Arthaus Musik
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Berg: Wozzeck
Dale Duesing, Kristine Ciesinski, Ronald Hamilton, Dieter Bundschuh & Barry Banks, Stage Direction by Peter Mussbach
Choir and Children’s Choir of the Frankfurt Opera & Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Sylvain Cambreling
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Jacques Offenbach; Walter Felsenstein: Ritter Blaubart
Hanns Nocker (Sire de Barbe-Bleu), Anny Schlemm (Boulotte), Werner Enders (King Bobèch), Ruth Schob-Lipka (Queen Clémentine), Ingrid Czerny (Princess Hermia (Fleurette)), Manfred Hopp (Prince Saphir (Daphnis)), Rudolf Asmus (Popolani), Helmut Polze (Count Oscar), Hans-Otto Rogge (Alvarez), Orchestra...
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Special offer. No More Wunderkind: Sergei Nakariakov
A Film by Jan Schmidt-Garre
Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet)
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Special offer. The Art of Mats Ek - Giselle
Ana Laguna (Giselle), Luc Bouy (Albrecht), Yvan Auzely (Hilarion), Vanessa McIntosh (Bathilde) & Lena Wennergren (Myrtha)
Cullberg Ballet & Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Richard Bonynge
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Special offer. Verdi: Luisa Miller
Olesya Golovneva (Luisa Miller), Vladislav Sulimsky (Miller), Taras Shtonda (Count Walter) & Luc Robert (Rodolfo)
Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Michael Güttler (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)
Golovneva is more than equal to Luisa's intimidating music. Blessed with a treasurable musicality, the Russian soprano also possesses the necessary agility...and stamina...Slight of figure,... —
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Desirée Rancatore (Konstanze), Tobias Moretti (Bassa Selim), Javier Camarena (Belmonte), Rebecca Nelsen (Blonde), Thomas Ebenstein (Pedrillo), Kurt Rydl (Osmin)
Camerata Salzburg & Salzburger Bachchor, Hans Graf (conductor) & Adrian Marthaler (director)
Marthaler's production reimagines the opera as a modern-day tale of lust and temptation set in the rarefied world of high fashion...Camarena makes a nicely light, lyrical Belmonte, and there... —
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Special offer. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Isabel Bayrakdarian (Bystrouška, the vixen), Lauren Curnow (Fox), Quinn Kelsey (Gamekeeper), Judith Christin (Gamekeeper´s wife, Owl)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (director)
Pelly's staging has plenty of charm but precious little of the dramatic depth that makes the opera such an extraordinary experience in a great production...Bayrakadrian is an affecting Vixen... —
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Special offer. Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
Yvonne Kenny (Titania), Thomas Randle (Oberon), Simon Rice (Puck) & Richard Van Allan (King Theseus)
Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, Nicholas Kok (conductor) & David Pountney (director)
Pountney's 1995 ENO production cuts the spoken text of Purcell's semi-opera and plays the rest for laughs —
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
on Aldeburgh beach. Filmed at the Aldeburgh Festival, June 2013
Alan Oke (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen), David Kempster (Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Charles Rice (Ned Keene); Britten–Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Tim Albery (dir.)
In almost all respects the technical side of the operation is a near triumph. Having the singers perform live...to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded orchestra was a gamble but it has paid... —
