Great Arias

Synopsis

This on-going series of ten-minute programmes introduces some of opera’s finest moments, performed and presented by some of the greatest singers of our day, Dame Joan Sutherland, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Eva Marton, Marilyn Home, Anne Sofie von Otter, Roberto Alagna, Philip Langridge, René Kollo and Yuri Marusin among them. Their performances are drawn from recent live recordings of acclaimed productions of key works in the operatic repertoire and include such high-spots as Vissi d’arte from Puccini’s Tosca, the Mad Scene from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Elektra’s murderous confrontation with her mother in Strauss’s Elektra, and Leonora’s D’amor sull’ali rosee from the final act of Puccini’s Tosca.

Additional Info

• No: R0388
• Composer: Antonio Vivaldi, Gioachino Rossini, Georg Friedrich Händel, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini
• Conductor: Randall Behr, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Mackerras
• Production year: 1989
• Run time: 43 x 10'
• Director: Mechthild Offermanns, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Michael Hampe, Nicholas Hytner, Filippo Sanjust, John Copley
• Producers: RM Arts