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Lehár: The Merry Widow
sung in English
Renée Fleming (Hanna Glawari), Nathan Gunn (Danilo), Kelli O’Hara (Valencienne), Alek Shrader (Camille)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus & Ballet, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis keeps Lehar's effervescent score bubbling along and this would be the perfect, light-hearted operatic fare to see in the New Year...There's a great sense of fun running through the entire... — More…
Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns
Piotr Beczala (Prince Sou-Chong), Julia Kleiter (Lisa), Rebeca Olvera (Mi), Spencer Lang (Count Gustav von Pottenstein), Cheyne Davidson (Tschang) & Martin Zysset (Chief Eunuch)
Chor der Oper Zurich & Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Andreas Homoki (stage director)
Grafenegg Sommernachtsgala 2016
Live from the Grafenegg Festival, June 2016
Olga Peretyatko (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano)
Tonkunstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Berlin Opera Night
Recorded live at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2003
Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Kent Nagano
In a rather mixed bag, there are a number of class acts...the highlight performance of the night in respect of bringing a role alive...[is] Kasarova singing an expressive and beautifully realised... — More…
Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg
Directed by Michael Schottenberg
Bo Skovhus, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Gabriele Bone, Andreas Conrad, Eva Maria Marold & Steffen Rössler, Libretto by Alfred Maria Willner & Robert Bodanzky in a revised text edition by Michael Schottenberg
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien & Festival-Chor KlangBogen Wien, Alfred...
Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe
(French version: 'La Veuve Joyeuse')
Véronique Gens (Missia Palmieri), Ivan Ludlow (Le Prince Danilo), Magali Léger (Nadia Manon), François Le Roux (Le Baron Popoff), Gordon Gietz (Camille de Coutanson, Arsène), David Lefort (D'Estillac), Alexandre Guerrero (Lérida)
Opera de Lyon, Gerard Korsten
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... — More…
2017 New Year's Concert
Wiener Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel
Lehár: Der Graf von Luxemburg
Eberhard Wächter, Lilian Sukis, Erich Kunz, Jane Tilden, Peter Fröhlich & Helga Papouschek
Graunke Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Graunke
Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love)
Janet Perry (Zorika), Ion Buzea (Józsi), Adolf Dallapozza (Jonel Bolescu), Colette Lorand (Ilona), Heinz Friedrich (Peter Dragotin), Kurt Großkurth (Mihály/Moschu)
Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg
This was composed in 1909 and is a worthy equal to the composer’s other operettas in terms of imaginative content, visual ideas and instrumental colouring. After the sensational success of the... — More…