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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Waltraud Meier (Isolde), Ian Storey (Tristan), Michelle DeYoung (Brangaene), Gerd Grochowski (Kurwenal), Matti Salminen (Konig Marke), Willy Hartmann II (Melot), Ryland Davies (Hirt)
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Daniel Barenboim, Patrice Chéreau
Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
Offer, Wagner: Parsifal
Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Festspielchor Baden-Baden, Kent Nagano (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage...
a provocative but effective interpretation, in which the Knights of the Grail are struggling to hang on to life in a post-apocalyptic world (a symbolic meteorite dominates the set in Act I).... — More…
Best Wishes from Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), David Kuebler (Il Conte Almaviva), Gino Quilico (Figaro), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Robert Lloyd (Don Basilio), Edith Kertesz-Gabry (Berta), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ruggero Raimondi (Selim), Paolo Rumetz (Geronio), Reinaldo Macias (Narciso), Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni),...
Offer, Wagner: Das Rheingold
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines... — More…
Offer, Wagner: The Ring (highlights)
Das Rheingold
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda), Silvia Vázquez (Woglinde), Ann-Katrin...
Offer, Verdi: Aida
Kristin Lewis (Aida), Fabio Sartori (Radames), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), George Gagnidze (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis), Carlo Colombara (Il Re), Azer Rza-Zada (Messagero), Chiara Isotton (La gran Sacerdotessa)
La Scala, Zubin Mehta
Offer, Wagner: Die Walküre
Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Petra Maria Schnitzer (Sieglinde), Matti Salminen (Hunding), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Anna Larsson (Fricka)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines... — More…
Offer, Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Ralf Lukas (Gunther), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Waltraute)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
Its brilliant use of computer graphic backgrounds and acrobatic mimes shows one can stage a truly modern, theatrically advantageous Ring without distorting its genuinely central concepts - Wagner's. — More…
Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth (Rae) Magnuson (Donna Anna), Roberto Saccà (Don Ottavio), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira), László Polgár (Leporello), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore), Oliver Widmer (Masetto), Isabel Rey (Zerlina), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Despina), Liliana...