DVD Video, Eric Halfvarson (bass)
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version)
Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Jose van Dam (Philippe), Waltraud Meier (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Paris Theatre du Chatelet, Antonio Pappano
This performance appeared on VHS back in March 1997. On a new, wide-screen television, it makes a far more arresting effect. The action seems to be happening in the room with you.
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Matti Salminen (Boris Godunov), Eric Halfvarson (Pimen), Anatoly Kotcherga (Varlaam), Pär Lindskog (Grigory), Vassily Ivanovich (Prince), Philip Langridge (Shuisky), Brian Asawa (Fyodor) & Marie Arnet (Xenia)
Gran Teatre Del Liceu, Sebastian Weigle (conductor) & Willy Decker (stage director)
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Graciela Araya (Maddalena), Elizabeth Sikora (Giovanna), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Monterone), Quentin Hayes (Marullo), Peter Auty (Borsa)
Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera House...
...a remarkable Rigoletto...a DVD that has to be in your collection. — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Simon Keenlyside (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), Eric Halfvarson (Commendatore), Marina Poplavskaya (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Ramón Vargas (Don Ottavio), Miah Persson (Zerlina), Robert Gleadow (Masetto)
The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Charles...
…as flames rage over the opening cast credits, Sir Charles Mackerras conducts an incandescent Overture which kindles the brilliance, clarity and indefatigable energy of his music direction throughout.... — More…
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Wagner: Siegfried
John Treleaven (Siegfried), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Cristina Obregón (Woodbird)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy
…Harry Kupfer's modernistic but clear-sighted staging… confirms Barcelona's Ring as the best recent cycle on DVD. Its darkly gleaming hi-tech settings centre around the massive limbs of the... — More…
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Verdi Box Set
Bryn Terfel (Falstaff), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly), Desiree Rancatore (Nanetta), Kenneth Tarver (Fenton)
Peter Hoare, Gwynne Howell, Barbara Frittoli & Desirée Rancatore, José Cura (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Il...
[On Rigoletto] With Christine Schäfer as a matchless Gilda and Edward Downes, the finest Verdian of the age, conducting, it’s a production that rages at the cruelty of the world. — More…
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Verdi Operas: Aida, Traviata, Rigoletto
Daniela Dessì (Aida), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Amneris), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Ramfis), Stefano Palatchi (Il Re), Josep Fadó (Messaggiero), Ana Nebot (Sacerdotessa), Norah Amsellem, José Bros, Renato Bruson, Itxaro Mentxaka, Maria Espada, Emilio Sánchez,...
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Mozart Operas Box Set
Will Hartmann (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Diana Damrau (Königin der Nacht), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Thomas Allen (Sprecher), Gillian Webster, Christine Rice, Yvonne Howard (Drei Damen), Alan Oke, Graeme...
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The Essential Opera Collection (19 DVD)
Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Paris Opera, Glyndebourne and The Netherlands Opera