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1) Elena
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Italiano
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Recorded live during the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2013, Cavalli's Elena had not been performed for more than 350 years. It relates the first adventures of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, coveted by numerous men including Menelaus, and Theseus, who abducts her and tries to seduce her to the great displeasure of this legitimate fiancee, Hippolyta.
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Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has procured him three servants and a geisha wife, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly. He is enchanted with the fragile Cio-Cio-San. Cio-Cio-San is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows her bridegroom her few earthly treasures and tells him of her intention...
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A battle of the sexes, loaded with confusion, mixed identities, a boy dressed up as a girl, and hilarious dialogue with plenty of double entendre. The impending marriage of Figaro to Susanna is threatened by the scheming of Count Almaviva, who desires Susanna for himself, and Marcellina, who wants to marry Figaro herself. All problems are resolved with the help of Countess Almaviva, and the couple are able to marry.
5) Tosca
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Italiano
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"Luciano Pavarotti's Cavaradossi in Tosca was his most celebrated role at the Met. It was captured for posterity in Tito Gobbi's famous production in 1978, with Shirley Verrett in the title role and the tenor in his glorious prime." -- Back cover.
7) Passione
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Italiano
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Watch a musical adventure that comes directly out of the people and the volcanic land they inhabit. Conjuring ancient stories and myths that still live of love, sex, jealously, and social protest, each song is a small screenplay, an emotional postcard.
9) La traviata
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Italiano
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The young and beautiful Parisian courtesan Violetta is dying of consumption. She leaves her true love, the impoverished nobleman Alfredo, at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.