Blu-Ray Video, Malin Byström (soprano)
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
David Butt Philip (Lohengrin), Malin Bystrom (Elsa), Anja Kampe (Ortrud), Martin Gantner (Friedrich von Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich der Vogler), Attila Mokus (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann,Tiziano Mancini
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Puccini: Tosca
Malin Byström (Tosca), Joshua Guerrero (Cavaradossi), Gevorg Hakobyan (Scarpia), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Barrie Kosky, Lorenzo Viotti
Kosky and Viotto, closely allied in style, find fresh, sometimes truly shocking energy...this must be one of the bloodiest Toscas shown on stage, in a world where the characters’ Christian faith... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Gerald Finley (Guillaume Tell), Malin Byström (Mathilde), John Osborn (Arnold Melchtal), Sofia Fomina (Jemmy), Nicolas Courjal (Gesler), Alexander Vinogradov (Walter Furst), Enkelejda Shkosa (Hedwige), Eric Halfvarson (Melcthal), Michael Colvin (Rodolphe), Samuel Dale Johnson (Leuthold), Enea Scala...
Musically it has a lot going for it, not least the rarely performed and ambitious score itself, conducted by Antonio Pappano with his customary zeal and stylistic insight. The leading role of... —
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Strauss: Salome
Malin Byström (Salome), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Lance Ryan (Herodes), Evgeny Nikitin (Jochanaan), Peter Sonn (Narraboth), Ivo van Hove (Director)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Daniele Gatti
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera...
Holten shows us Giovanni as a man older than usual, lonely, perhaps trying to stave off his fear of death with each new seduction...Some of the singing would not pass muster on CD. But the acting... —
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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Roberto Tagliavini (Leporello), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Elvira), Daniel Behle (Don Ottavio), Louise Alder (Zerlina), Petros Magoulas (Commendatore), Leon Košavic (Masetto)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hartmut Haenchen, Kasper Holten
The production mixes and matches the Prague and Vienna versions of the opera in an uncritical way, with Holten’s Giovanni not dragged off to hell and the moral edge of the final ensemble blunted... —
