Moshe Leiser

Hamlet

Patrice Caurier, Toni Bargalló

Natalie Dessay, Simon Keenlyside

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Antonio Pappano, Ermonela Jaho

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life.

Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Angelika Kirchschlager, Diana Damrau

Staging directors Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser infuse German composer Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale opera with more than a dollop of black humor in this 2008 London performance that's both enchanting and menacing. Angelika Kirchschlager and Diana Damrau play Hansel and Gretel, respectively, and beloved British baritone Thomas Allen portrays their father in an outstanding production led by maestro Colin Davis.

Giovanna d'Arco

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli

Открытие нового сезона театра "Ла Скала". Прямая трансляция оперы Джузеппе Верди "Жанна Д'Арк" . Знаменитый итальянский театр "Ла Скала" по традиции открывает новый сезон 7 декабря, в день Святого Амвросия, покровителя города Милан. Опера "Жанна Д'Арк" написана Верди на либретто Темистокле Солера по мотивам драмы Фридриха Шиллера "Орлеанская дева". Мировая премьера оперы состоялась в театре "Ла Скала" 170 лет назад, 15 февраля 1845 года. Партию Жанны Д‘Арк в XIX веке исполняли Эрминия Фреццолини, для которой она и была специально написана, Тереза Штольц и Аделина Патти. В XX веке в записи оперы приняла участие Монтсеррат Кабалье. В день открытия нового сезона за дирижерским пультом – Риккардо Шайи, для которого это первый сезон в качестве главного дирижера театра "Ла Скала". При участии хора и Симфонического оркестра театра "Ла Скала".

Handel Giulio Cesare

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Andreas Scholl, Cecilia Bartoli

"Bartoli remains at her peak. Not only is her coloratura flawless, and her voice as colorful and ravishingly beautiful as ever, but her ability to use her incomparable technique at the service of expression has also deepened with age. As a seductress, Bartoli was irresistible. Teasing out her incomparably agile coloratura runs, she softened high notes to tickle the senses with a mixture of sweetness and delight. When, in the second act, she mounted a missile and diagonally ascended into the heavens, it felt as though she were riding the ultimate pink Cadillac off to her honeymoon rendezvous. And in her final aria, "Da tempeste il legno infranto" when she danced around the stage and adorned herself with strings of lights while flashing the trademark Bartoli smile, it was all one could do to resist running onstage and give her a huge hug."

Teatro alla Scala: Giovanna d'Arco

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli

"Giovanna d'Arco; ossia, la pulzella d'Orléans" is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The opera partly reflects the story of Joan of Arc and is based on a play by Friedrich von Schiller, although claimed by the librettist to be "an entirely original Italian drama." If the thought of Anna Netrebko strutting her stuff in a suit of armour and tin hat sets your factor tingling then this is a must. It's an inconsistent opera but has some quite wonderful music along the way. The rest of the cast is good and the production won't offend either. Get it for Ms Netrebko's incredible performance alone.

Le comte Ory

Olivier Simonnet, Patrice Caurier

Javier Camarena, Cecilia Bartoli

Cecilia Bartoli stars in this ebullient Zurich Opera House production of Rossini’s first French-language comedy opera described by the international press as “pure, unadulterated fun” and reminds us of her comic gifts and her naturalness as a stage actor — as well as her total sympathy with the music of Rossini.

L'italiana in algeri

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser

Cecilia Bartoli, Edgardo Rocha

Madama Butterfly

Moshe Leiser

Ermonela Jaho, Marcelo Puente

Puccini’s Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly is given a ravishing production by The Royal Opera. Its alluring imagery of Japan from the 19th-century European Imagination heightens the intense clash of East and West. When the American naval officer Pinkerton seduces the young ‘Butterfly’ Cio-Cio-San, he seems to promise every happiness – but his cruel abandonment leads to her tragic self-sacrifice. Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera and renowned for his interpretations of Puccini, conducts an exceptionally fine cast with the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Powerful performances show why Madama Butterfly remains one of the all-time operatic favourites.