Mose in Egitto - BLU-RAY

Since it's inception, Bayreuth has become the byword for innovative and daring productions. The six operas featured on this are certainly no exception; showcasing the original sets, creative productions and outstanding singing that the opera house is famousfor, they cement Bayreuth's worldwide reputation for nurturing raw talent, constantly striving for innovation. Jan Philipp Gloger's controversial production of Der fliegende Holländer is conducted by Christian Thielemann, 'Germany's most sought-after conductor' (Daily Telegraph), while Axel Kober takes the helm in Sebastian Baumgarten's thought provoking production of Tannhäuser, which casts the opera as one giant experiment. Die Walküre stars up-and-coming singers Johan Botha and Edith Haller, both praised in the German press for their standout performances. The radical Tristan und Isolde sees Christoph Marthaler setting the romantic opera in a Communist-era reception room, unencumbered by the traditional lakes and forests, instead more like a psychodrama of the 1950s. Concluding the six operas is Katharina Wagner's debut production Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the first ever live recording from the Festival, praised by Opera Canada for it's 'stunning theatrical spectacle'. Richard Wagner's operas find their home at Bayreuth, and these six very different but equally compelling performances capture the spirit of the German composer perfectly. Filmed in High Definition and with true surround sound.

This presents a rarely performed masterpiece Gioachino Rossini's Mosè in Egitto at the Bregenz Festival staged by Lotte de Beer, who retrieves this hidden gem of opera literature for a spectacular staging. de Beer, one of the most sought-after stage directors of her generation (International Opera Newcomer Award 2015) teams up with the Dutch theatre collective Hotel Modern to tell the story of the Biblical Exodus. Their unique production concept for Mosè in Egitto revolves around the ingenuity of Hotel Modern. The theatre group conjures up it's own reality by using live animations to portray the mass scenes and the parallel narratives of the people and the slaves. Miniature cameras, thousands of puppets, models of villages and cities and a spectacular aquarium installation present the biblical tale of plagues and the parting of the Red Sea on the Bregenz stage - Incha stroke of geniusInch (Der Standard).

For the very first time, Rossini's tragic opera Mosè is staged inside a cathedral, in a semi-scenic performance at the amazing Duomo di Milano. The Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, in the wake of a centuries-old tradition of dialogue with the contemporary, chooses the most advanced technology to open up to the world and the public with an immediacy never achieved until now, including lights and colors effects that characterize the scenes of the show, with an evocative video mapping technique. As bonus included is a documentary revealing the secrets of the Duomo di Milano, along a seven-centuries lasting path and outlining the Veneranda Fabbrica's centuries-old story.