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Faccio: Hamlet
Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker,...
Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet…acts and sings terrifically…while the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan is an affecting Ophelia…Amleto... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Découverte
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Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, Editor's Choice
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Weinberg: The Passenger, Op. 97
Michelle Breedt (Lisa), Roberto Sacca (Walter), Elena Kelessidi (Martha), Artur Rucinski (Tadeusz), Svetlana Doneva (Katja), Liuba Sokolova (Bronka), Angelica Voje (Krzystina)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[This] production had the knife-edge atmosphere of a major rediscovery, and it features strong performances from most of the principals and from the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carigni
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci
Christoph Pohl, Gal James, Dshamilja Kaiser, Christina Bock
Prague Philharmonic Choir Wiener Symphoniker, Johannes Debus
Christoph Pohl has an athletic frame, and his fast, slick movements make the character of the Count all the more maniacal and menacing. His voice is a little light, but Goldschmidt’s clear orchestration... — More…
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Opera, October 2019, Disc of the Month
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
Hector Sandoval (André Chénier), Norma Fantini (Maddalena di Coigny), Scott Hendricks (Carlo Gérard), Tania Kross (Bersi), Rosalind Plowright (Madelon)
Wiener Symphoniker, Ulf Schirmer
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Recorded live at Bregenz Festival
Daniel Johansson (Hoffmann), Kerstin Avemo (Olympia, Giulietta), Mandy Fredrich (Antonia), Rachel Frenkel (Muse, Niklausse, Die Stimme der Mutter), Michael Volle (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto)
Wiener Symphoniker, Johannes Debus, Stefan Herheim
Johansson’s big-voice Hoffmann lacks a genuine pianissimo but phrases elegantly…Fredrich and Frenkel are nicely stylish…playing and choral singing are both excellent — More…
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Puccini: Turandot
Mlada Khudoley (Turandot), Manuel von Senden (Altoum), Michael Ryssov (Timur), Riccardo Massi (Calaf), Guanqun Yu (Liu)
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Guanqun Yu's schoolgirl Liu, sporting beret and pigtails, is the pick of the cast. She delivers a beautifully affecting, 'Tu che di gel sei cinta'…Riccardo Massi sings attractively as Calaf,... — More…
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Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Andrew Foster-Williams (Faraone), Mandy Fredrich (Amaltea), Sunnyboy Dladla (Osiride), Clarissa Costanzo (Elcia), Taylan Reinhard (Mambre), Goran Jurić (Mosè), Matteo Macchioni (Aronne), Dara Savinova (Amenofi)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Lotte De Beer
As Osiride, Sunnyboy Dladla is a useful bel canto tenor…and Andrew Foster-Williams is a stern voiced Pharoah. Best of all is the young Italian soprano, Clarissa Costanzo, who rightly stops the... — More…
