Sara Blanch - La Fille Du Regiment - DVD

An opéra-comique by an Italian composer? This was a rarity in it's day, but after the Inchbarely averted disasterInch of it's opening night, Donizetti's La Fille du régiment became a popular success, not least for the high Cs demanded from Tonio in the famous tenor aria InchAh! Mes amis, quel jour de fête!Inch The story revolves around Marie, the canteen girl of the Regiment, whose lover Tonio joins the army to be near her just as she is claimed for marriage into nobility. This acclaimed Teatro Donizetti production was considered by turns Inchhilarious... tender and moving... [and] overwhelmingly brilliantInch by bachtrack. #com

Live 1974 performance from the Wolfe Trap Festival starring Beverly Sills in her first complete operatic telecast. Directed by Lotfi Mansouri, with sets designed by Beni Montresor.

This box set documents Riccardo Chailly's first years as principal conductor of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. In summer 2016, he steps into the office as Claudio Abbado's successor with Mahler's 8th Symphony. In a colorful, fresh and stirring performance of the overture and incidental music to William Shakespeare's InchA Midsummer Night's DreamInch and Tchaikovsky's InchManfredInch Symphony, Chailly and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra bring the musical imagery of both works to life. In summer 2018, the performers transport us to Ravel's musical universes full of colors, scents and flavors from the pulsating three-four time of the waltzes to the ancient love story of Daphnis and Chloé and the relentless rhythm of the Boléro. A recording from summer 2019 of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony and Third Piano Concerto with Denis Matsuev marks the various stages in the composer's life and demonstrates once again the close bond between the orchestra and their new principal conductor.