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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedPiotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Anja Harteros (Elsa), Waltraud Meier (Ortrud), Tomasz Konieczny (Friedrich), Georg Zeppenfeld (Heinrich)
Bayreuth Festspiele, Christian Thielemann, Yuval Sharon
Harteros as Elsa responds with singing of considerable lyric beauty, her tonal response generous and well matched to the music…Beczała’s Lohengrin provides glorious singing from start to finish... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Strauss, R: Elektra RecommendedEvelyn Herlitzius (Elektra), Waltraud Meier (Klytämnestra), Adrianne Pieczonka (Chrysothemis), Mikhail Petrenko (Orest), Tom Randle (Aegisth), Franz Mazura (Der Pfleger des Orest)
Coro Gulbenkian & Orchestre de Paris, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Herlitzius as the vengeful daughter is vocally tireless...Chereau exacts similarity intense, realistic performance from Adrianne Pieczonka as Chrysothemis...Other crucial elements in a total... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Opera
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Verdi: Don Carlos (Five-act French version) Roberto Alagna (Carlos), Karita Mattila (Elisabeth de Valois), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigue), Jose van Dam (Philippe), Waltraud Meier (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Paris Theatre du Chatelet, Antonio Pappano
This performance appeared on VHS back in March 1997. On a new, wide-screen television, it makes a far more arresting effect. The action seems to be happening in the room with you.
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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
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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…
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Daniel Barenboim - Or the Power of Music Daniel Barenboim (piano), Michael Barenboim, Martha Argerich, Waltraud Meier, Wim Wenders, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Boulez Ensemble, Anna Prohaska, Jörg Widmann (clarinet)
Zubin Mehta
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Inbrunst im Herzen: Famous German Arias & Scenes Brigitte Fassbander (mezzo), Eva Marton (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Franz Hawlata (bass), Christine Schäfer (soprano), Paul Groves (tenor)
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Genia Kühmeier (soprano)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchstra (HR-Sinfonie Orchster), Paavo Järvi
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Wagner: Parsifal
Christopher Ventris (Parsifal), Waltraud Meier (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Thomas Hampson (Amfortas), Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (Titurel)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Festspielchor Baden-Baden, Kent Nagano
…a provocative but effective interpretation, in which the Knights of the Grail are struggling to hang on to life in a post-apocalyptic world (a symbolic meteorite dominates the set in Act I).... — More…
