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Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)
: :The Metropolitan Opera's acclaimed Live in High-Definition series, which projects live performances into theaters across the globe, has met with unprecedented critical and commercial success and has made opera convenient and affordable to millions of viewers worldwide. Now, EMI Classics is proud to collaborate with The Met to release 6 new DVDs made from these broadcast performances.'The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual.' (Benjamin Britten) Anthony Dean Griffey and Patricia Racette captivate in John Doyle's new production ofBritten's tortured masterpiece. Donald Runnicles leads the Met Orchestra in what the ...
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Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire / Previn, Fleming, Gilfry, San Francisco Opera
:Description:Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, the world premiere production of Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. For his first-ever opera, Previn turned to one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American theater, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire. He saw the haunting story of lost youth and innocence in the romantic, shadowy world of New Orleans as ideal material. Collaborating with librettist Philip Littell, Previn has captured all the claustrophobic tension, volatile emotion and sexual undertow of Williams' original in his own Streetcar. This world premiere ...
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