GREAT OPERA LIVES HERE BRAND NEW MUSIC FROM
OPERA 2012 With 40 tracks and over 2½ hours of operatic arias and duets, this double disc features the best and most popular names in opera. This is a can’t-miss collection of the best in opera that will have a wide appeal. This set features present day superstars like Natalie Dessay and Angela Gheorghiu as well as rising new artists such as Joyce DiDonato and Vittorio Grigolo.
DEBUSSY: CLAIR DE LUNE
JOYCE DIDONATO HEGGIE : DEAD MAN WALKING Like the Oscar-winning 1995 movie of the same name, the opera draws on Sister Helen’s real-life memoirs.
Featuring Natalie Dessay Natalie Dessay and pianist Philippe Cassard - come together in vocal works from the early career of Claude Debussy, whose 150th anniversary falls in 2012.
“However great an operatic and theatrical experience,” said the Houston Chronicle, “Dead Man Walking makes its greatest impact as a purely human one.”
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MONTEVERDI: L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA Featuring Philippe Jaroussky The culmination of a three-year Monteverdi project led by conductor William Christie and director Pier Luigi Pizzi at Madrid’s Teatro Réal, L’incoronazione di Poppea brings a potent blend of sex and politics, high drama and comedy. Leading the cast are Danielle de Niese, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic and Anna Bonitatibus.
NATALIE DESSAY LA TRAVIATA
ROSSINI: LE COMTE ORY
The same production seen on the big screen this month with the Metropolitan Opera.
Featuring Diana Damrau & Joyce Di Donato As seen last year, as part of the Met Opera theatre broadcasts.
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