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Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Susan Graham (Countess Geschwitz), Daniel Brenna (Alwa), Paul Groves (Painter/African Prince), Johan Reuter (Dr Schon/Jack the Ripper), Franz Grundheber (Schigolch), Julian Close (Theatre Manager/Banker), Elizabeth DeShong (Wardrobe-Mistress/Page/Schoolboy), Alan Oke (Prince/Manservant/Marquis)
Metropolitan...
Koenigs ensures maximum clarity from the strings and woodwind, especially in the orchestral interludes. It’s cool, clever playing that throws unusual focus on the seamy saxophone line that coils... — More…
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Deon Van Der Walt (Tamino), Anton Scharinger (Papageno), Ruth Ziesak (Pamina), Luciana Serra (Königin der Nacht), René Pape (Sarastro), Franz Grundheber (Sprecher), Heinz Zednik (Monostatos), Edith Schmid-Lienbacher (Papagena)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti
Offer, 3 Modern Operas
Alfred Muff (Wesener), Laura Aikin (Marie), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Charlotte), Tomasz Konieczny (Stolzius), Renée Morloc (Stolzius’s mother), Gabriela Benacková (Countess de la Roche), Matthias Klink (The Young Count), Daniel Brenna (Desportes), Boaz Daniel (Eisenhardt) & Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke...
Menotti: Help, Help, The Globolinks
Edith Mathis, Arlene Saunders, Raymond Wolansky, William Workman, Kurt Marschner, Ursula Boese, Franz Grundheber & Noel Mangin
Members of the Corps de ballet of the Hamburg State Opera
and two children’s choirs, Gian-Carlo Menotti, directed for TV by Joachim Hess, artistic direction...
Menotti's own studio production of his sci-fi children's opera was filmed following its 1968 Hamburg premiere. Mixed film quality scarcely detracts from the stylish visuals and the piece itself... — More…
Strauss, R: Elektra
Eva Marton (Elektra), Brigitte Fassbaender (Klytämnestra), Cheryl Studer (Chrysothemis), Franz Grundheber (Orest), James King (Aegisth); Vienna State Opera, Claudio Abbado (conductor) & Harry Kupfer (stage director)
The performance has enormous intensity: both Marton's Elektra and Fassbaender's Klytämnestra stay long in the memory, and all the remaining characters are triumphtantly realised...Harry Jupfer's... — More…
Berg: Lulu
Patricia Petibon (Lulu), Julia Juon (Countess Geschwitz), Ashley Holland (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Will Hartmann (Painter/Negro), Paul Groves (Alwa), Silvia de la Muela (Bell boy/Student), Franz Grundheber (Schigolch), Andreas Hörl (Athlete), Robert Wörle (Professor/Prince/Majordomo), Kurt Gysen...
The French soprano is in confident, fearless voice over the entire range of this killer part and paces herself with skill...There is an almost constant display of sex on view but it never pulls... — More…
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Adrianne Pieczonka (Die Marschallin), Franz Hawlata (Baron Ochs), Angelika Kirchschlager (Oktavian), Franz Grundheber (Faninal), Miah Persson (Sophie), Piotr Beczala (Italian Tenor)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Semyon Bychkov (conductor) & Robert...
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Franz Grundheber (The Dutchman), Hildegard Behrens (Senta), Matti Salminen (Daland), Raimo Sirkiä (Erik), Anita Välkki (Mary) & Jorma Silvasti (Steersman)
Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Leif Segerstam (conductor) & Ilkka Bäckman (director)
[Grundheber's] voice is ideally strong and suitably declamatory, if a little dry-toned from time to time. His acting and vocal characterisation are first class as is the Daland of native Finn,... — More…
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Franz Hawlata (Baron Ochs), Sophie Koch (Octavian), Diana Damrau (Sophie), Jonas Kaufmann (The Italian Tenor), Franz Grundheber (Faninal), Jane Henschel (Annina)
Munchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
[Fleming] speaks volumes with those expressive eyes and floats the trio's opening phrase to perfection...Sophie Koch produces rich, impassioned sounds and makes a convincing boy...Kaufmann [is]... — More…
Berg: Wozzeck
Toni Blankenheim, Richard Cassilly, Peter Haage, Gerhard Unger, Hans Sotin, Kurt Moll, Franz Grundheber, Kurt Marschner, Sena Jurinac & Elisabeth Steiner
Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, Bruno Maderna, directed for TV by Joachim Hess, artistic direction by Rolf Liebermann
Wozzeck is perfect for the small screen, as the composer and intendant Rolf Liebermann intuited when he made his seventh and, he thought, best TV opera film by decamping the Hamburg State Opera... — More…