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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedPiotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Anja Harteros (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tomasz Konieczny (Friedrich), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Christian Thielemann, Yuval Sharon
Harteros as Elsa responds with singing of considerable lyric beauty, her tonal response generous and well matched to the music…Beczała’s Lohengrin provides glorious singing from start to finish... — More…
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs), Michael Volle (Sixtus Beckmesser), Michaela Kaune (Eva), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing), Norbert Ernst (David), Carola Guber (Magdalene), Artur Korn (Veit Pogner)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Sebastian Weigle, Katharina Wagner
Katharina Wagner at first presents Walther von Stolzing as a paint-spraying performance artist and Beckmesser as a retentive, Reclam-photocopying pedant...This nicely observed updating would... — More…
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Wagner: Parsifal
Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), Matthias Hölle (Titurel), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Poul Elming (Parsifal), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Klingsor), Linda Watson (Kundry)
Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) & Wolfgang Wagner (stage director)
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Johan Botha (Siegmund), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Edith Haller (Sieglinde), Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Mihoko Fujimura (Fricka)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Christian Thielemann, Tankred Dorst
The sets, reflecting the blue-grey and orange hues of the Festspielhaus foyer, create some striking stage pictures...Botha as Siegmund is ungainly, yet gives this dark character unusual innocence... — More…
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Irene Theorin (Isolde), Robert Holl (König Marke), Jukka Rasilainen (Kurwenal), Ralf Lukas (Melot), Michelle Breedt (Brangäne), Clemens Bieber (Junger Seemann), Arnold Bezuyen (Hirt) & Martin Snell (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele...
As in all great stagings - and I have no doubt that this is one - a list of unforgettable links between text, music and action soon accumulates. It's hard to know where to point the awards finger... — More…
