key releases
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Verdi Rigoletto CD
Alan Opie (Rigoletto), Emma Matthews (Gilda), Paul O'Neill (Duke of Mantua), David Parkin (Sparafucile), Samuel Dundas (Count Ceprano), Gennadi Dubinsky (Count Monterone), Elizabeth Campbell (Maddelena/Giovanna), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, Giovanni Reggioli (conductor), Elijah Moshinsky (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA | OPOZ56011CD | 560266600104 | CD2
Acclaimed 2010 Opera Australia production
‘Alan Opie...sings passionately and with heartbreaking despair...an expressive performance’ (Artshub)
‘A classic production…[Emma] Matthews is an undoubted star’ (Sydney Morning Herald)
Also on DVD OPOZ56009DVD and Blu-ray OPOZ56010BD (SEE BELOW)
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Verdi Rigoletto DVD
Alan Opie (Rigoletto), Emma Matthews (Gilda), Paul O'Neill (Duke of Mantua), David Parkin (Sparafucile), Samuel Dundas (Count Ceprano), Gennadi Dubinsky (Count Monterone), Elizabeth Campbell (Maddelena/Giovanna), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, Giovanni Reggioli (conductor), Elijah Moshinsky (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA | OPOZ56009DVD | 5060266600081 | DVD
Also on CD OPOZ56011CD and Blu-ray OPOZ56010BD
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Verdi Rigoletto Blu-Ray
Alan Opie (Rigoletto), Emma Matthews (Gilda), Paul O'Neill (Duke of Mantua), David Parkin (Sparafucile), Samuel Dundas (Count Ceprano), Gennadi Dubinsky (Count Monterone), Elizabeth Campbell (Maddelena/Giovanna), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra, Giovanni Reggioli (conductor), Elijah Moshinsky (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA | OPOZ56010BD | 5060266600098 | BR
Also on CD OPOZ56011CD and DVD OPOZ56009DVD
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Delibes Lakme
Joan Sutherland (Lakme), Henri Wilden (Gerald), Clifford Grant (Nilakantha), Huguette Tourangereau (Mallika), Isobel Buchanan (Ellen), John Pringle (Frederick), Australian Opera Chorus, Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)
OPERA AUSTRALIA | OPOZ56012CD | 5060266600111 | CD2
Recorded in 1976 in the Sydney Opera House
‘Lakme is a warm affirmation that not only was Sutherland a great star, she was a sensitive and subtle artist; and that Bonynge is a conductor of control and imagination’ (The Financial Review)
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Verdi Il Trovatore
Joan Sutherland (Leonora), Lauris Elms (Azucena), Kenneth Collins (Manrico), Donald Shanks (Ferrando), Jonathan Summers (Di Luna), Australian Opera Chorus, Elizabethan Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor), Elijah Moshinsky (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA | OPOZ56013CD | 5060266600128 | CD2
Recorded in 1983 in the Sydney Opera House
‘dramatically and vocally stunning’ (The Australian)
‘The Australian Opera has assembled one of its best casts under the baton of Richard Bonynge’ (The Times)
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Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (DVD)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Figaro), Taryn Fiebig (Susanna), Peter Coleman-Wright (Count), Rachelle Durkin (Countess), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Patrick Summers (conductor), Neil Armfield (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56001DVD |
5060266600005 |
DVD2
Recorded in 2010. ‘A marriage of distinction. An energetic, fresh-voiced cast...Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Taryn Feibig were a vivacious, appealing pairing...vocally strong and agile’ (The Australian) ‘As the Countess, Rachelle Durkin mixed statuesque hauteur with girlish puppy love...refined phrasing and beautifully poised tonal control’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (Blu-ray)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Figaro), Taryn Fiebig (Susanna), Peter Coleman-Wright (Count), Rachelle Durkin (Countess), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Patrick Summers (conductor), Neil Armfield (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56002BD |
5060266600012 |
BLU-RAY
Recorded in 2010. ‘A marriage of distinction. An energetic, fresh-voiced cast...Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Taryn Feibig were a vivacious, appealing pairing...vocally strong and agile’ (The Australian) ‘As the Countess, Rachelle Durkin mixed statuesque hauteur with girlish puppy love...refined phrasing and beautifully poised tonal control’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)
SEE VIDEO CLIPS
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Mozart The Marriage of Figaro (CD)
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Figaro), Taryn Fiebig (Susanna), Peter Coleman-Wright (Count), Rachelle Durkin (Countess), Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, Patrick Summers (conductor), Neil Armfield (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56003CD |
5060266600029 |
CD3
Recorded in 2010. ‘A marriage of distinction. An energetic, fresh-voiced cast...Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Taryn Feibig were a vivacious, appealing pairing...vocally strong and agile’ (The Australian) ‘As the Countess, Rachelle Durkin mixed statuesque hauteur with girlish puppy love...refined phrasing and beautifully poised tonal control’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)
SEE VIDEO CLIPS
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Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard Greager (Edgardo), Malcolm Donnelly (Enrico), Clifford Grant (Raimondo), Patricia Price (Alisa), Sergei Baigildin (Arturo), Robin Donald (Normanno), Australian Opera Chorus, Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor), John Copely (producer)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56005CD |
5060266600043 |
CD2
Recorded in 1986. ‘superb...incredibly moving’ (The Australian) ‘Exceptionally fine...Sutherland remains a splendid heroine...Malcolm Donnelly is an outstanding Enrico’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia
Joan Sutherland (Lucrezia), Robert Allman (Don Alfonzo), Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini), Ron Stevens (Gennaro), Graeme Ewer (Rustighello), Australian Opera Chorus, Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor), George Ogilvie (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56006CD |
5060266600050 |
CD2
Recorded in 1977. ‘(Sutherland’s) extraordinary voice here not only scales the heights of coloratura but plunges with new ease into the depths of the mezzo range’ (The Bulletin) ‘Bonynge shapes the whole performance with assurance’ (Canberra Times) ‘delights the ear endlessly...ravishing’ (Financial Review)
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Meyerbeer Les Huguenots
Joan Sutherland (Marguite de Valois), Clifford Grant (Marcel), Amanda Thane (Valentine), Suzanne Johnson (Urbain), Anson Austin (Raoul de Nanglis), John Pringle (Comte de Nevers), John Wegner (Comte de Saint Bris), Richard Bonynge (conductor), Lotfi Mansouri (director)
OPERA AUSTRALIA |
OPOZ56007CD |
5060266600067 |
CD3
Recorded in 1990. Joan Sutherland's farewell performance of Les Huguenots. ‘Full of spectacle’ (The Sun Herald) ‘Incandescent...a wondrous, full-voiced performance that should be remembered for light years to come’ (The Age) ‘ [Sutherland] sings effortlessly...remarkable’ (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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