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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Great Scenes
Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival, Germany, in 2008
Das Rheingold
Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Andrew Shore (Alberich), Arnold Bezuyen (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Christa Mayer (Erda), Edith Haller (Freia), Ralf Lukas (Donner), Clemens Bieber (Froh),...
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Siurina has a lovely voice, with a bright edge and superb projection, but she never tries to over-interpret...the overall effect is of relaxed enjoyment. — More…
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Anthony Michaels-Moore: Songs Of The Sea & Songs Of Travel
Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone) & Michael Pollock (piano)
Michaels-Moore records the piano version [of the Stanford], throwing the burden of colour and expression on to the voice with considerable success...with Michael Pollock offering fluent support... — More…
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her strong, supple voice [is] packed with beauty, character and potential...Scratch away the loss and grief - a difficult job - and what you hear is a performance of fierce intelligence and... — More…
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Dvořák: Rusalka Asmik Grigorian (Rusalka), David Butt Philip (Prince), Matthew Rose (Vodník), Emma Bell (Foreign Princess), Sarah Connolly (Ježibaba)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Opera Chorus, Natalie Abrahami, Ann Yee, Semyon Bychkov
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Krassimira Stoyanova (Tatyana), Simon Keenlyside (Eugene Onegin), Elena Maximova (Olga), Pavol Breslik (Lensky), Peter Rose (Prince Gremin) & Diana Montague (Madame Larina)
Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
Holten's principals break the heart: Krassimira Stoyanova's aching, ringing Tatyana embraces her youthful alter ego at the core of the Letter Scene; baritone Simon Keenlyside's 'old' Onegin... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, DVD of the Month
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Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
Giorgio Zancanaro (Guido di Monforte), Enzo Capuano (Il sire di Bethune), Chris Merritt (Arrigo), Cheryl Studer (Elena)
Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti
it is Muti who, conducting tautly, ensures that this live performance carries high drama, with the orchestra too playing splendidly...the production is straightforward, with no crazy impositions... — More…
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), William Elvin (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Paul Hudson (Tom), Francis Egerton (Un Giudice), John Carr (Un servo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,...
Abbado motivates this traditional Otto Schenk staging using the Swedish setting. Domingo is a marvellously vivid Gustavo, Cappuccilli an implacable Anckarström, while Grist steals the soprano... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Wolf: Lieder
Recorded live at Semperoper Dresden, September 2012
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann's interpretation of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is majestic and clean, as expected, though it falls just short of the cumulative power that the audience's warm reception suggests.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
Patricia Barker (Titania), Paul Gibson (Oberon), Seth Belliston (Puck), Lisa Apple (Helena), Julie Tobiason (Hermia), Ross Yearsley (Lysander), Jeffrey Stanton (Demetrius), Timothy Lynch (Bottom)
Pacific Northwest Ballet, BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Stewart Kershaw, choreography by...
