Blu-Ray Video, Henze, H (composer)
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Hans Werner Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg
Libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, after the play by Heinrich von Kleist
Stefan Margita (Friedrich Wilhelm), Helene Schneiderman (The Electress), Vera-Lotte Boecker (Princess Natalie), Robin Adams (Friedrich Artur), Moritz Kallenberg (Count Hohenzollern), Michael Ebbecke (Field Marshall Dorfling), Friedemann Rohlig (Colonel Kottwitz), Johannes Kammler (Sergeant), Staatsoper...
Kimmig’s intriguing modern-day production for Staatsoper Stuttgart sets the drama in an abstract frame that’s at once transparent and opaque...Robin Adams is outstanding as Homburg in an excellent... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Wagner: Kaufmann Sings
Recorded at the Semper Oper Dresden, 2013
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Staatskapelle Dresden & Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann
aside from his musical achievement [Kaufmann] has both natural presence and the ability to put over the content of the narrations in gripping but unhistrionic fashion...The music-making is absolutely... —
