GLYNDEBOURNE DIAMONDS

Five Great Opera Productions from the Glyndebourne Festival Opera

 

Beethoven: Fidelio (1979)

Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse In Patria (1973)

Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress (1975)

Verdi: Falstaff (1976)

Verdi: Macbeth (1972)

 

Dame Janet Baker, Dame Felicity Lott, Leo Goeke, Richard Van Allan, Benjamin Luxon, Elizabeth Gale, Kostas Paskalis, Dame Josephine Barstow, James Morris and many more….

The Glyndebourne Chorus, The Glyndebourne Ballet, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard, Bernard Haitink, Raymond Leppard

 

PICTURE FORMATS: 4:3

SOUND FORMAT: PCM Stereo

MENU LANGUAGES: D, F, GB, SP

RUNNING TIME: 681 min

SUBTITLES: GB, D, F, SP, (IT)

Region Code: 0

 

Glyndebourne Diamonds is a choice of five highly acclaimed opera productions from the famous Glyndebourne Festival. Everything about these specially selected productions is unique, with a particularly exclusive touch: the casts, the stage directors, the conductors and the atmosphere of Glyndebourne itself. All of these productions are jewels of the classical opera tradition. Now all of these true gems of opera history are collected and available in this box set.

 

With star-studded cast lists, revered conductors and appearances from the Glyndebourne Ballet, this exciting new box set is a must for all Glyndebourne and opera fans.

 

 “This performance is typical of the high standards of ensemble playing pertaining at Glyndebourne in the 1970s.” Gramophone about Falstaff

 

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