Unitel Editions
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Mozart: Don Giovanni (Blu-ray)
Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Ruben Drole, Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), Mauro Peter (Don Ottavio), Maite Beaumont (Donna Elvira), Mari Eriksmoen (Zerlina)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mari Eriksmoen (Fiordiligi), Katija Dragojevic (Dorabella), Mauro Peter (Ferrando), Andrè Schuen (Guglielmo), Elisabeth Kulman (Despina), Markus Werba (Don Alfonso)
Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
this is a Mozart with a difference: rather than interpreting, singers and orchestra confront text and music with a liveliness and intensity that should also compel viewers to see things differently. — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Chen Reiss (soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano)
Münchner Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel
this is great Mahler in any format — More…
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Massenet: Thaïs
Nicole Chevalier (Thaïs), Josef Wagner (Athanaël), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Leo Hussain
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Nicole Chevalier is a superb actress and camps up the glamourpuss courtesan well...Wagner is a very good Athanaël, full of zealous fire, firmly sung. — More…
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Massenet: Thaïs
Nicole Chevalier (Thaïs), Josef Wagner (Athanaël), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Leo Hussain
Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Nicole Chevalier is a superb actress and camps up the glamourpuss courtesan well...Wagner is a very good Athanaël, full of zealous fire, firmly sung. — More…
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Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
Kathryn Lewek (Eurydice), Joel Prieto (Orphée), Anne Sofie von Otter (L'Opinion Publique), Martin Winkler (Jupiter), Max Hopp (John Styx)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Enrique Mazzola, Barrie Kosky
[Kosky's] exuberance is clearly evident...Indeed, sometimes that exuberance spills forth at such a giddy pace that it’s difficult to keep up on initial viewing...Lewek is the star of the show,... — More…
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Offer,
Rameau: Platée Marcel Beekman (Platée), Jeanine De Bique (La Folie), Cyril Auvity (Mercure/Thespis), Marc Mauillon (Momus/Citheron), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Jupiter), Emmanuelle De Negri (Clarine/Amour), Emilie Renard (Junon), Ilona Revolskaya (Thalie), Padraic Rowan (Mommuss/Satyre), Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Les...
The cast is a strong one, comprising a number of well-known French Baroque specialists…the show is almost stolen by the stunning La Folie (Folly) of Jeanine De Bique, who sings the great ariette... — More…
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the fall of Tobias Moretti’s Everyman is all the more affecting for his initial suavity...It is Caroline Peters, however, as the Paramour, who almost steals the show from Moretti thanks both... — More…
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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…
