Vesselina Kasarova

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La Damnation De Faust - Staatskapelle review by from Romsey, Hampshire, England

Stunning Production 7 February 2005
...e Trojans'. This production is well recorded in Dolby 5.1 and beautifully sung. Vesselina Kasarova is outstanding as a very sensual Marguerite but all the singing is good. The pr... Read customer review

Chopin - Chopin At The Opera (2010)
Starring: Jan Schmidt-Garre, Roland Pontinen, Vesselina Kasarova
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The opera for Chopin was the highest form of art even though he never entertained the thought of writing for the stage himself. His contemporaries Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini meant more to him than Beethoven, Liszt or Schumann. They influenced the songful lines of his piano music, and their ..read more »

25% from 2 members
Not currently released

Arthaus Musik DVD Video Sampler 3 on DVD (2005)
Starring: Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, Vesselina Kasarova
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A sampler from the label Arthuas Musik which includes excerpts from ballets, operas and concerts.

28% from 8 members

Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria - Monteverdi on DVD (2002)
Starring: Vesselina Kasarova, Dietrich Henschel, Zurich Orchestra La Scintilla
Director: Klaus-Michael Gruber
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Claudio Monteverdi's IL RITORNO D'ULISSE IN PATRIA is based upon Homer's Odyssey and all but disappeared from the repertoire for two hundred and forty years after its initial conception. Upon its resurrection it was hailed as a great 'forgotten' work and was given a dramatic overhaul by dedicated ..read more »

57% from 47 members

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia on DVD (2001)
Starring: Vesselina Kasarova, Manuel Lanza, Reinaldo Macias
Director: Grischa Asagaroff
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Rossini's opera recorded at the Zurich Opera House with the setting of the work moving to early 20th century Spain.

52% from 39 members

La Damnation De Faust - Staatskapelle on DVD (1999)
Starring: Sylvain Cambreling, Vesselina Kasarova, Paul Groves
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This release features Sylvain Cambreling conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin and a wealth of renowned soloists at the Salzburg Festival on 25th August 1999. The concert programme includes: Berlioz's LA DAMNATION DE FAUST.

59% from 63 members

La Belle Helene - Offenbach on DVD (1997)
Starring: Vesselina Kasarova, Deon Van Der Walt, Zurich Opera House Orchestra
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This opera buffa (an 18th century comic opera), is a witty satire of Parisian upper class social mores. Composer Jaques Offenbach has based the story on Helen of Troy, focusing on the declining morals of the Second Empire elite. Filmed in 1997 at a Zurich Opera house performance, this version of LA ..read more »

64% from 98 members

Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito on DVD
Starring: Vesselina Kasarova, Liliana Nikiteanu, Eva Mei
Director: Franz Welser-Most, Jonathan Miller, Felix Breisa
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La Clemenza Di Tito, Live from the Opernhaus Zurich.

69% from 17 members

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Starring: Vesselina Kasarova, Rolf Haunstein, Malin Hartelius
Director: Chloé Perlemuter
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In this production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf from the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst conducts Richard Strauss’s fifth opera, and arguably his most scintillating and luxurious musical score, in glorious 5.1 surround sound. Featured is Stockholm-born Nina Stemme as the elegant Marschallin (she ..read more »

66% from 6 members
Not currently released

La Clemenza Di Tito - Mozart on DVD
Starring: Elina Garanca, Luca Pisaroni, Michael Schade
Director: Martin Kuse
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La clemenza di Tito. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, August 2003.

76% from 31 members

Handel - Alcina - Blu-ray
Starring: Anja Harteros, Vesselina Kasarova, Kristina HammarströM
Director: Adrian Noble
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Handels operas are now so thoroughly a part of modern musical life that you might think every major opera house welcomes them. But until November 2010, when it introduced an absorbing new production of Alcina, the Vienna Staatsoper resisted them, not having done a Baroque opera since Monteverdis ..read more »

44% from 5 members

Rossini - The Barber Of Seville
Starring: Nikolai Ghiaurov, Vesselina Kasarova, Elizabeth Magnuson
Director: Nello Santi, Grischa Asagaroff
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Grischa Asagaroff directed this exhilarating updating of Rossini's BARBER OF SEVILLE, changing the setting to Twentieth Century Spain. Asagaroff also placed more emphasis on the characters' psychological situations rather than on the routine slapstick more familiar to audiences. The talent on stage ..read more »

69% from 35 members
Not currently released

Grischa Asagaroff - 2 times - show films
none - 2 times - show films
Chloé Perlemuter - 1 times - show films
Franz Welser-Most - 1 times - show films
Adrian Noble - 1 times - show films