Arthaus Musik
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Hartmann, K: Simplicius Simplicissimus
Claudia Mahnke, Frank Van Aken, Heinz Göhrig, Michael Ebbecke, Mark Munkittrick, Helmut Berger-Tuna & Márcia Haydée
Staatsopernchor and Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Kwamé Ryan
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Turnage: Blood on the Floor & Protocol
John Scofield (guitar), Peter Erskine (drums), Martin Robertson (saxes)
Ensemble Modern, Peter Rundel
The title comes from a painting by Francis Bacon, while the music ranges widely in its references and allusions. A decade on, Blood on theFloor remains Turnage's magnum 'fusion' opus.
With a... — More… -
Aida and La Traviata: Giuseppe Verdi At Macerata Opera Festival
Aida: Fabrizio Beggi, Veronica Simeoni, Maria Teresa, Luciano Ganci, Alessio Cacciamani, La Traviata: Claudia Pavone, Valeria Tornatore, Estibaliz Martyn, Marco Ciaponi, Sergio Vitale, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
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Puccini: La Bohème
Maria Teresa Leva (Mimi), Ivan Ayon Rivas (Rodolfo), Hasmik Torosyan (Musetta), Massimo Cavaletti (Marcello), Tommaso Barea (Schaunard), Alessio Cacciamani (Colline),Matteo Peirone (Benoit/Alcindoro), Alejandro Escobar (Parpignol), Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Daniel Oren
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Strauss, R: Salome
Angela Denoke (Salome), Kim Begley (Herodes), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Alan Held (Jochanaan) & Marcel Reijans (Narraboth)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director)
Denoke wins her place in the sun as a lithe if hardly sex-kittenish Salome. She has an expressive, secure and slightly dark-timbred voice...Held is a physically and vocally powerful prophet...It's... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
René Pape (Wotan), Stephan Rügamer (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Doris Soffel (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Anna Samuil (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime); Teatro alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers
[Pape's] “Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge”...is one of the finest anywhere...Kränzle is superb, creepy, evil and clearly intelligent. Casting is, in fact, good throughout...a stimulating and... — More…
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Hans Peter Hallwachs (Selim), Zdzisława Donat (Konstanze), Barbara Vogel (Blondchen), Horst Laubenthal (Belmonte), Norbert Orth (Pedrillo) & Martti Talvela (Osmin)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gary Bertini (conductor) & Günther Rennert (stage director)
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Verdi: La Traviata
Ermonela Jaho (Violetta Valéry), Francesco Demuro (Alfredo Germont) & Vladimir Stoyanov (Giorgio Germont)
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Arena di Verona, Julian Kovatchev (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director)
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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 — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Eva Mei, Thomas Hampson, Piotr Beczala
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst, stage direction by Jürgen Flimm
