Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Jonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement.
Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
Jonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement.
About
The premiere of Korngold's Die tote Stadt at the Bayerische Staatsoper in 2019 was praised both by press and audiences. Marlis Petersen (Marie/Marietta) and Jonas Kaufmann (Paul) sang the main roles, with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Kirill Petrenko's baton, in the intense staging by Simon Stone. After opening night, Joshua Barone wrote in the NY Times: “[The] work's comeback may have reached its peak at the Bavarian State Opera. It’s difficult to imagine a better case for Die tote Stadt than was made in Munich.” The boundary between dream and reality dissolves as Paul, mourning his dead wife Marie, meets the dancer Marietta. With her looks so similar to Marie’s, Marietta becomes the object of the projection of Paul’s erotic desires. Following a nerve-racking “vision”, Paul is finally reeled back to reality and he can leave Bruges as the place of his death cult. The original title of the piece, “Triumph des Lebens”, is symbolic of the main character’s personal development. Just a few weeks before the successful world premiere of Die tote Stadt, none other than Puccini himself described Korngold as the “greatest hope of new German music”. Because of their melodic urgency, arias such as “Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Lute Song)” and “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen (Pierrot's Song)” have found a home among the concert repertoires of many opera singers and radiate far beyond the fame of Die tote Stadt. This production is the first AV release on our newly launched label.
Contents and tracklist
- Jonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Alber), Bayerische Staatsoper (opera company), Simon Stone (director)
- Kirill Petrenko
Spotlight on this release
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Korngold's Die tote Stadt from Munich
Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen both thrive under the camera's close scrutiny in Korngold's early opera about a volatile widower who attempts to refashion a new love-interest in his late wife's image.
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week23rd July 2021
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OperaOctober 2021Disc of the Month
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2021DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik2022Winner - Opera
Awards Issue 2021
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement.
October 2021
In Kaufmann and Petersen, Stone is lucky to have a pair of protagonists whose go-for-broke performances show total commitment to his concept, and to Korngold...Petrenko emphasizes the score’s full-blown theatricality; his fondness for it is clear from the joyous expression on his face during his conducting of the exciting Act 2 prelude.
23rd July 2021
Kaufmann and Petersen are utterly fearless in squaring up to the formidable vocal and emotional demands of the central roles…The third knock-out performance comes from the pit: Petrenko clearly adores this score, and ensures that every detail of Korngold’s precociously brilliant orchestration comes across loud and clear.
12th August 2021
It could hardly be better cast…But it’s Kirill Petrenko’s impassioned conducting that really makes the performance compelling: he clearly cares passionately about every note of the score, its overripe romanticism and all.
4th August 2021
Wow! Half of its lustre derives from the uniformly excellent cast…Clearly loving every note of the teeming score, Kirill Petrenko does a magnificent job conducting the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, balancing Korngold’s marzipan opulence with glimpses into the heart of darkness hidden within.
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