Violeta Urmana
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedGary Lehman (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Alexei Tano Vitski (Titurel) & Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
What really distinguishes this […] is Gergiev. His reading is vivid and luminous, generally expansive but with fluidly shifting tempos, unashamedly guilty of theatrical excitement. Yet he evokes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2010
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Love Duets
RecommendedPlácido Domingo, Deborah Voigt
Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano
It appears that in 1862, three years before Tristanand Isolde's première, Wagner hoped that the Schnorrs, his original Tristan and Isolde, would give part of the Love duet in a concert performance.... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Wagner: Scenes from the Ring
Placido Domingo (tenor), David Cangelosi (Mime), Natalie Dessay (Waldvogel), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2002, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Siegfried
RecommendedTomasz Konieczny (Der Wanderer/Wotan), Stephen Gould (Siegfried), Violeta Urmana (Brünnhilde), Anna Larsson (Erda), Matti Salminen (Fafner), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Christian Elsner (Mime), Sophie Klußmann (Stimme eines Waldvogels)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Marek Janowski
This is a lively and enjoyable performance of what Wagner called his 'heroic comedy'...listen to the short but dense Prelude and you'll hear many things that you won't have heard on any other... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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It’s an interesting collection, The excerpts aren’t always the obvious ones…Some of the singing isn’t terrific…but Prince Yeletsky in the Queen of Spades (1999) was the perfect role for him:... — More…
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Plácido Domingo Sings Wagner
Plácido Domingo (tenor), David Cangelosi (tenor), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo-soprano), Deborah Voigt (soprano), Deborah Polaski (soprano), John Tomlinson (bass), Nina Stemme (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Jared Holt (baritone)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden,...
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Stravinsky: The Nightingale, etc.
Natalie Dessay
Paris National Opera Chorus & Orchestra, James Conlon
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Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier Andrea Bocelli (Andrea Chénier), Violeta Urmana (Maddalena), Lucio Gallo (Carlo Gérard), Elena Obraztsova (Madelon)
Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi, Marco Armiliato
Violeta Urmana is a quality Maddalena, Lucio Gallo a stalwart Carlo — More…
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Stravinsky - Le Rossignol & Oedipus Rex
Natalie Dessay, Marie McLaughlin, Violeta Urmana, Ian Caley, Vsevolod Grivnov, Maxim Mikhailov, Laurent Naouri, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Oedipus), Marjana Lipovšek (Jocasta)
Orchestre et Chœur de l’Opera National de Paris, Orchestre National de Paris, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra,...
Dessay is stunning, heading a strong cast in this unsurpassed account of The Nightingale. — More…
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