Hamburg Philharmonic
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Peter Galliard (Loge), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Jürgen Sacher (Mime), Tigran Martirossian (Fasolt), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Fafner), Jan Buchwald (Donner), Ladislav Elgr (Froh), Katja Pieweck (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Freia), Deborah Humble (Erda), Ha Young Lee (Woglinde), Gabriele...
Das Rheingold is a work of intensely dramatic exposition… This Hamburg performance… goes all for the drama, to the point where the characters sometimes almost stop singing and begin to shout.... — More…
2 CDs
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Yvonne Naef (Sieglinde), Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding), Jeanne Piland (Fricka), Hellen Kwon (Gerhilde), Miriam Gordon-Stewart (Helmwige), Gabriele Rossmanith (Ortlinde), Katja Pieweck (Siegrune), Renate Spingler (Rossweiße),...
Young's balancing of orchestral textures is interestingly calculated, often novel, and most attentive to the written dynamics. …Polaski… is compelling. With Struckmann's Wotan… she achieves... — More…
4 CDs
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Leopold Simoneau & Pierette Alarie (Vol. 1)
Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Léopold Simoneau (tenor), John Newmark (piano), Léopold Simoneau (ténor), Catherina Delfosse (soprano), Grace Hoffman (alto)
Heinz Rehfuss (bass), Maureen Forrester (alto), Joseph Rouleau (bass), Bernard Cottret, George Abdoun, Gérard Serkoyan
Eugenia Zareska,...
4 CDs
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Wagner: Siegfried
Christian Franz (Siegfried), Peter Galliard (Mime), Falk Struckmann (Der Wanderer), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Diogenes Randes (Fafner), Deborah Humble (Erda), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde) & Ha Young Lee (Stimme des Waldvogels)
Hamburg State Opera & Philharmoniker Hamburg, Simone Young
Christian Franz, though by no means ideal, has many of the qualities the role needs, including a pleasant voice and staying power...He also shows a sense of poetry, so that he doesn't come across... — More…
4 CDs
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Deborah Polaski (Brünnhilde), Christian Franz (Siegfried), John Tomlinson (Hagen), Wolfgang Koch (Alberich), Robert Bork (Gunther), Anna Gabler (Gutrune), Petra Lang (Waltraute), Deborah Humble (Erste Norn), Cristina Damian (Zweite Norn), Katja Pieweck (Dritte Norn), Ha Young Lee (Woglinde), Maria...
Wolfgang Koch [sic - Koch actually sings Alberich, Robert Bork Gunther] and Anna Gabler are outstanding as Gunther and Gutrune. Simone Young's conducting is ardent, sometimes coarse, but always... — More…
4 CDs
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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...
In a dazzling array of costumes, flaunting an impressive decolletage, Jennifer Larmore submits joyfully to her transition from frustrated wife to seduced and abducted lover, blaming it all on... — More…
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Reimann, A: Lear
Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)
Their Lear's score is based on quick-moving accompanied recitative with underlaying or interposed instrumental mood and atmospheric descriptions...The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness... — More…
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Reimann, A: Lear
Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)
Their Lear's score is based on quick-moving accompanied recitative with underlaying or interposed instrumental mood and atmospheric descriptions...The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness... — More…
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Alexia Voulgaridou (Cio-Cio San), Cristina Damian (Suzuki), Teodor Ilincai (B.F. Pinkerton) & Lauri Vasar (Sharpless)
Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chorus of the Staatsoper Hamburg, Alexander Joel (conductor) & Vincent Boussard (stage director)
Musically solid and theatrically intriguing, this Madama Butterfly from Hamburg brings one to ponder whether this opera is truly about love or advantageous circumstance...This singing is mostly... — More…
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Offenbach: La Belle Helène
Jennifer Larmore (Hélène), Jun-Sang Han (Pâris), Peter Galliard (Ménélas), Viktor Rud (Agamemnon), Rebecca Jo Loeb (Oreste), Dovlet Nurgeldiyev (Achille), Sergiu Saplacan (Ajax premier), Benjamin Popson (Ajax deuxième), Christian Miedl (Calchas), Anat Edri (Bacchis), Renate Spingler (Léoena), Gabriele...
La belle Hélène takes a trip back to the 1960s. You can almost smell the patchouli oil and feel the crushed velvet…Jennifer Larmore is a handsome Hélène…her singing is careful and characterful…[Jun-Sang... — More…
