dutch Crown Jewels: Symphonies from the 18th Century Court of Orange in the Hague
The award-winning Dutch Academy play on authentic instruments. Simon Murphy too has been awarded industry prizes for his performing and recording work. This is a world premiere recording. |
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ID: ERP7814
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World premiére at the Estonian National Opera on May 11th, 2012. Released in November 2014!
"A human being - this is the future!" (Amadeo Modigliani)
Total time 2:07:03
Format of screen 16 : 9, PAL, Region All
Subtitles and booklet in Estonian and English
Thomas Edur’s ballet in two acts to the music by Tauno Aints
Libretto − Irina Müllerson, Thomas Edur
Conductor − Risto Joost
Concept of set design − Thomas Edur, Liina Keevallik
Designer − Liina Keevallik
Lighting designer − Tiit Urvik
Amedeo Modigliani, artist - Anatoly Arhangelsky
Jeanne Hébuterne, his wife - Alena Shkatula
Leopold Zborowski, an art dealer - Sergey Upkin
Artist friends of Modigliani - Jonathan Hanks, Andrus Laur
Berthe Weill, owner of a gallery - Triinu Leppik-Upkin
Florist - Heidi Kopti
Helpers of the florist - Svetlana Danilova, Abigail Sheppard
Harlots - Ksenia Bespalova, Shira Ezuz, Ingrid Gilden, Urve-Ly Voogand
An innkeeper - Maigret Peetson
Violinist - Daniel Kirspuu
Vision - Sanna Kondas
Policemen - Alexander Nuttall, Giuseppe Martino
Art school teacher - Vitaly Nikolayev
Model - David Horn
Doctor - William Simmons
Portraits / Nudes - Nadezhda Antipenko, Marianne Bassing, Svetlana Danilova, Darja Günter, Triinu Leppik-Upkin, Anastassia Savela, Ksenia Seletskaya
Citizens - Chiara Annunziato, Irina Fyodorova, Maia Gontsharenko, David Horn, Charlotte Ingleson, Mihhail Yekimov, Kaire Kasetalu, Seili Loorits-Kämbre, Vadim Myagkov, Michele Pellegrini, Anton Rzhanov, William Simmons
Estonian National Ballet, Estonian National Opera Orchestra |
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ID: PTC5186039
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Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: ACDHJ037-2
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Subcollection: ChoirSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives life to thee
The Opus Project Choir Foundation first discovered the music of Steve Dobrogosz, an American composer living in Sweden, in 2007. That year the choir performed his two best known works, the Mass and the Requiem, which audiences enthusiastically received. While he was attending this project (called “Opus 1”) in Leeuwarden, the choir suggested that he write a much larger work, an oratorio. When he returned to Sweden, he became inspired by the beautiful, timeless texts of William Shakespeare. Thus came My Rose into existence, a two hour long work that was composed in the space of only 4 days. The oratorio contains various musical styles, classical, jazz and musical theatre, mixed together with a touch of romance and a pinch of humor.
CD1 - 4 - Barbara van Lint, soprano
7 - Cindy Oudshoorn, alto / Martijn Sanders, bass
9 - Rein Kolpa, tenor
CD2 - 2 - Cindy Oudshoorn, alto
4 - Martijn Sanders, bass
7 - Barbara van Lint, soprano / Rein Kolpa, tenor
Jos Boerland sound engineer |
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ID: CDO1001-2-2
CDs: 2
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Subcollection: OpéraSoloists: Karl-Robert Lindgren (Bass), Bengt Krantz (Voice), Lars Billengren (Tenor),
Berit Lindholm (Soprano), Hillevi Martinpelto (Soprano), Lars Tibell (Tenor), Helge Lannerbäck (Baritone), Monica Sjöholm (Soprano)
A truly great romantic opera. Although written in this small country, it reflects the same kind of grandness found in the works of other operatic composers in this era. |
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ID: CDO1031-2-2
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Subcollection: OpéraPerhaps the first real Swedish opera from the nineteenth Century. Quite a Mozart inspired work showing true craftsmanship. Completed by Prince Oscar, after the death of the composer.
Ryno - The First Swedish Romantic Opera
Frans Fredric Eduard Brendler was born in Dresden in 1800 and moved to Sweden the following year when his father Johann Frans was appointed flautist with the Court Orchestra. The young Eduard received flute lessons from his father, but did not at first devote himself professionally to music: he was employed as a book-keeper by Jacob Dubbe on the island of Gotland and, upon his return to Stockholm in 1823, referred to himself as a businessman.
That same year he joined the Orchestra of Harmoniska sällskapet (the Harmonic Society) and also appeared as a flute soloist. The following year be was named as an honorary member of the Society. |
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ID: SIGCD154
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Opera Collection
An Opera in two acts by David Carlson. Libretto by Colin Graham
World Premiere Recording
Synopsis: Anna Karenina
ACT ONE
Prolog, Moscow, December. Anna visits her brother Stiva and his wife Dolly, hoping to save their marriage. A man falls under the train. When Anna meets Vronsky, she is so disturbed by the accident that she hardly notices him. He's very taken with her. 1.1 Stiva's house. Anna persuades Dolly to forgive Stiva's infidelity. 1.2 The ball at Betsy's, St. Petersburg, New Year, 1875. Levin proposes to Kitty and is refused because she is infatuated with Vronsky. Anna is compromised by Vronsky's too-obvious attentions. She is affected by his declarations but resists him. Karenin notices others' reactions. 1.3 At Karenin's. Karenin insists that Anna make an effort to preserve appearances for the sake of society. Trying to persuade her to open her heart to him, he discovers that it is locked against him. 2.1 - 2 Stiva's home, next spring/Levin's house in the country. Dolly, comforting Kitty, tries to persuade her that Vronsky is not worthy of her. She also asks about Kitty's feelings for Levin. Even the feeling of life reborn in the spring is not enough to comfort Levin. Stiva visits and gives him news of Kitty and of Vronsky's dangerous infatuation with Anna. 2.3 Karenin's country house. Anna reveals to Vronsky that she is to bear his child. He tries to persuade her to leave her husband, but she refuses because the Russian divorce laws would cause her to lose her son Seriosha. 3.1 A box at the races that afternoon. Vronsky suffers a severe accident. Karenin insists that the distraught Anna comport herself properly. She informs him that she cannot bear the sight of him and that she loves Vronsky. 3.2 Karenin's study some days later, night. Karenin cannot decide what to do. While hoping to preserve his marriage to Anna, who, he tries to persuade himself, is evil and corrupt, he must at all costs preserve his reputation. He writes to her insisting that she return to him and continue as before: He will not consider a divorce. 3.3 Anna, incensed, realizes that she must choose between her lover and her son. She tells Vronsky of her recurring death-dream, connected with the accident at the station. He is unable to comfort her, and she suspects him of selfishness when he again urges her to go away with him. She goes to Karenin and tells him she cannot continue as before, but begs him to let her have her son. Consumed with rage and disgust, he refuses.
ACT TWO
4.1 The Admiralty Gardens, St. Petersburg, early autumn. Levin cannot reconcile the problems and ironies of life and longs for death. Dolly insists that he come to meet Kitty at their house. Stiva learns with horror from Karenin of his impending divorce and begs him to talk to Dolly. Yashvin tries to persuade Vronsky to give up Anna for the sake of his career. He refuses. 4.2 A supper party at the Oblonskys'. Levin and Kitty meet for the first time since Betsy's ball and are both very moved. Karenin is angered by the general conversation concerning unfaithful wives and luckless husbands, and Dolly is unable to persuade him to forgive. Levin and Kitty declare their love for each other during a game of solitaire. "Not time to die yet!" exclaims a delighted Stiva. 4.3 Anna's bedroom that night. Karenin returns home to find Anna near death after a miscarriage. He is reconciled to Vronsky at her bedside and promises forgiveness. 5.1 Levin's house six months later. Although Levin is now happily married to Kitty, who is pregnant, he remains dissatisfied with what he regards as a useless and unproductive life, exemplified by news from Dolly that Anna, now recovered, has left Karenin for Vronsky and that Seriosha is being looked after by his aunt Lydia. 5.2 Letters. Anna writes to Karenin asking to be allowed to see Seriosha one last time, on his birthday. Lydia urges Karenin to forbid this. He does so, against his better judgment. 5.3 Seriosha's bedroom two days later. Anna forces her way into her son's bedroom. Since he had been told she was dead, he is overjoyed to see her. He does not realize that this is the last time he will see his mother, but he is distraught when Anna has to leave. 6.1 Anna's apartments at a hotel that evening. Anna, now addicted to opiates, is at the end of her tether: She doubts Vronsky's fidelity. Death is always on her mind: She is like a train hurtling to destruction. Dolly and Stiva are appalled at her condition when they bring Levin to meet her. Levin is much struck with this beautiful, sad woman and her situation. She asks him to tell Kitty not to forgive her, for to be able to do so, Kitty would have to suffer what Anna has herself suffered. When left alone with Vronsky, her jealousy leads to a schismatic quarrel. Vronsky leaves to visit his mother, and Anna is certain that he is in fact leaving her forever. She contemplates an overdose of morphia and then decides to follow Vronsky to the station to beg his forgiveness. 6.2 At the station. Everything passes like a dream. Anna has missed Vronsky and waits to follow him on the next train. She reviews her situation and the tortured life before her: She realizes, as if a light had suddenly illumined her soul, that death would release her from the pain and responsibility of life. When the train comes into the station, she throws herself beneath it. 6.3 Levin's country estate months later, in spring. In the aftermath of Anna's death, Levin cannot come to terms with the irony of life. Through the wisdom of his old nurse, he at last understands the reason for living: To live, love, and be loved; not to judge or envy others, nor to bewail their suffering; life is everything in itself. His blind eyes have been opened. -Colin Graham |
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