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Die lustige Witwe - Oper Zürich Premiere 11.02.2024

Die lustige Witwe - Oper Zürich Premiere 11.02.2024 #franzléhar #patrickhahn #barriekosky #operzürich #operette #premiere #vorstellungsbesprechung #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast #marlispetersen #michaelvolle

Gleich vorneweg – schon lange habe ich nicht mehr so einen wunderbar leichtfüßig-spritzigen Léhar gehört, wohltuend ohne die oft so üppig-pappige Walzer-Rührseligkeit. Schlank und präzise wird musiziert, sehr modern tönt die Premiere der Operette “Die lustige Witwe” mit dem jungen PATRICK HAHN am Pult der PHILHARMONIA ZÜRICH aus dem Graben… Continue reading Die lustige Witwe – Oper Zürich…

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Where do you watch operas?

There are plenty of complete filmed opera performances available on YouTube, which you can watch for free. Unfortunately, not all of them have English subtitles, but if necessary, you can always find a translation of the libretto online to follow along with.

In fact, just for fun, as an example, I'll provide some links to complete filmed performances of the world's top 10 most popular operas, with English subtitles.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Studio film, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; directed by Sir Peter Ustinov; conducted by Horst Stein)

La Traviata

Studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; directed by Mario Lanfranchi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané)

Carmen

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Norah Ansellem; staged by Francesca Zambello; conducted by Antonio Pappano)

La Bohéme

Studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai, Adriana Martino; directed by Franco Zeffirelli; conducted by Herbert von Karajan)

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Teatro alla Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli, Monica Bacelli; staged by Giorgio Strehler; conducted by Gérard Korsten)

Tosca

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; staged by Nuria Espert; conducted by Maurizio Benini)

Madama Butterfly

Theatrical film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell, Ning Liang, Richard Cowan; directed by Frédéric Mitterand; conducted by James Conlon)

Don Giovanni

Zurich Opera, 2001 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Roberto Saccá, Oliver Wimer, Matti Salminen; staged by Jürgen Flimm; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt)

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

Metropolitan Opera, 2007 (Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Florez, Joyce diDonato, John Del Carlo, John Relyea; staged by Bartlett Sher; conducted by Maurizio Benini)

Act I, Act II

Rigoletto

Studio film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; conducted by Riccardo Chailly)

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W.A.Mozart's Don Giovanni complete opera with English subtitles.

Zurich 2001 production

Don Giovanni - Rodney Gilfry

Leporello - László Polgár

Donna Anna - Isabel Rey

Don Ottavio - Roberto Saccà

Donna Elvira - Cecilia Bartoli

Zerlina - Liliana Nikiteanu

Masetto - Oliver Widmer

Commendatore - Matti Salminen

Conductor - Nikolaus Harnoncount

Director - Brian Large

Music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto - Lorenzo Da Ponte

Country - Switzerland Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer

Published on Nov 5, 2017

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Classical Sunday: Mozart's Don Giovanni

Classical Sunday: Mozart’s Don Giovanni

W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Complete opera with English subtitles

Zurich, 2001 Don Giovanni – Rodney Gilfry Leporello – László Polgár Donna Anna – Isabel Rey Don Ottavio – Roberto Saccà Donna Elvira – Cecilia Bartoli Zerlina – Liliana Nikiteanu Masetto – Oliver Widmer Commendatore – Matti Salminen

Conductor – Nikolaus Harnoncount Di…

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Ah, perdona al primo affetto from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito sung by Malin Hartelius and Liliana Nikiteanu

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Mezzo Liliana Nikiteanu

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Eugen Onegin - Oper Zürich 16.02.2023

EUGEN ONEGIN - OPER ZÜRICH 16.02.2023 #tschaikovsky #barriekosky #gianandreanoseda #russland #puschkin #rezension #oper #operalover #operzürich

Die sehr schöne Zürcher Produktion von Tschaikowskys “Eugen Onegin” in der Regie von BARRIE KOSKY ist wieder im Spielplan, noch dazu mit BENJAMIN BERNHEIM als Lenski, nichts wie hin! (more…) “”

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1965 (Sesto Bruscantini, Valeria Mariconda, Ugo Benelli; conducted by Alberto Zedda; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva; conducted by Claudio Abbado; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1976 (Alan Titus, Beverly Sills, Henry Price; conducted by Sarah Caldwell; English subtitles)

Arena Sferisterio, 1980 (Leo Nucci, Marilyn Horne, Ernesto Palacio; conducted by Nicola Rescingo; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2005 (Pietro Spagnoli, Maria Bayo, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti; Arabic subtitles)

Teatro la Fenice, 2008 (Roberto Frontali, Rinat Shaham, Francesco Meli; conducted by Antonino Fogliani; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2009 (Pietro Spagnoli, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Rafael Fingerlos, Margarita Gritskova, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Evelino Pidó; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2022 (Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Dmitry Korchak; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

Garsington Opera, 2023 (Johannes Kamler, Katie Bray, Andrew Stenson; conducted by Douglas Boyd; English subtitles)

Rigoletto

Wolfgang Nagel studio film, 1977 (Rolando Panerai, Franco Bonisolli, Margherita Rinaldi; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; Japanese subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Cornell MacNeil, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1981 (Cornell MacNeil, Luciano Pavarotti, Christiane Eda-Pierre; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle film, 1982 (Ingvar Wixell, Luciano Pavarotti, Edita Gruberova; conducted by Riccardo Chailly, English subtitles)

English National Opera, 1982 (John Rawnsley, Arthur Davies, Marie McLaughlin; conducted by Mark Elder, sung in English)

La Monnaie, Brussels, 1999 (Anthony Michaels-Moore, Marcelo Álvarez, Elizabeth Futral; conducted by Vladimir Jurowski; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2001 (Leo Nucci, Aquiles Machado, Inva Mula; conducted by Marcello Viotti; Italian subtitles)

Zürich Opera house, 2006 (Leo Nucci, Piotr Beczala, Elena Mosuc; conducted by Nello Santi; no subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2016 (Quinn Kelsey, Michael Fabiano, Olga Peretyatko; conducted by Nicola Luisotti; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2018 (George Petean, Ivan Ayon Rivas, Grazia Schiavo; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; English subtitles)

Così Fan Tutte

Vaclav Kaslik studio film, 1969 (Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Luigi Alva, Hermann Prey; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1988 (Edita Gruberova, Delores Ziegler, Luis Lima, Ferruccio Furlanetto; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Teatro alla Scala, 1989 (Daniela Dessì, Delores Ziegler, Josef Kundlak, Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1992 (Amanda Roocroft, Rosa Mannion, Rainer Trost, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1996 (Barbara Frittoli, Angelika Kirschlager, Michael Schade, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English and Italian subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 2000 (Melanie Diener, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Charles Workman, Nicola Ulivieri; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2000 (Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Roberto Saccá, Oliver Widmer; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Opera Lyon, 2007 (Maria Bengtsson, Tove Dahlberg, Daniel Behle, Vito Priante; conducted by Stefano Montanari; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2009 (Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Topi Lehtipuu, Florian Boesch; conducted by Adam Fischer; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2009 (Malin Hartelius, Anna Bonitatibus, Javier Camarena, Ruben Drole; conducted by Frans Welser-Möst; English subtitles)

Aïda

San Francisco Opera, 1981 (Margaret Price, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Luis Garcia Navarro; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1985 (Leontyne Price, James McCracken; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles) – Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV

Teatro alla Scala, 1986 (Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1989 (Aprile Millo, Plácido Domingo; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Busseto, 2001 (Adina Aaron, Scott Piper; conducted by Massimiliano Stefaneli; Italian subtitles)

St. Margarethen Opera Festival, 2004 (Eszter Szümegi, Konstantin Andreev; conducted by Ernst Marzendorfer; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 2012 (Liudmyla Monastyrska, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Fabio Luisi; Russian subtitles)

Tbisili State Opera, 2017 (Maqvala Aspanidze, Franco Tenelli; conducted by Marco Boemi; Russian subtitles)

Teatro Colón, 2018 (Latonia Moore, Riccardo Massi; conducted by Carlos Vieu; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro la Fenice, 2019 (Roberta Mantegna, Francesco Meli; conducted by Riccardo Frizza; French subtitles)

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Faust - Oper Zürich 6.11.2022

Faust - Oper Zürich 6.11.2022 #charlesgounod #opera #faust #musicwasmyfirstloveanditwillbemylast #rezension #vorstellungsbesprechung #kritik #operzürich #ryanmcadams #saimirpirgu #französischeoper

In hörenswerter Besetzung zurück am Zürcher Opernhaus: Charles Gounods “Faust” mit RYAN MCADAMS am Pult der PHILHARMONIA ZÜRICH… (more…)

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Girls with a pearl earring - Oper Zürich 08.05.2022

Girl with a pearl earring - Oper Zürich 8.5.2022 #uraufführung #oper #stefanwirth #peterrundel #tedhuffman #thomashampson #laurasnouffer #janvermeer #rezension #oper #operzürich #kritik #operalover #opera #malerei

Wer kennt es nicht, Jan Vermeers Gemälde “Mädchen mit dem Perlohrring”? Spätestens seit Tracy Chevaliers Roman und der darauf basierenden Verfilmung von 2004 ist die fiktive Biografie des Hausmädchens Griet – die dafür Modell gestanden haben soll – wohl einem grossen Publikum bekannt… (more…)

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Dialogues des Carmélites - Oper Zürich 27.02.2022

Dialogues des Carmélites - Oper Zürich 27.02.2022 #oper #francispoulenc #jetskeMijnssen #rezension #nocheinmalweilgarsoschön #onceagain #frankreich #paris #revolution #Besprechung #opernkritik #operalover

Zwei Wochen nach der Premiere von “Dialogues des Carmelités” ein weiterer Vorstellungsbesuch, erneut ein grossartiger Abend – die Welt ist inzwischen jedoch eine andere geworden, es herrscht Krieg in Europa und Hausherr Andreas Homoki hat keine Eier in der Hose wenn es um die beiden Gastauftritte der glühenden Putin-Verehrerin Anna Netrebko geht. Das Opernhaus leuchtet in den ukrainischen…

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Dialogues des Carmélites - Oper Zürich Premiere 13.02.2022

Dialogues des Carmélites - Oper Zürich Premiere 13.02.2022 #FrancisPoulenc #Oper #Rezension #Premiere #TitoCeccherini #JetskeMijnssen #operzürich #französischeRevolution #Premierenkritik #OperZürich

Mit “Dialogues des Carmélites” schuf Francis Poulenc 1957 als Auftragswerk für die Mailänder Scala ein wundervolles Stück Operngeschichte und eines der wichtigsten Werke des 20. Jahrhunderts: grossartige Musik und faszinierende Frauenrollen – die niederländische Regisseurin JETSKE MIJNSSEN hat es in Zürich neu inszeniert…. (more…)

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I love how seductively Bryn Terfel plays the role of Don Giovanni. He has a fantastic voice, and I love how he just pulls out that apple to rub it around Zerlina’s (Hei-Kyung Hong’s) chest sensually. It’s so over the top, but I love it! Also, Hei-Kyung Hong actually portrays Zerlina in a way that makes her come across as more sympathetic than she does. She’s adorable, and her voice is lovely. Obviously, the her character is always meant to be conflicted about agreeing to be with Don Giovanni because she’s already betrothed to Masetto, and since we know that Don Giovanni is a lecherous and unprincipled fuckboy that would make her his victim, no matter what. However, so many opera singers singing this duet with their Don Giovanni play it off as Zerlina actually starting to fall for his seductions and being willing to betray Masetto for some guy she just met. Here, Hei-Kyung Kong genuinely looks conflicted and terrified as Zerlina throughout the whole duet with Bryn Terfel as Don Giovanni, even after she agrees to be with him, though she knows it will hurt Masetto. It’s as if she’s terrified of what Don Giovanni could do if she hadn’t said no to him, and clearly still feeling guilty about Masetto. That’s not something many of the Zerlinas think to do in this duet with the Don Giovannis, and I like it.

Character ask: Don Giovanni

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Favorite thing about them: Despite all the many things to hate about him, you can't deny that the man is charismatic. He's seductive, of course, but also exuberant, clever, witty, full of zest for life, resilient and unstoppable until the end, and courageous even in the face of hell. It's no wonder that in the world of the opera he's won over so many women, or that in the real world so many men hero-worship him, despite his appalling actions.

Least favorite thing about them: Just a few minor things. He rapes women, seduces and abandons them, chases after other men's wives and fiancées, bullies and endangers his servant, beats up Masetto, kills the Commendatore... but nothing more than that.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I enjoy good food, drink and parties.

*I crave freedom.

*I don't have much reverence for traditional Christian values. (The actual values Jesus taught, yes, but the church's, no.)

Three things I don’t have in common with them:

*I'm not male.

*I'm nowhere near as... um... amorously experienced as he is.

*I actually respect and empathize with other people.

Favorite line:

His reply when Leporello asks him why he deceives women:

È tutto amore! Chi a una sola è fedele, verso

l'altre è crudele; io che in me sento si esteso

sentimento, vo' bene a tutte quante; le donne

poiché calcolar non sanno, il mio buon natural

chiamano inganno.

"It's all for love! He who is faithful to just one is cruel to the others; I, feeling boundless sentiment within me, love them all; because women don't know how to think, they call my good nature deceit."

(This is completed by Leporello's sarcastic gem of a response:

Non ho veduto mai naturale più vasto, e più benigno!

"I've never seen a more generous, more benevolent nature!")

brOTP: Leporello. Their relationship is a dysfunctional mess, but they'd be incomplete without each other.

OTP: I agree with @ariel-seagull-wings that he loves no one but himself.

Although in Claus Guth's 2008 production that had the Don slowly dying of a gunshot wound and Leporello caring for him throughout, I'll admit I was tempted to ship him with Leporello because of the surprisingly tender moments they shared.

nOTP: Any woman.

Random headcanon: One of his conquests was a Romani woman whom he impregnated, and as a result, he became the great-great-grandfather of Carmen. Both characters live in Seville, after all, and she definitely shares some of his spirit and charisma. (Although she's more honest than he could ever be.)

Unpopular opinion: I don't know if this is opinion is unpopular in general, but it's definitely unpopular with many male stage directors and commentators who have written about the opera, even with some I respect like the late Sir Peter Hall:

He's not a hero. He's not a symbol of the Enlightenment, rebelling against the stodgy, oppressive forces of religion and conventional morality. He's a member of the ancient regime who uses his power, status and wealth to indulge himself at others' expense. Yes, he proclaims "Long live liberty!" and mingles with nobles and peasants alike, but only so he can abuse them all equally. And while a part of me does admire his courage as he defies the Stone Guest to the end, just consider what his lack of repentance means! He's not like Carmen asserting her right to love whom she chooses and not be possessed by any man against her will; he's asserting that he'd rather burn in hell than stop raping and abandoning women! There's no possible way to view him as a good guy.

Song I associate with them:

"La ci darem la mano"

"Fin ch'han dal vino"

"Deh, vieni alla finestra"

Favorite picture of them:

These two paintings by Max Slevogt of Francisco d'Andrade in the role:

Samuel Ramey dressed and posed like the latter painting on the cover of Herbert von Karajan's studio recording:

The legendary Cesare Siepi:

Rodney Gilfry with Liliana Nikiteanu as Zerlina:

lldebrando d'Arcangelo:

Erwin Schrott:

Mariusz Kwiecien:

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (RIP):