Blu-Ray Video, Zubin Mehta (conductor)
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Mauro Peter (Belmonte), Lenneke Ruiten (Konstanze), Sabine Devieilhe (Blonde), Maximilian Schmitt (Pedrillo), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin)
Chorus of Teatro alla Scala & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta, Giorgio Strehler
Strehler/Testi handles the balance between the comic and the serious astutely…Ruiten’s superb performance – touchingly acted, fluently sung – makes you both believe and care…Devieilhe soars... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Riccardo), George Petean (Renato), Anja Harteros (Amelia), Okka von der Damerau, Sofia Fomina (Oscar)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta
The foregrounding of Oscar’s character is fascinating. It’s a striking performance amid a clutch of stellar turns…The ensembles are expertly balanced by Zubin Mehta, and the orchestra plays... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Blu-ray of the Month
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Carlos Álvarez (Don Carlo), Nina Stemme (Leonora), Salvatore Licitra (Don Alvaro), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Alastair Miles (Padre Guardiano), Fra Melitone (Tiziano Bracci), Elisabeta Marin (Curra)
Wiener Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta, David Pountney
Tenor Salvatore Licitra as Don Alvaro in La forza del destino, caught in Vienna 10 years ago- his singing is admirably clean, his tone noble. Alongside him, Nina Stemme is a gutsy Leonora, assiduously... — More…
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Verdi: Aida
Kristin Lewis (Aida), Fabio Sartori (Radames), Anita Rachvelishvili (Amneris), George Gagnidze (Amonasro), Matti Salminen (Ramfis), Carlo Colombara (Il Re), Azer Rza-Zada (Messagero), Chiara Isotton (La gran Sacerdotessa)
La Scala, Zubin Mehta
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Wagner: Die Walküre
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: 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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The Mumbai Concerts
Pinchas Zukerman (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
Mehta is ageing in fine style: the control and precision of his conducting remain phenomenal, yet there is none of the sports car gear-changing which, in earlier vintages, he often seemed unable... — More…
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Verdi: La Traviata
Nadine Sierra (Violetta), Francesco Meli (Alfredo), Leo Nucci (Giorgio Germont)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta, Davide Livermore
Sierra’s Violetta gives Livermore’s production a heart...there’s ravishing soft singing when Leo Nucci’s Giorgio Germont persuades her to relinquish his son (however noble a presence, Nucci... — More…
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Verdi: Aida
Hui He (Aida), Marco Berti (Radamès), Luciana D’Intino (Amneris), Ambrogio Maestri (Amonasro), Roberto Tagliavini (Il Re), Giacomo Prestia (Ramfis)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & Ferzan Ozpetek (stage director)
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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…