Hard to imagine a better Tom and Nick than Hadley and Ramey. Hadley's early death was a great loss.

What a fantastic production! I miss the late, great Jerry Hadley. Stellar cast!

Jerry Hadley was a magnificent Tom Rakewell! Wonderful performance.

The music starts at 1:17 if you want to skip the audience noise

Steve Cole is perfectly amazing as Selem! They did not need a dance double for him.

thank you so much for the upload

I love the auction scene

loved this

Great !

21分32秒からの音楽 私は大好き リヨン・オペラのCDを繰り返し聴いた 映像を初めて見た ナガノの歯切れの良い指揮が魅力

Stravinsky el camaleón/como siempre fantástica orquestación/ great rendition of Dawn upshaw

51:23 -- extremely creepy to see Mr. Hadley in that moment; wonder whose idea it was -- his or the director's?

I don't get the business with the dancer doubles. Ramey is fabulous. What marvelous diction.

20分55秒あたり以降 コープランドのディキンスンの詩の１曲めみたい

52:49 come master observe the host of mankind

very strange staging, not sure if i like it. singing on the other hand is terrific as expected

Would have been a much better production without Wayne Sleep and Princess Diana appearing every two minutes.

Ramey could be good Creont in Oedipus Rex.

1:58:25 - I burn

Thanks for posting this. I love this opera, and this is a good cast. Upshaw and Ramey are terrific. I'm less convinced by Jerry Hadley - his voice is a little heavy for the part, and he does overact, with an occasional Broadway mannerisms creeping in. Victoria Vergara is a hoot. But. This delightful opera doesn't need this stupid, complicated, distraction-filled production. Nothing does, actually, but that's the world we live in.

Why are all those dancers there? Wouldn't it be more distracting and meaningless to have, say, a barbeque or a tobacco auction in the background, so you couldn't concentrate on the opera at all?

I cannot stand that ballet thing going on in the background, most distracting. Wonderful singing nonetheless.

Lose the dancers - distracting.

What's going on with Hadley in "Here I stand?" Just not warmed up yet?

The singing is just fine, thank you. The dancers gratuitously tossed onstage into various scenes is a horridly distracting and highly intrusive anomaly... ugh.

Much as I tried to enjoy this recording (and I mainly listened rather than watched the staging), I just can't listen to Ms. Upshaw's swoops to every other note. Her voice is otherwise pleasant, so it's unfortunate. :-(