Browse: DVD Video, Diana Damrau (soprano)
Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
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Diana Damrau (Leïla), Matthew Polenzani (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Teste (Nourabad
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda, Penny Woolcock (dir.)
Woolcock finds a double drama in Bizet's opera..., Noseda drawing sumptuous playing from the Met Orchestra...The Met fields a magnificent cast. Matthew Polenzani is a puppyish Nadir...whil Mariusz... — More…
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
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Juan Diego Flórez (Comte Ory), Diana Damrau (Comtesse Adèle), Joyce DiDonato (Isolier), Susanne Resmark (Ragonde), Michele Pertusi (Tutor), Stéphane Degout (Raimbaud)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurizio Benini
Sher's production is wise, witty and completely faithful to the spirit of the piece...Damrau is peerless, giving a bravura comic performance made from winks and nudges, heavy theatrical sighing... — More…
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Verdi: Rigoletto
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Željko Lučić (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda), Juan Diego Florez (Il Duca di Mantova), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sparafucile), Christa Mayer (Maddalena)
Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Fabio Luisi
The singers are a distinguished bunch, with Željko Lučić the most sympathetic and pathetic Rigoletto I have seen or heard...[Damrau] sings gorgeously, and her acting is first-rate. Juan Diego... — More…
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), Ludovic Tézier (Enrico), Taylor Stayton (Arturo), Kwangchul Youn (Raimondo), Rachael Lloyd (Alisa), Peter Hoare (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, Katie Mitchell (dir.)
The staging is over-stuffed but it is not stupid or careless…Minute alterations in the textures of Donizetti’s orchestration are brilliantly clear. Were you not already persuaded that the opera... — More…
Salieri: L'europa Riconosciuta
Diana Damrau (Europa), Desirée Rancatore (Semele), Genia Kühmeier (Asterio), Daniela Barcellona (Isseo), Giuseppe Sabatini (Egisto), Alessandra Ferri, Roberto Bolle (dancers)
Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Luca Ronconi (dir.)
This performance is so striking that any serious opera-lover will want to add it to their collection — More…
Diana Damrau: Recital at Baden Baden & Documentary 'Diva Divina'
From the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Diana Damrau (soprano) & Xavier de Maistre (harp)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Carlos Álvarez, Diana Damrau, Golda Schultz, Markus Werba, Marianne Crébassa, Anna Maria Chiuri
Teatro alla Scala, Franz Welser-Möst
At first the orchestra sounds a little stiff, but as the night goes on Welser-Möst unbends and the combination of his Austrian grace and the Italian orchestra’s warmth is appealing…Crebassa’s... — More…
Offer, Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Diana Damrau & Petra Lang
Staatsopernchor & Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez
An Evening with the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera
Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah...
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
René Pape (Sarastro), Genia Kühmeier (Pamina), Paul Groves (Tamino), Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night), Inga Kalna (First Lady), Karine Deshayes (Second Lady), Ekaterina Gubanova (Third Lady), Christian Gerhaher (Papageno), Irena Bespalovaite (Papagena), Franz Grundheber (Speaker), Burkhard Ulrich...
Gerhaher's beautifully enunciated Papageno and Kuhmeier's text-conscious Pamina have vocal class but they are given little to do as actors. Muti shapes good playing with po-faced grandeur. — More…