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Ruggero Raimondi - what members say

Il Turco In Italia - Rossini review by PaoloC from Norwich

Great music, shame about the production 10 May 2009
... demanding coloratura part wonderfully sung by Cecilia Bartoli, well matched by Ruggero Raimondi as the Turk. The decision to stage the light-hearted music in a pantomime style... Read customer review

Ruggero Raimondi - filmography

Vardi - Falstaff on DVD (2009)
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi
Director: Stefano Poda
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Falstaff, the lyric comedy was Giuseppe Verdi's last opera. It is an operatic favourite, long admired by critics and opera goers alike because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodies. This production from 2009, recorded at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege, ..read more »

40% from 5 members

Giacomo Puccini - Tosca on DVD (2006)
Starring: Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Alvarez, Ruggero Raimondi
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Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Alvarez and Ruggero Raimondi headline this lavish 2006 production of Giacomo Puccini's 1900 opera TOSCA, mounted and performed by the Arena di Verona and directed for the stage by Hugo de Ana. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona, under the baton of Daniel Oren,..read more »

54% from 17 members

Puccini - Tosca - Blu-ray (2006)
Starring: Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Alvarez, Ruggero Raimondi
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'Tosca' composed by Giacomo Puccini, performed by Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Alvarez, Ruggero Raimondi and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena Di Verona and conducted by Daniel Oren.

34% from 7 members

Il Turco In Italia - Rossini on DVD (2002)
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, Cecilia Bartoli, Reinaldo Macias
Director: Thomas Grimm
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A performance of Rossini's opera performed by the Zurich Opera House Chorus and Orchestra and the Supernumerary Association; conducted by Franz Welser-Most.

61% from 73 members

Tosca - Puccini on DVD (2001)
Starring: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi
Director: Benoit Jacquot
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French director Benoit Jacquot (A SINGLE GIRL) adapts the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini in his film TOSCA. The stunningly dramatic opera stars--Angela Gheorghiu as Floria Tosca, Roberto Alagna as Mario Cavaradossi, and Ruggero Raimondi as Baron Scarpia--who steal the show with their intense vocal ..read more »

69% from 408 members

A Gala Evening - In The Presence Of HRH ... on DVD (1992)
Starring: Montserrat Caballe, Ruggero Raimondi, Benjamin Luxon
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In a gala evening prior to its reconstruction, the Glyndebourne Festival Theatre hosted a concert featuring Montserrat Caballe, Ruggero Raimondi, Felicity Lott, Frederica von Stade and more opera stars paying homage to a great stage.

52% from 25 members

Carmen (1984)
Starring: Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Ruggero Raimondi
Director: Francesco Rosi
Certificate:
A fine screen adaptation of Bizet's popular opera. Lorin Maazel conducts the French National Orchestra and Chorus and the French Radio Chorus. Sung in French.

66% from 629 members
Not currently released

Carmen - Blu-ray (1984)
Starring: Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Ruggero Raimondi
Director: Francesco Rosi
Certificate:
Georges Bizet's 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations with the soldier Don Jose are forgotten in her love for the matador Escamillo, is the source for director Francesco Rosi's cinematic version of the same story. Plácido Domingo sings the part of Don José,..read more »

69% from 29 members

The Alain Resnais Collection - Life Is A... on DVD (1983)
Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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Life Is a Bed of Roses weaves together three stories set in a fantastical castle in the Ardennes forest.

62% from 22 members

Verdi: Requiem on DVD (1982)
Starring: Edinburgh Festival Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Margaret Price
Director: Humphrey Burton
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MESSA DA REQUIEM is considered Verdi's sacred tour de force and this live recording featured as part of the 1982 Edinburgh festival. Claudio Abbado conducts tenor Jose Carreras and soprano Jessye Norman among others, accompanied by the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and London Symphony Orchestra.

71% from 85 members

Don Giovanni on DVD (1979)
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser
Director: Joseph Losey
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Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears he is given a final chance to change his philandering ways or face the terrors of hell. Joseph Losey's hugely successful ..read more »

75% from 140 members

Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia on DVD
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, María Bayo, Juan Diego Flórez
Director: Ángel Luis Ramírez
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The Teatro Real in Madrid hosted this version of Rossini's two-act opera IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Among the glittering cast, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez takes the lead role of Count Almaviva, while Maria Bayo stars as Rosina. Complementing the production, behind-the-scenes footage offers ..read more »

72% from 55 members

Pizzetti - Assassinio Nella Cattedrale on DVD
Starring: Ruggero Raimondi, Istvan Kovacs, Luca Casalin
Director: Pier Giorgio Morandi
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The first ever film recording of ASSASSINIO NELLA CATTEDRALE is Ildebrando Pizzetti operatic version of the play MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL, by T.S. Eliot. It tells the story of Thomas Becket's murder by the Heny II's knights.

60% from 14 members

Alfredo Kraus, Ruggero Raimondi And Kati... on DVD
Starring: Alfredo Kraus, Ruggero Raimondi, Katia Ricciarelli
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Alfredo Karaus, Ruggero Raimondi and Kare Ricciarelli perform some of the best loved opera classics in concert at Madrid's Plaza de Toros Monumental.

32% from 14 members

The Alain Resnais Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin
Director: Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais
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Four classics from one of the masters of France's new wave. I WANT TO GO HOME (1989) A cantankerous American cartoonist visits his daughter in Paris with disastrous results. MELO (1986) In Paris in the 20's, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper. LOVE UNTO DEATH (..read more »

50% from 5 members

Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte on DVD
Starring: Erin Wall, Eling Garanca, Stéphane Degout
Director: Stephane Metge
Certificate:
Recorded live at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, July 2005

50% from 10 members

Opera Stars In Concert on DVD
Starring: Alfredo Kraus, Ruggero Raimondi, Katia Ricciarelli
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Well-loved works by the masters of the grand operatic tradition - Puccini, Gounod, Offenbach, Bellini, Donizetti and more. Musical direction by Gian Paolo Sanzogno.

51% from 6 members

Ruggero Raimondi facts

5 most recent films

Vardi - Falstaff - 2.0 stars
Giacomo Puccini - Tosca - 2.5 stars
Puccini - Tosca - Blu-ray - 1.5 stars
Il Turco In Italia - Rossini - 3.0 stars
Tosca - Puccini - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Don Giovanni - 4.0 stars
Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - 3.5 stars
Verdi: Requiem - 3.5 stars
Tosca - Puccini - 3.5 stars
Carmen - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Puccini - Tosca - Blu-ray - 1.5 stars
Alfredo Kraus, Ruggero Raimondi And Katia Ricciarelli In Concert - 2.0 stars
Vardi - Falstaff - 2.0 stars
Opera Stars In Concert - 2.5 stars
The Alain Resnais Collection - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Cristina Nizzero - 3 times - show films
Patrizia Murari - 3 times - show films
Kiri Te Kanawa - 3 times - show films
John Macurdy - 3 times - show films
Simonetta Noce - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Joseph Losey - 3 times - show films
Alain Resnais - 2 times - show films
Alain Resnais - 2 times - show films
Francesco Rosi - 2 times - show films
Benoit Jacquot - 2 times - show films