Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Return to Blu-Ray Video.
-
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Andreas Schager (Tristan), Anja Kampe (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangäne), Boaz Daniel (Kurwenal), Stephen Milling (King Marke), Stephan Rügamer (Melot)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Dmitri Tcherniakov
[Barenboim's] contribution is masterly, especially in terms of the impeccable balance and refinement of the orchestral playing and the steady momentum of his finely shaped interpretation, which... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
-
-
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Anja Harteros (soprano)
Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato
The playing of the Badische Staatskapelle is decent – with excellent contributions from a busy principal cellist – and Marco Armiliato keeps everything ticking along well…there’s enough quality... — More…
-
Poulenc: Le Voix Humaine & Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Barbara Hannigan (Elle), Ekaterina Gubanova (Judit), John Relyea (Bluebeard)
Paris Opera Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Krzysztof Warlikowski
A solid, uncontroversial staging of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which works well – with two outstanding performers – bonded to a perverse one of Poulenc’s monodrama which does not. — More…
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Video Performance
-
-
Bellini: Norma
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Gregory Kunde (Pollione), Ekaterina Gubanova (Adalgisa), Raymond Aceto (Oroveso), Ana Puche (Clotilde) & Francisco Vas (Flavio)
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Kevin Newbury (stage director)
[Radvanovsky’s] ‘Casta diva’ is dispatched with juicy flair, but it’s in the preceding lines tht the soprano really shows her mettle. Here Radvanovsky astutely establishes Norma’s divided loyalties... — More…
-
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Ekaterina Gubanova (contralto), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
[Zimmerman] The idiom is bluesy and jazzy, with an electric organ warbling in the background alongside a piano and reduced jazz-band forces. The star trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger is no square... — More…
