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Blu-Ray Video, Bernard Richter (tenor)
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Lully: Atys
Bernard Richter (Atys), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cybele), Emmanuele De Negri (Sangaride), Nicolas Rivenq (Célénus), Marc Mauillon (Idas), Sophie Daneman (Doris), Jaël Azzaretti (Mélisse), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Sommeil), Cyril Auvity (Morphée), Bernard Deletre (Le Temps/Le Fleuve Sangar), Les Arts Florissants,...
These excellent singer-actors tread a fine line between sincerity and send-up...Les Arts Florissants excel themselves. The sumptuous realm of le roi soleil is here brilliantly evoked. —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Alain Vernhes (Marquis de la Force), Susan Gritton (Blanche de la Force), Bernard Richter (Chevalier de la Force), Sylvie Brunet (Madame de Croissy), Soile Isokoski (Madame Lidoine), Susanne Resmark (Mère Marie)
Bayerisches Staatsorchesterr, Kent Nagano
[the production is] set in a soulless authoritarian state but filmed in a way that underlines individual dilemmas and common humanity. It is worth watching for Sylvie Brunet’s doughty Madame... —
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Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Dietrich Henschel (Buonafede), Vivica Genaux (Ernesto), Bernard Richter (Ecclitico), Christina Landshamer (Clarice), Maite Beaumont (Lisetta), Markus Schafer (Cecco)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) & Tobias Moretti (director)
With the ever-responsive Concentus Musicus, [Harnoncourt] duly mines the comically disruptive potential of Haydn's music with unabashed glee... The comic leads are ideally cast...an inventive,... —
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Mozart: Idomeneo
Bernard Richter (Idomeneo), Rachel Frenkel (Idamante), Valentina Nafornița (Ilia), Irina Lungu (Elettra), Pavel Kolgatin (Arbace)
Wiener Staatsoper, Tomáš Netopil, Kasper Holten
Best of all is Irina Lungu’s Elettra who tears into her final aria ‘D’Oreste, d’Aiace’ as if there were no tomorrow, which of course there isn’t for her!..As you would expect, the chorus of... —
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera
Krešimir Špicer (Don Anchise), Julie Martin du Theil (La Marchesa Violante), Bernard Richter (Il Contino Belfiore), Anett Fritsch (Arminda), Lucia Cirillo (Ramiro), Giulia Semenzato (Serpetta), Mattia Olivieri (Nardo)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (on period instruments), Diego Fasolis, Frederic...
this is an interesting and hugely enjoyable performance of a production that certainly has its flaws and errors, but also the merit of original thought that fundamentally respects the intentions... —
