Unitel
Unitel was founded in 1966 with the aim of capturing the fascination of music on film, Unitel has become the world's leading producer of classical music programs for film, television and video.
Unitel's repertoire comprises more than 600 hours of programming; orchestral music, chamber music, operas, operettas, ballets and portraits of artists.
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Heinz Zednik (Loge), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Fritz Hübner (Fafner), Carmen Reppel (Freia), Martin Egel (Donner), Siegfried Jerusalem (Froh), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda),...
Chéreau's Marxist-tinged, Industrial Revolution-set production was by no means greeted with universal enthusiasm when it made its debut at the 1976 Bayreuth Festival...By the time the production... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2008, DVD Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Grammy Awards, 25th Awards (1982), Best Opera Recording
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hermann Prey (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count), Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Maria Ewing (Cherubino), Paolo Montarsolo (Bartolo), Heather Begg (Marcellina), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Willy Caron (Curzio), Hans Krämer (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina)
Wiener...
a visual treat, but having some solos delivered as interior monologues is distracting — More…
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Adam: Giselle
Carla Fracci, Erik Bruhn & Bruce Marks
American Ballet Theatre & Berlin German Opera Orchestra, John Lanchbery
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Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci
Elena Obraztsova (Santuzza), Plácido Domingo (Turiddu), Renato Bruson (Alfio), Axelle Gall (Lola), Fedora Barbieri (Lucia), Teresa Stratas (Nedda), Plácido Domingo (Canio), Juan Pons (Tonio), Alberto Rinaldi (Silvio), Florindo Andreolli (Beppe)
Teatro alla Scala, Georges Prêtre
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Verdi: La Traviata
RecommendedTeresa Stratas (Violetta), Plácido Domingo (Alfredo), Cornell MacNeil (Giorgio Germont)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Severely cut and rearranged, Zeffirelli's famous film suffocates under its own opulence; but Parisian and Provencal locations, Levine's rich conducting, Domingo and Stratas remain rewarding. — More…
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 26th Awards (1983), Best Opera Recording
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New Year's Eve Concert in Dresden 2010
Renée Fleming (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Verdi: La Traviata
Anna Netrebko (Violetta), Rolando Villazón (Alfredo), Thomas Hampson (Germont), Helene Schneiderman (Flora), Diane Pilcher (Annina), Salvatore Cordella (Gastone), Paul Gay (Barone), Herman Wallén (Marchese), Luigi Roni (Grenvil)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Rizzi, Brian Large
One of the finest available versions of La traviata available on video. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Edita Gruberova, Teresa Stratas, Luis Lima & Ferruccio Furlanetto
Wiener Philharmoniker, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Das Rheingold:
Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Markus Eiche (Donner), Herbert Lippert (Froh), Adrian Eröd (Loge), Janina Baechle (Fricka), Alexandra Reinprecht (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda), Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich), Wolfgang Schmidt (Mime)
Die Walküre:
Christopher...
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