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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bernd Weikl (Hans Sachs), Siegfried Jerusalem (Walther), Mari Anne Haeggander (Eva), Hermann Prey (Beckmesser), Marga Schiml (Magdalena), Graham Clark (David), Manfred Schenk (Pogner), Jef Vermeersch (Kothner), Matthias Hölle (Nachtwächter)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Horst Stein
The best Meistersinger on video so far reaches DVD at last. Stein isn't the most individual interpreter, but his immense Bayreuth experience and craft illuminate the score with deceptive naturalness,... — More…
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Robert Holl (Hans Sachs), Peter Seiffert (Walther von Stolzing), Emily Magee (Eva), Andreas Schmidt (Beckmesser), Birgitta Svendén (Magdalena), Endrik Wottrich (David), Matthias Hölle (Pogner), Kwangchul Youn (Nachtwächter)
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim
The staging is the undoubtedly loving work of a cultured man who knows the piece inside out and wishes to represent it faithfully but whose other duties have prevented his developing any especially... — More…
Wagner: Die Walküre
Johan Botha (Siegmund), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Edith Haller (Sieglinde), Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Mihoko Fujimura (Fricka)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Christian Thielemann, Tankred Dorst
The sets, reflecting the blue-grey and orange hues of the Festspielhaus foyer, create some striking stage pictures...Botha as Siegmund is ungainly, yet gives this dark character unusual innocence... — More…
Offer, Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
John Tomlinson (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Linda Finnie (Fricka), Matthias Hölle (Fasolt), Philip Kang (Fafner), Eva Johansson (Freia), Bodo Brinkmann (Donner), Kurt Schreibmayer (Froh), Helmut Pampuc (Mime), Birgitta Svendén (Erda),...
If a cycle is going as well as the Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim Ring was, the super-test of Götterdämmerung brings out the best in everyone… Barenboim manipulates his orchestra with Furtwänglerian... — More…
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs), Michael Volle (Beckmesser), Michaela Kaune (Eva), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing), Norbert Ernst (David), Carola Guber (Magdalene), Artur Korn (Pogner)
Bayreuther Festspiele, Sebastian Weigle, Katharina Wagner
Katharina Wagner at first presents Walther von Stolzing as a paint-spraying performance artist and Beckmesser as a retentive, Reclam-photocopying pedant...This nicely observed updating would... — More…
Wagner: Tannhäuser
Richard Versalle (Tannhäuser), Cheryl Studer (Elisabeth), Ruthild Engert-Ely (Venus), Wolfgang Brendel (Wolfram), Hans Sotin (Hermann)
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Wagner: Parsifal
Falk Struckmann (Amfortas), Matthias Hölle (Titurel), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Poul Elming (Parsifal), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Klingsor), Linda Watson (Kundry)
Orchestra of the Bayreuther Festspiele, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) & Wolfgang Wagner (stage director)
impressively atmospheric and gorgeously played — More…
Wagner: Lohengrin
Recorded at the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 1982
Peter Hofmann (Lohengrin), Karan Armstrong (Elsa), Elizabeth Connell (Ortrud), Leif Roar (Friedrich von Telramund), Bernd Weikl (Der Heerrufer des Königs)
Chor & Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Woldemar Nelsson
Superb Bayreuth performance in starkly effective staging, despite a mediocre video transfer. Hofmann is an ideal hero, Armstrong a touching if overparted Elsa, and Roar and Connell sturdy villains. — More…