Teatro alla Scala Operas (8-DVD BOX SET)

Composers: Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Anita Rachvelishvili, Fabio Sartori, Plácido Domingo, Fatma Said, Diana Damrau, Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, et al
Conductors: Zubin Mehta, Michele Mariotti, Ádám Fischer, Franz Welser-Möst
Directors: Peter Stein, Alvis Hermanis, Frederic Wake-Walker, Giorgio Strehler
Format: NTSC
Languages: Italian, German
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 8
Studio: C Major
DVD Release Date: August 27, 2021
Run Time: 13 hours, 51 minutes

This new release features five outstanding operas from the legendary Teatro alla Scala. The selections include:

• Aida: “A perfect coup de théâtre” (Giornale della musica); “a stellar cast” (La Stampa)
• I due Foscari: “[Domingo’s performance] was sublime” (Financial Times)
• Die Zauberflöte: “[Ádám Fischer] gets the best out of the Academy Orchestra with delicate execution and humane phrasing” (Die Presse)
• Le nozze di Figaro: “… when Diana Damrau enters as the Countess, we get a performance of special gravitas. Even the orchestra, under Franz Welser-Möst’s baton, melts to such grace” (Financial Times)
• Die Entführung aus dem Serail: A “masterful use of light and silhouettes” (Milano Post)

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