Browse: Opus Arte (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label Opus Arte.
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John Blow: Venus & Adonis; Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Ida Ränzlöv, Bernt Ola Volungholen, Christina Larsson Malmberg, Rupert Enticknap, Lisa Carlioth, Mathilda Sidén Silfver, Mikael Stenbaek, Arash Azarbad, Confidencen Opera & Music Festival Orchestra, William Relton (director), Olof Boman
alluring performances, sumptuous costumes and clever set designs. All the principals are strong, but mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv stands out. Technically flawless, texturally lush and dramatically... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Said treats every work on its own merits, in its own language. The personality and significance of each composer is subtly etched with remarkable skill...A gripping recital, tellingly designed... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride
Recorded live at De Nederlandse Opera, September 2011
Véronique Gens (Iphigénie), Salomé Haller (Diane), Nicolas Testé (Agamemnon) & Anne Sofie von Otter (Clytemnestre), Mireille Delunsch (Iphigénie), Laurent Alvaro (Thoas), Jean-François Lapointe (Oreste), Yann Beuron (Pylade) & Salomé Haller (Diane)
Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble &...
in this performance every cross-hatched, baleful figure is crisp and clear...Veronique Gens's submissive, poised Iphigénie [en Aulide] becomes Mireille Delunsch's red-eyed, hysterical Iphigénie... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, DVD of the Month
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Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), Thomas Allen (Music Master), Kate Lindsey (Composer)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma
Ariadne and Bacchus have rarely been so 'absolutely human'. Soile Isokoski's suicidal patient rings truer than any heroine I've ever seen - and perhaps this is the role's most luminously sung... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Opera Choice
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio San), Marcelo Puente (Pinkerton), Scott Hendricks (Sharpless), Carlo Bosi (Goro), Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki), Jeremy White (Bonze)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano. Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier
Pappano is particularly alert to Puccini borrowing traditional Japanese melodies; at times he makes you hear this score, as well as the drama on stage, as a tug of war between East and West…It’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
Maximilian Schmitt (Tamino), Christina Landshamer (Pamina), Thomas Oliemans (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Íride Martínez (Königin der Nacht), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Monostatos), Nina Lejderman ((Papagena)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Marc...
Freshness of vision, emotional openness, genuine ensemble theatricality, a robustly physical sense of adventure humorous and serious (but never portentous) by turns, and an underlying directorial... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Miah Persson (Anne Trulove), Topi Lehtipuu (Tom Rakewell), Clive Bayley (Father Trulove), Matthew Rose (Nick Shadow), Susan Gorton (Mother Goose), Elena Manistina (Baba the Turk) & Graham Clark (Sellem)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)...
Full of colour and light, and brimming with wit, this is a production that lifts the performers...Lehtipuu conveys [Tom's] fresh-faced innocence, making his gradual demise all the more heart-breaking.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, DVD 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 of the Month
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo RecommendedFurio Zanasi (Orfeo), Arianna Savall (Euridice), Montserrat Figueras (La Musica), Sara Mingardo (Messaggiera)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
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Building a Library, May 2017, DVD Choice
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Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Miah Persson (Anne Trulove), Topi Lehtipuu (Tom Rakewell), Clive Bayley (Father Trulove), Matthew Rose (Nick Shadow), Susan Gorton (Mother Goose), Elena Manistina (Baba the Turk) & Graham Clark (Sellem)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)...
Full of colour and light, and brimming with wit, this is a production that lifts the performers...Lehtipuu conveys [Tom's] fresh-faced innocence, making his gradual demise all the more heart-breaking.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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