Nicolai Ghiaurov Movies
- 1985
Aida
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La Scala went all out for its 1986 production of this grandest of grand operas, with a strong cast and, most important for a video recording, a larger...
- 2001
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
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Live performance from Zürich Opera House, 2001. “Vesselina Kasarova’s Rosina turned this Barber into a major event. Pearling coloratura, endless reso...
- 1988
La Boheme
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Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flow...
- 1967
Verdi – Messa da Requiem
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Herbert von Karajan conducts La Scala Orchestra and Chorus with soloists Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Luciano Pavarotti, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.
- 1983
Don Carlo
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Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vo...
- 1982
Verdi Ernani
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It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian B...
- 1978
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for...
- 1989
Khovanshchina
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The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the Vienna...
- 1983
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
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In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding op...
- 1992
A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
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Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some of the carols sung by opera stars.