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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Jill Grove (Magdalena), Matthew Polenzani (David), René Pape (Pogner), John Relyea (Nachtwächter)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, James Levine
Thank goodness for no quirky ideas...The singers are all outstanding, led by James Morris's warmly genial Sachs...and by Ben Heppner, who is an equally convincing Walther...Mattila not only looks... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Carolyn James, Kjell Magnus Sandve, Reinhard Dorn, Carol Vaness, Andrea Rost, Matthias Hölle
Gürzenich Orchester Köln, James Conlon
Offer, Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Thomas Allen (Don Giovanni), Carolyn James (Donna Anna), Carol Vaness (Donna Elvira), Ferrucio Furlanetto (Leporello), Andrea Rost (Zerlina) & Matthias Hölle (Comtur)
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, James Conlon (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director)
This Michael Hampe production is a traditional staging, the costumes likewise...Furlanetto is outstanding in vocal and acted characterization with consummate beauty of tone in his native language...the... — More…
Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... — More…
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Offer, The Mozart Glyndebourne Collection
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard, Bernard Haitink, Gustav Kuhn
Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro captures Peter Hall’s delightful and wonderfully vivid production. Cast from strength, it is presided over with great sympathy by conductor John Pritchard — More…
Offer, William Walton London Concert
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1982
Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Thomas Allen (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Andre Previn
Walton visibly moved - performances that were special indeed — More…
Offer, Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Thomas Allen (The Forester), Eva Jenis (The Vixen), Hannah Minutillo (The Fox), Libuše Márová (The Forester’s Wife/The Owl) & Ivan Kusnjer (Harašta, the Poacher)
Orchestre de Paris & Choeur du Chatelet, Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Nicholas Hytner (stage director)
Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Pamela Armstrong (Rosalinde), Thomas Allen (Eisenstein), Lyubov Petrova (Adele), Pär Linskog (Alfred), Malena Ernman (Orlofsky), Håkan Hagegård (Falke), Ragnar Ulfung (Blind), Artur Korn (Frank), Udo Samel (Frosch), Renée Schüttengruber (Ida)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus,...
Offer, Prom At The Palace
The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace 2002
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Ashley Wass (piano), Roberto Bolle (Prince Siegfried), Zenaida Yanowsky (Odile), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Adventist Chorale, Band of Her Majesty s Royal...
