ITALIAN OPERAS (4 DVD Box set)

Gioachino Rossini
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

Il Conte d`Almaviva – Reinaldo Macias
Bartolo – Carlos Chausson
Rosina – Vesselina Kasarova
Figaro – Manuel Lanza
Basilio – Nicolai Ghiaurov
Berta – Elizabeth Rae Magnuson
Fiorello / Un uficciale – Valeriy Murga
Ambrogio – Kenneth Roberson

Zurich Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Nello Santi, conductor

Grischa Asagaroff, stage director

Recorded live at the Opernhaus Zürich, April 2001

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Giuseppe Verdi
LA TRAVIATA

Violetta Valéry – Kristiane Kaiser
Flora Bervoix – Magdalena Anna Hofmann
Annina – Stefanie Kopinits
Alfredo Germont – Jean-François Borras
Giorgio Germont – Georg Tichy
Gastone – Michael Kurz
Barone Douphol – Daniel Ohlenschläger
Marchese d`Obigny – Dieter Kschwendt-Michel
Dottoer Grenvil – Alessandro Teliga
Giuseppe – Ladislav Hallon
Un commissionario – Eugen Gaal
Un domestic – Attila Galács

Slovak Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra
Ernst Märzendorfer, conductor

Robert Herzl, stage director

Recorded live at the Römersteinbruch St. Margarethen, 11 July 2008.

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Giacomo Puccini
TOSCA

Floria Tosca – Maria Guleghina
Mario Cavaradossi – Salvatore Licitra
Il barone Scarpia – Leo Nucci
Cesare Angelotti – Giovanni Battista Parodi
Il sagrestano – Alfredo Mariotti
Spoletta – Ernesto Gavazzi
Sciarrone – Silvestro Sammaritano
Un carceriere – Ernesto Panariello
Un pastore – Virginia Barchi

Milan La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Luca Ronconi, stage director
Margherita Palli, set design
Vera Marzot, costume design

Recorded live at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 2000

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Francesco Cilea
ADRIANA LECOUVREUR

Maurizio – Sergei Larin
Il principe di Bouillon – Giorgio Giuseppini
L`abate di Chazeuil – Mario Bolognese
Michonnet – Carlo Guelfi
Poisson – Ernesto Gavazzi
Quinault – Marco Camastra
Un maggiordomo – Giuseppe de Luca
Adriana Lecouvreur – Daniela Dessi
La principessa di Bouillon – Olga Borodina
Mlle Jouvenot – Adelina Scarabelli
Mlle Dangeville – Annamaria Popescu

Milan La Scala Chorus and Orchestra
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, conductor

Lamberto Puggelli, stage director
Paole Bregni, set designer
Luisa Spinatelli, costume designer

Recorded live at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, January 2000

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 / DTS 5.1 (Barbiere, Traviata)
PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 (Tosca, Adriana Lecouvreur)
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian (Traviata only Italian, English, German)
Running time: 554 mins
No. of DVDs: 4 (DVD 9)