Arthaus Musik
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Strauss, R: Capriccio
Renée Fleming (Die Gräfin), Anne Sofie Von Otter (Clairon), Dietrich Henschel (Der Graf), Rainer Trost (Flamand), Gerald Finley (Olivier) & Franz Hawlata (La Roche)
Orchestre de L’Opéra National de Paris, ULF SCHIRMER (conductor) & ROBERT CARSEN (director)
Strauss's elegant 'conversation piece' retains its urbane, nostalgic charm in this updated Parisian staging, with a truly memorable cast and Schirmer's warm conducting. —
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar)
Teatro Carlo Felice, Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director)
pleasingly stylish and urbane...Jonathan Webb's conducting is as spruce and stylish as the production itself. There is even pleasure to be had from the Overture, with Erica Vitellozzi's brilliantly... —
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Verdi: Requiem
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor) & Orlin Anastassov (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
[Jansons's] Requiem is a series of coups d'etat in which the returns of the actual 'Dies irae' or the launch of 'Rex tremendae majestatis' are exciting aural shocks. He also devotes much time... —
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Humperdinck: Hänsel & Gretel
Alfred Muff (Peter, a broom-maker), Gabriele Lechner (Gertrud, his wife), Liliana Nikiteanu (Hänsel, his son), Malin Hartelius (Gretel, his daughter), Volker Vogel (The Witch)
The Children‘s Chorus and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) & Frank Corsaro...
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Wagner vs. Verdi
A Documentary in 6 Parts
featuring Hans Neuenfels, Christian Thielemann, Rolando Villazón, Eva Wagner-Pasquier, Gottfried Wagner
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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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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Opera Collection
Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Elizabeth (Rae) Magnuson (Donna Anna), Roberto Saccà (Don Ottavio), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira), László Polgár (Leporello), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore), Oliver Widmer (Masetto), Isabel Rey (Zerlina), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Despina), Liliana...
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Peter Harvey (Christus), Maria Espada (Soprano), Ingeborg Danz (Mezzo Soprano /Alto), Renate Arends (Soprano), Barbara Kozelj (Mezzo Soprano /Alto), Peter Gijsbertsen (Tenor) & Henk Neven (Bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir &...
it would be hard to imagine a weightier, more symphonic account, beauty of sound almost an end in itself...Padmore's Evangelist is never one to short-change the narrative, and Peter Harvey's... —
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Ingvar Wixell (Count), Claire Watson (Countess), Reri Grist (Susanna), Edith Mathis (Cherubino), Walter Berry (Figaro), David Thaw (Basilio), Zoltan Kelemen (Bartolo) & Margarethe Bence (Marcellina); Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, Günther Rennert (director)
Mathis acts well and phrases Voi che sapete to perfection —
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Vesselina Kasarova (Pénélope), Dietrich Henschel (L’humanita Fragilita/ Ulisse), Malin Hartelius (Melanto), Jonas Kaufmann (Telemaco), Rudolf Schasching (Iro), Isabel Rey (Minerva/ Amorei) & Martina Jankovà (Fortuna/ Giunone); Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Klaus-Michael Grüber (dir.)
