Movies: Bernard Fitch

  • 2008
    Britten: Peter Grimes

    Britten: Peter Grimes (2008)

    Britten: Peter Grimes

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    Anthony Dean Griffey creates a haunting portrait of the outcast fisherman who struggles under the burden of presumed guilt. This chilling production by Tony Award-winning director John Doyle also features the superb Patricia Racette as the sympatheti...

    Britten: Peter Grimes
  • 1998
    Samson et Dalila

    Samson et Dalila (1998)

    Samson et Dalila

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    Elijah Moshinsky's production of Saint-Saëns's "Samson et Dalila", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera 28 September 1998. Plácido Domingo and Olga Borodina star as Samson and Dalila with Sergei Leiferkus as Grand-prêtre de Dagon, Richard Paul Fin...

    Samson et Dalila
  • 2001
    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg (2001)

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

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    James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, recorded live at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 2001. James Levine conducts....

    Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
  • 1993
    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal (1993)

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal

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    The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cycle. Kurt Moll is a wonderful Gurnemanz, but compared to his studio recording under Karajan a decade ...

    Richard Wagner: Parsifal
  • 2010
    The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

    The Met — Der Rosenkavalier (2010)

    The Met — Der Rosenkavalier

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    This production of Strauss’s most sumptuous work by director Nathaniel Merrill and designer Robert O’Hearn is almost as beloved as the opera itself. It perfectly captures the glittering never-land of rococco Vienna the way the Viennese—and the rest o...

    The Met — Der Rosenkavalier
  • 1992
    La Fanciulla del West

    La Fanciulla del West (1992)

    La Fanciulla del West

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    Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production brings to colorful life a 19th-century mining camp during the California Gold Rush. At the center of the action is the good-hearted bar owner Minnie, sung by Barbara Daniels, who takes a motherly interest...

    La Fanciulla del West
  • 2008
    Manon Lescaut – The Met

    Manon Lescaut – The Met (2008)

    Manon Lescaut – The Met

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    One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of Manon Lescaut, the headstrong young woman torn between a life of luxury and the call of her true love: the Chevalier des Grieux, played by Marcello Gio...

    Manon Lescaut – The Met
  • 2009
    La Sonnambula

    La Sonnambula (2009)

    La Sonnambula

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    Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to say nothing of her fiancé—asleep in the bedroom of a stranger. It takes the young man two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame, and everyt...

    La Sonnambula