Le Villi is an opera-ballet in two acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
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Tchaikovsky's much-loved opera Eugene Onegin, a story of love, rejection and tragedy based on Pushkin's verse drama of the same name.
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Benjamin Britten’s opera Gloriana was written in 1953 for celebrations around the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to whom the opera is dedicated. It had its first performance at the Royal Opera House on 8 June 1953, in the presence of The Queen then just 6 days into her reign. The centenary in 2013 of Britten’s birth prompted this new Royal Opera production, in which director Richard Jones uses the setting of a celebratory pageant in 1953 to explore the work’s alternating splendour and intimacy. This theatrical, inventive and colourful staging has at its core the symbolic reflections between the Tudor Elizabethan and the New Elizabethan ages that characterize the opera. The juxtaposition of the modern and the archaic in William Plomer’s libretto is wonderfully amplified in music that artfully fuses the sounds and manners of Tudor England – from lute songs to courtly dances – with Britten’s own distinctive style.
In this surreal drama, a Young Victim invited to an immersive operatic production led by the Famed Fiend, a collector and protector of talent, finds himself infatuated with the Tempestuous Tigress, a young woman and the favorite performer, who wants nothing but to escape.
Sanctuary live at Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Setlist: 1. Arise and Purify 2. Let the Serpent Follow Me 3. Seasons of Destruction 4. Die for My Sins 5. Battle Angels 6. Exitium (Anthem of the Living) 7. Question Existence Fading 8. Frozen 9. The Year the Sun Died 10. Future Tense 11. Taste Revenge
"Rosa", with a libretto by Peter Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen, is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer - some real, others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uruguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood's foremost composers, specialising in Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!
Live television version of the classic musical.
Björk performs an intimate and uplifting set in NYC's Riverside Church accompanied by harpist Zeena Parkins, Matmos and a female Inuit choir. This special aired exclusively on HBO Reverb.
Masayoshi Takanaka and his fellow musicians perform songs live from his various albums over the years, this year it's the Brasilian Skies album, celebrating its 40th anniversary release date! His 4th album!
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Megadeth celebrate the 20th anniversary of their legendary album Countdown To Extinction by performing the album from beginning to end at the Fox Theater in Pomona, CA on December 7th, 2012.
The Foo Fighters captured live in performance at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York City.
Recorded on the 4th. of August 2018 in Wacken, Germany. Setlist: 1. End of All Hope / 2. Wish I Had an Angel / 3. Come Cover Me / 4. Gethsemane / 5. Élan / 6. Amaranth / 7. I Want My Tears Back / 8. Devil & the Deep Dark Ocean / 9. Nemo / 10. Slaying the Dreamer / 11. The Greatest Show on Earth (Chapter II: Life; Chapter III: The Toolmaker) / 12. Ghost Love Score.
Donizetti's French masterpiece was in the hands of Italian conductor Antonello Allemandi. This maestro, a bel canto specialist, captured the fire and intensity of the passions from the get-go, making the overture a superbly eloquent transition to a musical world based on beautiful lines and colors that elaborate distress and make it compellingly elegant. Allemandi demonstrated a full authority over the stage for the musically complex scenes, and in the arias and duets he demonstrated his confidence in the artistry of distraught singers by establishing ample tempos to support their soaring vocal lines while he concentrated on pulling every possible nuance from the pit players.
Recorded in 2005, Bonnie on Tour features highlights from Tyler's live performances at La Cigale in Paris, the Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, and an open air concert at the Fiestas del Pilar in Spain. Bonus content includes the "Louise" music video and behind the scenes footage.
The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus.
The grand finale for Final Fantasy’s 25th birthday was a Distant Worlds concert which took place in Tokyo last year. Square Enix recorded the event and in June you can watch it at home. The Distant Worlds music from Final Fantasy The Celebration has 19 songs performed by the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra with Arnie Roth as the composer.