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Reich: Rain & Music for 18 musicians HD recording: Opéra national de Paris, 10/2014
with Valentine Colasante, Muriel Zusperreguy, Christelle Granier, Sae Eun Park, Léonore Baulac, Amélie Lamoureux, Laura Bachmann, Vincent Chaillet, Nicolas Paul, Daniel Stokes
Paris Opera Ballet, Ensemble Ictus & Synergy Vocals, Georges-Elie Octors
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Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135 Kurt Streit (Silla), Patricia Petibon (Giunia), Silvia Tro Santafé (Cecilio), Inga Kalna (Cinna), María José Moreno (Celia), Kenneth Tarver (Aufidio)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real de Madrid, Ivor Bolton, Claus Guth
Streit is good at acting the tyrant, a blend of arbitrary power and remorse…but under pressure his tone things out. Silvia Tro Santafé is a dependable Cecilio. But the vocal laurels, and the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Opera Choice
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Verdi: Nabucco George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Susanna Branchini (Abigaille), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele), Rafal Siwek (Zaccaria), María José Moreno (Fenena), Nicolò Ceriani (High Priest of Belo), Paolo Antognetti (Abdallo), Elena Borin (Anna); Daniel Oren, Arnaud Bernard
This performance boasts a very decent cast. George Gagnidze is in bullish form as Nabucco, his baritone rock solid if not especially beautiful…Branchini has her wild moments as Abigaille, but... — More…
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Mahler: Complete Symphonies (1-10), Totenfeier & Das Lied von der Erde
All full HD live recordings taken from the 2009-2011 Mahler celebration at Amsterdam Concertgebouw
Ricarda Merbeth (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Miah Persson (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Camilla Nylund (soprano), Maria Espada (soprano), Stephanie Blythe (mezzo), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Tommi Hakala (baritone),...
All these performances bear the stamp of the man on the podium...but the set's most positive and absorbing quality is its paradoxical focus on the orchestra, and in this composer above all, who... — More…
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Asafyev: Les Flammes De Paris Natalia Osipova (Jeanne), Denis Savin (Jerome), Ivan Vasiliev (Philippe, un Marseillais), Yuri Klevtsov (Marquis Costa de Beauregard), Nina Kaptsova (Adeline), Anna Antonicheva (Mireille de Poitiers) & Ruslan Skvortsov (Antoine Mistral)
Bolshoi Ballet & Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre,...
The Act II Dances are stunning, with Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev mixing breathtaking athleticism with sparkling joie-de-vivre, captured in stunning pictures and sound. — More…
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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Eric Cutler (Hoffmann), Anne Sofie Von Otter (La Muse/Nicklausse), Vito Priante (Lindorf/Coppélius/Dr Miracle/Dapertutto), Ana Durlovski (Olympia), Measha Brueggergosman (Antonia/Giulietta)
Teatro Real de Madrid, Sylvain Cambreling, Christoph Marthaler
Musically it’s mostly excellent...Cutler is all vocal ease, elegance and passion. Von Otter’s communicative and dramatic powers remain wonderfully persuasive … Cambreling’s hard-edged intensity... — More…
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Verdi: Macbeth Dimitris Tiliakos (Macbeth), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Banco), Violeta Urmana (Lady Macbeth), Letitia Singleton (Dama), Stefano Secco (Macduff)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris & Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Teodor Currentzis
Personal relationships are illuminatingly handled in spite of Tcherniakov's aversion to monologues. Home viewing produces, I guess, a more accessible experience than the audience had in Paris's... — More…
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites Alain Vernhes (Marquis de la Force), Susan Gritton (Blanche de la Force), Bernard Richter (Chevalier de la Force), Sylvie Brunet (Madame de Croissy), Soile Isokoski (Madame Lidoine), Susanne Resmark (Mère Marie)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano
[the production is] set in a soulless authoritarian state but filmed in a way that underlines individual dilemmas and common humanity. It is worth watching for Sylvie Brunet’s doughty Madame... — More…
