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Yuja comes alive, it seems, only when she is on stage playing the piano, as is vividly demonstrated by the documentary and the complete performances of Rhapsody in Blue and the Ravel G major... — More…
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New, Offer, Tchaikovsky: John Cranko's Onegin
The Stuttgart Ballet & State Orchestra Suttgart, James Tuggle
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova
Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
4It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance…musically all is superb; this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same... — More…
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New, Offer, Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Riccardo), George Petean (Renato), Anja Harteros (Amelia), Okka von der Damerau (Ulrica), Sofia Fomina (Oscar)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta, Johannes Erath
Faccio: Hamlet
Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker,...
Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet…acts and sings terrifically…while the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan is an affecting Ophelia…Amleto... — More…
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New, Offer, Bernstein at 100
The Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Pre-order, Offer, Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra - 50 Years Anniversary Concert
Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
New, Offer, Puccini: Turandot
Rebeka Lokar (Turandot), Jorge de León (Calaf), Erika Grimaldi (Liù), In-Sung Sim (Timur)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Stefano Poda
The show forges its own hallucinatory logic and looks stylish…[but] it sometimes feels as if the singers themselves are inconvenient bit-parts…Noseda will be missed at Turin, as this punchy and... — More…
New, Offer, Wagner: Die Walküre
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Anja Harteros (Sieglinde), Christa Mayer (Fricka), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
