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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
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Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev
Wiener Symphoniker & Mitglieder des Balletts der Wiener Staatsoper, John Lanchbery
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Faccio: Hamlet
Pavel Cernoch (Amleto), Claudio Sgura (Claudio), Iulia Maria Dan (Ofelia), Eduard Tsanga (Polonio), Dshamilja Kaiser (Gertrude), Sebastien Soules (Orazio), Paul Schweinester (Laerte), Bartosz Urbanowicz (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (The ghost/A priest)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker,...
Tambosi’s production in the Bregenz Festspielhaus is simple but effective. Černoch’s tortured Hamlet – dressed in plain black, emphasising his detachment from court life – acts and sings terrifically,... — More…
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Bizet: Carmen
Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla);
Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani
Holten says he’s keen to steer clear of the Spanish clichés on the one hand, and to examine Carmen as a real person on the other…It’s no earth-shattering insight but it does form the basis for... — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff
Otto Edelmann (Sir John Falstaff), Elisabeth Höngen (Mrs. Quickly), Melitta Muszely (Mrs. Alice Ford), Graziella Sciutti (Nannetta), Hans Günter Grimm (Ford) & Richard Von Vrooman (Fenton)
Wiener Symphoniker, Nello Santi (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (director)
The picture has been scrubbed up to look remarkably clean for its age...Otto Edelmann plays a blessedly unexaggerated Falstaff...Nello Santi conducts the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with an Italianate... — More…
Szymanowski: Król Roger
Scott Hendricks (König Roger), Olga Pasychnik (Roxane), John Graham-Hall (Edrisi), Will Hartmann (Der Hirte)
Wiener Symphoniker, Sir Mark Elder, David Pountney
Pountney ditches the original Palermo setting in favour of severe abstraction, but fills the stage with unusually detailed and gripping action...Boasting a rich baritone, Scott Hendricks is a... — More…
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Offer, Bregenz Festival: Opera on the Lake Stage
Aida; Andrea Chénier; Die Zauberflöte; Turandot; Carmen
Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena...
Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Andrew Foster-Williams (Faraone), Mandy Fredrich (Amaltea), Sunnyboy Dladla (Osiride), Clarissa Costanzo (Elcia), Taylan Reinhard (Mambre), Goran Jurić (Mosè), Matteo Macchioni (Aronne), Dara Savinova (Amenofi)
Wiener Symphoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Lotte De Beer
As Osiride, Sunnyboy Dladla is a useful bel canto tenor…and Andrew Foster-Williams is a stern voiced Pharoah. Best of all is the young Italian soprano, Clarissa Costanzo, who rightly stops... — More…
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Gundula Janowitz, Christa Ludwig, Peter Schreier & Walter Berry
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Symphoniker, Karl Böhm
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Wiener Symphoniker, Patrick Summers
For visual effectiveness this new DVD and Blu-ray has no competition among a rich field of Magic Flutes...Musically, too, it is never less than good, and the Tamino of Norman Reinhardt and the... — More…
Berg: Lulu
Evelyn Lear (Lulu), Rudolf Schock (Alwa), Paul Schöffler (Dr. Schön), Josef Knapp (Schigolch) & Gisela Litz (Gräfin Geschwitz)
Wiener Symphoniker, Karl Böhm (conductor) & Otto Schenk (stage director)
Lear is a model of corrupting and decaying glamour...As a version of the original version of Lulu this is unique in the catalogue...It has another advantage, too: unlike many of the modern issues,... — More…