Simon O'Neill
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Special offer. Janáček: Katya Kabanova
RecommendedAmanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle and his recording engineers have produced a Katya that sound s magnificent both in its attention to musical detail and in those sudden orchestral climaxes that seem to sweep nature itself... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Otello), Gerald Finley (Iago), Anne Schwanewilms (Desdemona), Allan Clayton (Cassio), Ben Johnson (Roderigo), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Lodovico), Matthew Rose (Montano), Lukas Jakobski (Herald) & Eufemia Tufano (Emilia)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
everything contributes to accentuating extremes: Colin Davis gets the LSO, in shattering form, to play chords like cannon shots...The two male leads are superb: Simon O'Neill is the most complete... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O'Neill (Siegfried), Michael Volle (Der Wanderer), Peter Hoare (Mime), Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Franz-Josef Selig (Fafner), Gerhild Romberger (Erda), Danae Kontora (Waldvogel), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle shows a keen awareness of orchestral colour and brings an impressive dynamism to the music. His tendency is to be quite speedy – and there is certainly virtue in such an approach. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Orchestra of the Year
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Siegfried), Matthias Goerne (The Wanderer), David Cangelosi (Mime), Werner Van Mechelen (Alberich), Heidi Melton (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Valentina Farcas (Wood-Bird)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] evokes both its youthful energy and darker undercurrents, with excellent playing from the augmented Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra…But every ‘Siegfried’ hangs on the title role,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Simon O’Neill (Siegfried), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Iain Paterson (The Wanderer), Martin Winkler (Alberich), Clive Bayley (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Woodbird), Anna Larsson (Erda), Rachel Nicholls (Brünnhilde)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
The outstanding performances here come from the Hallé and their music director. With quality playing from all departments, Wagner’s complex orchestral timbres are carefully presented, while... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Siegfried), Matthias Goerne (The Wanderer), David Cangelosi (Mime), Werner Van Mechelen (Alberich), Heidi Melton (Brünnhilde)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] evokes both its youthful energy and darker undercurrents, with excellent playing from the augmented Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra…But every ‘Siegfried’ hangs on the title role,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Martin, F: Der Sturm
Christine Buffle (soprano), Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Dennis Wilgenhof (bass), Simon O'Neill (tenor), Andreas Macco (bass), Ethan Herschenfeld (bass), Josef Wagner (baritone), James Gilchrist (tenor), Marcel Beekman (tenor), Roman Sadnik (tenor), André Morsch (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone),...
The Swiss composer shaped his only full opera with complete assurance...Thierry Fischer controls all the elements with a sure hand in this recording with a strong cast —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Distant Beloved
Beethoven, Schumann, Strauss and Wagner
Simon O'Neill (tenor), Terence Dennis (piano)
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Highlights)
Matthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde - Die Walküre), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde/Brünnhilde - Siegfried), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Brünnhilde - Götterdämmerung), Daniel Brenna (Siegfried - Götterdämmerung), Simon O’Neill (Siegfried - Siegfried); Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
With excellent sound, singing that is often way above average and a production team that appreciates the stormier elements of Wagner’s humbling rhetoric, we have a Ring that shoots straight... —
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Wagnermania
Michelle DeYoung (soloist), Simon O'Neill (soloist), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (soloist), Orchestre national d'Ile-de-France, Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Case Scaglione
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