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Opera Highlights vol.2

DVD
154 min
1999 M1505 .O642 2007 DVD

Opera Highlights is both a visually exciting introduction for new viewers to opera as well as a unique opportunity to see great singers talking to camera, then performing roles for which they are famous.

  • O let me weep / Henry Purcell (Yvonne Kenny)
  • Piangerò la sorte mia / George Frideric Handel (Yvonne Kenny)
  • Take your pleasure / George Frideric Handel (Ann Murray)
  • If you worship the man who has spurned you / George Frideric Handel (Ann Murray)
  • Extracts from the 2nd act from Ruslan and Lyudmila / Mikhail Glinka (Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Ognovenko, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Anna Netrebko)
  • No, there could never be another / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Orla Boylan)
  • You wrote to me. Can this be the same Tatyana / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Vladimir Glushchak)
  • Oh golden days of my youth. Enemies, enemies / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Michael König)
  • Wonder of nature / Leos Janácek (Thomas Allen)
  • Love duet / Leos Janácek (Eva Jenis with Hannah Minutillo)
  • Renata's confession / Sergei Prokofiev (Galina Gorchakova)
  • Sea wall aria / Benjamin Britten (Philip Langridge)
  • They'll lash me in a hammock / Benjamin Britten (Philip Langridge)

Sung in English, Russian, Czech and Italian with optional subtitles in English, German, French, and Spanish.

Distributed by Arthaus Musik (arthaus-musik.com).

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