VIDEO

ALFREDO CASELLA
LA DONNA SERPENTE

Altidór - Angelo Villari
Miranda - Zuzana Marková
Armilla - Vanessa Goikoetxea
Farzana - Anta Jankovska
Canzade - Candida Guida 
Alditrúf - Simon Edwards
Pantùl - Pavol Kuban
Tartagíl - Timothy Oliver
Tògrul - Davide Giangregorio
Demogorgòn - Carmine Monaco

Coro della Filarmonica di Stato "Transilvania" di Cluj-Napoca, Orchestra nazionale d'Italia
Fabio Luisi

Registrazione dal vivo, Martina Franca 2014
150 minuti, colori // subtitles: IT, EN

Gioachino Rossini
GUILLAUME TELL / GUGLIELMO TELL
(cantato in francese // sung in French)

Andrew Foster-Williams 
Michael Spyres 
Judith Howarth 
Nahuel di Pierro 
Tara Stafford 
Raffaele Facciolà 
Giulio Pelligra 
Artavazd Sargsyan 
Marco Filippo Romano 
Alessandra Volpe 

Camerata Bach Chor - Virtuosi Brunensis
Antonino Fogliani 

Registrazione dal vivo // Recorded live at the Festival Rossini in Wildbad, July 2013
*First complete DVD release of the original version*
*Prima edizione in DVD della versione originale*

Guillaume Tell is one of those monuments in the history of opera that is surprisingly  little known to the broad operatic public, and, at least during the last century, was seldom staged.  Almost immediately after its premiere at the Paris Opéra on August 3, 1829, it was realized by musicians and critics that this was a far-reaching masterpiece, and indeed, this opera’s influence on composers in the nineteenth century, including Meyerbeer, Verdi and Wagner, was deep and lasting. And yet some of the same features which made it so unique have militated against it entering the standard repertory.  The very size of the forces necessary for the production made it difficult from the first for companies without the resources of the Paris Opéra to mount the work as originally conceived.  To perform it in toto demands a corps de ballet, remarkable scenic effects and a tenor who can cope with a role originally written for Adolphe Nourrit.  

Changes and cuts were made by Rossini up to and beyond the premiere on August 3, 1829. Jemmy’s aria, for instance, was cut, and Mathilde was excised from the fourth act entirely. During the following decades, there were so many versions of the score, some produced with Rossini’s collaboration, that it became difficult to know exactly what the “real” Guillaume Tell looked and sounded like, at least until the critical edition edited by Elizabeth C. Bartlet and published by the Fondazione Rossini came out in 1992—the two hundredth anniversary of Rossini’s birth.

The critical edition made a “complete” Guillaume Tell, even an ur-Tell possible, but not many companies, even after 1992, have performed the work without substantial cuts.  The ROSSINI IN WILDBAD Festival decided, in celebration of their twenty-fifth anniversary, to perform the work for the first time in its entirety.

GAETANO DONIZETTI
MARIA DI ROHAN

Maria - Majella Cullagh
Enrico - Marco Di Felice
Riccardo - Salvatore Cordella
Il Visconte di Suze - Giuseppe Capoferri
Armando di Gondì - Domenico Menini
De Fiesque - Aleksandar Stefanoski
Aubry - Francesco Cortinovis
Un famigliare - Francesco Laino

Orchestra e Coro del Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti,
Gregory Kunde

Registrazione dal vivo, Bergamo 2011
120 minuti, colori // subtitles: IT, EN, JP

GAETANO DONIZETTI
BELISARIO

Belisario - Dario Solari
Antonina - Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi
Irene - Annunziata Vestri
Alamiro - Andeka Gorrotxategui
Giustiniano - Francesco Palmieri
Eutropio - Andrea Biscontin
Eudora - Sonia Lubrini
Eusebio - Carlo Bonarelli
Ottario - Francesco Cortinovis
Un centurione - Francesco Laino

Orchestra e Coro del Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Tolomelli

Registrazione dal vivo, Bergamo 2012
125 minuti, colori // subtitles: IT, EN

GAETANO DONIZETTI
GIANNI DI PARIGI

La Principessa di Navarra - Ekaterina Lekhina
Gianni di Parigi - Edgardo Rocha
Il Gran Siniscalco - Roberto De Candia
Oliviero - Paola Gardina
Perdio - Andrea Porta
Lorezza - Eleonora Buratto

Orchestra internazionale d'Italia, Coro Slovacco di Bratislava,
Giacomo Sagripanti

Registrazione dal vivo, Martina Franca 2010
110 minuti, colori // subtitles: IT, EN

GAETANO DONIZETTI - Gemma Di Vergy

Maria Agresta, Gregory Kunde, Mario Cassi, Leonardo Galeazzi, Dario Russo, Kremena Dilcheva

Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

Registrazione dal vivo, Bergamo 2011
140 minuti, colori // subtitles: IT, EN

Domingo, Cossotto, Kabaivanska, Cappuccilli, Van Dam; Karajan

MENOTTI - THE CONSUL

John Sorel - Eberhard Wächter
Magda Sorel - Melitta Muszely
Mother - Res Fischer
Police Agent - Willy Ferenz
Vera Boronel - Hilde Konetzni
Magician - László Szemére
Secretary - Gloria Lane

Orchestra of The Wiener Volksoper
Franz Bauer-Theussl 

"Directed by Rudolph Cartier, it's shot in relentless close-ups that give neither the performers nor the viewers anywhere to hide. Melitta Muszely charts Magda's progress from desperation to hope to suicidal despair with uncompromising veracity. There are equally impressive performances from Eberhard Waechter as her husband and Gloria Lane as the consular secretary." (The Guardian)

"Gian Carlo Menotti was one of the most important 20th-century composers of opera working in the United States. For his opera The Consul he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This unique studio recording from the early years of television is performed by an extraordinary cast featuring Melitta Muszely, Eberhard Waechter, Res Fischer and Hilde Konetzni. The plot of the politically charged drama takes place in Europe of the 1950s. The Orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper is conducted by Franz Bauer-Theussl. An important document of operatic and film history, this restored recording is available on DVD for the first time." (Art Haus)