Gilbert Deflo

Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades - Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (2010)

Obsessive in gambling and in love, the soldier Hermann is the protagonist of Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, based on a story by Pushkin. He is smitten with the aristocratic Lisa and fixated on learning the winning secret of ‘the three cards’ from her grandmother, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pietro d'Agostino  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Misha Didyk  •  Lado Ataneli  •  Ludovic Tézier  •  Ewa Podleś

Obsessive in gambling and in love, the soldier Hermann is the protagonist of Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame, based on a story by Pushkin. He is smitten with the aristocratic Lisa and fixated on learning the winning secret of ‘the three cards’ from her grandmother, the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pietro d'Agostino  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Misha Didyk  •  Lado Ataneli  •  Ludovic Tézier  •  Ewa Podleś

Rigoletto (1994)

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Patrizia Carmine  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Roberto Alagna  •  Renato Bruson  •  Andrea Rost  •  Dimitri Kavrakos

Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Patrizia Carmine  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Roberto Alagna  •  Renato Bruson  •  Andrea Rost  •  Dimitri Kavrakos

Rigoletto (2006)

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix Breisach  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Piotr Beczala  •  Leo Nucci  •  Elena Mosuc  •  László Polgár

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Felix Breisach  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Piotr Beczala  •  Leo Nucci  •  Elena Mosuc  •  László Polgár

L'Amour des trois Oranges - Prokofiev (2007)

L'Opéra National de Paris' production of L'Amour des Trois Oranges must certainly be one of the most elaborate operatic presentations. It has a cast of gazillions, characters who fly, jugglers, fire-eaters, remarkably elaborate costumes, amazingly realistic props ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Charles Workman  •  Hannah Esther Minutillo  •  Guillaume Antoine  •  Béatrice Uria-Monzon

L'Opéra National de Paris' production of L'Amour des Trois Oranges must certainly be one of the most elaborate operatic presentations. It has a cast of gazillions, characters who fly, jugglers, fire-eaters, remarkably elaborate costumes, amazingly realistic props ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Charles Workman  •  Hannah Esther Minutillo  •  Guillaume Antoine  •  Béatrice Uria-Monzon

L'Orfeo (2002)

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual delight and a musically satisfying representation of Monteverdi's opera  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Large  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Jordi Savall  •  Montserrat Figueras  •  Furio Zanasi  •  Arianna Savall

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual delight and a musically satisfying representation of Monteverdi's opera  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Large  •  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Jordi Savall  •  Montserrat Figueras  •  Furio Zanasi  •  Arianna Savall

Manon (2001)

Live 2001 recording at the Bastille opera in Paris in a production for l'Opéra de Paris by Gilbert Deflo. High praise was given to the historical costumes by William Orlando, the minimal décor, the sophisticated lighting as well as the musical excellence of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Renée Fleming  •  Marcelo Álvarez  •  Jean-Luc Chaignaud  •  Alain Vernhes

Live 2001 recording at the Bastille opera in Paris in a production for l'Opéra de Paris by Gilbert Deflo. High praise was given to the historical costumes by William Orlando, the minimal décor, the sophisticated lighting as well as the musical excellence of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gilbert Deflo
CAST:  Renée Fleming  •  Marcelo Álvarez  •  Jean-Luc Chaignaud  •  Alain Vernhes