DVD Video, Willard White (bass)
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Gregg Baker (Crown), Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Cynthia Clarey (Serena), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Damon Evans (Sportin' Life)
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle, production direction by Trevor Nunn
In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way...We've a real sense here of Gershwin's community, a feeling of oneness with the piece from singers who've not only lived... — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Berg: Wozzeck
RecommendedChristopher Maltman (Wozzeck), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Marie), Frank van Aken (Drum Major), Sir Willard White (Doctor)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, New Amsterdam Children's Choir,
Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Krzysztof Warlikowski (director)
A very fine performance of Berg's great music drama — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids
Sean Panikkar (Dionysus), Russell Braun (Pentheus), Willard White (Cadmus), Nikolai Schukoff (Tiresias/ Calliope), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Agave/Venus), Károly Szemerédy (Captain/Adonis), Vera-Lotte Böcker (Autonoe/Proserpine), Anna Maria Dur (Beroe), Rosalba Guerrero Torres (Bassarid - Dancer)
Wiener...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Vidéo
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Weill, K: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
Sung in English
Jane Henschel (Leocadia Begbick), Donald Kaasch (Fatty the Bookkeeper), Willard White (Trinity Moses), Measha Brueggergosman (Jenny Smith), Michael König (Jim Maclntyre)
Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Pablo Heras-Casado
Brueggergosman's Jenny is stunning to behold...[Henschel] has precisely the right dramatic-mezzo instrument for this role, and she can sing sensuously when required...[Easterlin] offers tone... — More…
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Opera, December 2011, Recording of the Month
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Wagner - Die Walküre
Robert Gambill (Siegmund), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Willard White (Wotan), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Eva Johansson (Brünnhilde), Lilli Paasikivi (Fricka)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Stéphane Braunschweig
Sir Willard White's patriarchal Wotan seems subtler on screen, more smouldering than stiff, and sings richly… Eva Johansson's… makes a fiery, youthful Brünnhilde, more at one with her fellow... — More…
