John Treleaven and Deborah Polaski lead an outstanding cast in Wagner's operative tour de force based on the medieval voyager legend of Sir Tristan and Isolde Princess of Ireland who unknowingly offers the knight a love potion in place of the poison she had intended should kill them both. Bertrand de Billy conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in an acclaimed production.
David Pountney's landmark English National Opera staging of Dvorak's haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl on the brink of sensual awakening dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the wood nymph who like Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid sacrifices all for love destined to be betrayed. High above the stage Rusalka dreamily swings as the picturesque gives way to the surreal.
In the third work of Wagner's epic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen Siegmund's shattered sword is forged once again and kills the dragon that guards the ring. When Siegfried seizes the ring he also receives its curse as he continues his fiery adventure of discovery and love. Filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2004 Harry Kupfer's stunning production first staged in Berlin numbers among the greatest productions of modern times.
In the final part of Wagner's epic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen Siegfried's world descends into falsehood and betrayal before his cursed life is ended by a single spear. Fate ignites the final conflagration which sets the world to await its new beginning. Filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2004 Harry Kupfer's stunning production first staged in Berlin numbers among the greatest productions of modern times and is recorded in sumptuous surround sound.
Der Ring Des Nibelungen (De Billy): Complete Box Set (11 Discs]
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