Browse: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (stage director)
This page lists all recordings performed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
René Kollo, Johanna Meier, Matti Salminen, Hermann Becht & Hanna Schwarz
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim
For a supposedly 'difficult' opera, there's a fair choice of DVD Tristans… But this 1983 Bayreuth version, reappearing at last here on DVD, remains the finest. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's staging... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, DVD of the Month
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Frederica von Stade (Cenerentola), Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro), Paolo Montarsolo (Don Magnifico), Claudio Desderi (Dandini), Laura Zannini (Tisbe), Margherita Guglielmi (Clorinda), Paul Plishka (Alidoro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado
Ponnelle's film of his La Scala staging is so imaginative and musically refined that it triumphs over the dubbing. Von Stade is an achingly beautiful Cinderella, Araiza a romantic Prince. — More…