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Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Alban Berg: Violin Concerto; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Christiane Karg (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
Anna Netrebko (Turandot), Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf), Maria Teresa Leva (Liù), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Timur)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona, Marco Armiliato, Franco Zeffirelli
This Verona account is from the 2022 festival and the big draw is Anna Netrebko in the title-role (a role she sings at Covent Garden next season). She’s very good. In an ice-blue gown, sporting... —
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Thomas Gazheli (The Dutchman), Marjorie Owens (Senta), Mikhail Petrenko (Daland), Bernhard Berchtold (Erik), Annette Jahns (Mary), Timothy Oliver (Steerman), Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Fabio Luisi, Paul Curran
The production’s first great asset is Fabio Luisi. I suppose any conductor worth his salt is able to whip up a storm in the sea scenes, but Luisi proves equally adept at sustaining the rapt... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore
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Anna Netrebko (soprano), Yusif Eyvazov (tenor), Dolora Zajick (mezzo-soprano), Luca Salsi (baritone), Arena di Verona Opera
Pier Giorgio Morandi, Franco Zeffirelli
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Elīna Garanča (mezzo), Michael Schade (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass)
Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann generally favours lively tempos and a lightness of touch. Details are clear and he elicits a remarkable luminosity from the substantial forces, making this a deeply engaging account...The... —
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Andris Nelsons Conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker - Alban Berg: Violin Concerto; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Augustin Hadelich (violin), Christiane Karg (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Andris Nelsons
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Minkus: Don Quixote
Natalia Osipova, Leonid Sarafanov, Riccardo Massimi, Matthew Endicott, Giuseppe Conte
Teatro alla Scala, Alexander Titov
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Special offer. Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...
In a dazzling array of costumes, flaunting an impressive decolletage, Jennifer Larmore submits joyfully to her transition from frustrated wife to seduced and abducted lover, blaming it all on... —
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Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – The Salzburg Concerts
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
captures the sense of music-making on the wing...rarely has the final coda erupted with such overwhelming joy. The same electrifying concentration informs performances of Schoenberg's Variations... —
