Arthaus Musik
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Menotti: Der Konsul
Sung in German
Eberhard Waechter (John Sorel), Melitta Muszely (Magda Sorel), Res Fischer (Mother), Willy Ferenz (Secret Police Agent), Hilde Konetzni (Vera Boronel), László Szemere (Magician), Gloria Lane (Secretary)
Orchestra of The Wiener Volksoper, Franz Bauer-Theussl (conductor) & Rudolph Cartier...
Directed by Rudolph Cartier, it's shot in relentless close-ups that give neither the performers nor the viewers anywhere to hide. Melitta Muszely charts Magda's progress from desperation to... — More…
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Zubin Mehta: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Zubin Mehta
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Fiorenza Cedolins (Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly)), Francesca Franci (Suzuki), Mina Blum (Kate Pinkerton), Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director)
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Berg: Wozzeck
Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck), Hildegard Behrens (Marie), Walter Raffeiner (Tambourmajor), Philip Langridge (Andres), Heinz Zednik (Hauptmann), Aage Haugland (Doktor); Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, Adolf Dresen (dir.)
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Simon O’Neill (Siegmund), John Tomlinson (Hunding), Vitalij Kowaljow (Wotan), Waltraud Meier (Sieglinde), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) & Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka)
Teatro Alla Scala, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Guy Cassiers (stage director)
Any Daniel Barenboim Wagner performance is an event. True, his mannerisms are still apparent...but his poetic command of Wagner's phrasing tempers these...Gubanova is a steely, imperious Fricka.... — More…
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Václav Neumann conducts Dvorak & Janacek
Live recording from the Smetana Hall, Prague, 1986
Czech Philharmonic, Václav Neumann
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Live recording from Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, 2008
Erin Caves (Siegmund), Kirsten Blanck (Sieglinde), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Hunding), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Wotan), Christine Hansmann (Fricka)
Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Stéphane Degout (Il Conte), Eleonora Buratto (Contessa), Christiane Karg (Susanna), Alex Esposito (Figaro), Marianne Crebassa (Cherubino), Katharine Goeldner (Marcellina), Umberto Chiummo (Bartolo), Krystian Adam (Basilio), Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
Bolton is observant in conveying the detail of the score, drawing clean, clear textures from the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra...Bösch’s production is more of a mixed quantity...Figaro is a... — More…
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Cherubini: Koukourgi
Stefan Cerny (Fohi), Çigdem Soyarslan (Zulma), Leonardo Galeazzi (Zamti), Daniel Prohaska (Koukourgi), Peter Edelmann (Phaor), Johannes Chum (Amazan) & Daniel Belcher (Sécuro)
Kärntner Sinfonieorchester, Peter Marschik (conductor) & Josef E. Köpplinger (stage director)
[Soyarslan] gives a creditable performance vocally and visually, supplying firm tone for her entrance aria...Belcher's focused voice, free at the top, is a positive ingredient...One cannot make... — More…
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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... — More…
