Arthaus Musik
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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... —
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Quasthoff sings Mahler
Mahler, Webern & R. Strauss
Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Staatskapelle Dresden, Zubin Mehta
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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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Luigo Nono, Intolleranza 1960
Sean Panikkar, Sarah Maria Sun, Anna Maria Chiuri, Antonio Yang, Musa Ngqungwana, Victor Afung Lauwers, Wiener Philharmoniker (orchestra), Ingo Metzmacher (conductor)
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Wagner: Tannhäuser
Robert Gambill (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Roman Trekel (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Stephen Milling (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen); Philharmonia Chor Wien & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philippe Jordan, Nikolaus Lehnhoff (director)
Thirty years separate these performances of Tannhäuser. The original video of the 1978 revival of Götz Friedrich's 1972 production was, we're told, 'the first complete film from Bayreuth', and... —
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R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Camilla Nylund (Marschallin), Michele Losier (Octavian), Nadine Sierra (Sophie), Gunther Groissbock (Baron Ochs), Roman Trekel (Faninal), Anna Samuil (Marianne), Staatskapelle Berlin, Zubin Mehta, André Heller
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Mozart: La finta giardiniera, K196
From Drottningholm Court Theatre 1988
Ann Christine Biel, Annika Skolund, Richard Croft, Stuart Kale, Britt-Marie Aruhn, Eva Pilat, Petteri Salomaa
The Drottningholm Court Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, Arnold Östman, stage direction by Göran Järvefelt
Early Mozart comedy contemporary with the theatre where it's staged, with period style extending to the players' costumes. Likeable piece, likeably performed. —
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Norbert Schmittberg (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Hagen), Mario Hoff (Gunther), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Marietta Zumbült (Gutrune), Nadine Weissmann (Waltraute)
Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair, Michael Schulz (director)
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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)
