Teatro La Fenice has a tradition of opera production that goes back to 1792. This collection brings all of the live atmosphere and drama of six operatic masterpieces from a theatre that has seen more than its fair share of historic premieres. This set includes the 19th-century romance of Bizet’s Les pêcheurs de perles, the intense drama of Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Britten’s hauntingly understated Death In Venice, Massenet’s tragic tale of love and redemption in Thaïs, Wagner’s final opera Parsifal and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt, one of the great operatic successes of the 1920s. An entire century’s worth of opera can be seen and heard in these acclaimed productions from Venice’s legendary venue.
Conducted by Marcello Viotti, Maurizio Benini, Gabor Ötvös, Eliahu Inbal and Bruno Bartoletti.
Directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, Arnaud Bernard and Denis Krief.
A special boxed set offer of 8 DVDs for the price of 3.
Works:
•Georges Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perle (Annick Massis, Yasu Nakajima, Luca Grassi, Marcello Viotti / Regie: Pier Luigi Pizzi / 2004)
• Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller (Alexander Vinogradov, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Ursula Ferri, Maurizio Benini / Regie: Arnaud Bernard / 2006)
• Richard Wagner: Parsifal (Richard Decker, Matthias Hölle, Wolfgang Schöne, Gabor Ötvös / Regie: Denis Krief / 2005)
• Jules Massenet: Thais (Eva Mei, Michele Pertusi, William Joyner, Marcello Viotti / Regie: Pier Luigi Pizzi / 2002)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (Stefan Vinke, Solveig Kringelborn, Stephan Genz, Eliahu Inbal / Regie: Pier Luigi Pizzi / 2009)
• Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice (Marlin Miller, Scott Hendricks, Razek-Francois Bitar, Bruno Bartoletti / Regie: Pier Luigi Pizzi / 2008)