Eric Owens
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Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer (soprano), Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Brewer sails through the test. Her Elektra is a young woman shocked into life by the arrival of Orestes...her voice lightened to give her youth as she waits; and then comes a seemingly unstoppable... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Leoncavallo: I Medici
Plácido Domingo (Giuliano de' Medici), Carlos Álvarez (Lorenzo), Daniela Dessì (Simonetta), Eric Owens (Montesecco), Vitalij Kowaljow (Poliziano)
Florence Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Alberto Veronesi
Domingo [is] outstanding as Giuliano, Carlos Alvarez bold and bracing as his brother Lorenzo, and Daniela Dessì's rich tones and delicacy of delivery creat[e] a fine impression as Simonetta. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, Editor's Choice
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedEric Owens (Porgy), Angel Blue (Bess), Latonia Moore (Serena), Golda Schultz (Clara), Denyce Graves (Maria), Frederick Ballentine (Sportin’ Life), Alfred Walker (Crown), Ryan Speedo Green (Jake), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, David Robertson
The chorus supplies precision and refulgent tone, while the orchestral playing is clean and idiomatic, with conductor David Robertson shaping an interpretation that is well-paced and offers... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Twilight of the Gods: The Ultimate Wagner Ring Collection
Bryn Terfel (Wotan/Wanderer), Deborah Voigt (Brünnhilde), Jay Hunter Morris (Siegfried), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Eric Owens (Alberich)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, James Levine & Fabio Luisi
Terfel is the finest Wotan before the public today...Blythe's brief appearances as Fricka find her in superb voice...Kaufmann is extraordinary as Siegmund; the velvety-chocolate depths of his... — More…
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Verdi: Otello
Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Carlo Guelfi (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Juan Francisco Gatell (Cassio), Michael Spyres (Roderigo), Paolo Battaglia (Montano), Eric Owens (Lodovico) & David Govertsen (Herald)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus,...
tip-top precision from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra players. They reach a level of pristine excellence that any opera house orchestra- no matter how eminent- would struggle to equal...[Stoyanova's]... — More…
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Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Jessica Rivera, Russell Thomas, Eric Owens
Schola Cantorum Caracas, London Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
A Flowering Tree is Adams's most succinct, magical and overtly moral opera. Jessica Rivera's candid girlish soprano is similar in timbre to Dawn Upshaw… As the clumsy Prince, Russell Thomas's... — More…
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Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Mark Schowalter (Piet the Pot), Barbara Hannigan (Gepopo), Eric Owens (Nekrotzar), Jennifer Black (Amada), Renée Tatum (Amando), Wilbur Pauley (Astradamors), Melissa Parks (Mescalina), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Prince Go-Go), Peter Tantsits (White Minister), Joshua Bloom (Black Minister)
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Adams, J: Doctor Atomic
Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer), Eric Owens (General Leslie Groves), Richard Paul Fink (Edward Teller), James Maddalena (Jack Hubbard), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jay Hunter Morris (Captain James Nolan), Ellen Rabiner (Pasqualita)
Chorus of De Nederlandse...
Doctor Atomic centres on the hours before the first detonation of the atomic bomb… Peter Sellars's film of the opera is expressionistic, claustrophobic, sometimes deliberately out of focus.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedAlso contains the film 'Wagner's Dream' - a documentary about the making of the Metropolitan Operas new Ring cycle.
Das Rheingold
Lisette Oropesa (Woglinde), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Wellgunde), Tamara Mumford (Flosshilde), Eric Owens (Alberich), Stephanie Blythe (Fricka), Bryn Terfel (Wotan), Richard Croft (Loge), Franz-Josef Selig (Fasolt), Hans-Peter König (Fafner), Wendy Bryn Harmer (Freia),...
Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Opera Recording
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