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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Natalie Dessay (Mélisande), Stéphane Degout (Pelléas), Laurent Naouri (Golaud), Philip Ens (Arkel), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Geneviève), Tim Mirfin (Physician/Shepherd), Beate Ritter (Yniold)
Radio-SymphonieOrchester Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Bertrand De Billy, Laurent Pelly
a stellar cast featuring Natalie Dessay, Stéphane Degout and Laurent Naouri lead a performance in which the subtle psychological and emotional strangeness of the opera is enhanced by Laurent... — More…
Massenet: Cendrillon
Recommended
Joyce DiDonato (Cendrillon), Alice Coote (Prince Charming), Eglise Gutiérrez (Fairy Godmother), Ewa Podles (Madame de la Haltère), Jean-Philippe Lafont (Pandolfe), Madeleine Pierard (Noémie), Kai Rüütel (Dorothée), Jeremy White (Le Roi)
The Royal Opera House, Bertrand de Billy, Laurent Pelly
Pelly's production has a style all of its own...DiDonato is winning in Cinderella's smiles and tears, though vocally a little edgy. But she's well ballasted by...Alice Coote, who is intense and... — More…
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Natalie Dessay - The Miracle of the Voice
Greatest Moments on Stage
Natalie Dessay (soprano)
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Les Arts Florissants, Orchestre & Chœurs de l’Opéra National de Paris, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, London Philharmonic Orchestra,...
Ms. Dessay treats opera like a form of theatre in which acting and singing are one — More…
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia
Edita Gruberova (Lucrezia), Pavol Breslik (Gennaro), Franco Vassallo (Don Alfonso), Alice Coote (Maffio Orsini), Bruno Ribeiro (Jeppo Liverotto), Christian Rieger (Don Aposto Gazella), Christopher Magiera (Ascanio Petrucci), Erik Årman (Oloferno Vitellozzo), Steven Humes (Gubetta), Emanuele D'Aguanno...
Christof Loy's serious contemporary production has simple modern clothes… and little scenery… Entries, exits and who is onstage are treated in deconstructionist fashion. This is exciting in... — More…
Thomas, Ambroise: Hamlet
Natalie Dessay, soprano (Ophelia), Simon Keenlyside, baritone (Hamlet), Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Alain Vernhes
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del liceu, Bertrand de Billy
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Wojtek Drabowicz (Don Giovanni), Kwanchul Youn (Leporello), Regina Schörg (Donna Anna), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio), Marisa Martins (Zerlina), Felipe Bou (Masetto), Anatoly Kocherga (Commendatore)
Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Chamber Choir...
Calixto Bieito's 2002 production is a potent parable not only for our time, but of any society in decadence… everyone is caught in a self-destructive cycle of abuse - from the mutually manipulative... — More…
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregon (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner),...
Harry Kupfer's Bayreuth staging was Teutonically technological and ugly, but despite some dramatic silliness it actually heeded Wagner's stage directions. So does this one, created originally... — More…
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni), Erwin Schrott (Leporello), Annette Dasch (Donna Anna), Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira), Ekaterina Siurina (Zerlina), Anatoly Kocherga (Il Commendatore), Alex Esposito (Masetto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bertrand de Billy
Christian Schmidt designs a crepuscular forest for Claus Guth's dark contemporary take on the opera...It's very much the women who have got a grip here. The rhythmic rigour of Dorothea Roschmann's... — More…
Wagner: Siegfried
John Treleaven (Siegfried), Graham Clark (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Wanderer), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Eric Halfvarson (Fafner), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Cristina Obregón (Woodbird)
Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy
…Harry Kupfer's modernistic but clear-sighted staging… confirms Barcelona's Ring as the best recent cycle on DVD. Its darkly gleaming hi-tech settings centre around the massive limbs of the... — More…
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
John Treleaven, Deborah Polaski, Erik Halfvarson, Falk Struckmann, Lioba Braun, Wolfgang Rauch
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Alfred Kirchner
…welcome this Barcelona version, featuring several stars from its middling but enjoyable Ring, and a very similar production - starkly modernistic, a car-ferry's bow and a surreal garden, but... — More…
