Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russian mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina as Adriana s jealous rival, the Princess de Bouil...

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

David McVicar

Cast

Jonas Kaufmann, Angela Gheorghiu, Olga Borodina

Eve of the trilogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" by Richard Wagner, in the production by Joachim Schlömer (Stuttgart State Opera 1999, recorded live at the end of 2002).

Runtime

2h 32m

Director

Joachim Schlömer

Cast

Wolfgang Probst, Motti Kastón, Bernhard Schneider

The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House were under the baton of Antonio Pappano, the Music Director of the Royal Opera House. The pageantry of church ritual, the darkness of a brooding study with its...

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Jonathan Haswell, Jonathan Kent

Cast

Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel

Joyce DiDonato gives a sensational performance as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Donizetti’s bel canto drama, opposite Elza van den Heever as Queen Elizabeth. This Live in HD presentation of David McVicar’s acclaimed 2012 production also stars Matthew Polenzani as Leicester, the man caught between the rival queens. Maurizio Benini conducts.

Runtime

3h 20m

Cast

Joyce DiDonato, Elza van den Heever, Matthew Rose

Performance 07.03.2021 at Vienna State Opera

Runtime

2h 5m

Cast

Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko