Blu-Ray Video, Arnold Schoenberg Chor (choir)
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Emilio De' Cavalieri: Rappresentatione Di Anima Et Di Corpo
Anett Fritsch, Carlo Vistoli, Cyril Auvity, Daniel Schmutzhard, Georg Nigl, Florian Boesch, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini, Robert Carsen
This Rappresentatione is as entertaining a sermon as you’re ever likely to see. Does it belong in the opera house? Carsen certainly makes a persuasive case. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Alfredo Catalani: La Wally
Izabela Matula, Leonardo Capalbo, Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Ilona Revolskaya, Alastair Miles (bass), Barbora Horáková Joly (staging), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker, Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Orozco-Estrada conducts the Vienna Symphony with plenty of passion and punch...All in all, then, a powerful, intelligent account of this fine verismo work. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Beethoven: Fidelio
Nicole Chevalier (Leonore), Eric Cutler (Florestan), Gabor Bretz (Don Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Melissa Petit (Marzelline), Benjamin Hulett (Jaquino), Karoly Szemeredy (Don Fernando), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Manfred Honeck, Christoph Waltz (director)
Manfred Honeck and Christoph Waltz show nothing but absolute faith in the dramaturgical success of the results...All the leads look and sound the part...Nicole Chevalier and Eric Cutler both... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Puccini: Tosca
Kristine Opolais (Tosca), Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi), Gábor Bretz (Scarpia), Rafał Pawnuk (Sacristan/Sciarrone), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Marc Albrecht, Martin Kušej
This is not the finest Tosca you will ever hear, nor the most opulent one you’ll ever see … but it’s possibly the one you’ll most remember. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Handel: Saul
Florian Boesch (Saul), Jake Arditti (David), Anna Prohaska (Merab), Giulia Semenzato (Michal), Rupert Charlesworth (Jonathan), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Witch of Endor), Andrew Morstein (Amalekite)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Christopher Moulds, Claus Guth
Whether lashing out in fortissimo melismas or whispering in pure-tone pianissimo, Boesch probes totalising extremes. Other principals match Boesch’s top quality, particularly Arditti, whose... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Stanisław Moniuszko: Halka
Corinne Winters (soprano), Tomasz Konieczny (bass-baritone), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Alexey Tikhomirov, Natalia Kawałek, Łukasz Jakobski, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Lukas Borowicz, Mariusz Treliński
by the time we reach the grand ensembles Łukasz Borowicz’s conducting has all guns blazing, his orchestra putting over the music’s defining dance rhythms with lightness and point, if not ideal... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà
Svetlana Aksenova (Zazà), Enkelejda Shkosa (Aniade), Dorothea Herbert (Floriana/Madame Dufresne), Juliette Mars (Natalia), Nikolai Schukoff (Milio Dufresne), Vittoria Antonuzzo (Toto Dufresne), Christopher Maltman (Cascart), Tobias Greenhalgh (Bussy), Paul Schweinester (Courtois), Johannes Bamberger...
Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan... —
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Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
Ausrine Stundyte (Renata), Bo Skovhus (Ruprecht), Natascha Petrinsky (Hostess/Abbess), Elena Zaremba (Fortune-Teller), Nikolai Schukoff (Agrippa von Nettesheim/Mephistopheles)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Constantin Trinks, Andrea Breth
With both the setting and aspects of the story radically altered, the opera becomes even darker and more powerful...Aušrinė Stundytė has in recent years made the role of Renate her own; and... —
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Weber: Euryanthe
Jacquelyn Wagner (soprano), Theresa Kronthaler (mezzo-soprano), Norman Reinhardt (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone), Stefan Cerny (bass), Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Constantin Trinks
It’s a classic example of the modern minimalist staging that Christof Loy has been perfecting over the years….this is the most approachable and effective Euryanthe yet in the current catalogues. —
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Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (1841 version)
Samuel Youn (Der Holländer), Ingela Brimberg (Senta), Lars Woldt (Donald), Bernard Richter (Georg), Ann-Beth Solvang (Mary), Manuel Günther (Der Steuermann)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski sounds totally at home in this ‘Romantische Oper’, pacing the drama unerringly without sacrificing spontaneity of phrasing. The orchestral playing...has all the warmth and impulsiveness... —
