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DVD Video, Anja Harteros (soprano)
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Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden
Anja Harteros (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo)
Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato
The playing of the Badische Staatskapelle is decent – with excellent contributions from a busy principal cellist – and Marco Armiliato keeps everything ticking along well…there’s enough quality... —
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Puccini: Tosca
Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier
Salzburger Bachchor & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
This production does a fine job of underlining just what a resonant opera Tosca is for our times…Harteros is a chic, grown-up, no-nonsense Tosca…She is on top form vocally, particularly rich... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Riccardo), George Petean (Renato), Anja Harteros (Amelia), Okka von der Damerau (Ulrica), Sofia Fomina (Oscar)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta
The foregrounding of Oscar’s character is fascinating. It’s a striking performance amid a clutch of stellar turns…The ensembles are expertly balanced by Zubin Mehta, and the orchestra plays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, DVD of the Month
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Jonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), George Petean (Carlo Gerard), Anja Harteros (Maddalena di Coigny), Rachael Wilson (Bersi), Helena Zubanovich (La Contessa di Coigny), Larissa Diadkova (Madelon), Andrea Borghini (Roucher), Johannes Kammler (Pierre Fleville), Christian Rieger (Fouquier-Tinville), Tim...
A first-rate presentation of what is really a second-rate opera, this should be at the top of your list for a faithful yet imaginative, detailed yet full-blooded Chénier. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Wagner: Die Walküre
From the 2017 Salzburg Easter Festival
Anja Kampe (Brünnhilde), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Anja Harteros (Sieglinde), Christa Mayer (Fricka), Georg Zeppenfeld (Hunding)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
A for effort for the production team – but the real interest of this release is musical. Thielemann’s fourth recording of this opera assembles his strongest cast yet…Harteros is a clearly projected,... —
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R. Strauss: Four Last Songs & An Alpine Symphony
Anja Harteros (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
[The performance of Eine Alpensinfonie] underlines primarily the work's philosophical underpinnings and its symphonic logic; others might offer more thrills (and spills), but few offer such... —
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Special offer. Mariss Jansons conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2
Anja Harteros (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (alto)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), Mariss Jansons
I hadn't taken on board quite how expressive a master Jansons can be: the face and above all the eyes change in an instant through absorption in the Resurrection's drama...These are superlative... —
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Richard Strauss Gala
Anja Harteros, Camilla Nylund, Christine Goerke (sopranos)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
the Staatskapelle Dresden, with its distinctively mellow sound, is ideal for Strauss, and the singers are mostly well chosen for their appointed arias...Goerke has emerged as a true dramatic... —
