Robert Carsen

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Les Boreades review by A customer from UK, Midlands

A wonderful early opera - stunningly performed... 10 March 2005
...for each other as human beings? Things get worse before they get better, and Robert Carsen tells the story through a metaphor of the seasons as the opera moves from summe... Read customer review

Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin on DVD (2007)
Starring: Renee Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ramon Vargas
Director: Robert Carsen
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Tchaikovsky's opera tells the tale of Eugene Onegin and his relationship with Tatyana, a bookish daydreamer who longs to win his heart.

77% from 101 members

La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi (2004)
Starring: Patrizia Ciofi, Roberto Sacca, Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
Recorded live at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 18 November 2004. When the legendary Venetian Teatro La Fenice, which had been completely destroyed by fire in 1996, rose like a phoenix from the ashes again, its rebirth was celebrated with Verdi's La Traviata, an opera that had seen its premiere more ..read more »

79% from 14 members
Currently unavailable

Les Boreades on DVD (2003)
Starring: Barbara Bonney, Paul Agnew, Laurent Naouri
Director: Robert Carsen
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A performance of the Rameau opera which follows the tale of Queen Alphise who is contemplating abdication rather that an arranged marriage. Sung in French.

64% from 77 members

Les Contes D'Hoffmann - Paris National Opera (2002)
Starring: Jesus Lopez Cobos, Neil Shicoff, Susanne Mentzer
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
Offenbach's opera 'Les Contes D'Hoffman' performed by the Paris National Opera.

53% from 33 members
Not currently released

Mefistofele - Boito on DVD (1989)
Starring: San Francisco Opera Orch And Chorus, Samuel Ramey, Dennis O'Neill
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
San Francisco Opera's production of Boito's adaptation of Goethe's classic conflict of good versus evil, under the baton of Maurizio Arena. Italian with English subtitles.

62% from 84 members

Rusalka
Starring: Renee Fleming, Eva Urbanova, Larissa Diadkova
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
A performance of Dvorak's opera 'Rusalka' which tells the story of a water nymph who becomes human. James Conlon conducts.

68% from 63 members
Currently unavailable

Manon Lescaut - Puccini on DVD
Starring: Miriam Gauci, Antonio Ordonez, Jan Danckaert
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
Puccini's dramatic tale of doomed love in Robert Carsen's production.

57% from 34 members

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Teatro del Liceu on DVD
Starring: David Daniels, Ofelia Sala, Gordon Gietz
Director: Robert Carsen
Certificate:
Britten's opera recorded live at the Teatro Del Liceu in April 2004.

57% from 28 members

Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin - 4.0 stars
Rusalka - 3.5 stars
Les Boreades - 3.0 stars
Mefistofele - Boito - 3.0 stars
La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi - 4.0 stars

Renee Fleming - 2 times - show films
Dmitri Hvorostovsky - 2 times - show films
Gordon Gietz - 1 times - show films
William Christie - 1 times - show films
Neil Shicoff - 1 times - show films