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DVD Video, Sylvain Cambreling (conductor)
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Special offer. Berg: Wozzeck
Dale Duesing, Kristine Ciesinski, Ronald Hamilton, Dieter Bundschuh & Barry Banks, Stage Direction by Peter Mussbach
Choir and Children’s Choir of the Frankfurt Opera & Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Sylvain Cambreling
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Illustrated Synopsis & Cast Gallery
Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Heidi Grant Murphy (Susanna), Peter Mattei (Count), Christiane Oelze (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Helene Schneiderman (Marcellina), Roland Bracht (Bartolo), Burkhard Ulrich (Basilio), Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Curzio), Frédéric Caton (Antonio), Cassandre Berthon...
Update is the imperfect noun we use. Christoph Marthaler's production has transposed 18th-century upstairs-downstairs to bridal retail in 2001. We get Mozart's music and Da Ponte's words, subject... —
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Jonathan Best, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley, Monte Pederson
Camerata Academica, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Sylvain Cambreling, stage direction by Jörg Immendorff
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Susan Graham (Sesto), Christoph Prégardien (Tito), Hannah Ester Minutillo (Annio), Roland Bracht (Publio), Catherine Naglestad (Vitellia), Ekaterina Siurina (Servilia)
Choir and Orchestra of L’Opéra de Paris, Sylvain Cambreling, stage direction by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann
Everybody was taken by the warmth and the emotion in Susan Graham’s voice as well as her breathtaking acting —
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Eric Cutler (Hoffmann), Anne Sofie Von Otter (La Muse/Nicklausse), Vito Priante (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr Miracle/Dapertutto), Ana Durlovski (Olympia), Measha Brueggergosman (Antonia/Giulietta)
Teatro Real de Madrid, Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Marthaler
Musically it’s mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter’s communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive … Cambreling’s hard-edged intensity... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Anett Fritsch (Fiordiligi), Paola Gardina (Dorabella), Kerstin Avemo (Despina), Juan Francisco Gatell (Ferrando), Andreas Wolf (Guglielmo), William Shimell (Don Alfonso)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real de Madrid, Sylvain Cambreling
No lover of radical productions myself, I found it fascinating. You will, too, provided you forget that Cosi is an opera buffa: this is serious stuff...Within the limits of Haneke's very particular... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Heidi Grant Murphy (Susanna), Peter Mattei (Count), Christiane Oelze (Countess), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Helene Schneiderman (Marcellina), Roland Bracht (Bartolo), Burkhard Ulrich (Basilio), Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Curzio), Frédéric Caton (Antonio), Cassandre Berthon...
Roland Bracht’s magnificently booming voice and expressive acting also makes him a Bartolo to reckon with… —
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The Essential Opera Collection (19 DVD)
Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Paris Opera, Glyndebourne and The Netherlands Opera
