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Georg Nigl (Wozzeck), Mardi Byers (Marie), Maxim Paster (Captain), Pyotr Migunov (Doctor) & Roman Muravitsky (Drum-major) Orchestra & Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Teodor Currentzis Stage direction and set design: Dmitri Tcherniakov In 2010, for the first time in its history, the Bolshoi Opera presented Alban Berg’s masterpiece 'Wozzeck'. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s truly historic production is now available in this DVD. The Russian director’s aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was “to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late 20th-century man dwelling in a megalopolis.” The redoubtably complex title role was entrusted to Austrian baritone Georg Nigl. Nigl studied with Kammersängerin Hilde Zadek. Over the last few years he has worked with, among others, Thomas Hengelbrock and his Baltasar Neumann Ensemble, Jordi Savall and his Hesperion XXI Ensemble, and Giovanni Antonini and Luca Pianca and their Il Giardino Armonico. American soprano Mardi Byers plays Marie. A native of Colorado, she made her international debut as 'Tosca' in Lübeck and Elisabetta in 'Don Carlos' in Wiesbaden and Basel. She has also sung Donna Anna and Suor Angelica at the New York City Opera, as well as Elisabeth in 'Tannhäuser' and Ariadne. The Proms audience saw her in Mahler 8 in 2010 with Jiri Belohlavek. Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis directs the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Chorus. Artistic director of the Perm Opera and founder and musical director of the Musica Aeterna ensemble, Currentzis is now to be seen in the world’s leading venues: the Opéra de Paris, Opernhaus Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Teatro Real in Madrid. “Wozzeck on DVD is an extraordinary experience when one encounters well-directed singers who respond to the camera with the ease of film actors … Georg Nigl’s attractively light-timbred voice deals with this music so easily...[Byers] owns a youthfully lovely spinto instrument that can ‘float’ and let loose with equal ease … All in all a magnificent release” International Record Review, November 2012 “Everyone involved...knows exactly where they are going and gets there triumphantly...Nigl's carefully paced Wozzeck (far less 'expressionist' than we may be used to) and Byers's pitch-perfect everyday working woman of a Marie are ably supported...unless you cannot cope with the loss of an early-19th century period setting, this production will furnish the clearest possible expose of the Berg-Buchner drama.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “there's little doubt that much credit for this significant revival must be given to Teodor Currentzis, whsoe committed conducting inspires the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra to deliver an urgent account of the score...Tcherniakov has chosen to recast Wozzeck in a contemporary context, as a purely psychological drama exploring the inertia of life in the metropolis.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI - The Home of Opera. Bonus Disc contains synopsis and libretto with translation. “Wozzeck benefits from careful attention to Berg's actual notes - often vaguely delivered in earlier recordings - instigated by Ingo Metzmacher...Bo Skovhus's deadpan soldier disintegrates with moving conviction” BBC Music Magazine, February 2011 **** “Ingo Metzmacher’s blisteringly conducted live Wozzeck — an account that blends the Sturm-und-Drang vehemence of Mitropoulos, the explosiveness of Abbado and the arch-Mahlerian beauty of Dohnanyi — also pushes Bo Skovhus to provide a powerfully characterised Wozzeck.” Gramophone Magazine “The advantages of hearing this opera live are demonstrated very effectively through Bo Skovhus's intense and theatrical account of the title-role, with Angela Denoke as an impressive Marie, never afraid to take dramatic risks ...but perhaps the real star of this set is Ingo Metzmacher - he conducts a Wozzeck of electrifying drive and unflinching modernity...hearing this set is a tremendous experience” International Record Review, January 2011 “Metzmacher draw[s] powerful, clean-textured playing from his orchestra, firmly establishing this as a high romantic work, whatever its modernist credentials. The casting is strong too, with Bo Skovhus singing with clean focus in the title-role, and with Marie superbly sung by Angela Denoke, sensuous on the one hand, tenderly affecting on the other.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Walter Berry (Wozzeck), Isabel Strauss (Marie), Fritz Uhl (Tambourmajor), Carl Doench (Doktor), Albert Weikenmeier (Hauptmann), Richard van Vrooman (Andres), Ingeborg Lasser (Margret), Gérard Dunan (Narr) Orchestre & Choeur de l'Opéra de Paris, Pierre Boulez Wozzeck is today established as one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century although public reaction was divided at the start. In three acts, each of five scenes, the opera plays continuously and is a superb example of German symphonic drama in which Berg also makes use of symbolic characterization and he succeeds in humanising the potentially subhuman Wozzeck and Marie through powerful and highly emotional music. Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Franz Hawlata (Wozzeck), Angela Denoke (Marie), Reiner Goldberg (Drum Major), Vivian Tierney (Marget), Johann Tilli (Doctor), Hubert Delamboye (Captain), David Kuebler (Andres) Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu & Vivaldi Chorus – IPSI – Petits Cantors de Catalunya, Sebastian Weigle Recorded live at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona in January 2006.
Bonus Documentary, including interviews with Sebastian Weigle & Calixto Bieito.
PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 129 Mins
SOUND: DTS 5.0 SURROUND/ LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CA
“The quite sensational Chorus and Orchestra, revealed a worldclass theatre company, with a conductor London should book soon. Sebastian Weigle read the score with suavity, so that it seemed as if Wozzeck was more than a little influenced by Mahler; and how thankful I felt for that ingratiating, mellow and fierce sound!” Musical Opinion | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck), Waltraud Meier (Marie), Graham Clark (Hauptmann), Günter von Kannen (Doktor), Mark Baker (Tambourmajor), Endrik Wottrich (Andres), Siegfried Vogel (1er Handwerkbursche), Roman Trekel (2er Handwerkbursche), Peter Menzel (Narr), Dalia Schaechter (Margret) Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper Unter den Linden & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim Staged by Patrice Chéreau The legendary production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, formerly released by Warner Music, again available on DVD. A splendid opera under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim and staged by his close friend Patrice Chérau. When Alban Berg saw a performance of the existentialist drama Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, he said it left such a tremendous impression on him that he immediately made up his mind to set it to music. Berg is recasting Büchner’s fragmentary drama in a nearly expressionistic way. His music tears into the flesh. Berg’s Wozzeck is not just an opera about social compassion, it is an opera in which fear finds consummate musical expression. This extraordinary performance at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden was staged by Patrice Chéreau who can be called one of the greatest theatrical directors of this century. Outstanding opera singers Franz Grundheber, Waltraud Meier, Graham Clark, Günter von Kannen and Mark Baker and many others complete this great opera performance. Picture format DVD: NTSC 4:3 Sound format DVD: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 (worldwide) Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 97 min | 
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Jess Walters (Wozzeck), Maria Wolkovsky (Marie), Frederick Dalberg (Doktor), Monica Sinclair (Margret), Michael Langdon (1.Handwerkbursch), Edgar Evans (Andres), Thorstein Hanneson (Tambourmajor), Parry Jones (Hauptmann), Ronald Lewis (2.Handwerkbursch), David Tree (Narr) Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Erich Kleiber |
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| |  | Berg: WozzeckSung in English, Metropolitan Opera 14/3/1959
Hermann Uhde (Wozzeck), Kurt Baum (Tambourmajor), Charles Anthony (Andres), Paul Franke (Hauptmann), Karl Dönch (Doktor), Alessio de Paolis (De Narr), Eleanor Steber (Marie), Margaret Roggero (Margret), Alice Plotkin (Mariens Knabe), Earl Ringland (Ein Soldat) & Charles Kuestner (Townsman) Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Karl Böhm "Rudolf Bing increased the artistic stature of the Metropolitan Opera by presenting Alban Berg's Wozzeck last night. Regarded now as a "classic" in Europe, this 34-year old contemporary opera is unique, whatever the public response to it. Since the box office proved "disastrous" as far as benefiting the Metropolitan Opera Guild's production fund, the success of the first performance must be treated as solely artistic. For that Bing deserves hearty congratulations. He has fulfilled an important obligation to the public and one of his own ambitions in bringing "Wozzeck" finally to the Met. Mixed with the cheers at the final curtain there were a very audible number of boo's. The latter provided their own commentary on those who uttered them because they indicated a woeful lack of awareness of the contemporary musical world of which "Wozzeck" is a significant part. They also overlooked a splendid production, one of the most exacting ever undertaken in the Met's entire history… Karl Böhm won the ovations of the evening, deservedly. Conducting this score must be considered a major triumph at any time. The work it involved stretched back to the [beginning] of the opera season 19 weeks and 24 orchestral rehearsals later (unprecedented in the history of the Met), he achieved a remarkable performance. It may not have registered all the nervous tension and frightening aspect of the early portion of the opera, but it revealed unforgettable texture of sound in the last act." Review by Miles Kastendieck in the New York Journal-American | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Berg: | Wozzeck Eberhard Wächter (Wozzeck), Anja Silja (Marie), Hermann Winkler (Tambourmajor), Horst R Laubenthal (Andres), Heinz Zednik (Hauptmann), Alexander Malta (Doktor), Gertrude Jahn (Margret), Alfred Sramek (1.Handwerkbursch), Franz Wächter (2.Handwerkbursch), Walter Wendig (Narr) | Schoenberg: | Erwartung, Op. 17 Anja Silja (Frau) |
“Fabulous playing, precise conducting and gorgeous recorded sound combine in a Wozzeck of overwhelming impact. Anja Silja is equally impressive in Erwartung.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2012 ***** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Theo Adam (Wozzeck), Wendy Fine (Marie), Fritz Uhl (Tambourmajor), Georg Paskuda (Andres), Friedrich Lenz (Hauptmann), Max Proebstl (Doktor), Fritz Hoppe (Narr), Gudrun Wewezow (Margret) Carlos Kleiber Recorded in Munich in 1970 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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