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The Fairy Queen - Purcell review by A customer from London

A tour de force of high camp, but wonderful music 20 February 2005
...This David Pountney production of Purcell?s Fairy Queen is a tour de force of high camp and to coin a phrase - for those who like this sort of thing; this is the sort of thin... Read customer review

Turandot - Puccini review by from Kent, UK

Provocative but unsatisfying 13 February 2007
...I have great admiration for some of David Pountney's work, particularly the seminal productions at ENO during the late 1980's and early 90's. However, I think this 2002 produ... Read customer review

Turandot - Puccini on DVD (2002)
Starring: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Paata Burchuladze, Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Director: David Pountney
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TURANDOT, alongside Verdi's AIDA, stands at the forefront of Romantic Italian Opera's obsession with the exotic. David Poutney's nightmarish set compounds Puccini's vision. Gabriele Schaut stars as Turandot, accompanied by Valery Gergiev's Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

52% from 51 members

Macbeth on DVD (2001)
Starring: Thomas Hampson, Zurich Opera House Orchestra, Zurich Opera House Chorus
Director: David Pountney
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A performance of Macbeth recorded live at the Zurich Opera House with music by Verdi. Conducted by Franz Welser-Most. Choreography by Vivienne Newport.

55% from 36 members

Verdi - MacBeth on DVD (2001)
Starring: Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi
Director: David Pountney
Certificate:
With this opera, Verdi composed a true music drama. For this great early opera, he demanded from his librettist Francesco Maria Piave a text that would have "extravagance, originality brevity and sublimity." Thomas Hampson made a triumphant début in the title role of Verdi’s Macbeth in this Zurich ..read more »

45% from 7 members

The Fairy Queen - Purcell on DVD (1995)
Starring: Yvonne Kenny, Thomas Randle, Richard Van Allan
Director: David Pountney
Certificate:
Pountney's colourful and theatrical production of Purcell's THE FAIRY QUEEN.

60% from 70 members

Rusalka - Dvorak on DVD
Starring: Eilene Hannan, Ann Howard, Rodney Macann
Director: David Pountney
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The story of a young girl who falls in love for the first time. Mark Elder conducts English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

62% from 44 members

Weinberg - The Passenger - Blu-ray
Starring: Michelle Breedt, Roberto Sacca, Roberto Saccà
Director: David Pountney
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NEOS is releasing the sensational production of the opera "The Passenger" by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, directed by David Pountney at the Bregenzer Festspiele 2010. This was the opera's scenic first performance ever! "The Passenger" is based on the eponymous novel of the Polish writer and survivor of the ..read more »

40% from 8 members
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Turandot - Puccini - 2.5 stars
Macbeth - 3.0 stars
Verdi - MacBeth - 2.5 stars
The Fairy Queen - Purcell - 3.0 stars
Rusalka - Dvorak - 3.0 stars

The Fairy Queen - Purcell - 3.0 stars
Turandot - Puccini - 2.5 stars
Rusalka - Dvorak - 3.0 stars
Macbeth - 3.0 stars
Verdi - MacBeth - 2.5 stars

Weinberg - The Passenger - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Verdi - MacBeth - 2.5 stars
Macbeth - 3.0 stars
Rusalka - Dvorak - 3.0 stars
Turandot - Puccini - 2.5 stars