Samuel Ramey Movies
- 2009
This staging of Puccini's La Rondine stars Monica Yunus, Alyson Cambridge, and Marius Brenciu. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Monica Yunus, Alyson Cambridge, (more)
- 2009
Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli (Otello) mounted and designed the sets for this 2009 stage production of Giacomo Puccini's 1926 opera Turandot, with a cast that includes Maria Guleghina in the title role, Marina Poplavskaya as Liù, Marcello Giordani as Calaf and Samuel Ramey as Timur. The Metropolitan Opera, Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet lend accompaniment, with Donald Palumbo serving as chorus master and Andris Nelsons conducting. Gary Halvorson directs for the stage and Chiang Ching created the choreography. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Maria Guleghina, Marina Poplavskaya, (more)
- 2007
Barcelona, Spain's Gran Teatre del Liceu mounted this production of 19th century French composer Jules Massenet's 1884 opera Manon, starring Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazón and Samuel Ramey and directed by David McVicar. The Symphony and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu provide musical accompaniment under the baton of Victor Pablo Pérez. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazon, (more)
- 1996
The home release Teatro alla Scala: 50th Anniversary Concert commemorates the semicentennial of the reconstruction of the titular opera house - the nerve center of opera in Milan, Italy. Destroyed during the Allied bombings in WWII, the building opened its doors following reconstruction, its first performance on May 11, 1946. Fifty years later, on May 11, 1996, the institution staged this anniversary concert, with a veritable "best of" opera. Extracts are included from Rossini's Guglielmo Tell and Mosè in Egitto,Verdi's Nabucco, I vespri siciliani, La forza del destino and Te deum; Puccini's Manon Lescaut; and Boito's Mefistofele. Soloists include: Mirella Freni, Luciana d'Intino, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Vincenzo La Scola and Samuel Ramey. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlo was recorded live at La Scala, Milano in 1992 and features the vocal talents of Luciano Pavarotti in the title role. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
- 1993
The 1992 Broadway cast performs Leonard Bernstein's musical comedy On the Town, based on an idea by Jerome Robbins. Three sailors -- Gabey (Thomas Hampson), Chip (Kurt Ollmann), and Ozzie (David Garrison) -- run around New York City when they are granted shore leave. In 24 hours time, they manage to meet three city girls (Frederica von Stade, Tyne Daly, and Marie McLaughlin). The music is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, with chorus master Terry Edwards conducting the London Voices. Lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green provide video narration. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- 1991
As mounted at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1991, this gala event enlists a veritable who's who of opera stars, including Plácido Domingo , Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Cheryl Studer and Leo Nucci, to commemorate the 25th Anniversary (1966-1991) of the Metropolitan Opera's presence at Lincoln Center. It features three opera extracts - Act III from Rigoletto, Act III from Otello and Act II from Die Fledermaus - starring the said performers and many others, with accompaniment by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet], under the baton of James Levine. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Directed by Jerome Savary and under the baton of renowned conductor Riccardo Muti, this production of Attila features the voice of Samuel Ramey (bass), and soprano Cheryl Studer. Attila revolves around the barbarism and mayhem during the Roman Empire. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
Gioacchino Rossini's final masterwork gets the royal treatment by the New York Metropolitan Opera in this filmed performance of John Copley's elaborate adaptation starring Marilyn Horne and June Anderson. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marilyn Horne, June Anderson, (more)
- 1990
Set to the backdrop of natural history clips and paintings by Blake and Turner, Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra and Chorus pay tribute to the music of Haydn. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Lucia Popp, Francisco Araiza, (more)
- 199z
Samuel Ramey gives a powerful performance as Attila in this thoughtful, handsomely mounted production of Verdi's classic opera, presented by the internationally famous La Scala opera company. The cast also includes Cheryl Studer as Odabella and features Giorgio Zancanaro, Kaludi Kaludov and Ernesto Gavazzi; Riccardo Muti conducts the orchestra. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Opera directors Arrigo Boito provides his take on Goethe's celebrated Faust legend in this 1989 production of Mefistofele. Under Boito's direction, the story, despite taking several imaginative lyrical and orchestral liberties, remains largely faithful to the original concept. Dancer Samuel Ramey is featured in the title role, and is supported by the chorus and orchestra of the San Francisco Opera. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- 1987
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From Sony Classics comes another entry in the Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy series. Each program presents viewers with one of the many performances by legendary conductor, Herbert Von Karajan, whose music career spanned more than fifty years. Starring Samuel Ramey and Anna Tomowa-Sintow and featuring the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan - His Legacy for Home Video: Don Giovanni presents Von Karajan conducting Mozart's opera Don Giovanni at the 1987 Salzburger Festspiele. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Starring:
- Samuel Ramey, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, (more)
- 1987
This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls short in the cinematic arena. Shirley Verrett stars as the murderous and ambitious Lady Macbeth, Leo Nucci co-stars as her similarly ambitious but slightly more scrupulous husband, who has the good grace to feel some horror at his deeds before he does them. The entire opera was filmed inside a Belgian castle, and some of the smaller parts are obviously lip-synched to pre-recorded music. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leo Nucci, Shirley Verrett, (more)
- 1976
Sarah Caldwell's production of The Barber of Seville, with Beverly Sills, was performed at the New York City Opera. ~ Rovi
- 1973
This compilation performance video from Kultur features excerpts of prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya from the Bolshoi Ballet as the lead in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. Other highlights include clips of Raymonda, Bach's Prelude, and The Dying Swan. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
Recorded live in Glyndebourne, East Sussex, England, at the famed Glyndebourne Festival Opera during its 1975 season, Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress - in this home video release from ArtHaus Musik and EuroArts - features what is widely-regarded as one of the finest operatic productions from the second half of the Twentieth century. Leo Goeke (as Tom Rakewell) and Felicity Lott (as Anne Trulove) bring to life the two leads in Igor Stravinsky's tale of an initially well-meaning young man who soon finds himself falling headfirst into illicit and lascivious, rakish behavior, before he is saved from eternal damnation by Trulove yet goes insane from his association with the powers of darkness and is sentenced to an asylum. Supporting the production are legendary production design by David Hockney, acclaimed performances by the London Philharmonic and the Glyndebourne Chorus, and the stage direction of John Cox. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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