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Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Aida, opera in four acts, first performance 24 December 1871, Khedivial Opera House, Cairo. Libretto: Antonio Ghislanzoni Ouverture (1/2) Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes The original ouverture to Aida but never performed since Verdi didn’t like it when he heard it and he took it back. … Opera Classical Giuseppi Verdi Aida Ouverture Sir Edward Downes BBC Philarmonic

Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Jérusalem, Grand opera in four acts, first performance 26 November 1847, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris. Libretto: Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz which was partly translated and adapted from Verdi’s original 1843 Italian opera, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. Ballet music: Pas solo Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes … Opera Classical Giuseppe Verdi Jerusalem Ballet music BBC Philarmonic Sir Edward Downes Lombardi alla prima crociata …

Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Attila, opera in a prologue and three acts, first performance 17 March 1846, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Libretto: Temistocle Solera, based on the play Attila, König der Hunnen (”Attila, King of the Huns”) by Zacharias Werner. Preludio Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes … Opera Classical Giuseppe Verdi Attila Preludio Sir Edward Downes BBC Philarmonic

Valentin Chantereau’s Debut as A Conductor!!

Giuseppe Verdi Opera: I Masnadieri, opera in four acts, first performance 22 July 1847, Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Libretto: Andrea Maffei, based on Die Räuber by Friedrich von Schiller. Preludio Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes … Giuseppe Verdi Opera Classical Masnadieri Preludio BBC Philarmonic Sir Edward Downes Friedrich von Schiller

A partly film, partly stage rendition of the 3rd Act Torso of Alban Berg’s “Lulu”. Laura Aikin (Lulu), Cornelia Kallisch (Geschwitz). Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst. Film director: Thomas Grimm … Alban Berg Lulu Opera

Giuseppe Verdi Opera: Nabucco / Nabucodonosor, opera in four acts, first performance 9 March 1842, Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Libretto: Temistocle Solera Ouverture Orchestra: BBC Philarmonic Conductor: Sir Edward Downes The german composer Otto Nicolai, who had first been offered the libretto but refused to accept it, had no beautiful things to say about Verdis opera, “Verdi’s operas are really horrible,” he wrote. “He scores like a fool — technically he is not even professional — and he …