Wagner - Rienzi
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Wagner: Rienzi
René Kollo (Cola Rienzi), Siv Wennberg (Irene), Nikolaus Hillebrand (Steffano Colonna), Janis Martin (Adriano Colonna), Theo Adam (Paolo Orsini), Siegfried Vogel (Raimondo), Ingeborg Springer (Ein Friedensbote), Peter Schreier (Baroncelli) & Günther Leib (Cecco del Vecchio)
Leipziger Rundfunkchor,...
The principal credit for the recording's success…is due to the conductor Heinrich Hollreiser. He prevents the more routine material from sounding merely mechanical, and ensures that the whole... — More…
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Wagner: Rienzi
Wolfgang Windgassen (Rienzi), Josef Traxel (Adriano), Paula Brivkalne (Irene), Gustav Neidlinger (Steffano), Hans Günter Nöcker (Paolo Orsini), Otto von Rohr (Raimondo), Alfred Pfeifle (Baroncelli), Fritz Linke (Cecco del Vecchio)
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Lovro Matacic
2 CDs
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Wagner: Rienzi
Günther Treptow (Rienzi), Gerda Scheyrer (Irene), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (Adriano), Adolf Vogel (Stefano Colonna), Walter Berry (Paolo Orsini) & Waldemar Kmentt (Baroncelli)
Vienna State Opera, Robert Heger
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Wagner: Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot & Rienzi
RecommendedLinda Esther Gray (Ada), Kari Lövass (Farzana), Krisztina Laki (Zemina), John Alexander (Arindal), June Anderson (Lora), Roland Hermann (Morald), Kurt Moll (Der Feekönig), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Gernot), Cheryl Studer (Drolla), Roland Bracht (Stimme Gromas), Karl Helm (Harald), Hermann Prey (Friedrich),...
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
9 CDs
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Wagner: Rienzi
Set Svanholm (Rienzi), Anne Lund Christiansen (Irene), Paul Schöffler (Steffano), Christa Ludwig (Adriano), Walter Berry (Paolo), Teresa Stich-Randell (Ein Friedensbote), Karl Terkal (Baroncelli), Alois Pernerstorfer (Cecco del Vecchio), Heinz Holecek (Raimondo)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Josef...
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Wagner: Rienzi
Rene Kollo, Theo Adam, Peter Schreier, Janis Martin
Staatskapelle Dresden, Heinrich Hollreiser
Rienzi is grand opera with a vengeance. Political imperatives count for more than mere human feelings, and politics means ceremony as well as warfare: marches, ballet music and extended choruses... — More…
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Wagner: Rienzi
Peter Bronder (Rienzi), Christiane Libor (Irene), Falk Struckmann (Steffano Colonna), Claudia Mahnke (Adriano), Daniel Schmutzhard (Paolo Orsini), Alfred Reiter (Kardinal Orvieto)
Frankfurter Opern-und Museums-orchester & Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Sebastian Weigle
If Bronder lacks the last ounce of heroic razzmatazz...there is not a note or tone in this impressive reading which is not convincingly struck. His colleagues are in like form...Recording quality... — More…
3 CDs
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Wagner: Rienzi
René Kollo, Cheryl Studer, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, John Janssen, Bodo Brinkmann, Karl Helm, Norbert Orth, Kieth Engen, Carmen Anhorn
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Wolfgang Sawallisch
3 CDs
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Wagner: Rienzi
Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Marika Schönberg (Irene), Daniela Sindram (Adriano), Richard Wiegold (Colonna), Stefan Heidemann (Orsini), Robert Bork (Cardinal Orvieto), Marc Heller (Baroncelli), Leonardo Neiva (Cecco del Vecchio) & Jennifer O’Loughlin (Peace Messenger)
Orchestre national du Capitole,...
Lavelli and conductor Steinberg make much sense of (at least) the personal drama of Wagner's grand Romantic opera...[Kerl, Sindram and Schonberg] pace themselves well; even with the blue pencil... — More…
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Wagner: Rienzi
Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Kate Aldrich (Adriano) & Camilla Nylund (Irene)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor) & Philipp Stölzl (stage director)
no relevant filmic reference...is left unquoted in design or acting. Torsten Kerl's considerable vocal and visual impersonation of the title-role has absorbed, and reproduces, Chaplin's The... — More…
