OPERA HIGHLIGHTS, Vol. 2 [DVD] (2007)

‘If you worship the man who has spurned you’ from Handel’s Xerxes

(from Nicholas Hytner’s English National Opera production, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)

‘Take your pleasure’ from Handel’s Ariodante

(from David Alden’s English National Opera production, conducted by IVOR BOLTON)

PHILIP LANGRIDGE

The ‘sea wall’ aria from Britten’s Peter Grimes

(from Tim Albery’s English National Opera production, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON)

GALINA GORCHAKOVA

‘Renata’s Confession’ from Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel

(from David Freeman’s Kirov Opera production, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)

THOMAS ALLEN

‘They’ll lash me in a hammock’ from Britten’s Billy Budd

(from Tim Albery’s English National Opera production, conducted by DAVID ATHERTON)

‘Great Hymn to the Wonder of Nature’ from Janбček’s Cunning little Vixen

(from Nicolas Hytner’s production for the Thйвtre du Chвtelet, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)

EVA JENIS and HANNA MINUTILLO

‘Love duet’ 2^nd Act, from Janбček’s Cunning little Vixen

(from Nicolas Hytner’s production for the Thйвtre du Chвtelet, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS)

YVONNE KENNY

‘Piangero la sorte mia’ from Handel’s Giulio Cesare

(from Francisco Negrin’s production for Opera Australia, conducted by RICHARD HICKOX)

‘O weep for me’ from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

(from David Pountney’s English National Opera production, conducted by NICHOLAS KOK)

MICHAEL KЦNIG

‘Oh golden days of my youth, where have you gone?’ and ‘Enemies, enemies’ (Duet with VLADIMIR GLUSHCHAK) from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

(from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)

ORLA BOYLAN

‘No, there could never be another’ from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

(from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)

VLADIMIR GLUSHCHAK

‘You wrote to me’ and ‘Can this be the same Tatyana?’ from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin

(from Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s European Union Opera staging at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, conducted by GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY)

ANNA NETREBKO

‘Aria of Lyudmila’ from the 4^th Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila

(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)

KONSTANTIN PLUZHNIKOV

‘Finns Ballad’ from the 2^nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila

(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)

VLADIMIR OGNOVENKO

as RUSLAN in the 2^nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila

(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)

LARISSA DIADKOVA

as RATMIR in the 2^nd Act from Glinka’s Ruslan and Lyudmila

(from Lotfi Mansouri’s production for the Kirov Opera, conducted by VALERY GERGIEV)