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Opera Stories provides a perfect introduction to the drama, characters and spectacle of opera. Each of its ten programs tells the story of a single opera, bringing the story and emotion of the plot vividly to life.
Charlton Heston narrates each program from, as nearly as possible, the original location stipulated by the composer: The story of La Boheme is told from the sidewalk cafes of Paris where Mimi and Rodolfo fall in love, Aida from the majestic pyramids of Egypt, Tosca from the battlements of the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome where Tosca takes her own life.
The stories are illustrated by extensive performance extracts taken from NVC ARTS unique library of full-length recordings.
This is a 5 DVD Set!
The operas selected for the series are:
• Ernani
• Il Trovatore
• Aida
• Otello
• Falstaff
• La Bohème
• Andrea Chénier
• Manon Lescaut
• Tosca
• Die Fledermaus
The Royal oPera productions of:
La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini)
from Paris France
Ileana Cotrubas • Niel Schicoff
Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini)
from Chateau Mauviers, France
Placido Domingo • Kiri Te Kanawa
Andrea Chenier (Umberto Giordano)
from Paris, France
Placido Domingo • Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
from Windsor, England
Renato Bruson • Barbara Hendricks • Katia Ricciarelli
Die Fledermaus (J. Strausss)
from Vienna, Austria
Kiri Te Kanawa • Hermann Prey
Arena di Verona productions of:
Il Trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi)
from Aragon, Spain
Rosalind Plowright • Franco Bonisolli • Giorgio Zancanaro
Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
from Rome, Italy
Eva Marton • Ingvar Wixell • Giacomo Aragail
Aida (Giuseppe Verdi)
from Luxor, Egypt
Maria Chiara • Fiorenza Cossotto • Nicola Martinucci
Otello (Giuseppe Verdi)
from Marakesh, Morocco
Kiri Te Kanawa • Vladimir Atlantov • Piero Cappuccilli
La Scala, Milan Production of:
Ernani (Giuseppe Verdi)
from Aragon, Spain
Placido Domingo • Mirella Freni
Renato Bruson • Nicolai Ghiaurov
