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DVD Video, Matti Salminen (bass)
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Special 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)
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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...
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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... —
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Sallinen: King Lear, Op. 76
Matti Salminen (King Lear), Lilli Paasikivi (Cordelia), Taina Piira (Goneril), Satu Vihavainen (Regan), Petri Lindroos (Albany), Jorma Hynninen (Gloucester), Kai Pitkanen (Cornwall), Aki Alamikkotervo (The Fool), Sauli Tiilikainen (Edgar), Jorma Silvasti (Edmund) & Hannu Forsberg (France)
Finnish...
Sallinen's timing of the action seems to click into a higher gear forom the end of Act 1 Scene 2 where bastard Edmund 'deposes' Edgar from the Gloucester family inheritance. There is some classy... —
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Verdi: Aida
Kristin Lewis (Aida), Fabio Sartori (Radames), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), George Gagnidze (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis), Carlo Colombara (Il Re), Azer Rza-Zada (Messagero), Chiara Isotton (La gran Sacerdotessa)
La Scala, Zubin Mehta
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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... —
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Wagner: The Ring (highlights)
Das Rheingold
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), Silvia Vázquez (Woglinde), Ann-Katrin...
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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...
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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. —
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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),...
