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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva), Daniel Behle (David), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Magdalene), Günther Groissböck (Pogner)
Bayreuth Festival, Philippe Jordan, Barrie Kosky
In Barrie Kosky’s spirited but uneven 2017 staging of Wagner’s comedy there are splurges of ideas…The performances of the cast are of a high standard dramatically and mostly musically. Volle... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
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Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Elīna Garanča (Octavian), Günther Groissböck (Baron Ochs), Erin Morley (Sophie), Markus Brück (Herr von Faninal), Matthew Polenzani (An Italian singer)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Sebastian Weigle
Carsen reminds us that this is Vienna waltzing on the edge of a volcano…There’s no denying the care with which [Fleming] sings the role, even if she never quite manages to act from within…[Garanča]... — More…
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Offer, Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Günther Groissböck (Sarastro), Saimir Pirgu (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Queen of the Night), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Alex Esposito (Papageno) & Peter Bronder (Monostatos)
Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Choir of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Roland...
This is a wonderful performance...I was more moved and enchanted by this than by any other Magic Flute I have seen on DVD...[Esposito's Papageno] sung with glorious abandon, while his acting... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Sonya Yoncheva (Desdemona), Željko Lučić (Iago), Chad Shelton (Roderigo), Dimitri Pittas (Cassio), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Emilia), Tyler Duncan (A herald), Günther Groissböck (Lodovico), Jeff Mattsey (Montano)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Yannick Nézet-Séguin...
Antonenko is not vocally the largest Otello but he colours and phrases with care and expressiveness. Likewise, the compactness of Lučić’s Iago is sometimes at odds with the breadth of the production.... — More…
Offer, Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Krassimira Stoyanova (Marschallin), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Mojca Erdmann (Sophie), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (Annina), Günther Groissböck (Ochs), Adrian Eröd (Faninal), Kresimir Spicer (Valzacchi), Stefan Pop (Italian Singer)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst
Hooray for director Harry Kupfer!...[he] knows that Rosenkavalier is a supreme exercise in nostalgia...This is also Freud's Vienna. Stoyanova's Marschallin is a scrupulous analyst of her own... — More…
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Offer, Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky)
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Opolais's physical grace and fine lyric-dramatic soprano would elsewhere embody the young and older Tatyana's; baritone Artur Rucinski phrases the Act 1 arioso better than anyone since Dmitri... — More…
Dvorak: Rusalka, Op. 114
Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Klaus Florian Vogt (The Prince), Gunther Groissbock (Vodnik), Janina Baechle (Jezibaba), Nadia Krasteva (The Foreign Princess)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Tomáš Hanus (conductor) & Martin Kušej (stage director)
Whatever reservations one might have about the production, the performance as a whole is remarkable. The cast has clearly bought into the producer's concept and they deliver a devastating ensemble... — More…
Offer, Wagner: Tannhäuser
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Petra Maria Schnitzer (Elisabeth), Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Venus), Günther Groissböck (Hermann), Markus Eiche (Wolfram)
Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu & Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Sebastian Weigle
Peter Seiffert sings powerfully and expressively as Tannhauser, and Petra Maria a bit too powerfully as Elisabeth. The orchestra, under Sebastian Weigle, gives a strong account of the score — More…
Offer, Dvorak: Rusalka, Op. 114
Kristine Opolais (Rusalka), Klaus Florian Vogt (Prince), Nadia Krasteva (Foreign Princess), Gunther Groissböck (Goblin), Janina Baechle (Ježibaba), Ulrich Reß (Forester), Tara Erraught (Kitchen Boy), John Chest (Hunter)
Bayerische Staatsoper, Tomas Hanus, Martin Kušej