Opus Arte
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Verdi: Don Carlo
Five-act version
Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore), Joseph Rouleau (Un Frate), Gré Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Fedora Barbieri (La principessa Eboli), Jeannette Sinclair (Tebaldo), Edgar Evans (Il Conte di Lerma), Robert Allman...
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard Van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis
it offers abundant pleasures. Te Kanawa recorded an earlier Fiordiligi...and a later...: neither manifests the personality and velvety warmth of tone of show here, and her virtuosity in 'Come... — More…
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Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe Veronique Gens (Niobe), Jacek Laszczkowski (Anfione), Delphine Galou (Nerea), Iestyn Davies (Creonte), Tim Mead (Clearte), Lothar Odinius (Tiberino), Amanda Forsythe (Manto), Bruno Taddia (Tiresia) & Alastair Miles (Poliferno)
Bathasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock
a central performance of extraordinary spirit and plangency from Veronique Gens...Hengelbrock's ensemble boasts a rich and characterful continuo section...The dance music is muscular, the violins... — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones...
Moll is a genuinely basso profundo Ochs, with the repartee between him and 'cousin' Resi in Act 1 a highlight...[Murray] blends touchingly with Bonney, and sets the Act II quarrel alight. — More…
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), John Dobson (tenor), Kurt Moll (bass), Paul Crook (tenor), Bonaventura Bottone (tenor), Gordon Sandison (bass), Leah Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (soprano), Barbara Bonney (soprano)
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Leyla Gencer (Donna Anna), Richard Lewis (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Geraint Evans (Leoporello), David Ward (Il Commendatore), Robert Savoie (Masetto), Mirella Freni (Zerlina)
Covent Garden Orchestra, Covent Garden Opera Chorus, Georg Solti
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Irene Theorin (Isolde), Robert Holl (König Marke), Jukka Rasilainen (Kurwenal), Ralf Lukas (Melot), Michelle Breedt (Brangäne), Clemens Bieber (Junger Seemann), Arnold Bezuyen (Hirt) & Martin Snell (Steuermann)
Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele...
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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, DVD of the Month
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Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
Camilla Tilling (Angel), Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Hubert Delamboye (Leper), Henk Neven (Frère Léon), Tom Randle (Frère Massée), Donald Kaasch (Frère Élie), Armand Arapian (Frère Bernard), Jan Willem Baljet (Frère Sylvestre), André Morsch (Frère Rufin)
The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra &...
This Netherlands Opera production from Pierre Audi… is a triumph of wonderfully inventive, yet sympathetic direction. The imagery follows Messiaen's knack for sophisticated simplicity. His... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, DVD of the Month
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Wagner: Siegfried
Stage Director - Pierre Audi
Heinz Kruse (Siegfried), Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde), Graham Clark (Mime), John Bröcheler (Wanderer), Henk Smit (Alberich), Carsten Stabell (Fafner), Anne Gjevang (Erda), Stefan Pangratz (Waldvogel)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen
The Pierre Audi Amsterdam Ring wholly justifies Opus Arte's decision to follow up so soon its uneven Harry Kupfer/Barcelona cycle. Audi and designer George Tsypin work with a varying series... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2006, DVD of the Month
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Franz Hawlata (Sachs), Michael Volle (Beckmesser), Michaela Kaune (Eva), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther), Norbert Ernst (David), Carola Guber (Magdalene), Artur Korn (Pogner), Markus Eiche (Kothner)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle
It is indeed a treat to savour the excellent sound of the Bayreuth strings, as well as the just as excellent woodwind and brass. Sebastian Weigle, who made his Bayreuth debut with Meistersinger... — More…
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