Unitel Editions
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Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
Ausrine Stundyte (Renata), Bo Skovhus (Ruprecht), Natascha Petrinsky (Hostess/Abbess), Elena Zaremba (Fortune-Teller), Nikolai Schukoff (Agrippa von Nettesheim/Mephistopheles)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Constantin Trinks, Andrea Breth
With both the setting and aspects of the story radically altered, the opera becomes even darker and more powerful...Aušrinė Stundytė has in recent years made the role of Renate her own; and with... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame ('The Queen of Spades')
from the Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festspielhaus, August 2018
Brandon Jovanovich (Hermann), Evgenia Muraveva (Lisa), Vladislav Sulimsky (Count Tomsky / Plutus), Igor Golovatenko (Prince Yeletsky), Hanna Schwarz (Countess)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons (conductor)
[Jovanovich has] a substantial lyric tenor with the capacity to be lyrical or heroic according to need, and the ability to cut through pretty well any texture. Nevertheless, with a tone that... — More…
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Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà
Svetlana Aksenova (Zazà), Enkelejda Shkosa (Aniade), Dorothea Herbert (Floriana/Madame Dufresne), Juliette Mars (Natalia), Nikolai Schukoff (Milio Dufresne), Vittoria Antonuzzo (Toto Dufresne), Christopher Maltman (Cascart), Tobias Greenhalgh (Bussy), Paul Schweinester (Courtois), Johannes Bamberger...
Loy manages to focus in his surgical, sparing way on the essentials...I just wish Leoncavallo’s 1900 opera was deserving of such a polished staging, as well as the diligent conducting by Stefan... — More…
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John Cranko's The Taming of the Shrew
Elisa Badenes, Jason Reilly, Veronika Verterich, Martin Fernández Paixà, Alessandro Giaquinto, Fabio Adorisio, the Stuttgart Ballet, State Theatre Stuttgart, John Cranko (choreography), Wolfgang Heinz
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The most impactful performances here are of ponderous slow movements... Especially the Appassionata’s second movement...has a conceptual thoroughness and candour that is risk-taking, teetering... — More…
