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Berg: Wozzeck
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Christopher Maltman (Wozzeck), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Marie), Frank van Aken (Drum Major), Sir Willard White (Doctor)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, New Amsterdam Children's Choir,
Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Krzysztof Warlikowski (director)
A very fine performance of Berg's great music drama — More…
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. — More…
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia
Svetlana Ignatovich (Fevroniya), John Daszak (Grishka Kuterma), Vladimir Vaneev (Prince Yuriy Vsevolodovich), Maxim Aksenov (Prince Vsevolod Yuryevich), Ante Jerkunica (Bedyay), Vladimir Ognovenko (Burunday), Alexey Markov (Fyodor Poyarok) & Mayram Sokolova (Page)
Netherlands Philharmonic...
If the visual result negates the opera’s poetry, the musical performance provides compensation. Albrecht draws consistently brilliant orchestral playing and the chorus is excellent. — More…
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Adams, J: Doctor Atomic
Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer), Eric Owens (General Leslie Groves), Richard Paul Fink (Edward Teller), James Maddalena (Jack Hubbard), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jay Hunter Morris (Captain James Nolan), Ellen Rabiner (Pasqualita)
Chorus of De Nederlandse...
Doctor Atomic centres on the hours before the first detonation of the atomic bomb… Peter Sellars's film of the opera is expressionistic, claustrophobic, sometimes deliberately out of focus.... — More…
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Russian Opera Classics Box Set
Orlin Anastassov (Boris), Alessandra Marianelli (Xenia), Pavel Zubov (Fyodor), Ian Storey (Grigory), Vladimir Vaneev (Pimen), Peter Bronder (Prince Shuisky), Vasily Ladjuk (Andrey Shchelkalov), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam), Luca Casalin (Missail), Nadezhda Serdjuk (Innkeeper), Evgeny Akimov (Holy Fool),...
Contemporary American Operas
Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer), Eric Owens (General Leslie Groves), Richard Paul Fink (Edward Teller), James Maddalena (Jack Hubbard), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jay Hunter Morris (Captain James Nolan), Ellen Rabiner (Pasqualita), Stephanie Novacek (Dinah),...
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Cheryl Barker, Martin Thompson, Catherine Keen, Richard Stilwell, Anneleen Bijnen, Peter Blanchet
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Edo de Waart, stage direction by Robert Wilson
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Cheryl Barker, Martin Thompson, Catherine Keen, Richard Stilwell, Anneleen Bijnen, Peter Blanchet
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Edo de Waart, stage direction by Robert Wilson
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann)
Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
Juha Uusitalo is a charismatic Dutchman vocally, if more demonic than romantic — More…
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance), Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson), Roman Sadnik (Nick), Diogenes Randes (Ashby), Stephen Gadd (Sonora), Tijl Faveyts (Billy Jackrabbit), Ellen Rabiner (Wowkle), André Morsch (Jake Wallace) & Roger Smeets (José Castro)
Chorus of De Nederlandse...
What we see is an updated parable of the American dream...in the final scene [Minnie] appears, like Jean Harlow, at the top of a glittering staircase to be carried off to a Hollywood happy ending...Does... — More…
