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Stig Fogh Andersen (Siegfried), Irene Théorin (Brünnhilde), Peter Klaveness (Hagen), Guido Paevatalu (Gunther), Sten Byriel (Alberich), Ylva Kihlberg (Gutrune), Anette Bod (Waltraute), Djina Mai-Mai (Woglinde), Elisabeth Meyer-Topsøe (Wellgunde), Ulla Kudsk Jensen (Flosshilde), Susanne Resmark (1. Norn), Hanne Fischer (2. Norn), Anne Margrethe Dahl (3. Norn) Royal Danish Opera, Michael Schønwandt “The first of several wonders in this new set, collated from three cycles in the early summer of 2006, is the intuitive performing skill of a genuine house ensemble. Even the 'borrowed' Swedish and Norwegian artists, including the Brünnhilde and Hagen, are regulars in a company which inevitably casts the most demanding repertoire from its own – Copenhagen has achieved a class Ring with just one guest, James Johnson's Walküre/Siegfried Wotans. Moreover, if Stockholm is the Venice of the north, the Royal Danish Orchestra must be the Vienna Philharmonic of the north with its forward, rich woodwind timbres (a Nielsen sound, wholly suitable for Nibelung music) and cool-sweet string tone, the whole integrated, balanced and paced with a Kempe-like swiftness and attention to rhythmic detail by their chief Michael Schønwandt.
The assembled cut from the filming of the live performances (Uffe Borgwardt is the credited director of photography) is quite radical for a record of live opera. Like the curious spectator, these cameras want to look up the Rhinedaughters' flapper skirts, focus on props or the aftereffects of violent action, or wonder how a scene looks from behind, from the wings, or even from beneath stage level in the orchestra pit. So the visual editing is busy, justifying allusions to the hand-held operation rediscovered by Danish art cinema directors. It gives the films a breathless close-up quality, the absolute inverse of the accustomed best-seat-in-the-stalls approach.
Kasper Bech Holten's production doesn't intentionally disturb realism and story-telling.
There is a frame story – Brünnhilde is seen researching, in some giant sidestage Valhalla library store, the events of the past from the moment she betrayed Siegfried. But, in principle, this Copenhagen Ring follows a linear narrative.
It's costumed and situated between (approximately) 1920 and the 1990s, and – through ever-ingenious lateral thinking – finds latter-day equivalents for Wagner's geography, properties and dramatic violence. Thus the Rhinegold itself is a beautiful, golden, naked swimming boy, whose heart is bloodily torn out by a serially drinking, lecherous Alberich when he is rejected by les girls. Once captured in Nibelheim, Alberich is chained up in a scary whitetiled torture room, surrendering the ring only when Wotan literally hacks off his entire lower arm. Loge, knowing too much at the end of Rheingold, is murdered by Wotan; Erda's lifesupport is turned off, sorrowfully, by Wotan in Siegfried; Alberich, having worn out Hagen, is dispatched at the end of their colloquy in Götterdämmerung; and, later in that same act, hostages are executed by Hagen in 'celebration' of Gunther's wedding.
But don't get squeamish at the horror, or sniff at Quentin Tarantino-influenced trendiness.
See instead how this director finds more heartbreaking emotion in Wagner's drama than almost any since Patrice Chéreau. In the last scene of Walküre Johnson's Wotan – a characterisation admirably unafraid of appearing less than godlike – searches the whole scene for a way out for Theorin's emotionally mobile Brünnhilde but has to end up (at that huge climax between the 'verses' of the Farewell) by tearing off her Valkyrie's black wings. Stig Andersen's Siegfried, sung with lyrical beauty, is seen desperately alone in the 'forest', stroking the bodies of Mime and Fafner whom he has killed and thus left himself stranded. Kasper Bech Holten is astute too at those potentially awkward moments of embarrassment and waiting and watching – watch the superb detail in the playing of his ensemble stars like Andersen (as both the Walsungs), Theorin, Byriel's unclichéd Alberich, Peter Klaveness's terrifying SS officer of a Hagen (although the voice cannot always equal his dramatic presence), Randi Stene's Fricka (Hillary Clinton with humour) or Guido Paevatalu's multifacetedly lazy, brutal coward of a Gunther.
In addition to the sheer zip of performance and filming, the sound picture is warm, resonant and true, the English subtitles give an unusually revealing and detailed insight into Wagner's text, and, winningly, the 'extra' item consists of a discussion between the stage director and his country's opera-loving head of state. But finally, can these performers, only some of them known on main stages outside Scandinavia, cut the mustard alongside the more international competition on six rival DVD productions? They most certainly can.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008
Erin Caves (Siegmund), Kirsten Blanck (Sieglinde), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Hunding), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Wotan), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Gerhilde), Joana Caspar (Ortlinde), Marie-Helen Joël (Waltraute), Nadine Weissmann (Schwertleite), Silona Michel (Helmwige), Carola Guber (Siegrune), Kerstin Quandt (Grimgerde) & Christiane Bassek (Rossweisse) Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director) Set Design by Dirk Becker & Costume Design by Renée Listerdal. “The free man must be his own maker” Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung refl ects the composer’s autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another fi gure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner’s ideas. “He’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!” Our own doom as the basis of a happier future? Wagner dressed this Herculean task musically in the spreading, shimmering web of his leitmotivic working (there are approximately 20 distinct motives in Die Walküre). Dramaturgically, the conversational style of Das Rheingold gives way to the tone of bourgeois tragedy: incestuous passion, more than one form of deep-seated marital antagonism, and a lot of talk, a lot of self-justifi cation in the form of recapitulation. This, the First Day of the tetralogy (Das Rheingold being a “preliminary evening”), was without doubt the “most moving, the most tragic” of all Wagner’s works in the view of his wife Cosima, expressed in her diary on 31 August 1873. The text of Die Walküre was fi nished on 1 July 1852, and the score was completed in late March 1856. With the fi nancial help of his ever-generous friend (and future father-in-law) Franz Liszt, Wagner went to rest from his labours on the shores of Lake Geneva. Running Time: 237 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
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Johnny van Hal (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Nadine Weissmann (Erda) & Heike Porstein (Waldvogel) Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director) Set Design By Dirk Becker & Costume Design By Renée Listerdal. Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung refl ects the composer’s autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner’s ideas. “He’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!” Our own doom as the basis of a happier future? Second ‘day’ – and third part – of Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring’, the musical saga that its author spent more than a quarter of a century composing. It follows the rise of a young hero, Siegfried, the illegitimate son of the twins whose story we were told in Die Walküre. On the one hand, there is learning about life, glorying in nature and in the emotions, as opposed to those of calculation and greed on the other. This episode shows how Wagner was intent on changing society, on showing that a different kind of man can exist, that the mercenary petit bourgeois world can be replaced by greater humanity and freedom. Running Time: 251 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1
Menu Languages NTSC: GB
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
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| |  | Baptism of Fire - Katharina Wagners FeuertaufeA film by Dagmar Krauss
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg von Richard Wagner. The genesis of a Bayreuth production Das Entstehen einer Bayreuth-Inszenierung. The film documents the genesis of the new production of Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” in Bayreuth. In 2007, Katharina Wagner made her directing debut at the Bayreuth Festival – a debut unlike any other. For Katharina Wagner is none other than the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, the daughter of the long-time Bayreuth patriarch Wolfgang Wagner, and, in his eyes at least, his sole possible successor as head of the Bayreuth Festival. Rarely was the musical world’s attention focused on one opera production as on this staging of “Die Meistersinger”. For eight months, Dagmar Krauss accompanied Katharina Wagner and her team, filming them in candid moments and revealing the inner workings of the Bayreuth Festival such as we have never seen before. Balancing the spontaneity of the roving camera are interviews and statements by singers and theatre employees, as well as by director colleagues such as Christoph Schlingensief and conductors such as Christian Thielemann. As we witness the development of the production concept, we, too, are drawn into the excitement leading to the premiere on 25 July 2007. The film paints the impressive portrait of a gifted, self-controlled, no-nonsense young woman who tackles a work that has stumped many an older and more experienced colleague and endows it with a new, contemporary, controversial message. She cunningly holds up a mirror to the festival public, both the traditional-minded, long-standing Wagnerians as well as the younger opera lovers who demand more risk and innovation. She offers a wealth of surprising views on art in general, demands that one take a stance, and even thematizes her own situation as potential head of the Bayreuth Festival. Sound Format: DD 5.1 (German), DD 5.1 (English) Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9, PAL Running Time: 82 mins FSK: 12 Region Code: 2 “Katharina, Wagner's great granddaughter, is now, with her half-sister Eva, co-chief of the Bayreuth Festival. This documentary was made in 2007 about rehearsals for her festival production of Die Meistersinger - which was, effectively, an audition for that directorship, as well as being the first time since 1953 that a new member of the Wagner family had staged a Bayreuth show. Dagmar Krauss's film, fluently shot and edited, shows the rehearsal process director's introductory talk to the cast to first-nigh reception. ...the decision to focus, in some detail, on the solving of production issues and problems - rather than the usual happy-clappy feigned bonhomie of rehearsal footage - makes the DVD valuable. This is an informative, pacy introduction to production work in progress.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2009 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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3 DVDs for the price of 2 Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in July & August 2009, this production marks the beginning of an exciting new long-term partnership between the Bayreuth Festival and Opus Arte. The prestigious music festival takes place each year in northern Germany in a theatre that Wagner himself personally supervised the design and construction of. The festival has become a pilgrimage destination for Wagner enthusiasts, who often have to wait up to ten years to obtain a ticket! Katarina Wagner, the great-grand daughter of Richard Wagner, is currently codirector of the festival together with her sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. Tristan und Isolde was first performed in 1865 and provided inspiration to many composers including Mahler, Strauss, Szymanowski and Berg. It is widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertoire, and has been performed regularly since is premiere. This production, by renowned director Christoph Marthaler, stars leading Wagner exponents Robert Dean Smith and Irene Theorin in the title roles, supported by the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Peter Schneider. ‘Peter Schneider conducted with real feeling for the score and the prelude to the first act stole upon the ear with the magic of Bayreuth’s amazing acoustics. Robert Dean Smith is now a fine Tristan with a really beautiful voice. …Robert Holl made a moving King Marke, his magnificent bass nobly used. Some of the most beautiful singing came from Clemens Bieber's Young Seaman at the beginning.’ The Stage ‘In Tristan the standard of conducting and singing is high. Peter Schneider draws seamless playing from the orchestra, contouring Wagner’s long arcs of sound as only someone of his experience can do. Iréne Theorin and Robert Dean Smith make a well-balanced couple – she all temperament and sound, he emotionally neutral but vocally flawless.’ The Financial Times “As in all great stagings - and I have no doubt that this is one - a list of unforgettable links between text, music and action soon accumulates. It's hard to know where to point the awards finger first in such a complete ensemble performance...Despite the ferocious competition, absolutely unmissable.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Wagner: Das Rheingold (DVD Version)
Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), John Daszak (Loge), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Matti Salminen (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner) Sabina von Walter (Freia), Anna Larsson (Fricka), Christa Mayer (Erda),Silvia Vázquez (Woglinde), Ann-Katrin Naidu (Wellgunde), Hannah Esther Minutillo (Flosshilde), German Villar (Froh), Ilya Bannik (Donner) Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta Stage / Video Director - Staged by La Fura del Baus Bonus - Making of Rheingold 27 min. Shot in full HD, 7.1 surround sound on Blu-ray!, 5.1 sound on DVD La Fura dels Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in Rheingold 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil" From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2007. Incl. world-class Wagner singers such as Salminen, Kapellmann, Mayer and promising young talents that include John Daszak (Loge) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods." 194 minutes (Opera 167 min. + 27 min. Making of Rheingold) 16:9, HD 7.1 surround (BD), PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 German, French, English, Spanish “…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines dazzlingly mobile 3D computer projections on a towering cyclorama, with groups of acrobats. Inevitably some imagery works better than others; the harpyish Rhinemaidens, literally giving birth to the gold, are less compelling than the planetary descent to Nibelheim, or Walküre's opening wolf-chase and gleaming Tree, in which Wotan's ravens perch, and which scatters Siegmund's name like falling leaves. Against these amazing backgrounds the Gods, futuristically costumed, glide high above the stage on individual gantries propelled by 'invisible' stagehands... they're no barrier to keenly dramatic, involving performances from a fine cast, with some superb principals. ...it's all beautifully recorded on DVD - but on Blu-ray it's simply breathtaking, pin-sharp images and airy surround-sound drawing one into the Valencia stage with almost 3D effect. Wagner still responds best to Romantic imagery; but this redefines it on a cosmic scale. It's the finest Ring on video so far.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Stage / Video Director - Staged by La Fura dels Baus Bonus - Making of Walküre 27 min. Running Time 272 minutes (245´Opera + 27` Bonus) Picture - 16:9, HD Sound - 7.1 on BD, PCM Stereo, 5.1 on DVD Subtitles - German, French, English, Spanish Shot in full HD, 7.1 surround sound on Blu-ray, 5.1 sound on DVD La Fura del Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in their groundbreaking Ring 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil". From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2008. Incl. world-class Wagner singers such as Peter Seiffert, Petra-Maria Schnitzer, Matti Salminen and promising young talents like Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods." “…this is the most exciting staging I've seen - slightly recalling Cirque du Soleil, perhaps, except that here the spectacle is wholly and intelligently at Wagner's service. Scenery combines dazzlingly mobile 3D computer projections on a towering cyclorama, with groups of acrobats. Inevitably some imagery works better than others; the harpyish Rhinemaidens, literally giving birth to the gold, are less compelling than the planetary descent to Nibelheim, or Walküre's opening wolf-chase and gleaming Tree, in which Wotan's ravens perch, and which scatters Siegmund's name like falling leaves. Against these amazing backgrounds the Gods, futuristically costumed, glide high above the stage on individual gantries propelled by 'invisible' stagehands... they're no barrier to keenly dramatic, involving performances from a fine cast, with some superb principals. ...it's all beautifully recorded on DVD - but on Blu-ray it's simply breathtaking, pin-sharp images and airy surround-sound drawing one into the Valencia stage with almost 3D effect. Wagner still responds best to Romantic imagery; but this redefines it on a cosmic scale. It's the finest Ring on video so far.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 ***** “Uusitalo is a commanding, mellifluous Wotan and although Jennifer Wilson's Brünnhilde is relatively unnuanced dramatically, she sings strongly and sensitively...The youthful Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana obediently and expertly delivers the plushy textures and stagey rhetoric Mehta requires” Gramophone Magazine, April 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Shot in full HD, dts-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround sound on Blu-ray! 5.1 sound on DVD La Fura del Baus, famous for their opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Barcelona and opera stagings in Salzburg, Ruhrtriennale, etc., use in their groundbreaking Ring 3D computer projections that evoke computer games, organic structures built of athletic performers that recall the "Cirque du soleil". From Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 2008. Incl. world-class Wagner singers and promising young talents like Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde) and Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), whom the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung hailed as a new "Number One among the opera gods." Bonus Material - Making of Siegfried. In this production "the visual codes of the digital era become elemental and dazzlingly employed means of narration" (Opernwelt). Sunday times: “quite a spectacle”, “brilliantly sung” Picture Format: NTSC 16:9 DVD9 HD Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 PCM 2.0 Region Code: 0 Duration: 256 minutes + 27 minutes bonus Recorded: live from Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia 2008 - staged by La Fura del Baus Subtitles: English German French Spanish “highly recommended, a refreshing antidote to leaden Teutonic representations. Wagner responds best to Romantic imagery, but this gives it a vividly original twist.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2010 ***** “…excellent orchestral playing and decent sound to match…a striking and often absorbing experiment” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar 2008
Das Rheingold Mario Hoff (Wotan), Erin Caves (Loge), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Renatus Mészár (Fasolt), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Marietta Zumbült (Freia), Alexander Günther (Donner), Jean-Noël Briend (Froh), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Silona Michel (Woglinde), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde), Christiane Bassek (Flosshilde) Die Walküre Erin Caves (Siegmund), Kirsten Blanck (Sieglinde), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Hunding), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Wotan), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Gerhilde), Joana Caspar (Ortlinde), Marie-Helen Joël (Waltraute), Nadine Weissmann (Schwertleite), Silona Michel (Helmwige), Carola Guber (Siegrune), Kerstin Quandt (Grimgerde), Christiane Bassek (Rossweisse) Siegfried Johnny van Hal (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Heike Porstein (Waldvogel) Götterdämmerung Norbert Schmittberg (Siegfried), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Hagen), Mario Hoff (Gunther), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Marietta Zumbült (Gutrune), Nadine Weissmann (Waltraute), Silona Michel (Woglinde), Susann Günther-Dissmeier (Wellgunde), Christiane Bassek (Flosshilde), Christine Hansmann (1. Norn), Nadine Weissmann (2. Norn), Silona Michel (3. Norn) Orchestra and Chorus of The Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director) Set Design by Dirk Becker, Costume Design by Renée Listerdal & Dramaturgy by Wolfgang Willaschek. Outside Germany, the name Weimar tends to evoke mixed feelings and pictures of German history of the last hundred years. Within Germany, Weimar means a town in the state of Thuringia arguably saturated with the “Deutsche Kultur” of the “Weimarer Klassik”, the legendary Bauhaus, and finally the life and work of Franz Liszt and his son in law Richard Wagner. In Weimar Richard Wagner began composing the first part of his RING-cycle, “Das Rheingold”. In 2008 the Nationaltheater Weimar started a new production of this unique tetralogy. The conductor is Carl St.Clair, a former student of Leonard Bernstein. With Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging this new “Ring” production becomes an outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1 DVD Format: 7 x DVD 9, NTSC Picture Format: 16:9 Subtitle Languages: DE, GB, FR, IT, ES, JP FSK: 6 Running Time: about 940 mins | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Jonas Kaufmann’s sensational role debut as Wagner’s Lohengrin was the talk of the 2009 Munich Festival. Filmed in high-def widescreen, Jonas Kaufmann’s bow as Lohengrin is a logical follow-up to the success of his German arias album (4781463), described by Hugh Canning in International Record Review as “one of the vocal records of the year [2009], if not the decade” His sound, a unique combination of torrid sensuality and radiant, crystalline purity, serves a musico-dramatic intelligence that makes a unity of Lohengrin’s often difficult to reconcile heroic and lyric elements. No wonder La Scena Musicale saluted Jonas Kaufmann “. . . the finest Heldentenor since Jon Vickers . . .” Partnered by Anja Harteros – per The Opera Critic, “an exceptional Elsa” – Kaufmann heads a stellar cast conducted by Kent Nagano “Nothing clutters Jones’s focus on the opera’s heart...When Kaufmann’s tenor dips to pianissimo for the Grail narrative, we’re putty in his hands. Physically noble and charismatic, subtly acting and interacting, he’s never a star on a pedestal...Nagano adopts a refreshingly temperate approach, avoiding juggernaut blasts but delighting in details and phrasing.” The Times, 21st May 2010 **** “Richard Jones's and designer Ultz's stage, set in the 1930s, shows an autocratic country where the law is preluded by military fanfares and announced by a single speaker (the Herald). The young cast is led superbly by Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 “This is the Lohengrin voice of dreams; both romantic and heroic, with a gentle, well-nourished warmth, capable of a perfectly graduated diminuendo...a major contribution is no doubt made by Kent Nagano's sympathetic conducting and the fine playing of his Munich orchestra.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2010 “Without question, the musical performance is very good, and in the case of the title role, sung by Jonas Kaufmann, I would say it is perfect, and easily the best account of this tricky role I have ever heard. Kaufmann is also noble-looking, handsome and acts with natural grace and conviction...Kent Nagano is the often inspired and at all times fine conductor.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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