DVD Video, Wiener Symphoniker (orchestra)
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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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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, DVD/Bluray of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Découverte
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Weber: Der Freischütz
Mauro Peter (tenor), Nikola Hillebrand, Christof Fischesser, Katharina Ruckgaber, Moritz von Treuenfels, Bregenzer Festspielchor, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Philipp Stölzl, Enrique Mazzola
The Austrian director has sought creatively to bring the work to life for a modern audience, not just through theatrical wizardry – and there’s plenty of that, given Bregenz’s unprecedented... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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Coming soon. Gioacchino Rossini: Tancredi
Anna Goryachova, Mélissa Petit, Antonino Siragusa, Andreas Wolf, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Jan Philipp Gloger, Yi-Chen Lin
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The Three Tenors Christmas
Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti (tenors)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Steven Mercurio
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Alfredo Catalani: La Wally
Izabela Matula, Leonardo Capalbo, Jacques Imbrailo, Ilona Revolskaya, Alastair Miles (bass), Barbora Horáková Joly (staging), Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Wiener Symphoniker
Orozco-Estrada conducts the Vienna Symphony with plenty of passion and punch...All in all, then, a powerful, intelligent account of this fine verismo work. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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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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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Massenet: Don Quichotte
Gábor Bretz, David Stout, Anna Goryachova,
Wiener Symphoniker, Daniel Cohen, Mariame Clément
Cohen spins a deft line through a score that can be utterly bewitching...Gábor Bretz and Anna Goryachova, Quixote and Dulcinée, both make the most of their big numbers, his Act I serenade and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Umberto Giordano: Siberia
Ambur Braid, Clarry Bartha, Alexander Mikhailov, Scott Hendricks, Fredrika Brillembourg, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Valentin Uryupin
Playing and choral singing are superb. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Bregenzer Festspiele
Vladimir Stoyanov (Rigoletto), Mélissa Petit (Gilda), Stephen Costello (The Duke), Miklós Sebestyén (Sparafucile), Katrin Wundsam (Maddalena)
Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Enrique Mazzola, Philipp Stölzl
The stage set is breathtaking…I can guarantee that you will ever have witnessed as surreal a ‘La donna è mobile’ (Gilda should have run a mile), nor a wet a storm scene. All this carnivalesque... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
Wolfgang Koch (Mathis), Kurt Streit (Albrecht von Brandenburg), Manuela Uhl (Ursula), Franz Grundheber (Riedinger), Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Wiener Symphoniker, Bertrand de Billy, Keith Warner
[Koch's] gentle charisma and sonorous vocal expressivity call to mind his own performances of Hans Sachs and, by extension, suggest a parallel between Mathis and Sachs...The score has a reputation... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
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