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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Das Rheingold
Donald McIntyre (Wotan), Heinz Zednik (Loge), Hermann Becht (Alberich), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Fritz Hübner (Fafner), Carmen Reppel (Freia), Martin Egel (Donner), Siegfried Jerusalem (Froh), Helmut Pampuch (Mime), Ortrun Wenkel (Erda),...
Chéreau's Marxist-tinged, Industrial Revolution-set production was by no means greeted with universal enthusiasm when it made its debut at the 1976 Bayreuth Festival...By the time the production... — More…
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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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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version, sung in Italian
Jonas Kaufmann (Don Carlo), Anja Harteros (Elisabetta), Matti Salminen (Filippo II), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Il Grande Inquisitore), Robert Lloyd (Un frate)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Antonio Pappano, Peter Stein
With Antonio Pappano in the pit, Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros brought to their interpretations of the leading roles rapturous arcs of phrasing and refulgence of tone that we have not heard... — More…
Offer, The Searchers of the Grail
Parsifal | Indiana Jones | Adolf Hitler
Plácido Domingo (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz), Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Kirov Orchestra and Choir, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Tony Palmer (director)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Waltraud Meier (Isolde), Ian Storey (Tristan), Michelle DeYoung (Brangaene), Gerd Grochowski (Kurwenal), Matti Salminen (Konig Marke), Willy Hartmann II (Melot), Ryland Davies (Hirt)
Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Daniel Barenboim, Patrice Chéreau
Wagner: Die Walküre (DVD Version)
Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Petra Maria Schnitzer (Sieglinde), Matti Salminen (Hunding), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Anna Larsson (Fricka)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines... — More…
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Ralf Lukas (Gunther), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Waltraute)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
Its brilliant use of computer graphic backgrounds and acrobatic mimes shows one can stage a truly modern, theatrically advantageous Ring without distorting its genuinely central concepts - Wagner's. — More…
Offer, Verdi Boxed Set: Aida, Traviata & Macbeth
Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo), Zeljko Lucic (Germont), Nina Stemme (Aida), Luciana d'Intino (Amneris), Salvatore Licitra (Radames), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis) & Günther Groissböck (King), Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco),...
Wagner: Das Rheingold (DVD Version)
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines... — More…
Linkola: Robin Hood
Ville Rusanen (Robin Hood), Mari Palo (Marian), Matti Salminen (Sheriff), Päivi Nisula (Sheriff’s Mother), Jyrki Anttila (Gisborne), Melis Jaatinen (Jamila), Niall Chorell (Will Scarlet), Koit Soasepp (Little John), Aki Alamikkotervo (Friar Tuck), Hannu Forsberg (Much the Miller), Anna-Lisa Jakobsson...
