Nayler&Co Boekhandel & Modern Antiquariaat*Ramsj-on-Line

Regio 0; menu: ENG; subtitles -opera only-: ENG, FR, GERM, ITA, SP

The 1985 hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro culminated in the murder of wheelchair-bound Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer. Adam's controversial but highly acclaimed opera plays out against the turbulent emotions and violence that are as ancient as Biblical text and as contemporary as today's headlines. Libretto: Alice Goodman; Director: Penny Woolcock.

Regio 0; ENG; subtitles: GERM, FR

He is often hailed as the greatest composer alive, and John Adams has his finger on the cultural and political pulse of America like few others: fearless in his confrontation of hot topics like liberalism and terrorism within his own works. This is especially true of his operas, and we hear from two figures closely associated with works such as Nixon in China and the still-controversial Death of Klinghoffer, Alice Goodman and Peter Sellars.

Regio 0

The composer Alban Berg, 1885-1935, a pupil and associate of Schoenberg, lived in the mainstream of well-to-do Austrian. How can this doyen of Viennese respectability be reconciled with the composer who wrote the dark operas Lulu and Wozzeck. Soprano Kristine Ciesinski, who features in specially-staged extracts of Lulu and Wozzeck and sings Nacht from Seven Early Songs, travels to Vienna, Prague, the USA and Germany to investigate Berg's life.

Regio 0; GER; ondertiteling: ENG, FR, GER, SP, ITA

Wozzeck is een opera in drie bedrijven, van Alban Berg, gebaseerd op het onvoltooide drama Woyzeck van Georg Buchner. Het vertelt het verhaal van een arme soldaat die het slachtoffer wordt van het mensonterende van zijn kapitein en zijn dokter. Deze laatste gebruikt hem als proefpersoon in zijn wetenschappelijke experimenten. Wozzeck verliest stilaan de controle over zichzelf. Het werk wordt algemeen beschouwd als een van de grootste meesterwerken uit de muziekgeschiedenis.

Regio ALL; RUSS; ondertiteling: ENG

Tolstoy's great novel of passion and retribution is brought to new dramatic and muscial life in this operatic stage adaption from the great Russian composer Vladislav Uspensky and the brilliant Finnish director Jotaarkka Pennanen.

Regio 2; HUNG

The great Georg Solti conducts a spectacular studio production of this masterpiece of 20th-century opera. Two internationally celebrated Hungarian opera stars perform Bartok's darkly psychological parable with searing dramatic intensity.

Region 2, 3, 4, 5; subtitles: ENG, FR, DEUTSCH

This highly acclaimed film version of Bela Bartok's searing psychological opera, performed by Robert Lloyd and Elizabeth Laurence, won the 1989 Prix Italia Music Prize. Bartok's short opera, one of the composer's most impressive early works, tells the macabre legend of Duke Bluebeard who brings his young wife Judith to live in his remote castle. The dramatic intensity increases as sinister secrets are gradually unveiled...

Regio 2; ENG; ondertiteling: ENG, FR, DUI, ITA; SP

Olivier Simonnet's unique cinematographic interpretation presents Cecilia Bartoli in virtuoso arias for the castrato stars of the Neapolitan school, filmed on location at the magnificent Baroque Palace of Caserta in Southern Italy. Based on the critically acclaimed platinum selling album Sacrificium.

Regio: 0; subtitles: ENG, GERM, FR

A full-length concert from the Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, featuring beautiful and rare arias from Vivaldi's operas. Directed by Brian Large, this recital showcases the repertoire from the best-selling Vivaldi Album which elevated Cecilia Bartoli to worldwide stardom. Bartoli's spectacular vocal pyrotechnics are supported by world-class Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.

Regio 0; Menu Language: ENG; subtitles: GERM, ENG, FR, SP, CHIN

In this elite cast, Gwyneth Jones sang an impassioned Leonore, while James King's Florestan reached a peak of vocal expressiveness. Conducted with gusto by Karl Bohm and sung beautifully. The kaleidoscope of emotions is driven with controlled force by Bohm.... powerfully intensifying up to the final explosions of joy.