Video and audio clips

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Die tote Stadt

A wonderfully moving audio clip of Gerry singing "Mein Sehnen, Mein Wähnen" (the Pierrot song) from the ROH production of Die tote Stadt, 27 January 2009

 

 



 

Doctor Atomic

A promotional video clip of the new production of Doctor Atomic at the English National Opera

Opening night 25 February 2009

 

 



Two video clips from the Royal Opera House featuring Gerry

1) talking about Die tote Stadt and being a baritone

 

2) talking about Opera training

... and along with Joyce DiDinato, Jose Cura, Alfie Boe, etc, talking about

3) the Royal Opera House,

 

4) what makes a great opera singer

 

5) preparing for a role

 

5) operatic bloomers

 

5) singing in a foreign language

 



 

From YouTube, Gerry singing part of the

Vaughan Williams

Fantasy on Christmas Carols

Moscow 22 December 2008

 



 

Doctor Atomic

Click the photo to see a video clip of the new production of

Doctor Atomic at the Metropolitan Opera, October 2008

courtesy of the New York Times

 





Podcast from www.operalovers.net about the opera "Pinocchio" and featuring an interview with Gerry recorded after a performance of Eugene Onegin, 8 March 2008

Click here to download podcast



 

le nozze di Figaro

Royal Opera House, 2006

 

Click the photos below to see video clips on YouTube of Gerry as Count Almaviva in the newly released DVD from Opus Arte. If you like the clips, please buy the DVD. Click here for performance details

 

Click the DVD cover to see the ROH trailer

 

 

"Cosa sento..."

 

Mozart Figaro Act 2 Finale Part 1

 

Part of the Act 2 finale

 

 

 

 Susanna, or via, sortite

 

Crudel! Perche finora

 

 

Hai gia vinta la causa

Giunse Alfin...Deh Vieni Non Tardar

 

Act 4 Finale Part 1

 

Act 4 Finale Part 2

 



 

Doctor Atomic

 

Click the photo to see a video clip of Doctor Atomic, courtesy of the Chicago Tribune

 

 

YouTube videos of Doctor Atomic

 

"Long let me inhale deeply"

 

 

"What benevolent demon"

 

 

 

"Batter my heart"

 

 

The Countdown

 

 

Click below to hear an interview with Gerald Finley and Eric Owens (who play J Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves)

Courtesy of Lyric Opera, Chicago ("Backstage at Lyric")

http://stream.lyricopera.org/Finley_Owens_Podcast.wax

 

 

Click the photo to hear an audio recording of 

Gerald Finley singing "Batter my heart", Oppenheimer's aria in John Adams' opera, Doctor Atomic

courtesy of the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Excerpt from production of De Nederlandse Opera. 2007 Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Lawrence Renes, conductor



 

See Gerry (and musicologist Gavin Plumley) talking about Pelléas et Mélisande in a video clip from the Royal Opera House. Sadly, it isn’t Gerry singing.

 

 



 

 

Click the photo to hear an audio recording of 

Gerald Finley and Adrianne Pieczonka

in the final scene of Eugene Onegin

Recorded 14 June 2006 at the Inauguration of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts,Toronto. Click here for details.

(Photo of Onegin at ENO, 2005)

 

 

 

 

 

YouTube video clip of Gerry as Jaufré Rudel, Prince de Blaye in Saariaho's L'amour de loin for Finnish Opera in 2005

 

 

 

Click below for details of the DVD...

 



 

 

AYouTube video clip of Gerry, Iwona Hossa, Tove Dahlberg and Edgaras Montvidas singing an extract from Viktor Ullmann’s opera "Emperor of Atlantis" broadcast on BBC TV January 2005

 

 

Click below for details of the DVD  



 

 

Youtube audio clip of Gerry singing "Tu decides son sort... o toi, l'objet le plus aimable" from Iphigenie en Aulide at Glyndebourne in 2002 

 


 





 

Click the link below for an 8 minute Youtube clip of Gerry singing "Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus cries" in a performance of Alexander's Feastby Händel's Melk, Austria 2001 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiEi14tfaeQ  


 

 

Youtube clips of Gerry as Papageno in a 1995 semi-staged production of Die Zauberflöte in Amsterdam

 

 

 

 

 

Click below for details of the recording  







 

 

YouTube videos of 

Gerald Finley as Figaro in the

1994 Le nozze di Figaro from Glyndebourne:

Act II 'Ah signor' &Finale

 

 

 

Click below for details of the DVD from which the clip was taken