Ferruccio Furlanetto

The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot (2022)

Giacomo Puccini's final operatic masterpiece, Turandot, is one of the repertory's most extravagant spectacles. And in the Met's production, by legendary director Franco Zeffirelli, this tale of an icy Chinese princess and the mysterious prince vying to win ...

Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino (2019)

Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by Christof Loy. The Marquis of Calatrava forbids his daughter Leonora to marry the South American nobleman Don Alvaro. The lovers attempt to elope, but the Mar ...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Arena di Verona (2018)

Verdi: Ernani (2012)

Rising Met star Angela Meade is Elvira, the young woman caught between three men: her lover, the nobleman-turned-outlaw Ernani (Marcello Giordani); her guardian, the rich, elderly de Silva, who wants her for himself (Ferruccio Furlanetto); and Don Carlo, t ...

Verdi: Macbeth (2011)

Recorded at the Paris Opera and co-produced with Siberia's Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work. Google Earth satellite images plunge us into the heart of the action: ...

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlo (2010)

Family jealousy, threat of rebellion, political back-stabbing and the Inquisition weigh heavy on the court of King Phillip II. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where a number of heretics are to be burnt at the stake. ...

Simon Boccanegra - Teatro La Scala Milano (2010)

Opera di Giuseppe Verdi a Milano. ...

The Barber of Seville (2009)

23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA incredibly quickly – legend has it in just 13 days – which Rossini attributed to 'facility and lots of instinct'. The opera, characterized by youthful energy and bold wit, ...

Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris (2009)

Coproduced with Siberia's Novosibirsk Opera, this new Macbeth uses cutting-edge multimedia technology to give the viewer a fresh perspective on the work. Google Earth satellite images plunge us into the heart of the action: a gloomy square surrounded by so ...

Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele (2008)

Starring Ferruccio Furlanetto, Giuseppe Filianoti & Dimitra Theodossiou. ...

Don Carlo - ROH (2008)

Rolando Villazón Triumphantly Returns To The Stage As Don Carlo In The 2007/2008 Royal Opera House'S Producton Of Don Carlo. National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner's new staging of Verdi's grandest-- and arguably greatest -- opera, Don Carlo, was the h ...

Eugene Onegin (2007)

The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends adde ...

Simon Boccanegra (2002)

One of the lesser known works by Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers as one of his finest. The action takes place in the 14th century and deals with the political and personal rivalry between the corsair Simon Boccanegra, who ...

Don Giovanni (2000)

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000. ...

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary (1996)

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this much; Levine has done for the Met, making it the premier ...

Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1996)

A look at the entire process of creating and developing Patrice Chéreau's third staging of "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard Marie Koltès with Pascal Greggory and Chéreau himself. From the first reading around the table through the first con ...

Don Pasquale - Teatro alla Scala (1994)

Don Giovanni (1991)

Live performance from Cologne Opera. Conlon conducts a skittishly dynamic performance of Don Giovanni. He relies on Thomas Allen's tough Don to give the work much of its dark menace and on Holle's terrifying Commendatore to provide the moral outrage – hi ...

I vespri Siciliani (1990)

The story revolves around a Sicilian rebellion against the French, fueled by themes of oppression, freedom, and the personal costs of conflict. The opera explores a love triangle, a troubled father-son relationship, and culminates in a bloody uprising duri ...

Così fan tutte (1989)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this filmed studio performance of Mozart's opera recorded in 1988. ...

An Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti (1988)

Opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland -- one of the most acclaimed tenors and one of the most beloved sopranos of the 20th century -- take the stage at the Met for a gala evening of opera scenes with special guest Leo Nucci. Filmed in 1987, th ...

The Met - Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1988)

With its hilarious hijinks and vocal virtuosity, Rossini's madcap comedy always proves a delightful treat. For this 1988 telecast, the Met assembled a cast capable of tackling both the musical and physical challenges of this bel canto farce, seen here in a ...

Don Giovanni (1987)

Live performance from Salzburger Festspiele in 1987. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor. Stage director Michael Hampe. Starring Samuel Ramey and Anna Tomowa-Sintow. ...

Don Carlo (1986)

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera. ...

Karajan: Mozart - Coronation Mass (1985)

Herbert von Karajan, who led the Belgian Philharmonic for more than three decades until his death in 1989, conducts this moving June 1985 concert filmed in Rome's breathtaking St. Peter's Basilica. Karajan and the orchestra take on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' ...

Don Carlo (1983)

Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles. Louis Quilico was never quite in that league, and he sounds a b ...

Verdi: Rigoletto (1982)

Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies ...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1981)

Live from Glyndebourne 1981 ...

La Gioconda - Ponchielli (1979)

Rare recording of the 1979 San Francisco performance of La Gioconda by Ponchielli ...