Five outstanding Operas from Bregenz Festival’s amazing lake stage: ‘Stage director Graham Vick and set designer Paul Brown conjure up an ‘open-air spectacle of superlatives’ (Die Zeit about Aida). ‘A gigantic set with iconic qualities – a masterly achievement’ (Die Welt about Andrea Chénier). ‘David Pountney finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding The Magic Flute’ (Der Tagesspiegel). ’A bit of Hollywood in Bregenz: Melodies for the millions, impressively staged grand opera‘. (ZDF heute journal about Turandot). ‘Kasper Holten’s production of Carmen on Es Devlin’s extraordinary set was a knockout…‘ (The Telegraph). ‘Art doesn’t belong to a clique in society. Art is a jewel, a rich resource that must be made accessible to a large audience‘. See – and hear – for yourself on this DVD/BD and enjoy the richness of the artistic offerings on the incomparable lake stage. Elisabeth Sobotka (Artistic director of Bregenz Festival)

Artists

Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla), Hector Sandoval (Andréa Chénier), Norma Fantini (Maddalena di Coigny), Scott Hendricks (Carlo Gérard), Tania Kross (Bersi), Rosalind Plowright (Madelon), Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena), Mlada Khudoley (Turandot), Manuel von Senden (Altoum), Michael Ryssov (Timur), Riccardo Massi (Calaf), Guanqun Yu (Liu)

Wiener Symphoniker, The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble, Camerata Silesia, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Carlo Rizzi, Graham Vick, Paolo Carignani, Kasper Holten, Ulf Schirmer, Keith Warner, Patrick Summers, David Pountney, Marco Arturo Marelli