Charles Castronovo Movies
- 2021
La Bohème from the Royal Opera House
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Ever since its premiere in Turin in 1896, La bohème has been a huge hit with audiences across the world. Within two years, it had been seen in Buenos...
- 2006
The Abduction from the Seraglio
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Without question, this is an incredibly bizarre production. The revised storyline makes little sense, and there is a surprising amount of violence and...
- 2012
Becoming Traviata
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How can emotion come to light on the opera set? Does it come from singing, acting or music? How can someone become the incarnation of Verdi's masterp...
- 2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Zauberflöte
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Met Music Director Emeritus James Levine conducts Tony Award winner Julie Taymor’s production of Mozart’s masterpiece, Die Zauberflöte. Golda Schultz...
- 2013
Mozart Don Giovanni
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A live recording of Don Giovanni from the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, recorded on May 23rd 2013.
- 2015
Puccini La Rondine
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La Rondine (The Swallow) is possibly the least performed of Giacomo Puccinis later operas, but is still just as much a masterwork as its more performe...
- 2011
La Traviata - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
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Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-François Sivadier at the...
- 2016
The ROH Live: Lucia di Lammermoor
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Lucia’s brother Enrico is horrified to learn she has fallen in love with his sworn enemy Edgardo. He hastily arranges her marriage to his associate Ar...
- 2010
Mireille
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In 2009, Frédéric Mistral’s tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of Gounod’s 1864 opera Mireille. Nicola...
- 2018
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata
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In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a scandal: the prostitute awai...
- 2022
La Traviata - ROH
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- 2019
The ROH Live: La Traviata
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Alfredo Germont and the courtesan Violetta Valéry fall in love at a party in Violetta's Paris salon. Alfredo is determined to cure Violetta of her tub...
- 2020
Puccini: La bohème
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Richard Jones’ “La bohème” is an important weapon in the Royal Opera’s commercial arsenal. This is its second revival since Jones’ production hit the...
- 2019
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Salzburg Festival)
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Power struggles among rival families in 14th-century Genoa, a story of tragic love, a young girl gone missing… Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra combines the p...
- 2017
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
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Julie Taymor’s kaleidoscopic production returns to select cinemas this holiday season in an encore presentation of the company’s first-ever Live in HD...
- 2016
Lucia di Lammermoor
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Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technical virtuosity, her sensitive musiciansh...
- 2016
Mefistofele
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Presented at Baden-Baden’s Pentecost Festival, this production of Boito’s Mefistofele captured the hearts of both audiences and critics—a rare feat! T...
- 2020
Royal Opera All-Star Gala
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Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast of singers in favourite arias, duets and choruses from operas by Rossini, Donizetti and Puccini, along with th...
- 2021
Gluck: Alceste
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The Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui interprets Glucks late Baroque opera Alceste as an impressive symbiosis between dance and mu...