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Wagner: Die Walküre (DVD Version)
Peter Seiffert (Siegmund), Petra Maria Schnitzer (Sieglinde), Matti Salminen (Hunding), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (Wotan), Anna Larsson (Fricka)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…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... — More…
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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)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
…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... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Kristine Opolais (Tatyana), Lena Belkina (Olga), Artur Rucinski (Onegin), Dmitri Korchak (Lensky), Günther Groissböck (Gremin), Margarita Nekrasova (Filipyevna), Helene Schneiderman (Larina), Emilio Sanchez (Triquet), Toni Navarrate (Guillot), Aldo Heo (Captain), Simon Lim (Zaretsky)
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Opolais's physical grace and fine lyric-dramatic soprano would elsewhere embody the young and older Tatyana's; baritone Artur Rucinski phrases the Act 1 arioso better than anyone since Dmitri... — More…
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Wagner: The Ring (highlights)
Das Rheingold
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...
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Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Juha Uusitalo (The Wanderer), Gerhard Siegel (Mime), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Erda)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
highly recommended, a refreshing antidote to leaden Teutonic representations. Wagner responds best to Romantic imagery, but this gives it a vividly original twist. — More…
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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Ralf Lukas (Gunther), Matti Salminen (Hagen), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Jennifer Wilson (Brünnhilde), Elisabete Matos (Gutrune), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Waltraute)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
Its brilliant use of computer graphic backgrounds and acrobatic mimes shows one can stage a truly modern, theatrically advantageous Ring without distorting its genuinely central concepts - Wagner's. — More…
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Daniela Barcellona (Didon), Lance Ryan (Énée), Elisabete Matos (Cassandre), Giorgio Giuseppini (Panthée), Gabriele Viviani (Chorebe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Eric Cutler (Iopas), Dmitri Voropaev (Hylas), Zlata Bulicheva (Anna), Askar Abdrazaov (Priam), Oksana Shilvoa (Ascagne)
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while Padrissa's computer projections and airborne acrobats achieve memorable visions, he underproduces the human element. Embattled Troy is a dystopian ruin under nuclear dustclouds, the robotic... — More…
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Verdi: Nabucco
Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Nabucco), Anna Pirozzi (Abigaille), Riccardo Zanellato (Zaccaria), Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Ismaele), Alisa Kolosova (Fenena), Dongho Kim (Priest), Sofía Esparza (Anna), Mark Serdiuk (Abdallo)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Jordi Bernàcer
Enkhabat’s striking presence and strong, disciplined singing mark Nabucco out as a standard military dictator. Though not always in perfect vocal control, Saioa Hernández is an energetic, grand-scale... — More…
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Puccini: La Bohème
Gal James (Mimì), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Carmen Romeu (Musetta), Massimo Cavalletti (Marcello), Gianluca Buratto (Colline), Mattia Olivieri (Schaunard) & Matteo Peirone (Benoît)
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana & Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly works musical miracles in the pit, but up stage, apart from Israeli soprano Gal James's tenderly phrased Mimi, the singing is coarse — More…
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Puccini: Turandot
Maria Guleghina (Turandot), Marco Berti (Calaf), Alexia Voulgaridou (Liù), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Timur), Javier Agulló (Altoum), Fabio Previati (Ping), Vincenç Esteve (Pang), Roger Padullés (Pong), Ventseslav Anastasov (Un mandarino)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta
