Highlight of the month
Giacomo Puccini
 TURANDOT
 Wiener Staatsoper, 1983
EVA MARTON
JOSÉ CARRERAS
KATIA RICCIARELLI
JOHN-PAUL BOGART

 La principessa Turandot Chinese princess - Eva Marton
L’imperatore Altoum Chinese emperor, Turandot’s father - Waldemar Kmentt
Timur desposed King of the Tartars - John-Paul Bogart
Calaf Timur’s son, the unknown prince - José Carreras
Liù a young slave-girl - Katia Ricciarelli
Ping chancellor - Robert Kerns
Pang general purveyor - Helmut Wildhaber
Pong chief cook - Heinz Zednik
Un mandarino - Kurt Rydl
Il principe di Persia - Béla Perencz
Un mandarino Kurt Rydl
Wiener Sängerknaben

Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper

Helmuth Froschauer
Stage Director
Harold Prince
 From the Vienna State Opera TDK presents a timeless document of great opera. Lorin Maazel and a dream cast of distinguished singers, among them the young Eva Marton and José Carreras in his mid-thirties, perform a celebrated staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot.

Puccini’s last opera tells the story of the battle of the sexes...


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THE BEST OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
 2008 		Richard Strauss
 Ariadne auf Naxos
 Opernhaus Zürich, 2006
MARCELO ÁLVAREZ - MARTHA ARGERICH
ROBERTO BOLLE - ALESSANDRA FERRI
JAMES LEVINE - ZUBIN MEHTA
RICCARDO MUTI - ANJA SILJA
NINA STEMME - RAMÓN VARGAS
Emily Magee - Elena Mosuc
Roberto Saccà - Michelle Breedt
Orchester der Oper Zürich
CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI
Stage Director: Claus Guth
Christoph von Dohnányi
Stage Director
Claus Guth
For 2008, TDK presents a DVD with samples of recent and upcoming releases as well as highlights from the catalogue. Excerpts of the best of opera, ballet and concert recordings on TDK DVDs offer a broad overview of the current catalogue at a glance. The accompanying full catalogue lists the available titles including cover, full title and cast...
In a series of groundbreaking productions from the Opera Zurich, TDK presents a production of Ariadne auf Naxos, one of many masterly opera cooperations by composer Richard Strauss and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Under the direction of one of the best Strauss conductors of today, Christoph von Dohnányi, with a cast of particularly...


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01.03.2008

OUT NOW

TDK presents a DVD with samples of recent and upcoming releases in 2008.
Excerpts of the best in opera, ballet and concert recordings offer a broad overview of the current catalogue at a glance. The chosen samples highlight TDK's high audiovisual quality and excellent artistic standard...

15.02.2008

ACCOLADE

The Vienna State Opera's world première of the unabridged version of Don Carlos in 2004 was a much noted event and greeted with great critical acclaim. Peter Konwintschny's staging was based on original version as intended to be performed in Paris in 1867. It provides a new...