Opus Arte
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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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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD of the Month
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Puccini: La Bohème
Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo), Nicole Car (Mimì), Mariusz Kwiecien (Marcello), Simona Mihai (Musetta), Florian Sempey (Schaunard), Luca Tittoto (Colline), Jeremy White (Benoît), Wyn Pencarreg (Alcindoro); Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
The Royal Opera glows with warmth. Antonio Pappano is in his element relishing every detail in Puccini's score slipping into the Act 1 duet for Rodolfo and Mimi as if we'd never heard it before. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2018, Opera Choice
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Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Luca Pisaroni (Ercole), Veronica Cangemi (Iole), Anna Bonitatibus (Giunone), Jeremy Ovenden (Hyllo), Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira), Marlin Miller (Licco), Umberto Chiummo (Nettuno/Tevere/Spirit of Eutyro), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Bellezza/Venere), Johannette Zomer (Cinzia/Parsitea/Spirit of Clerica),...
This is a ravishing production in every department - scenery, stage effects, costumes, dancing, acting and music. Luca Pisaroni is an assured and vigorous Hercules...but it is Cavalli's women... — More…
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Opera, October 2011, Recording of the Month
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Rameau: Les Paladins
Topi Lehtipuu, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Laurent Naouri, Sandrine Piau, René Schirrer, François Piolino
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
José Montalvo's production provides the spectacle with magical video back projections: characters trampoline on clouds and walk through ornamental gardens and buildings, and a veritable menagerie... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, DVD of the Month
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Renée Fleming in Concert
Recorded live at the Salzburg Festival, August 2011
Renée Fleming (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann
You can immediately hear the classiness of the orchestral support...Thielemann's journey up the mountain is more a question of inner feeling than outward tone-painting...But the summit sequence... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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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...
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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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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFour-act version
Rolando Villazón (Don Carlo), Robert Lloyd (King Philip), Amanda Roocroft (Elisabeth), Violeta Urmana (Eboli), Dwayne Croft (Posa), Jaakko Ryhänen (Grand Inquisitor), Giorgio Giuseppini (Monk)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & De Nederlandse Opera Chorus, Riccardo Chailly, stage direction...
Decker's direction of the principals provides both intelligent insights into relationships along with many bêtises that surely go against the composer's intentions. …he certainly manages to... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2006, Recommended DVD
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger (dir.)
Musically, it is an almost unqualified success…The settings and costumes are wildly miscellaneous…The singers, mainly young and comparatively unfamiliar, are all personable and have attractive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Opera Choice
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