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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: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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James Morris (Wotan/Der Wanderer), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge/Siegfried), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka/Waltraute), Gary Lakes (Siegmund), Jessye Norman (Sieglinde), Kurt Moll (Hunding), Matti Salminen (Fafner/Hagen)
Metropolitan Opera...
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
James Morris (Wotan), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Mari Anne Häggander (Freia), Birgitta Svendén (Erda), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
Wagner: Siegfried
Siegfried Jerusalem (Siegfried), Hildegard Behrens (Brünnhilde), James Morris (Der Wanderer), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Dawn Upshaw (Waldvogel), Birgitta Svendén (Erda), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Matti Salminen (Fafner)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
None of the four video-recorded versions can be called ideal; but this Met cycle has plenty of strong points. It's the only one Wagner would have recognised – no small consideration. It's frequently... — More…
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Alfred Sramek, Lucia Popp, Walter Fink, Siegfried Jerusalem, Karl Ridderbusch & Heinz Zednik
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Adam Fischer
Wagner: Parsifal
Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal), Eva Randová (Kundry), Hans Sotin (Gurnemanz), Bernd Weikl (Amfortas), Leif Roar (Klingsor), Matti Salminen (Titurel), Hanna Schwarz (Alto Stimme)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Horst Stein
A simple, beautiful staging in glowing stained-glass hues, with Jerusalem and Sotin near-ideal, Kundry and Amfortas slightly less so, but Stein's conducting is soundly theatrical. — More…
Strauss, J, II: Der Zigeunerbaron
Siegfried Jerusalem, Ellen Shade, Ivan Rebroff, Janet Perry, Martha Mödl, Willi Brokmeier, Hans Kraemmer, Biserka Cvejic & Wolfgang Brendel
Südfunkchor Stuttgart & Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Kurt Eichhorn
…director Arthur Maria Rabenalt… makes the most of location shots of Hungarian landscapes to create a convincingly fast-moving and musically invigorating film out of material that on stage risks... — More…
Wagner: Parsifal
Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Siegfried Jerusalem (Parsifal), Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), Bernd Weikl (Amfortas), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Titurel), Franz Mazura (Klingsor)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Hannah Schwarz (Fricka), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Carmen Reppel (Freia), Siegfried Jerusalem (Froh), Martin Egel (Donner), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Heinz Zednik (Loge), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Fritz Hubner (Fafner), Norma Sharp (Woglinde), Ilse Gramatzki...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Siegfried Jerusalem (Tristan), Waltraud Meier (Isolde), Matthias Hölle (Konig Marke), Falk Struckmann (Kurwenal), Uta Priew (Brangaene), Poul Elming (Melot/Seemann), Peter Maus (Hirt)
Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Daniel Barenboim, Heiner Müller
Daniel Barenboim's earliest performances of Tristan at Bayreuth are documented in a DVD of the 1981 production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (filmed in 1983) with René Kollo and Johanna Meier in the... — More…
