DVD Video, Donald Runnicles (conductor)
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New,
Wagner: Siegfried Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Iain Paterson (Wanderer) Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Jordan Shanahan (Alberich)
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles, Stefan Herheim
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New,
Wagner: Die Walküre Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Iain Paterson (Wotan), Annika Schlicht (Fricka), Tobias Kehrer (Hunding)
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles, Stefan Herheim
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Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg
RecommendedElena Tsallagova (Donna Clara), Emily Magee (Ghita), David Butt Philip (Der Zwerg), Mick Morris Mehnert (Der Zwerg - actor), Philipp Jekal (Don Estoban)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles, Tobias Kratzer (director)
This is a work that deliberately challenges audiences, but which is here played with a breathtaking combination of imagination and responsibility. Zemlinsky’s lush masterpiece is vividly presented... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Thomas Blondelle, Markus Brück, Andrew Harris, Tobias Kehrer, Annika Schlicht, Jacquelyn Stucker, Flurina Stucki, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
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Puccini: Turandot
Eva Marton, Michael Sylvester, Lucia Mazzaria, Kevin Langan, Theodore Baerg, Dennis Peterson, Craig Estep & Joseph Frank
Chorus & Orchestra of the San Francicso Opera House, Donald Runnicles
The orchestral and choral forces are very well harnessed by Donald Runnicles, who fires on all cylinders and visually the designs by David Hockney are vivid and bold...although there are more... — More…
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Janáček: Jenufa
Michaela Kaune (Jenufa), Jennifer Larmore (Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Will Hartmann (Laca Klemen), Ladislav Elgr (Števa Buryja) & Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)
a fine ensemble performance with the intense dramatic interaction between characters excellently captured by the camera. Michaela Kaune's sweetly sung, beautifully observed characterisation... — More…
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), Clay Hilley (Siegfried), Derek Welton (Wotan - Das Rheingold), Iain Paterson (Wotan - Die Walküre/Wanderer), Elisabeth Teige (Sieglinde), Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund), Albert Pesendorfer (Hagen)
Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles
In finding the whole so much less than the sum of its parts, I return to the excellence of the singers, who deliver quite conventional accounts of their roles despite the non-canonical paraphernalia... — More…